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Oct 23, 20211 min read
Children's favorites: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Speare, Elizabeth George- The Witch of Blackbird Pond I bought this book from a Scholastic book order in middle school, thinking that it...
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Oct 16, 20214 min read
Scary stories
A mix of two stories that you can read for free online, a print book, a story that you can listen to for free online, and two...
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Oct 10, 20212 min read
Alphabet reading challenge: Q and R
Quentin, Patrick- A Puzzle for Fools Rao, Mahesh- Polite Society A Puzzle for Fools: This is a release from the American Mystery...
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Sep 30, 20213 min read
Goodreads list challenge: August and September
Yang, Susie- White Ivy Mascarenhas, Kate- The Psychology of Time Travel McDermid, Val- Northanger Abbey Moreno-Garcia, Silvia- Velvet Was...
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Sep 19, 20213 min read
Just because reading
Because, ooh, that sounds good right now is reason enough to go off my reading challenges. I'm really beginning to wish that hadn't set...
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Sep 10, 20214 min read
Children's favorites: Sweet Valley High and Caitlin
When I was writing about my childhood love of the Baby-sitters Club series, I wrote that I'd feel fine handing them to a child now. I...
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Aug 30, 20214 min read
Alphabet challenge check-in: M, N, O, and P
Martin, Valerie- The Ghost of the Mary Celeste North, Claire- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Olson, Neil- Before the Devil Fell...
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Aug 25, 20212 min read
The Book of Magic preview
This kind of fell flat to me, but I already know that I'm going to read it again. I want to read the Practical Magic series in...
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Aug 16, 20214 min read
A ways-back list: 2001
A list of some popular books that came out in 2001.
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Aug 8, 20212 min read
Favorite children's books: Baby-Sitter's Club
Most of us know their names, have a favorite character, a favorite book. I devoured this series for about a year and a half. I remember...
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