Sugar Shack | Review Lucy Knisley's Peapod Farm trilogy wraps up with a heartwarming winter tale about family, friendship, and acceptance.

Lucy Knisley's Peapod Farm trilogy wraps up with a heartwarming winter tale about family, friendship, and acceptance.
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We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...

A list of book covers from Storygraph's monthly recap: Return to Sender by Vera Brosgol Odder by Katherine Applegate Wretched Water Park by Kiersten White Fake Chinese Sounds by Jing Jing Tsong The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossel Troubled Tonsils! by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown At Last She Stood by Erin Entrada Kelly Penny Draws a School Play by Sara Shepherd The Seaside Corpse by Marthe Jocelyn Turn the Tide by Elaine Dimopoulos The Fairy Tale Fixers Cinderella by Deborah Underwood

Another fantastic month for reading!
Two ARCs: Fairy Tale Fixers and Troubled Tonsils! are sure to be favorites in the library this Fall!
I'm looking forward to reading Odder with my 3rd through 6th graders as grades K to 2 read the picture book this year.
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May 2025 Reads from The Storygraph Cover Collage The New Girl The Language of Dragons Don't Cause Trouble Same Page Bunny and Clyde One Big Open Sky Vanya and the Wild Hunt The City of Lost Cats Better Than the Movies Penny Draws a Best Friend My Sister is a Werebeast The Cartoonists Club Better Than the Prom Nothing Better Than You

May's cover collage from @thestorygraph.com

Picking out books for our Family Book Club next year has me reading an extra amount of children's and middle grade - no complaints here!

Vanya and the Wild Hunt is definitely on the list! Penny Draws a Best Friend might be another!
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Pretty sure it has to do with the sheer amount of Amandas and Jennifers born in the 80s. I had at least 5 Jennifers and 4 Amandas in my elementary school grade that I can remember off the top of my head.

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Storygraph book cover collage: Witchycakes Stepping Stones Lucky Scramble Apple Crush Sugar Shack Dreadful Chickenpox Maybe an Artist Allergic Spinning Smile The House of My Mother Huda F Wants to Know? The Table Titans Club

April reads collage @thestorygraph.com

Contender for favorite book of the year: Dreadful by @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social Can't wait for her second book at the end of the month!

Other favs include Sugar Shack by @lucyknisley.bsky.social and Chickenpox by Remy Lai!

Tell Trump and the GOP: Do NOT Defund our Libraries and Museums An executive order issued by the Trump administration on Friday night, March 14, calls for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the nation’s only federal agency for America...

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A water color painting of the Springtime streets in Paris aligned with buildings and green bushes and trees with pink blooms. The center is looking at the Eiffel Tower in the distance.

Tried some watercoloring at The Abington Community Library - at least it feels like spring in the painting haha
#watercolor #art

Freshly sculpted ceramic cone-shaped rabbit with a printed floral pattern dress and holding an egg.

Different angle of a freshly sculpted ceramic cone-shaped rabbit with a printed floral pattern dress and holding an egg.

Three freshly sculpted ceramic bunnies on three separate tables with various sculpting tools.

Had another fabulous time at #abingtonartstudio creating a bunny! Can't wait to see how these beauties turn out!
#ceramics #pottery #art #bunnies

Graphic celebrating the 40th anniversary of School Library Month, highlighting that the school library is a unique and essential part of a learning community. Includes the logo for the American Association of School Librarians.

This #AASLslm, get to know the #AASLstandards Common Beliefs which advocate for student success and highlight the crucial role of an effective school library within the learning environment. standards.aasl.org

Storygraph wrap up for March 2025. Pictures of the 9 book covers: Holes by Louis Sachar Katie the Catsitter Best Friends For Never by Colleen AF Venable and Stephanie Yue A Snow Day for Plum by Matt Phelan The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher Lola by Karla Arenas Valenti The Do-Over by Lynn Painter And Then, Boom! by Lisa Fipps The Firelight Apprentice by Bree Paulsen Once Upon an Eid edited by S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed

March was an excellent month for good books as you can see from my @thestorygraph.com wrap up!

We also had a Read Across America Challenge at our Elementary school where each grade had to collectively read 100 books... And they all went above and beyond!
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I can't stand it. I f-in can't stand any of it.

Three books pictured on a grey and white quilt. Swordheart by T. Kingfisher, Same Page by Elly Swartz, and Gut Reaction by Kirby Larson and Quinn Wyatt

Book mail arrived!
I'm so excited for this deluxe edition of @tkingfisher.com 's Swordheart!
And I've been eyeing these two middle grade books for a bit! Looking forward to sharing these two with my students!
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Take Action To Save Federal Funding for Libraries! Trump is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries. We need you to take action today! That's why we made it easy to contact your reps, sign petitions, and learn about the Institute of Museum...

Trump is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries.

EveryLibrary made it easy to take action today!

action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

A meme featuring the classic 'Batman Slapping Robin' comic panel. Robin, on the left, is saying, 'School librarians are outdated relics of a bygone era who spend all day reading.' Batman, on the right, is mid-slap, responding with, 'School librarians connect kids to the life-changing power of story while also teaching them how to navigate today’s complex information landscape! They’re more important than ever!

Thank you all for participating and for all you do to serve readers, teachers and our learning community! #TLSkyChat

Our 4th graders can't get enough of this series @kaaauthor.bsky.social ! Thanks for inspiring so many of our young readers.

Block Donald Trump’s Attempts to Abolish the Department of Education Public education in this country is under attack. And Trump has already made clear his intentions to undermine public education even further at every turn—including the extreme proposal to completely ...

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Thank you so much for the opportunity! I adore @mrschureads.bsky.social , and can't wait to read this with my students!

Calling all educators! 📚❤️

I'm giving away a class set of 25 copies of @mrschureads.bsky.social's new book, RUTHIE ROSE’S BIG IDEA, illustrated by @hollyhatam.bsky.social.

Re-post this post and follow John and Holly for a chance to win! I'll pick and tag a random winner on Monday, 3/10. US only.

A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

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Storygraph monthly wrap up cover images feature 6 book covers: Leave it to Plum The Misfits a Royal Conundrum The Shadow Glass The Rival History Smashers Salem Witch Trials Aggie Morton Mystery Queen The Dead Man in the Garden

My books from February via @thestorygraph.com monthly wrap up!
It took 6 weeks between delays and cancellations to finish LEAVE IT TO PLUM by @mattphelandraws.bsky.social to my 2nd and 3rd graders. Well worth it since they were ready to snatch up the rest of the series from the library!
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A bowl made out of cut out star fish sits on a black table with the pottery studio in the background.

Glazing my starfish bowl! I used Colbalt on the bottom stars, sky blue on the tops, then oatmeal in the middle. Can't wait to see how it turns out!
I'm so grateful to have spent the afternoon at #abingtonartstudio
#ceramics #pottery

Reinstate Black History Month, Pride Month, and other cultural events! Google’s quiet removal of cultural events from their calendars last year is part of a broader trend of tech companies and businesses catering to far-right and extreme groups by rolling back inclusivit...

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I'm giving away 10 SIGNED COPIES of Ruthie Rose's Big Idea for one teacher, teacher-librarian, or public librarian to GIVE AWAY TO STUDENTS. Repost by 11:30 p.m. CT on February 20 to enter the drawing.

I'll buy the copies from Anderson's Bookshop. andersonsbookshop.com/book/9781536...

Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

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