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Tag: Reading

December 5, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Tragically Playful: How Verse Novels Lend Levity to the Difficult, a guest post by Caroline Brooks DuBois

Verse novels can deftly tell a story of trauma, struggle, or loss, while allowing rays of sunshine in and the music of hope to sing.

November 3, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Finding THAT Book, a guest post by Mark Fearing

Reading and I didn’t have a great start. Writing and I have an even more complicated history.

July 14, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Getting Children with Learning Differences to Love Books, a guest post by Alma Fullerton

When I go into schools and speak to children, the first thing I ask is, “Who here likes to read?”  Everyone puts up their hands.  Then I ask, “Who here is lying about liking to read?”  There are usually a lot of laughs and a lot of hands up. Once the laughter dies down, I […]

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Cloud Town and the Basement Librarian, a guest post by Daniel McCloskey

April 25, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

I wanted to talk about how librarians (like you) are appreciated by slow learners (like me). That is to say, not always at the moment.

Finding Freedom at the Library, a guest post by Christyne Morrell

August 3, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

A library offers its own kind of freedom - to roam and discover and try on.

Confessions of a Binge Reader (and Writer), a guest post by Marilyn Kaye

July 28, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

Why did I love series books? I think it was partly because I never wanted a story to end completely. So it was only natural for me that when I began to write, I wrote series.

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The Only List That Matters, a guest post by Francisco X. Stork

May 11, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

What does it mean for a young aspiring writer to have a life-long lover of books take the care and time to create a reading list specifically for him?

Assigned Reading is the Worst, By Teen Contributor Riley Jensen

August 31, 2020 by Karen Jensen, MLS

A teen talks about the impact that assigned reading has on reading desire.

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

December 26, 2019 by Amanda MacGregor

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 […]

With Her Nose Stuck in a Book, a guest post by Jessica Burkhart

October 3, 2019 by Amanda MacGregor

Jess joins us to talk about how anxiety and depression robbed her of her desire to read and how she found her way back to books.

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