• Activities

    Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Escape

    This week we offered a scavenger hunt as one piece to our three-part series culminating in a Skype visit with Chris Grabenstein.  The best part?  We used Mr. Lemoncello’s Great Library Escape on Chris’s website and had to do very little prep for an awesome night of fun! We ended up…

  • Lists

    Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Of Your Auto-buy Authors

    As a librarian, I have very strict rules about books that I purchase for my own library.  If I bought every book I wanted, my house would soon be overrun with books!  So, I always have to read a book before deeming it worthy of being added to my personal…

  • Lists

    It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

    This week I was able to get back on track with three books I read!  The first book I read was called The Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable FIB by Adam Shaughnessy.  A great story for those kids looking for mythology books – a specific focus on Norse mythology as…

  • Reviews

    48 Hour Book Challenge Review #5

    140 Character Synopsis/Review: Nothing is more inconvenient than trying to hide the murder of the headmistress at a boarding school as seven young ladies soon find out. Title: The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place Author: Julie Berry Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Publication Date: 2014 Page Number: 351 pgs.

  • Lists

    It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 5/18/2015

    As the weekend nears, I always think I’ll have a lot of time to just sit and relax and catch up on my reading, but that’s never the case!  I ended up this weekend, hanging out with friends, planting vegetables in the garden and volunteering some time at a nature…

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    It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 5/11/2015

    Last week was an insanely busy week and I got very little reading done.  On top of that, I grabbed The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos as an audio CD to listen to on my way to a meeting and about an hour in, I realized that although…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/13/15

    Unfortunately, I didn’t get to all the reading I wanted to last week.  So, I definitely want to read Mark of the Thief this week (it’s the only one I didn’t get to this week), other than that, I’m going to read The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt.  Somewhere…

  • Reviews

    Book Review: "Greenglass House"

    Let me start off by saying I kept putting this book off… for months.  I had no idea what it was about, but for whatever reason, I wouldn’t crack the spine.  And I’m so sorry I didn’t read it for so long!  It’s a great mystery with unexpected surprises, quirky…

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    It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 3/30/2015

    I’m actually in the middle of an adult book right now, crazy right?  But, my coworker told me I just had to read The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.  I have about a third of the book left and I’m really enjoying it so far.  I love mysterious,…