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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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Sarah Dessen – In Person!
I’m a pretty nerdy individual… I’m sure if I walked down the street in L.A. and passed by television and movie actors, I would know or probably even care that much. But, give me the opportunity to hear an author talk by an author I admire and I turn into a…
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Happy Children's Book Week
May 4 – 10, 2015 is Children’s Book Week, the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country! It’s an “annual celebration of books for young people and the joy of reading” and is administered by Every Child a Reader and sponsored by the Children’s Book Council. The website has a…
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It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 5/4/2014
This week was a great week of reading! I got though a lot of awesome books and can’t wait to keep reading this week. I was able to read Dodger and Me by Jordan Sonnenblick. We’re excited to have Jordan visiting our library this summer and I’ll be offering a book…
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Book Reviews and Reviewers
I love books, it’s pretty simple and I love talking to other people who love books too, especially the same types of books – middle grade and young adult books. Every year, I attend the Kutztiwn Children’s Literature Conference held at Kutztown Univeristy. They bring in 3-4 authors and illustrators…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/6/15
As promised from last week, I was able to finish both All the Answers by Kate Messner and Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. I’ll talk about both of these in individual posts – they were both that good! I also finished two adult books – The Goldfinch…
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Winner of the 2015 BoB!
I don’t have any clever April Fool’s joke for today, but excitingly the winner of the School Library Journal’s 2015 Battle of the Kids’ Books was announced today! Drumroll please….. the winner is The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin. And of course,…
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SLJ's Battle of the Books
Each year School Library Journal created a Battle of the Books focusing on 2014 children’s and young adult literature. The 2015 judges have been announced and each battle is judged by a different person. What is really fun (and sometimes frusturating) about Battle of the Kids’ Books is that the…
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2014 CYBILS Awards
The 2014 CYBILS – the Children and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards were announced on February 14th – a perfect day for some book love! And because it was the weekend, a few days got away from me, but I’m finally posting about it today! For a list of all…
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Teen Services Underground
Storytime Underground has been a constant help from book suggestions to storytime ideas to general support for me as a librarian and I’m so excited to see that a Teen Services Underground is getting under way! Creating a Personal Learning Network (PLN) is something I’ve discussed on my blog before,…