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Thursday, April 16, 2015

GIVEAWAY of Tom Gates: Excellent Excuses (and Other Good Stuff) Prize Pack

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Tom Gates: Excellent Excuses (and Other Good Stuff)  is the second installment in Liz Pichon’s series for middle-grade readers. Tom Gates i...
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Monday, April 13, 2015

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: ABBY SPENCER GOES TO BOLLYWOOD by Varsha Bajaj

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ABBY SPENCER GOES TO BOLLYWOOD by Varsha Bajaj (Albert Whitman and Company, March 2014) What It's About (from Goodreads):  What thir...
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Monday, April 6, 2015

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: SURVIVING BEAR ISLAND by Paul Greci

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SURVIVING BEAR ISLAND by Paul Greci (Move Books, March 2015) Paul Greci is one of my Project Mayhem colleagues, and this is his debut. A...
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Monday, March 23, 2015

Middle School Literature Circle: Revisiting THE HUNGER GAMES

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My son's 6th grade class was doing literature circles, and his teacher asked for parent volunteers to help out. Being a kind and gene...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

WINNERS!!

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When things go wrong on the blog, you can bet your bottom dollar it's the work of my arch-nemesis, Luca Brasi, Jr. As longtime readers...
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Monday, March 2, 2015

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: GRACEFULLY GRAYSON by Ami Polansky

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GRACEFULLY GRAYSON by Ami Polansky (Hyperion, 2014) I found this to be a profoundly moving book. Five hankies! What It's About (fr...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: OVER SEA, UNDER STONE by Susan Cooper

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OVER SEA, UNDER STONE by Susan Cooper Sometimes it's nice to revisit a classic, folks--or in my case to visit it for the first time....
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