• Lists

    Top Ten Tuesday: Middle Grade Must-Read Mysteries

    Mysteries were one of my absolute favorite genres growing up – and they still are today, so it wasn’t hard to create this list – Top Ten Tuesday: Middle Grade Must-Read Mysteries! I love puzzles, murder mysteries, absolutely everything, but I especially love anything that has to do with art…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books Set in Victorian Era

    The Victorian Era was one of my favorite time periods to read about as a child.  Check out these great books written about the time period: Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty The Scandalous Sisterhood…

  • Reviews

    Kids’ Review: Minor Details (movie)

    I’m going to try starting a new aspect of my blog with some of the kids I know at the library reviewing books (and movies) they love (or don’t!).  My first reviewer is “S”, a coworker’s daughter who I’ve known for a number of years.  She’s in middle school now…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/16/16

    I spent last week participating in Bout of Books and although I didn’t hit my goal (by one book), it was a great week of prioritizing reading and I got to read a number of great books!  This week, I’ve read: Sweet Home Alaska by Carole Estby Dagg School of…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 3/7/16

    This week I read Jackaby by William Ritter, which I absolutely LOVED!  The book is described as a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Who – which I can definitely see.  I loved the mix of mystery and fantastical elements and I’m really looking forward to the next in the series.…

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    It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 2/29/16

    It was a very busy week!  Working late a few nights, working for a little bit on Saturday and a ton of birthday parties Saturday and Sunday to celebrate (which left me very little time to read!)  I did read The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, a horror fiction story about wasps…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I’d Give a Theme Song

    Echo by Pam Munoz RyanThis books just begs for a theme song with the harmonica tying three stories together spread across multiple decades. This book needs a theme song. Crossover by Kwame AlexanderCrossover already has got such a great beat with the novel in verse, it’s another book that just has…

  • Lifestyle

    Skype Author Visit

    It’s been an eventful week already!  We have a pretty large grant due on Friday, we had our first middle school program of the school year on Monday night, I spent yesterday and this morning at Penn State for a committee meeting, (quickly) drove back to the library for a…

  • Reviews

    Book Review: Book Scavenger

    Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman is my favorite type of story – focused around books and a treasure hunt!  Emily moves to San Francisco with her family and meets James, a next door neighbor who loves puzzles as much as she does.  She’s excited to be in the hometown of…