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Top Ten Tuesday: Water
I’ve been doing Top Ten Tuesday for years and this is probably one of my most favorite topics ever! I love being around water – I’m not even picky, a creek, river, pond, lake, ocean, I’ll take whatever I can get! Water really grounds me and destresses me in a…
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18 Middle Grade Books Featuring Cats
I’m going to start with a statement that might seem a little sacrilege as a librarian – I am much more a dog person than a cat person. That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy cats and will always give pets to any of my friends’ cats, but personally,…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Middle Grade Inspired by Folk & Fairy Tales
With a genre freebie this week, it took me a minute to figure out which direction I wanted to go in. I’ve recently created lists based on some of my favorite genres – historical fiction and mysteries. So I wanted to give you something different. And while fantasy and science…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Characters from Different Books Who Would Be Friends
This was a tricky theme and rather than choose ten different groups of characters, I made my life just a little bit easier and only chose five groups based on interests! I’m excited to see what characters other bloggers choose because it’s such a fun way to bring books together…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Want to Read Because of Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday is an amazing blogging group to be a part of because you will never be lacking in book recommendations! With 80+ people linking their blog over to That Artsy Reader Girl each week, you’ll find a little bit of everything. Today, I’m sharing ten books that are…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Forgotten Backlist Titles
With so many books being published each year and sometimes each month, it can be hard to remember all the amazing forgotten backlist titles that also exist. Browsing a used bookstore or public library is a great way to discover some of these older titles that amazing stories you don’t…
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2023 Middle Grade Debut Authors (July – December)
Make sure you’ve got your Goodreads account ready! Because you’ll definitely find something on this 2023 Middle Grade Debut Authors (July – December) that’s bound to pique your interest! As promised from my post about January – June title, here are some additional debut authors being published in the second…
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2023 Middle Grade Debut Authors (January – June)
Last week I was able to share a host of debut authors publishing picture books in 2023. Well, I’m back to share some 2023 Middle Grade Debut Authors (January – June). And with so many new authors being published in 2023, I’m posting the first half of the year today…
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15 Middle Grade Novels about Robots & Coding
STEM and coding have been buzzwords for so long now, I don’t think they can be considered buzzwords anymore. Kids are learning how to code in early elementary school as the world moves further into a digital space. If anything, COVID taught us that a lot more can happen online…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Spring 2022 TBR
This theme (Books On My Spring 2022 TBR) is all about my best intentions. My best intention is to read the books on the list, even though I typically miss at least a couple every time. I do LOVE seeing what’s coming up for the season and discovering new titles…