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LibrarianRyan

Joined May 2016

Book crazy, or just crazy? You decide. ----------Same screen name on Litsy, Twitter, GoodReads, LibraryThing, BookSirens
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The Bawk-ness Monster | Natalie Riess, Sara Goetter
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Happy #middlegrademarch. Just saw this and had to share. It‘s soooooo middle grade.

BiblioLitten This reminds me of my brother! 😁 2w
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Schoolhouse Rock!: The Official Guide | Tom Yohe, George Newall
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Yesterday, Illinois Passed HB 2789 - the Right to Read Bill. This bill helps curb book banning, by saying any library that participates in this activity will not be eligible for state funding. There are only small pockets in Illinois with problems like Florida, Missouri, and Indiana, but we don't want those problems to grow, so the state is being proactive. The bill still has to go before the sent where it is expected to pass, and the governor

LibrarianRyan WILL Sign it when it reaches his desk. This is a first of it's kind bill in the nation. And it's awesome to see a state legislature that on a bipartisan effort sees that all books have a purpose, and that every one should have access to them. No one is making anyone read them, but they should still have access.

For more info: https://capitolfax.com/2023/03/08/giannoulias-wants-authority-to-refuse-state-gr...
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TheBookgeekFrau WooHoo!! Awesome, crappy that it's needed, but awesome 2w
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Meshell1313 🙌👏🏻👏🏻 2w
IndoorDame 🙌🙌👏👏 2w
Aims42 This is awesome!! IL has its faults, but as a resident I‘m proud of this 🙌 2w
LeahBergen Wonderful! 👏 2w
CarolynM 👏 2w
Hooked_on_books Oh that‘s great! I hope other states see this and follow suit. It‘s beyond ridiculous at this point! 2w
Leftcoastzen 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏📖 2w
marleed That‘s great! 2w
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Hello @dieareader - just wanted to let you know that it seems you are commenting on things, and I can not see them. I just didn't want you to think I was ignoring you. Everytime I hit a comment that seems placed by you, my page goes blank.

I am sorry about that.

DieAReader Oh dear! @Andrew65 mentioned there was issues yesterday with someone else having probs with my profile. I will log a complaint at my end, perhaps you could do the same, just in case. 3w
LibrarianRyan @DieAReader when I looked you up it said your account is set to private. 3w
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DieAReader @LibrarianRyan Yes ‘cause of recent spam. If u send me a request I‘ll approve np. I am following u & I guess I assumed u were following me. So sry for the mix up. 3w
LibrarianRyan @DieAReader I thought I was too. I don‘t keep track like I should. 3w
LibrarianRyan @DieAReader I wasn‘t going to ask as I figured something had happened. Not on here usually but there have been times. Plus I‘ve been absent a lot lately 3w
DieAReader @LibrarianRyan It‘s off to be happening here, I agree but I‘ve gotten requests from long enough opened accounts & no posts, ever. That just screams sketchy to me lol. I‘m totally game for follow for follow but my spidey senses were tingling after 4-5 of them🕷️🤨🧐 I‘m so glad we can both see each other now!! 3w
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Pot of Gold | Judith Michael
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Okay, I think I‘m done with March and I have the first book read and a second book almost done. 😀

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

Read4life I love how your boards are always so creative 💙 3w
dabbe Gorgeous page! 🤩 3w
bthegood love this - 3w
TheAromaofBooks I really look forward to seeing your design choice for your board each month!! 3w
Avanders 👆🏽👆🏽 same! 3w
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I‘m late as usual but here is my #bookspinbingo for February.

@TheAromaofBooks

Gissy So pretty! 😍❤️ 3w
dabbe Lovely! ❣️ 3w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Fantastic month!! 3w
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School Trip | Jerry Craft
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3.5 ⭐ This is book 3 in Jerri Craft‘s book about the Riverdale Academy Day school. Book one won a Newberry. book 2 was a Class Act, and book 3 is semi-boring. It has taken this reader over three months to finish this middle grade graphic novel. The beginning of it reads very much like the first book does where Jordan once again is feeling nervous and anxious. Only this time changing schools is picking the right high school.

LibrarianRyan It‘s the last semester at the school which means it‘s time for a class trip and our characters are headed to Paris. Technically, there‘s multiple places for the students to go, and one of the more obnoxious characters purposely gets teachers on the wrong trips. A lot of this book focuses on the obnoxious character Andrew, and how he treats people. I think it‘s that obnoxiousness that took me out of this story and did not make it as engrossing as 3w
LibrarianRyan as the first two books. But around 3/4 of the way through, Drew and Andy have a showdown while in Paris. It‘s that meeting which takes place in all of six pages that‘s going to get this book banned.

This meeting is Drew and Andrew talking about 1) how Andy treats people, and 2) how Drew is automatically disadvantaged because of his race. What I love about this, it‘s a very real conversation. Drew talks about how things are just more
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LibrarianRyan for him because he is black. and Andrew talks about why he feels uncomfortable because Drew is black, and how society reacts. At this page in the book the art goes to black-and-white silhouettes as they‘re making these arguments back and forth. These are arguments heard in modern media right now. These are the arguments that the predominantly Republicans, right wing Republicans, are making about how talking about race makes the white kids feel 3w
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LibrarianRyan uncomfortable. This book brings it to the forefront where the mean bully white kid says well, I am uncomfortable because you have these advantages that I don‘t have. Drew points out that without those advantage (affirmative action) his race would be dirt under Andrew‘s feet.

Both of them talking about what is fair and what‘s not fair, and Drew pointing out that just because Andy has a white name and a white presence,
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LibrarianRyan he‘s automatically has advantages that Drew will never have. There‘s an issue in the book where something happens in a store and Andrew says “just take it back” and Drew says “I‘m not gonna do that”. When the reader gets to this argument, Drew states he didn‘t want to take it back because bad things can. This was done in such a great simplistic way to show both arguments and that it‘s OK for someone not to feel uncomfortable because it turns out 3w
LibrarianRyan everybody feels uncomfortable.

It‘s the last fourth of this book that made me think of this book like the rest of the series. The build up to get to these parts was too long and after this argument, they get back to the states and meet with a teacher who‘s always treated the children differently based on their race going hey, I got sent to the special program and now I understanding why to buy diverse books, but now these books are banned,
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LibrarianRyan because well hell yeah that‘s the modern world we live in. Overall, the ending makes this book work. It was a struggle to get there, but by the end it was entirely worth it. 3w
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I get that this book is supposed to be the dark side of the police force, particularly homicide in 1988 in Baltimore. It starts with a dead guy in the street and all the homicide cops talking above him and it‘s very reminiscent of an 80s style cop show or movie. It‘s just dark and every other word is F this, F that, calling people hoes, making fun of trans street walkers. While I know this is realistic to 1988, I don‘t have to read it or enjoy it

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4 ⭐I‘ve seen this book for a few years but not been interested in an reading it. In graphic novel format, I‘m glad I did. This starts out with us by telling us the story of how the atom bomb came to be. It goes over Oppenheimer ‘s life and other scientists, as well as how the secrets were given to the Soviets. This was much more digestible than the full book. Tt was not only educational, but it was also interesting and kept the pages turning.

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3 ⭐If you read a Pusheen book, then you read them all. They‘re basic illustrations that you would find in all the Pusheen merchandise. It‘s cute, but it‘s quite redundant when you read it one page after another. Tt works much better as a daily thing. Overall, I like this but only for pushing enthusiast.

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Bea Wolf | Zach Weinersmith
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3 ⭐ This graphic novel takes the idea of the classic Beowulf and turns it on its head. It‘s children who like to play and be loud going up against the grouchy neighbor man, Mr. Grendel. What makes this book unique is that it keeps the vocalization of the classic epic. It‘s very‘ very‘ very wordy. The words trip all over themselves. On reading it feels like a troubadour of old, trying to get the audience‘s attention.

LibrarianRyan Think of it like Geoffrey Chaucer in the movie, a Knights Tale (played by Paul Bettany), and how he would introduce Heath Ledger. That is the wording format of this book from page one to page end. Tt makes this book a tad hard to read and gives the reader a bit of a headache. But at the same time, it has a Monty Python and the Holy Grail feel if one can just get to the end of the story. Overall, I like this book, but I didn‘t love it. 3w
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Blood of the Virgin | Sammy Harkham
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1 ⭐ This was about a man trying to become a film Director. The illustrations have a 70s feel to them which is when I believe this takes place, but right off the bat in the margins of the page you have porn illustrations. Then you have the characters in the bathroom having this conversation and just it was an immediate turn off for me. I have no desire to turn any more pages to read anything more of this book than the first page.

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4 ⭐This was a very cute beginning reading, graphic novel. Pluto rocket is an alien who has come to earth find all the good things. They are on a secret mission and the first being they meet is Joe Pidge, who is a pigeon. Joe Pidge makes it his duty to show Pluto rocket all the best things there are, become best friends and have a fun adventure. Perfect for those moving from picture books into chapter books.

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Sprite and the Gardener | Rii Abrego, Joe Whitt
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4 ⭐ This is a very sweet and happy graphic novel. Wisteria is a new sprite to town and where she moved the gardens are already beautiful and lovely. There are nothing for sprites to do. Out exploring her new home, she finds the yard next-door that needs help. She also meets a gardener with a nice smile who doesn‘t quite know how to garden. She helps bring the garden to life with only the magic that sprites can do, and ends up making new friends.

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4 ⭐This was a lovely and interesting story about a boy who worried about monsoon rains washing away the ground, and the animals that live there. He‘s India‘s Johnny Appleseed, because he started planting trees. But he didn‘t plant one type of tree he planted different types of trees to help maintain the sandbars and the land as well as unintentionally growing a habitat for many diverse animals.

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Banana | Zoey Abbott
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3⭐ I think in this book, a banana is a metaphor for a cell phone. A little girl who loves her dad because he hangs out with her, plays with her, and it‘s her everything. Until one day they get a banana. This banana starts off being a fun little thing, but then takes dad away from everything else until the little girl decides to eat the banana and take her dad back. This story is just weird. I think it could be fun for storytime

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4 ⭐In this book badger meets another badger and they get a little funny feeling in their stomach. The badger who likes the red berries is not only very fond of berries but is very complementary to blue badger. Blue badger must seek out advice from his friend owl and makes a wonderful new companion to red badger. However, they both need to be reminded to not eat all the berries. this is adorable. it just makes you all warm and fuzzy,

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Animal Opposites | Nikolas Ilic
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4 ⭐ This is a simple board book meant to illustrate simple concepts. In general, this would just be another of the same thing that comes out every year. However, the illustrations are so much fun. I would hang almost any of them on my wall. My personal favorite is the wet cat and the far pigeon, but the elephants are kind of cool too. This would be a book I‘d gladly get for my little niece to chew on and eventually one day read and understand.

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Animal Shapes | Nikolas Ilic
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4 ⭐ This is a continuation of the same wonderful board book series. Simple concept in this case shapes, animals to go with them, and amazing graphics that will have kids reaching for these board books over and over and over again.

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Are You a Monster? | Guilherme Karsten
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4.5 ⭐ This book is so much fun! There‘s a monster looking for a new monster friend. They don‘t see any monsters they just see humans, but do you have it in you to be a monster? This book will help you find out. This book would be so much fun to read in a story time group. The kids would get active, they get a laugh and have a great time. So, whether reading it for bedtime or reading it to a class or any other group.

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Beware the Blue Bagoo | Karl Newson
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⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐5 ⭐
Five star read. This book needs to be read aloud to truly love. The cadence and the pattern to the story are just as important as the story itself and I love that this is not a typical cadence. We have a student who is trying to find out what the blue Bagoo is. The rumor around town is it‘s big and hairy. It‘s nasty it‘s mean. But sometimes a rumor is just a rumor and people or baggees are not the horrible thing they‘ve been made

LibrarianRyan out to be. This book is a reminder to find information for yourself, and not just believe what everyone else is telling you. It‘s a child first book on miss information and it‘s absolutely fabulous. 3w
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The Rabbits' Wedding | Garth Williams
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4 ⭐ This is a historically band picture book. This book is a product of 1958 and when it first came out, it pissed people off. This simple book is of a black rabbit and a white rabbit that like to play together. The black rabbit has small bouts of depression when they feel sad. But the white rabbits is always able to play with them and make them happy again. It turns out that the black rabbit wishes they could be with the white rabbit forever and

LibrarianRyan the white rabbit says I do too. They get married, surrounded by friends and live happily ever after. Want to take a guess on why this book was hated in 1958? If you guessed racism, you are correct! At the time this book was written interracial marriage was rare, extremely frowned upon, and illegal in many states. This book saying that it‘s okay for two to marry, and it even brings about a happy ending. This book is not currently in print and you h 3w
Bklover Wow. 3w
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Briarcliff Prep | Brianna Peppins
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3 ⭐ Briar Cliff prep is a historically black boarding school. It‘s a prep school that leads out to HBCUs. For our main character, she has looked forward to her time at Briarcliff all her life. It‘s a family tradition and she‘s going to meet her sister there. Her sister is on her last year and is ready to graduate. But not everything is fun and exciting at Briarcliff. You see her sister is in an abusive relationship. Avielle watches her sister,

LibrarianRyan seeing the signs of abuse. Seeing the signs of violence. Trying to understand why her sister stays in abusive relationship. This book really gets into the feels. It starts out really slowly, but I did enjoy the look at an HBBS. Because the conversations they had on the things that they get to study or look into if things are banned incurrent society in certain states like Florida. So that made this book. Interesting enough to keep turning the page 3w
LibrarianRyan the pages. I won‘t lie the only reason I finished the book was to see if the sister lived. That is the entire really long reason to finish a book, but it is a story of domestic violence. I‘m not going to tell you if it if she lives, but one of the things this book does extremely well is the aftermath. The aftermath of a girl saying he‘s abusive. This book gets into the sisters arguing over why the abuse sister doesn‘t want to make it public. She 3w
LibrarianRyan says it won‘t matter what he did it‘ll be how classmates see it. She will be a lesser person for being abused and he‘ll maintain his status quo, even though he‘s an abuser. And she‘s right! We see how modern teenage lives play out on social media and how an accusation like this would absolutely play out in a high school. There are not enough YA books that talk about domestic violence in high school, but we know what happened. I found this book was 3w
LibrarianRyan real. There are some a little out there events, but the real way things were happened, the real conversations of why you don‘t leave, or how hard it is to leave, the real thoughts of a sister going why is my older sister staying? Why is why does this person stay with their abuser? Very real and at the end the book was worth it! One just has to get through a lot of prep, and a lot of beauty pageant talk in the beginning. 3w
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NerdCrush | Alisha Emrich
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4 ⭐ There is nothing wrong with being a nerd unless, if you‘re introverted and keep to yourself and are quiet and meek. Then you‘re invisible. But some people they really come alive at ComiCon. That‘s the case with our main character. She has a ComiCon character she‘s completely invented for herself, which is a Victorian steampunk ask character named Rel. As Rel she can do anything and be anyone. She has the confidence to leave an illustration

LibrarianRyan and a poem with an email address in the locker of the boy that she likes. However, her everyday persona of Ramona is the mild meek and quiet nerdy girl. Most of the family, be it mom and dad or the cousins, don‘t understand her nerdiness, and there is even a part of the story that shows how separate Ramona feels from her family. Her extended cousins don‘t think of her as “black” enough because she‘s a nerd. Overall, this was a really fun, cute, 3w
LibrarianRyan lighthearted, love story. It does date itself. It‘s brand new but many of the pop-culture references are already a year or two at a date and that‘s just going to continue as this book ages. So, while I did think it was fun, it‘s fun for right now. It will not become a classic, but it doesn‘t have to. They‘ll be some nerdy black girl who will see this and go” This is the story I need. This is me. And I feel seen.” 3w
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4 ⭐ This book was a little slow, but that‘s very reminiscent of the title it‘s based off of. This book is a retelling of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde except it‘s Gabriel, who is a young black man who goes to medical school in London and his dear friend, Henry. Henry is Henry Jekyll, the son of Dr. Jekyll. These two meet at medical school and become involved. They write romantic letters back-and-forth to each other over the summer and considering

LibrarianRyan this is the 1880s it‘s very frowned upon. Their love is illicit and considered immoral buy some. It gets both of them thrown out of school, and Harry experimented on by his father. What is unique about this story is the reason for the experimentation. In this version of the story, his father Henry‘s father is experimenting on him to make the gay go away. It‘s how we get Jekyll and Hyde. And in the book Hyde is not as violent as he‘s made out to be 3w
LibrarianRyan to be and other versions. He is still deadly and there are there is an incident, but mostly the reader roots for him. Overall I really enjoyed this different take. There was a reason to the experimentation that our current society would understand (but hate). One of the things I really like about this book is that why it is a “black trauma book”. It‘s the trauma of being gay felt by outsiders, not by Henry and Gabriel are both fine with their lov 3w
LibrarianRyan love. But they still find each other and find a way to make everything work. Just two black boys in London trying to make a better life for themselves and others. 3w
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Why the World Needs Love | Gregory E Lang
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3 ⭐ This book is entirely too long. The rhyme and the cadence are nice, but it seems like this boat is rolling across the Atlantic instead of rolling across the lake. What saves the story are the illustrations of the animals both child and parent. They are soft and cuddly and make you want to pet them. For me the book doesn‘t work but for some families it well.

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When Little Owl Met Little Rabbit | Przemyslaw Wechterowicz
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4 ⭐ This beautifully illustrated book is a little odd. Little rabbit is awake in the day and little owl awake at night. One full moon the two meet and become fast friends. Later on, they witnessed a shooting star, and both make a wish to be able to play together with each other more, and they are granted the shadow of the other animal. This ensures that they have a playmate until the next full moon.

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Snail Trail | Ziggy Hanaor
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3.5 ⭐This book is about Marjorie the snail, and she just wants some time alone. However, she can‘t be alone when there‘s always a trail leading everybody to her. At times, she gets annoyed and frustrated because she needs her quiet time. Help from her friend Bernard will allow her to find the best of both worlds. Overall, I like the story and I get the concept and know children who will take this to heart.

ChaoticMissAdventures I feel ya Marjorie! 😂 3w
Nelnjali Oh this sounds adorable. And boy can I relate. Lol 3w
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Flower Is a Friend | Frieda Wishinsky
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4 ⭐ This is set up as a board book and it has a line per page of two things, usually a flower and an animal helping each other. Then that page asks a question. It waits until the very end to give you the answers. It tells you about ladybugs and bats and hummingbirds, and all the animals that were in the book. I thought it was a little odd at first, but it all comes together quite well.

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2.5 ⭐ It‘s really hard to read a choose your own adventure, style book when there are no choices to be made or when the pages say turned UTK. I am assuming TK means to come or later because there are no pages called TK. in all honesty, this story has it interesting parts but it‘s more absurdist than interesting. Some kids belong to something called the climate club but live in a futuristic world where there are bicycles in homes and

LibrarianRyan helicopters in cars and planes and everything is disposable. Where people are racing to leave the earth into space because the earth isn‘t worth it. I love choose-your-own-adventure style books, however, this one was not worth the time it. It borders on the line of camp, but not a style of campo you want to keep reading. 3w
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A Merry Little Meet Cute | Julie Murphy, Sierra Simone
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4.5 ⭐ I have read other Julie Murphy books and they did not prepare me for this one. This is about a porn star who tries to make it on standard side of acting and a former a bad boy boy bander trying to clean up his image. Both of them head to this Holiday movie set intent on keeping their secret, and to start something new. But of course, when they both have to be on their best behavior and fight their natural tendencies, those natural tendencies

LibrarianRyan cause them to smack right into each other. That is meant both literally and figuratively. Is this book full of tropes? Absolutely. Is this book raunchy and spicy? Absolutely! Is this book a fantastic ride that will have one grinning and smiling from beginning to end? Heck yes! I absolutely loved this book and I hope that Julie Murphy and Simone do more books together. The combining of the two authors writing makes for a lively and entertaining 3w
LibrarianRyan story. You felt the romance, you felt the sex and you felt the Christmas. The Christmas was very present and if I had to describe this this is a Hallmark movie, it‘s a Hallmark movie meets SkinaMax and it works in all the best ways. 3w
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Dragon Healer | Lucy Coats
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4 ⭐ This series is just a lot of fun. This beginning chapter book series introduces kids to the various gods and heroes of Olympus. It does it in such a way as to make them understandable and make it comedic. Demon whose full name is Pandemonium as is the son of Pan and it is his job to heal the various animals of Mount Olympus. This time it‘s a dragon that has a bit of a tummy problem and literally stinks up the entire mountain.

LibrarianRyan But fixing this dragons tummy problem is no small thing as Demon‘s healing box is broken and there are other priorities to the gods which demons serves. My favorite part of this book and the series is the comedy. The god characters are so overdramatic, and Demon is the “I just want to do my job and not die type” of assistant. I‘m only halfway through the series and I look forward to each new book. 1mo
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4 ⭐ Volume five picks up where we left off in book 3 but also starts with a new story. Erica is on her own in a new town. We meet Gabby a girl whose family has just been bloody ripped apart. She is a gal with sass and attitude who likes to break every rule she can. And she‘s not happy that she‘s not getting her way after everyone has died. Erica now has a tail of her own who is there to assassinate her.

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5 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ I finally get the background I have been wanting. Volume four takes us back in time where we find Erica and the first monster she ever encountered. We find her mentor who welcomes her into the society as well as all the missing information we have needed about the society. It‘s inner workings, the masks, the colors, all of it. Out of all the books in the series, this one went by the fastest.

LibrarianRyan I‘d be interested in knowing where Erica‘s mentor and her “brother” are now. Overall, I continue to love this story and I‘m very thankful I have book number five to get me going next. 1mo
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4.5 ⭐ Volume three marks the ending of this current fight. The monsters die but more questions still abound. Saint George sent a team to not help per se, more to take over and annihilate the town so no one can talk about the monsters. Erica slaughter is not going to let that happen. She is going to do the job she came to do in the way she means to do it. And Tommy is going to sacrifice himself so that the rest of the town can live.

LibrarianRyan But just like before this volume leaves more questions than answers. We‘ve seen Erica wear a black mask throughout the three volumes, and we know some people wear a white mask. Then we meet the dragon elder, who wears like the jaws of a snake or a dragon, which would make sense as a hinged mask rather than a bandanna. Plus, he talks about the order in the various houses and how they live or die and who won will not let that happen. Plus, I still 1mo
LibrarianRyan don‘t know what the stuffed animals are about. I want more information so I must move to book four. 1mo
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4 ⭐ I had to check that I hadn‘t accidently picked up book one all over again as it starts similarly. Some boys daring themselves to go into the woods. Next there‘s blood. This does pick up directly after book one. There are monster babies, and they need to die. More children around town will die if they‘re not captured. Most of this book was back-and-forth about the organization sending help to Erica, (help she didn‘t want) and saving more lives.

LibrarianRyan The town is in shambles, and everyone‘s scared. Only Erica slaughter has a chance of saving everyone. Book 2 ends with no ending and wait for book 3. 1mo
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3 ⭐ I have two feelings about this book. Our main character, Charlie Rose is deaf. She was born that way and it will never change. She goes to a traditional school and speaks signed English instead of American Sign Language. I do not know the difference. I would be interested in knowing if the author is death as well. The story revolves around Charlie Rose being made fun of in the library when people can‘t communicate with her because Rose

LibrarianRyan has very limited speaking abilities. She relies on others to speak for her or through her communication book. In the end of the book, she stands up for herself with the help of her best friend Daisy, to tell her class to stop picking on her and have a little compassion and maybe instead learn something new. I like the message of the book, but it is quite long. The illustrations are lovely, but it illustrates signs, but then gives no meaning of it, 1mo
LibrarianRyan so what was the purpose of illustrating the sign movement. I really want this book to work but as someone who is not in the deaf community, I don‘t know how accurate or if I am fully getting the message of the illustrations. I think the book is lovely. I also think there are problems, but those problems could because I‘m not part of the deaf community 1mo
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4 ⭐ I love the Moolah books. The art just makes the reading that much better. These are simple stories to help kids understand and do yoga. Unlike other books of this type, you want to read this story not just get an education from it. The stories themselves are funny and adding the yoga into it works and doesn‘t seem like something that‘s being thrown at the reader as a lesson. Plus, the illustrations are so bright and colorful

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2.5 In this book Gretchen has a little accident when she throws up her pizza and the thought of eating pizza next week makes her anxious. This book gives her a way to deal with it through a fun little acronym, and then practice using that acronym. I wish they‘d found it some other way to do anxiety than around lunch. The lesson in here is attainable and would be usable both in schools and libraries. I just overall not a fan of this book.

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4 ⭐ This is a wonderful, true story about a man who rescued an oil laden penguin. This penguin became São Paulo‘s friend for the next seven years. This true story is written to help people understand more about penguins but also about the damage caused by humans to the penguin population. The story is sweet and well done.

mandarchy I need to get a copy of this and compare it to Abery's The Old Man and the Penguin, which was nominated for the Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award. It was a rhyming book (I'm a little 😫). The students loved the story, though. You can find videos on YouTube, old news stories, and microdocumentaries. 2mo
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4 ⭐This is a storytelling math so it gets into how to put a puzzle together, such as looking for straight edges and matching colors, etc. The illustrations are lovely and the story while a bit much for who it‘s intended, it does work. I think what makes this book stand out among the series is that it mixes in Portuguese words, and in the back tells you what the dialect of Brazilian Portuguese they‘re speaking, which happens to be San Paulo.

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4 ⭐ When I saw the title La Bamba, I thought the 80s tune. It‘s not, but I don‘t care. I do not recognize the song that this is or this comes from and I think that made it so much better with the two different languages since most the time you have something that‘s very well known in English being transcribed into Spanish and this time it‘s the other way around. This book is just another great addition to the series that you should check out

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4 ⭐The reason that I like these board books are because they‘re bilingual. So, even if you don‘t read or know Spanish, you have the story told in both languages at the same time. This helps kids learn and recognize these other languages. This is just part of the series that I continue to love book after book.

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Lulu the Beaver | Bethany Gano
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⭐4 This is a fun book about being yourself. Lu is a beaver. They‘ve grown up in a family where beavers do what beavers do. They gather sticks, they cut wood, they build dams. But secretly Lu wants to be an artist. They want to write stories and paint paintings and build things but they‘re a beaver and beavers don‘t do that. Their friends work hard to convince Lu that they can be anything.

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4 ⭐ This picture book biography is different than most picture book biographies about author Ashe. This book made sure to tell the story of his younger brother Johnny as well. If it wasn‘t for Johnny‘s sacrifice and willingness to do more time in Vietnam, Arthur may never have had a chance to win the U.S. Open. The story lovingly looks at both men and their belief in each other, and in breaking the barriers that they needed to break.

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Hey @mabell and @Avanders - you both will be receiving a package today, or tomorrow. This is the first of 3 packages. This will be the book from your wish list. Then later this month you will each receive my Pre-order for February, which is a YA title that takes place in two time periods. It has a black main protagonist by a black author. It's the pre-order I made for myself for February. And a 3rdpackage will be mailed tomorrow or Monday at

LibrarianRyan at the latest. That will come directly from me. Thanks for sharing my birthday, and a Merry unbirthday to you! 2mo
mabell This is so fabulous! Thank you! The best unbirthday I‘ve ever had! 🎩🐇🥳 2mo
Chrissyreadit Ohhhh!! What is the title??? This was a lovely way to celebrate your bday Ryan! 2mo
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LibrarianRyan @Chrissyreadit well. Lets put it this way. These grotesque creatures taste good. heheheheheheh 😁 2mo
Chrissyreadit Hmmm…. 2mo
Avanders Oooh I‘m so excited!!! Thank you so much!! ♥️♥️ I received the first book last night and hadn‘t seen this yet - I was so confused for a bit! 🤣 2mo
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4⭐ I went into this thinking it was a picture book and it‘s not. It‘s a short graphic novel about a boy and his grandmother. His grandmother is a Jew who immigrated from America and her memory isn‘t always what it should be. These two spend the day going around New York City collecting things they will need for dinner, but a lot of the stores and things have disappeared. The reader sees many flashbacks of grandmother‘s life and her adventures and

LibrarianRyan her not liking modern things. This was a lovely day in the life, and while I may not understand all the Jewish elements, I understand the grandmother and the grandchild. The story was lovely, and the illustrations are quite bleak, which I think fits the story. It makes one feel that time is passing and how the illustrator has done the modern times, and all these grays in browns in the past and bright vivid colors really works and helps set the 2mo
LibrarianRyan the story off. While I have no idea who I would recommend this book to. I am glad that I have read it and I think it has helped me grow more as a person. 2mo
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Picture Day to Remember | Natalia Paruzel-Gibson
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3 ⭐ I really wanted to like this book. This book is about a student who is not happy that it‘s picture day. They wear their hat all the time. She uses this hat to because she has a face full of freckles. They feel different from their classmates and the last thing they want is to have their picture taken. Her classmates take her in hand, and they come up with a perfect idea to get the perfect picture day.

LibrarianRyan . It also takes too long to set up that the big hat is because of freckles. I do love how the kids all get in on making our main character feel better about themselves, but overall, this book has been done better, and this one is not memorable. 2mo
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Spring Fun | Anita Bijsterbosch
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3 ⭐This is a so-called interactive children‘s picture book where the reader is given instructions to do with the book that creates the action on the next page. Press Here was the best, and now the standard which I measure these books against. While the illustrations are lovely and top-notch, the story is a bit long and the instructions don‘t seem to be as playful as the standard bearer.

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Goodbye, Balloon | Adam Ciccio
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2 ⭐This book is supposed to be about processing loss and I‘m not sure I get it.This character has a balloon. They have fabulous adventures, but the character knows that eventually the balloon will go away. We follow along the adventures until one day, the balloon is handed off to another character, as if instead of saying goodbye, it‘s saying it‘s time to move on \ I don‘t think it gets the point they‘re trying to make.

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4 ⭐ This was quite a lovely read. The story rhymes and it takes you through a journey of all the things a child could be when they grow up. I don‘t mean things like a fireman or a doctor but things like kind be a thinker be a traveler. It was lovely and lyrical, and the illustrations have this soft, so realistic quality that is just enjoyable to turn every page.

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