Excellent, timely message from author Jodi Picoult on the dangers of #bookbans and history repeating itself and what we can do to take action.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR7gnJ41/
Sparklemn Great message. Thanks for sharing! 4d
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Excellent, timely message from author Jodi Picoult on the dangers of #bookbans and history repeating itself and what we can do to take action.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR7gnJ41/
pickOG #MiddleGradeMarch. I really enjoyed this one as much as I did as a kid. Thanks for hosting @Ann_Reads
pickGreat and timely story about censorship based off an event in the author‘s life as a child. Should be on every middle grade classroom bookshelf including those in Florida. #MiddleGradeMarch
#LittleHouse chapter a day
pickIf I‘m honest this #MiddleGradeMarch pick is between a pick and a soso. Only because one of the main characters was so self absorbed and selfish and in my opinion didn‘t really deserve the friendship of the other.
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Living outside of Cleveland, I‘m curious where this decent lunch was. Decent seems a little like an insult. 😂 #MiddleGradeMarch #Roadtrip
pickI had to check this one off my list this #MiddleGradeMarch. It seems impossible I never read it as a kid. It was enjoyable but I might have enjoyed it more reading than audio.
What a lucky kid to have a childhood like this. I always tried to make sure my kids‘ reading was full of banned books too. #MiddleGradeMarch
pick1. I love Jewell Parker Rhodes.
2. How has Disney not picked this up for animated movie? I can see live action and animated in my head perfectly and it‘s beautiful and engaging.
3. This is the standard by which I judge all middle grade fiction. The setting is phenomenal and I felt in it as I read. It was a book that pulled you into the pages. I love the characters. The message about being good stewards of nature is timely.
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pickBased on the subject matter, type of writing (novel in verse), & true story, I‘d hoped to enjoy this more. It‘s possible it was the audiobook as I enjoy novels in verse more when read myself, but I enjoyed the into & epilogue a lot but found the meat of the book to feel a bit disjointed & distant. Had the author used first person as a letter from grandma as explained in the into i think I would have enjoyed this more. Still an important topic.
pickVery short read with some interesting words from around the world. The beautiful illustrations are what make this book.
pickSaint Louis Armstrong Beach takes the reader through the preparations, storm, and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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pickI‘m a little behind on #MiddleGradeMarch but have multiple going and will catch up soon. This was a family vacation at Big Bend National Park in Texas with themes of parental loss and dealing with a parent dating. The MC is very funny, which brings levity to these tough topics.
panI read this book for a library discussion. It was going to be months before I got it at the library so I paid for it and regret it. I cannot believe how wildly popular this book was and still is. I checked out goodreads 1 star ratings and the above sum up my feelings. But I disliked this book so much I felt I‘d share in my own words. I was about 10 pages in when I thought this seems more like a play than a novel. Then I saw the author is a 👇🏻
My dad as a child, a Marine, with my oldest, my youngest, & me.
Today my dad lost his battle with opioid addiction. He had a health issue that caused pain. He got hooked and I tried to say something years ago, before he started getting it off the street, but he refused to listen. Despite my mom‘s experience as the adult child of an alcoholic and as a nurse, she refused to admit it. I had a tumultuous relationship with my dad and didn‘t 👇🏻
pickOops I finished my #LMPBC book before I was supposed to start it.
This is not a travel memoir in the truest sense but I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did. I‘d love to see a part two with additional cultural death practices. Very interesting. I learned a lot.
Thanks @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm for the recommendation.
This is the next library book discussion mom and I are doing in March. This book was published in 2020! I‘m shocked that I can‘t get a digital copy in major Ohio libraries for months. Paper copies at Clevnet also very limited.
It‘s that time again. One of my favorite reading months of the year. Join @sblbooks and I for #MiddleGradeMarch.
panDifficult to rate this one. I usually love Southern fiction and enjoyed Richardson‘s Book Woman but that seems to be a case to show how much her writing grew since this book. It‘s hard to believe it was published in 2015. It didn‘t help that I listened to this on audio and the n word was thrown around quite a bit. But my biggest issue was the unrealistic attitude about the interracial relationship the MC enters into in 1972. There is no 👇🏻
pickMom and I both enjoyed The Four Winds. Looking forward to library discussion Wednesday.
Tomorrow we begin On the Banks of Plum Creek!
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pickA modern day retelling of Daddy Long Legs, told through a series of letters.
pickThe story of a Civil War marriage told through letters and a diary. Will they make it through?
Little House on the Prairie closes with the Ingalls family loading up their wagon and leaving their new home behind. Even though the next book is Plum Creek, we know they went back to the cabin in the big woods for a period of time. My immediate family always stayed in place and I often wondered (and still do at times) what it‘s like to strike out for parts unknown. Perhaps subconsciously this was part of my draw to these adventures.
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And so the Ingalls finally learn that Washington is not yet going to order the Natives off the land and they will be required to leave. Pa chooses to leave on his own rather than be forced out by soldiers. Ma laments the wasted year. But Pa brushes it off. Would you feel more like Ma or Pa?
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Laura finally sees a papoose. She had a lot of big feelings about it.
I‘m curious where the Natives were headed. I‘m imagining changing camps for the season.
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pick“I wonder what goes missing when the women are nowhere to be found as actors in history. It is but half of the story.”
For those who enjoyed Beheld, this quick read is the Jamestown colony through the eyes of women.
pickFinished early. Classic children‘s literature that, despite its flaws, can still be used today to teach children history. #LittleHouse
What were your thoughts on today‘s chapter?
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pickAmina visits Pakistan and comes home to share the truth about it. A great middle grade novel that should be on all classroom shelves including those in Florida.
Me, looking around to see if the Ingalls have survived their latest catastrophe. Nature is amazing, how all the animals ran to the water. I appreciated Pa speaking up for the Indians after Mr Scott‘s harsh words.
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panSpoiled little rich girl can't handle her rich world without the numbing effects of alcohol and cocaine. Wealth is wasted on the wealthy. Why do mistresses feel the need to write exposes for their lover's wives and children to be humiliated before the world? Go to confession rather than writing a book. I harbor no sympathy for homewreckers, no matter how young and naive they are. If I'd read this first I never would have made it to Inheritance.
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