• Lists

    12 Magical Middle Grade: Fairy Tales & Retellings

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    With summer just around the corner for so many kids, I wanted to share a few titles in lots of different genres to help make summer reading that much easier! If you’ve got a voracious reader at home, try setting some fun reading goals this summer by trying different genres.…

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    20 Global Middle Grade: Set Outside the U.S.

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    With summer just around the corner for so many kids, I wanted to share a few titles in lots of different genres to help make summer reading that much easier! If you’ve got a voracious reader at home, try setting some fun reading goals this summer by trying different genres.…

  • Reviews

    #blogbookaday: All Aboard for the Bobo Road

    Summary:  “All aboard for the Bobo Road! Fatima and Galo load the luggage while their dad Big Ali drives the bus. Help count on bikes, sacks of rice, melons and even goats and chickens as the bus travels past Gurunsi houses, the hippo lake, waterfalls and jungle, all the way to…

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    Picture Book Month: Kindness

    It’s amazing what one person can do to make a difference in the world, but that’s exactly what this story is about – one woman’s choice to make a difference. Isatou Ceesay would walk down the road and each time she did, more plastic grocery bags would line the road…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Book Set Outside the U.S.

    This Top Ten Tuesday topic couldn’t have come at a more perfect time as I’m trying so hard to find words to describe how I’m feeling about all that has been happening in the news – race relations in the U.S., terrorist attacks around the world… I feel so much…

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    48 Hour Book Challenge Review #1

      I started off with a book suggestion from a colleague – Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms by Katherine Rundell. For now, I’m just going to write up my 140-character book review/synopsis and give you the details later. 140 Character Synopsis/Review: Will loves everything about Africa, but when tragedy strikes she must learn to…

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    Book Review: Promise the Night

    Over the weekend I read Promise the Night written by Michaela MacColl.  It’s a historical fiction novel about Beryl Markham, the first pilot to fly solo from England to North America.  I’ll be honest, before I read this book, I had never heard of her but, after reading about her life –…

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    A Long Walk To Water

     I have read a number of things by Linda Sue Park, but A Long Walk to Water was by far the best I’ve read!  This is a dual narrative based on a true story.  The first narrative is by one the Sudanese “Lost Boys.” It is the story of how…