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January 2, 2025

King & Kayla Series by Dori Hillestad Butler

The King & Kayla series offers up warm, winsome humor (and mysteries, too!) for newly independent readers.

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January 1, 2025

National Book Award Winner: Kareem Between

Kareem Between is a sympathetic portrait of a 7th-grader born to Syrian refugees, who can’t feel himself fully American or fully Syrian.

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December 30, 2024

Under the Weather: Bookish comfort when you and your family are sick (plus a recipe)

“Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?” (“In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and…

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December 30, 2024

*Mr. Fox’s Game of “NO!” by David LaRochelle

Wit and humor are featured in this book that challenges a child’s intuitive response.

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December 22, 2024

Top Posts from 2024

It’s always fun for us to look back and see what you, our readers, enjoyed most during the year. Below are the top posts of…

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December 20, 2024

Tales from the Forest by Jane Riordan

Tales from the Forest carries on the adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh in a style that faithfully echoes the original.

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December 19, 2024

Three 2024 YA Romantic Fantasy Novels

Dragonfruit, What Monstrous Gods, and The Hedgewitch of Foxhall: three 2024 YA romantic fantasy novels by authors we have enjoyed in the past. Dragonfruit by…

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December 18, 2024

Jolabokaflod for Megan’s family in 2024

Choosing Jolabokaflod titles for my family every year is a pleasant challenge. What would interest each member that we don’t already have in our collection?…

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December 18, 2024

Back Porch Book Chat with Tasha Kazanjian (YA author)

Back Porch Book Chat: a casual conversation about books and writing. Today we’re visiting with Tasha Kazanjian, author of A Trick of Spades. A lover…

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