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Reflections

December 26, 2019 by Amanda MacGregor

Looking back: TLT, connection, and a life spent reading

And so ends another decade. My teenager is fond of pointing out how MANY of these I have now seen. He also looooves to tell me that now 1990 is 30 years ago, and not, like, ten, which is what it is in my head. Rude. Many of these past few years (what do we […]

March 21, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

It’s Time to Break Down our Reading Boxes

In the third grade, my daughter read and loved Fudge by Judy Blume.  So I asked her if she wanted to read Double Fudge, and she looked at me and said, “Oh I am not allowed because it is above my level.”  I had a very visceral reaction to this reply.  My first thought was, […]

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