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I recently found a treasure trove of free books online (will add link in comments) and I have spent the last few days downloading every Sweet Valley book they had. I decided to read through the SV Kids series along with my SVT read-through and SV Senior Year. Yes, I am a nerd but I‘ve never read this series and I love the feeling of nostalgia I get when I read any Sweet Valley book. 🤓 I fully credit Sweet Valley books for my love of reading. ⬇️

Thanks, @Kar2b for my first birthday card! As a gift to myself, I‘ve decided to dive into nostalgia and re-read the entire Sweet Valley series! The last time I decided to do this, I fell off at 31 in the SVK series, so hopefully this time I make it through more— especially since I‘ve been collecting the ones that I didn‘t have so I am in for some new reads too! This seventh birthday is fun—& the chocolate cake with marshmallow icing sounds yummy!

A bit of monster hunting fun. As with the first I read in this series, I appreciate the blend of illustration and text, especially when the text placement interacts with the illustrations, but something feels very generic/corner cutting about the illustration style, and I remain biased against gray-scale when the cover is in full colour.

Happy Year of the Tiger! Here are some red covers for good luck, happiness, and prosperity for the new year. 新年快乐！xinniankuaile! Happy new year!

This RF, The Author Visit book is one of the many great black lagoon series. It‘s perfect to own because it provides different topics that students go through and reimagine what could happen. This book in specific is about Hubie imagining how the guest author will be like. To then come to find out that it's nothing like he thought it would be. Love the creativity it allows readers to have. Students not only can relate to it but also learn from it.

Here‘s my final wrap-up for February including my #BookSpinBingo. I finished 9 books and 2 more sections as designated on the board. I also got one bingo!

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I joined the mg and ya buddy reads to help me with @LibrarianRyan ‘s challenge too. But these books have been great to read and I‘m so glad to be mixing up my books with all ages. I loved this book- but cried quite a bit. #blackhistorymonth #mgbuddyread this is a great springboard for discussion and history with characters I loved.

This is a sweet MG story set in the South just after WWII. The tone & subject are handled well—not downplaying the reality of prejudice in the Jim Crow South, but also not delving into aspects that could be too heavy/graphic for an MG reader. I enjoyed seeing Gabriel become more aware of prejudice & injustice, as he learns to stand against it in the ways he can. The ending was a little too convenient, but still—a great #MGBuddyRead pick!

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