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ALA Experience: LaVar Burton
   LaVar Burton is famous for many things. Star Trek Enterprise, Reading Rainbow, and Roots are just a few. Now he has written his first book and he was at ALA to talk aboutit. The Rhino Who...
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ALA Experience: Michael Buckley
Often at ALA events publishers will invite you to dinner and while you are there they will present several of their soon to be published books! Usually they will have an author as a guest speaker. I...
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Online Storytime: Ladybug Girl at the Beach
One of the first books I read to my daughter was Ladybug Girl. I loved it from the start. Lulu is a young girl who has to play by herself. Her parents are busy and her brother is too busy playing a big...
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Find a book
Let's say your child just finished a book and they want to read another with a similar theme. You have a lot of options: ask a librarian, ask a friend, go to a book store or check on-line. This last...
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Top 100:11-20
The end is nearly here!!!! When I started this whole Top 100 chapter books I really did not plan on it taking me this long and I apologize for being such an incredibly slooooowwww blogger. I've gotten...
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Fun Read but really bad cover!
A couple of years ago. I wandered in to the director's office and said, "I just finished the latest Vampire Academy book and now I have nothing to read. Do you have any suggestions?" She suggested The...
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If you're not a bluegrass dork like me, you might not have heard of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. They first came to my attention on a collection of Bob Dylan covers that the library owns, and then I...
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Top 100 Chapter Books-Final Ten!!!!!
It's Happy Dance Time!!!Yes, I have finally made it to the last 10 books of my Top 100 Children's Chapter Books! I was starting to believe that I would never finish this countdown. Now, if you know me...
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Another Vampire Series
There are many many vampire series out there. Some of them are good, most are bad. Here is one that I have really enjoyed.Vampire Academy: Rose, a dhampir* and Lissa, a Moroi** are best friends. They...
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Gather Around the Chuck Wagon
I only watch a few reality television shows with any regularity, and most of them revolve around cooking. Top Chef? Yes, please! Chopped? As often as I can! Iron Chef? Don't mind if I do! I know...
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The Game is Afoot
Fans were Sherlocked, so to speak, long before Benedict Cumberbatch portrayed the "high-functioning sociopath" on the popular BBC show. Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet...
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Perfect Pairings
Sometimes there are two things that you love, and you can't help but dream that they will someday come together to make something wonderful. "Hey! I like bacon and I like fudge . . . what if there...
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Comic Books? Graphic Novels? Graphic Literature?
Growing up, comic books were silly and fun but not serious reading. In fact most people thought  you were not truly reading if you read a comic book. Now graphic novels are taking on their own...
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Help! I have a Reluctant Reader!
 I cannot imagine my life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing~Terry BrooksI don't just love reading, I consider it to be an essential survival skill. It gives me...
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Mayhem and Murder
It would probably take a very tall bookcase to hold all of the fiction and non-fiction books about the Jack the Ripper. Add in all of the documentaries, movies, articles, and television shows and you...
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Storytime Anytime-Happy Spring!
Happy Spring!At least I think that it is spring. There was snow in Michigan last week, so it is kind of hard of tell.For me spring is all about drinking in the sunshine while life is blooming all...
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eBooks vs. Books
Hello again! For those who don't know who I am, and lets be frank that's probably most of you, my name is Zoe! I am the 13 year old daughter of Jana. I have written one full blog post before and part...
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Notable Children's Books of 2014
For the past two years I have had the privilege of serving on the Michigan Library Association's YouPer committee. What is the YouPer, other than a somewhat corny play on abbreviations for the words...
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What do you get out of a book?
I recently read the article The Worst Canonical Kids Books and What to Replace Them With by Emily Temple. My first reaction to this article was extreme offense. I love most of the books that were...
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Weird Al: Beyond the Parodies
So, recently my husband and I attended a sold-out performance of Weird Al Yankovic's Mandatory Fun World Tour. Mandatory Fun is Weird Al's 14th studio album and the first one to reach number one on the...
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