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Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Spring 2025 To-Read List
There are so many books being published and I’m excited to see some of my favorite middle authors are publishing new titles this spring! These are only ten of the titles that are being published over the next few months and if you’re looking for even more great middle grade…
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2025 Blogging A to Z April Challenge: Theme Reveal
Can you believe April is around the corner already?!?!?! Spring is almost h ere and I’ve got daffodils poking through my garden beds. Although I love seeing flowers everywhere, I also love April because it’s the Blogging A to Z Challenge month! This will be my 10th year participating in…
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Top Ten Tuesday: YA Mysteries
Today’s prompt is “Books that Include/Feature [insert your favorite theme or plot device here]” and while I’m intrigued to see what others come up with, I decided to focus on a specific genre rather than theme/plot device. Today I’m sharing some (fairly) new YA mysteries. Like the historical fiction genre,…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Never Reviewed
After years of book blogging, I’ve come to the realization that I really don’t like writing book reviews. I don’t necessarily think that I’m a strong enough writer to write quality book reviews and I don’t tend to read carefully enough to take in the details needed for a book…
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2024 CYBILS Award Winners
The Children’s and Young Adult Book Lovers’ Literary Awards are a little different from the awards you’ll often find on the ALA Youth Media Award Winners list. And that’s because these books are chosen by judges who are book lovers – typically bloggers and content creators that absolutely love children’s…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Loving YA Families
Today’s prompt was a love freebie for Valentine’s Day and while I’ve done lists like 2024 Contemporary Romance Titles, First Crush Middle Grade Novels, 12 YA Couples for Valentine’s Day, and 12 Middle Grade Friendships for Valentine’s Day, I wanted to try something a little different and look toward supportive,…
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Top Ten Tuesday: New-To-Me Authors in 2024
These new to me authors almost all wrote exclusively contemporary romance a genre that I’m enjoying post COVID as an escape from the real world where I know that even when there’s a kerfuffle, eveything is going to have a happy ending. Some of these are the first in a…
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ALA’s 2025 Youth Media Awards
This morning, the American Library Association announced the Youth Media Awards. The most popular being the Caldecott and Newbery Awards. But, in actuality, there are over 20 award announcements this morning! Today, I’m sharing the winners and honors and a little note about what each award is for and what…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 2025 YA Books
While today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme was “The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection” I’m not a person that buys a lot of books for my own collection. Being a library director, I borrow the majority of my books from the library as I’m very much running out…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Goals for 2025
In order to work on my bookish goals for 2025, I thought it might be smart to look back at my goals for 2024. And not surprising after the year that I had, I didn’t accomplish as much as I wanted to in terms of these goals. I was really…
