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Looks great!

My #ADBook I loved this week is Hemlock&Silver by T. Kingfisher. A Snow White twisted retelling that is told from the perspective of a poison and cure obsessed healer that the king recruits to cure Snow. 📚💙 #FantasyBook I have loved every book from this author.

This book will definitely win awards this year.

Will and his family are sharecroppers. His father and grandfather were slaves freed after the Civil War. They hear about the Oklahoma land rush and decide to try for their own land.
Their adventures and trials as they head to Oklahoma are harrowing and keep the reader engaged.

Another award prediction is Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes. #MGBook Historical Fiction about a the Oklahoma land rush. It is always good to get new perspectives on history we don’t hear as much about. #Kidlit #SchoolLibrarians #Skybrarians #Edusky 📚💙

I asked 3 classes today and all said they barely remember homeschool/zoom school/unschool. Some remember older siblings doing it but they were too little. I am conducting a new library survey with all my 4th-6th graders to see if they agree now.
At what point does realistic become historical?

I was asking my students where to put this book and they said Historical Fiction because Covid is historical now.
I asked another class they were unanimous it should be historical because of Covid. They said everyone after them that reads it won’t remember Covid times and remote school.

Kindergarten classes this year are brutal - we have the normal beginning of the year runny nose/cough running through every class, but at the same time we have lice and hand foot and mouth disease.🦠 The custodians and kindy teachers are exhausted. I feel like I need to disinfect the library.🤢🤞

Oreos for dinner can be healthy right? Right?

A graphic that reads BANNED BOOKS WEEK, Oct 5 - 11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. ala.org/bbooks

Banned Books Week starts on Sunday, October 5—there are a ton of ways to support!

Find ways to get involved here: www.ala.org/bbooks/banne...

(If you're overwhelmed, even just checking out, buying, or elevating a banned book is helpful! Talking about them w/ the ppl in your life is an action!)

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I was all in. A new Weird Al song? Bring it.

It is so hard to teach information literacy right now.

I just finished The Trouble with Heroes by Kate Messner and I am😭A #MGBook #KitLit #NovelInVerse that deserves all the awards this year. #Skybratians #SchoolLibrarians if you haven’t ordered it yet be sure to add it.

I would appreciate this as a teacher. I am always trying to find non white dolls. Currently on the hunt for non white flannel board people.

I am in love with all the little old lady names our kindergarteners have -Shirley, Priscilla, Dorothy, Maisie, Maeve, Edith, Penelope, Eleanor, Ginger, Opal, Marian,Hazel and more. I am fascinated with trends I see in naming #Teaching #Edusky #SchoolLibrarians #Skybrarians

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Friday teacher tired

🧵2 “Your cast got wet?

“I can’t talk about my Dad says it is inappropriate”

Last recess “ Casts aren’t good for going to the bathroom.”
“Uh~oh did you get pee on it?”
“Worse.”
😲
It turns out he got 💩on it,tried to wash it off and got the cast all wet and had to get a new one. 😄#Edusky

🧵Funny first grade #teacher story today. This kid broke his arm and has been hanging out in the #SchoolLibrary with me. I asked him “Wasn’t your cast blue yesterday?”
“I don’t want to talk about it.”
Next recess he says it got wet.
🧵 #Edusky #Skybrarians

A 6th grader got me good this week and I have to give her credit. She asked how long I have known her for. I said ‘6 - 7 years’ The entire class started laughing. If you are a #teacher you know. #Edusky #SchoolLibrarian #Skybrarian

This might come in handy for a digital citizenship lesson.

Our kindergartners started school on Monday (they start a few days later than everyone else) and they are so tiny! I forget how little and cute they are at the beginning to the year. Exhausting, but cute. #Skybrarians #SchoolLibrarians #Edusky#Teaching

Clearly I am following the wrong people😉

Agreed. They see open slots in my schedule and assume library is the easy job.

Oooh yay! I need to deep dive into this and see what this #SchoolLibrarian #Skybrarian is missing

I had to laugh today and remember my own advice as I had a 1st grader barking while I tried to review procedures 😛

Attempting to do yoga. My downward dog companions. 😉😄🧘‍♀️

Or licking their neighbors, taking off their clothes, blurting out random thoughts and all the other cute but drive teachers crazy antics they do

The first few weeks of K and 1 are challenging because they don’t know your expectations or routines. They are a joyful and loving group who do love libraries and books. I know it is hard but you can bring the love of books to them.

Baby skunks!?!? That couldn’t have ended well

Taylor and Travis books are all checked out now. This lucky student got one of each. #SchoolLibrarians #Skybrarians