Review: Dragon Mountain

Do you like adventure and magic? Perhaps flying on dragons is your cup of tea? If so, you’re going to love this book. Set in the mountains in China, the story starts with the mysterious line, ‘Mountains always have secrets’. […]

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Five favorite early chapter books

The competition in this category was fierce, and I struggled to narrow the list to these five. Too Small Tola by Atinuke Published by Candlewick Three charming stories about Tola, the youngest in a family living in Lagos, Nigeria, who […]

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Five favorite graphic novels

Graphic novels continue to be extremely popular at my library. Here are a few of my favorites from this year. Big Apple Diaries by Alyssa Bermudez Published by Roaring Brook Press Alyssa Bermudez used her real diaries from seventh and […]

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Review: Take Me With You When You Go

To be honest, when I first picked this up my inner voice sighed and said ‘oh more angst…’. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I don’t appreciate that authors are writing representatively of their readers but there really are […]

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Five favorite chapter books

A few more chapter books that I enjoyed this year. These could also be Newbery contenders–one never knows. A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus Published by Margaret Ferguson Books I stand by my assertion that this funny, […]

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