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#blogbookaday: Sakura's Cherry Blossoms
Summary: “When Sakura’s father gets a new job, she and her parents leave their home in Japan. In America, Sakura misses the blossoming cherry tree where she and her grandmother would play and picnic. How will she feel at home in this new and unfamiliar place? What if she forgets the…
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#blogbookaday: Florette
Summary: “When Mae’s family moves to a new home, she wishes she could bring her garden with her. She’ll miss the apple trees, the daffodils, and chasing butterflies in the wavy grass. But there’s no room for a garden in the city. Or is there? Mae’s story, gorgeously illustrated in watercolor,…
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Director's Thoughts #10 – Shifting Collections
After you weed the entire collection… what do you do next? That was my question, after spending 5 months and countless hours running reports, scanning, stamping and sorting books. The next step for us…. shifting the collection. Although tight, our children’s department had a lot more wiggle room at the…
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Book Review: Soar
Jeremiah has been dealt a difficult hand from the get-go, abandoned as a baby and later diagnosed with a heart condition requiring a heart transplant at the age of 11. And that’s where his dreams of playing baseball are put on hold. Jeremiah can’t play baseball, he can’t even run…
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48 Hour Book Challenge Review #4
140 Character Synopsis/Review: Iris’s world is turned upside down when her best friend dies and again when her family moves. How will she survive without her other half? Title: The Question Of Miracles Author: Elana K. Arnold Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication Date: 2015 Page Number: 233 pgs.