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The Importance of Making Stories Personal, a guest post by Amy Christine Parker
Being vulnerable on the page hasn’t been easy. Opening myself up to judgement—both good and bad is terrifying.
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Take Five: Wintery Middle Grade Fiction
As always, the one thing that makes life tolerable is escaping into fiction. And for all my hatred of actual winter, I love books set in winter. Here are a few you might like, too!
Book Review: The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us by Rachelle Bergstein
If you need a holiday gift for that childhood friend you always traded books with, look no further.
Reasons to be Grateful, a guest post by Nadine Pinede
This Thanksgiving season, I’ve been thinking about all the ways libraries have influenced my life.
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Book Mail: Romantic Horror, a Magic School, Fake Dating, a Novel in Verse, and More!
Book mail continues to trickle in as we get ready to wrap up 2024!
Post-It Note Reviews: Soccer, the Apocalypse, a Reunited Family, Witches, and More!
I am very grateful for the books here that managed to hold my wandering attention and pull me into their fictional worlds.
Why Dragons: On the Importance of Dragons as a Plot Device, a guest post by Svetlana Chmakova
I am essentially making comfy nests where other tired hearts can rest, books with arguably naive but stubborn resilience against tough odds, and books with kind power in them.
Take Five: Newbery Picks, Part Two
If I pick TEN books surely I must get one or two right when the awards are announced, right?
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