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Recommended K-12 Books for Black History Month and Every Day of the Year
Black History Month may be ending, but the need to continue conversations about race, discrimination and culture is ongoing—especially...
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15 Digital Diversions in a (Still) COVID-19 World
While this past year has had its, ahem, challenges, it hasn’t been all bad. The digital world in which we live has shifted, offering...
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Raising a Reader by Reading Together!
Is getting your school-aged child to read a struggle in your house? Is filling out a nightly reading log causing tears? Are you looking...
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If Books Could Kill
Cosy mysteries are the warm and fuzzy version of hardboiled detective novels. While murder (or, more often, a series of murders) always...
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Wild Wild Westworld
I came late to Westworld, but as a devotee of Firefly, Godless, Back to the Future III, and anytime anyone on Star Trek TNG visited the...
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How to Deal with Wordless Books
Wordless books can be intimidating, how do you read them? Why are they important? What are wordless books anyway? Wordless books are not...
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How to Beat the Summer Slide
Some tips and tricks to keep brains engaged and skills sharp over the summer. When school comes to an end for the summer often the...
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Genre Fiction Definitions
Here's how I classify my genre fiction in the hopes that it will make my blurbs a little simpler to follow. Action Adventure...
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Twilight: the Relationship Killer?
Four(ish) years ago, after a semester of reading Thomas Hardy and Naturalism I started reading the Twilight series over the...
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The New Heroine – Musings on a theme
Recently, as I was watching Princess Bride I was struck by how utterly useless Princess Buttercup was. As I gave it some thought, I...
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