• Lists

    YA Beach Reads

    We Were Liars by e. Lockhart The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler The Summer After You + Me by  Jennifer Salvato Doktorski Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han Sixteenth Summer by Michelle Dalton Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland Be True to…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 7/10/17

    I didn’t read exactly what I had planned to, but I did get a lot of reading done! I finished Refugee by Alan Gratz, which was amazingly powerful. It’s told from the perspective of three refugees – a young Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe, a young girl escaping Castro’s government in…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 7/3/17

    I honestly have no clue how it’s already July… I feel like this year is flying by and although this new position is cutting into my reading time, I’ve started finding a good balance, which all pretty much when out the window this weekend. I’m spending the holiday weekend with…

  • Reviews

    Book Review: The Bone Sparrow

    The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon is the story Subhi, a refugee born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of their homeland. Subhi’s world is only what he knows inside the fence of the detention center, but his imagination allows him to…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I've Read in 2017 So Far

    I specifically chose books that have either been published this year or will be published at some point this year. Some are fun reads, others are eye-openers and many are books that have stuck with me far longer than most. Pick up a title and enjoy! Mr. Lemoncello’s Great Library…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 6/26/17

    I’m so proud of myself – I was able to finish all three books on my list for this week and just started a fourth one! I was able to finish Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn and read Greetings from Witness Protection by Jake Burt and  Falcon Wild by Terry…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 6/19/17

    Although I didn’t get to as much reading as I had done last week, this week I finished two books and started a third which is pretty good considering I had three after work meetings this week! I read Once and For All by Sarah Dessen which as usual was great. It…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 6/12/17

    Even with a directors’ institute and a lot of work – I got through five books and loved them all! I read: The Great Library Race by Chris Grabenstein The Perfect Score by Rob Buyea Auma’s Long Run by Eucabeth A. Odhiambo To All the Boys I Loved Before by Jenny Han…