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Author Highlight: Julie Murphy
This bold and body-positive author always manages to hit the right note in her YA novels of being true to you no matter your size or sexuality.
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Dork Diaries ReReread
I’ve been rereading the Dork Diaries since I remembered stopping over #10 because I think I grew out of it. But I also think it changed somewhat. It felt too hard trying to be hip with hashtags and such but that might just me being an old old person. Again, I guess I grew out…
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Notable Author: Erin Hunter
Though I suppose I should authors since Erin Hunter is the nom de plume of several different authors. But honestly this post isn’t about them. I decide to go on a binge and reread these series. Well reread the first series, the rest are entirely new to me and see if they still hold up.…
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Book Highlight: Unsung Heroines of the Holocaust
This is an important book. Discounting the rise of ahate crimes that you can see every day on the news, but survivors of the Holocaust are slowly dying out. It is an event that shouldn’t be forgotten and I certainly think people will remember but hearing and seeing witness account do stick more. This book…
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Author Highlight: Greg Weisman
I’m pretty sure Greg Weisman can do it all from television to comics to novels, all while splciing and mixing sci-fi, myth, Shakespeare, mystery and more. Clones, convulated Xanatos gambits, magic and technology tend to be staples of his work.
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Book Highlight: Girls Who Run the World
While everyone knows the big names, Tesla, Musk, Bezos, women have been inventing and leading just as long. After all women were the ones who invented the washing machine, Monopoly, windshield wipers, the list goes on. But you can read a history book if you want to learn more. Knapp is seeking to put a…
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Book Highlight: Extraordinary Mothers and Daughters
This is the perfect book for Mother’s Day as if the title wasn’t clue enough. The beautiful collages by Natasha Cunningham highlighting black and white portraits overlayed with flowers adds to the theme. Split into six chapters by Emily Freidenrich shows the warmth, love and osmetimes complex bonds of twenty five famous mother-daughter figures even…
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Book Highlight: Young, Fearless, Awesome
This delightfully inspiring book encourages kids to chase after their dreams and break boundaries no matter their age through the stories of these icons. Some you probably know like Anna Frank and Greta Thunberg but it also features some new ones like Samantha Smith who wrote to a Soviet leader and became a peace ambassador…
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Book Highlight: Paperbacks from Hell
It’s spooky season so my big suggestion for getting your horror fics is to delve into the horror history of the 70s-80s with Grady Hendrix’ Paperbacks from Hell. Clearly written by a fan who knows his horrors and pulps, Hendrix’ tone is full of vivid narrative energy. Whenever I read I feel like I’m on…
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Book Highlight: The Wonders We Seek
The Wonders We Seek: Thirty Incredible Muslims Who Helped Shape the World by Saadia Faruqi and Aneesa Mumtaz is an informative book that does exactly what it says in the title.
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