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December 12, 2019 by Amanda MacGregor

20 2020 Middle Grade Books To Have On Your Radar

Why oh why do we ever have to do anything other than read? So many wonderful books to look forward to in 2020!

December 10, 2019 by Amanda MacGregor

20 2020 YA Books To Have On Your Radar

2020 is going to be a great year for YA books. Here are 20 of the titles I'm most anticipating. I feel like this year we truly CAN judge a book by its cover--so many amazing covers!

December 24, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

The Tween ARC Party: The Tween an friends look at some upcoming 2015 book releases

The other day I was getting ARCs organized for 2015 when The Tween and her Bestie were over. We had an impromptu ARC party where the tweens went through each physical arc I had on the premises and sorted them into Oh My Goodness I Want to Read piles and the Meh ones. They’re looking […]

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The Macmillan Children’s Winter catalog for 2015 is now up on Edelweiss. I spent some time last night going through it to get a look at what is coming out and what I think my teens will be dying to read. Plus, I found several that I myself am dying to read.   Printz winner Marcus […]

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July 9, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

This year at ALA Annual I learned lots of things, met lots of people, and came back with a ton of ideas I wanted to pitch. But in the end, it always comes back to the books for me and I saw lots of great ones. From rain that will kill you to a book […]

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