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25 Titles with Middle Eastern Characters
This is a post that I’ve been mulling over in my head for days if not weeks and months. I’ve used this blog in the past to sort through my thoughts and feelings of world events, of events happening in my own life and in the life of my library.…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 1/30/17
This week I finished up The Reader and it is going to be a series, so it left me on at a cliffhanger and now I’ll have to read the rest of the series (if I can remember what happened in the first book). I also read The Sun Is Also…
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#ReadYourWorld
In all my excitement to celebrate the Year of the Rooster with a great booklist for Lunar New Year, I missed Multicultural Children’s Book Day yesterday! A day to celebrate multicultural books and reading. Take a few minutes to check out the Read Your World hashtag on Twitter with lots…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Won an ALA Youth Media Award That I Haven't Read Yet
March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell (Coretta Scott King Author Book Winner, Printz Award Winner, Sibert Award Winner, YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Winner) Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan by Ashley Bryan (Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 1/22/17
I got to spend some amazing, quality time with my brother sister-in-law and adorable 15-month-old godson this weekend, which as usual, means I didn’t get any reading done! SO, I’m going to finish up The Reader this week and hopefully read a little something of The Sun Is Also a Star by…
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Bibliotherapy for Teens: 25 Title About Tough Topics
The idea of bibliotherapy is one that has been around for over 50 years. It is the idea that “the use of selected reading materials as therapeutic adjuvants in medicine and psychiatry; also guidance in the solution of personal problems through directed reading.” (AHIL Quarterly, Summer 1966, p. 18.) There…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 1/16/17
I didn’t get much reading done, but I did read The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz. It’s definitely a very different book than anything I ever read, it was interesting and unique and fun to read. I love historical fiction books and…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 2016 Releases I Meant To Read But Didn't Get To (Graphic Novel style)
So I took this topic and focused solely on the graphic novels I want to read. I’ve got a HUGE list of titles from the Nerdies Awards that I’d like to get to so I wanted to narrow my list a little and focus just on graphic novels. As you…
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2016 CYBILS Finalists
Looking for more to add to your TBR list? Look not further than the 2016 CYBILS Finalists. Over the thirteen different categories, there were 1,163 books nominated. 99.7% of which were read by at least one reviewer while 98.6% were read by more at least two reviewers. That is a…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 2017 Debuts I'm Excited For
The first Top Ten Tuesday of 2017! I broke it down into picture books, middle grade novels, and young adult novels. These lists continually allow me to add more books to my TBR list and keep up with what’s coming up as well as creating lists of great books that…