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IMWAYR July 10-16

July 17, 2023 ♦

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Time to reflect and share the books I read last week and what I hope to read this week. Make sure to visit the IMWAYR hosts Unleashing Readers and Teach Mentor Texts to find other blogs to follow that use this weekly wrap up. My reading was pretty all over the place this week.…

June Wrap Up

July 3, 2023 ♦

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Another month has come and gone! I am proud of what I read this month (20 books!) and am looking forward to another great month. Before I get into it, make sure to visit the IMWAYR hosts Unleashing Readers and Teach Mentor Texts to find other blogs to follow that use this weekly wrap…

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (And other updates)

June 19, 2023 ♦

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Hello reading friends! It’s a new week, which means it’s time to review last week and set my goals for this week. I always love reflecting, even if most of the time I look back on the week and ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING I set out to…but I also have to focus…

Happy Book Birthday Chris Baron!

June 13, 2023 ♦

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Chris Baron has written some of my favorite novels in verse and now he has a book not in verse, but in prose! And it comes to the world TODAY! Give this book a warm welcome by adding to your TBR, checking from the library (or requesting your library to…

Happy Book Birthday Reem Faruqi!

June 13, 2023 ♦

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Middle Grade author Reem Faruqi’s newest novel in verse is out in the world today! Make sure you put this book on your TBR and read it soon! For fans of Planet Omar and The Ethan I Was Before, award-winning Pakistani author Reem Faruqi of Unsettled delivers a middle grade novel in verse about table tennis…

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

June 12, 2023 ♦

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I have had a WONDERFUL week of reading! A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry: (MG)I read this with my daughter and it was such a great one to read together. We both got very emotional, but had some great conversations. Pet by Akwaeke Emezi : (Upper MG) I listened…

May Reads 2023

June 7, 2023 ♦

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May was a really great reading month! It was also my last month teaching before SUMMER BREAK! I did a reading challenge where I swapped my previous week’s screen time for reading time-that video is linked at the bottom. It really helped me pick up a better habit of reading…

I Swapped Screen Time for Reading Time

May 28, 2023 ♦

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I am really loving reading challenges and this week I looked at my screen time for the previous week and read that amount! It was…a lot. See how I did in my video below!

GIVEAWAY and Blog Tour: How to Survive in the Age of Dinosaurs

May 26, 2023 ♦

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Welcome to the blog tour for How to Survive in the Age of Dinosaurs, part of National Geographic Kids’ DinoMAYnia – a month-long celebration of all things prehistoric! All week blogs are hosting fun excerpts from this handy guide so you will know just what it takes to…

Blog Tour and Giveaway!

May 2, 2023 ♦

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Welcome to the World’s Worst Time Machine Blog Tour & Giveaway! Guest Post by Dustin Brady I am delighted to welcome Dustin Brady to talk about his latest book for kids, World’s Worst Time Machine! About the Book: From best-selling author, Dustin Brady comes a new illustrated novel series perfect…