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This blog post is the last piece of evidence I am submitting to earn my Media Smart Libraries certification, and it feels appropriate to fin...

I haven't been here in a while, but I wanted to document my preparation for a recent storytime at the grocery store across the street fr...

Two criticisms come up frequently in reviews of William Alexander's Ambassador : the sci-fi adventure plot " sits uneasily "...

Around January of last year, I started using the phrase "writing collaboratively" without really knowing what I meant.  Actually...

If you're looking for a chapter book for your fourth grade class's unit on the 1980s, then Homesick , by Kate Klise, is the book f...

I loved the mood of Suzanne LaFleur's Listening for Lucca : summery, sinister, dreamy, mysterious.  Siena's family moves to a hous...

Since I work at an elementary school library, I can't really call my YA reading "professional."  In light of that, I don't...