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Sunny Holiday
This was a random library find for me the other day. I haven’t read any of Coleen Murtagh Paratore’s other titles, but I know of her Wedding Planner’s Daughter series. It was the cov… more →
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Sunny Holiday
shelfelf wrote 3 months ago: This was a random library find for me the other day. I haven’t read any of Coleen Murtagh Para … more →
Elephant-y books, a giveaway & an interview with Carol Buckley
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shelfelf wrote 3 months ago: Phew! Prepare yourself for one juicy, packed-full-of-treats post! Today I am happy to review two lov … more →
Teacher Book Alert: When it's Six O'clock in San Francisco
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shelfelf wrote 4 months ago: I received my copy of When it’s Six O’clock in San Francisco a while back, but I put it … more →
Chains
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shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: Laurie Halse Anderson’s Chains is one of those books written for young people that I hope lots … more →
Amadi's Snowman
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shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: As a teacher, I’m ever on the look out for quality picture books that will support my aim to i … more →
T4
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shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: T4 by Anne Clare LeZotte offers readers tremendous insight into an aspect of the Holocaust not frequ … more →
Poetry Friday: Hip Hop Speaks to Children
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shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: In my class, every year each kid chooses a poem and recites it for the class, and each year, I … more →
Nonfiction Monday: No Girls Allowed
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shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: Need a little girl power to kick start your Monday morning? Look no further. Kids Can Press presents … more →
Peeled
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shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: I’m crazy for books with an agricultural setting / theme / issue. You can take the girl out of … more →
Hate that Cat
shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: Ah Sharon Creech. You’ve done it again. I wouldn’t have imagined it was possible to appr … more →
How I Learned Geography
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shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: This story is one of the most moving picture books I’ve ever read. I’d heard lots about … more →
Poetry Friday: Tap Dancing on the Roof
shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: I can’t decide what pleases me more – touching poems, funny poems or clever poems. I … more →
Nonfiction Monday: 3-D ABC A Sculptural Alphabet
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shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: I cannot resist a great art book, and Bob Raczka’s 3-D ABC: A Sculptural Alphabet is certainly … more →
Nonfiction Monday: National Geographic Biographies: Anne Frank
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shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: Anne Frank: The Young Writer Who Told the World Her Story by Ann Kramer is part of National Geograph … more →
The Color of My Words
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shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: Discovering a wonderful book that was not published 5 minutes ago always makes me feel like I’ … more →
SMART List #12: Gripping Greek Mythology
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shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: I think Greek mythology has it all: gripping plot, flawed / beautiful / proud / powerful / doomed ch … more →
Nonfiction Monday: Elephants and Golden Thrones
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shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: Elephants and Golden Thrones: Inside China’s Forbidden City, by Trish Marx, is a captivating i … more →
The Arrival
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shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: I’ve just spent a lovely chunk of my evening embracing Shaun Tan’s The Arrival... litera … more →
all the small poems and fourteen more
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shelfelf wrote 1 year ago: Sometimes, if I’ve been reading like a fiend for weeks, devouring book after fantastic book, I … more →
