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We’ve started reading next year’s OBOB selections at our house. Here are the titles (wowza, 16 of them!) for grades 3 through 5 (ORCA is short for Oregon Reader’s Choice Award; BCCCA is short for Beverly Cleary Children’s Choice Award): “Abraham Lincoln” by Mary Pope Osborne, 2011 (Cannot go wrong with MPO.) “Birchbark House” by […]

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(Photo by Steve Rawley) Turn on the sprinkler; eat breakfast; drink coffee; turn off the sprinkler; water the garden and weed; pick blueberries, raspberries and carrots; read, read, read. Think about fixing lunch/dinner/snacks. Movie? A walk at sunset? Read, read, read. Summer is good. xoxo, Ms. Nancy PS — It’s not too early to get […]

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Boooooooooy howdy, do I wish the Goosebumps series had never been created. In my first library (at a school with students grades 6-12), I had a few Goosebumps books, and a number of Goosebumps videotapes. What? Moving along to library #2 (K-8th grade students). The students fought over the Goosebumps books and things turned a […]

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“No Time for Flash Cards” put together a list of 15 great picture books about friendship. I see a few of my favorites on here, including “Owen & Mzee: Best Friends” and “The Giving Tree.” Happy reading! — Ms. Nancy (Photo by Steve Rawley) (That’s one of our new friends from the neighborhood.)

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(Photo by Steve Rawley) Yes, this is a great month, because April is National Poetry Month, and this is National Library Week. Enjoy! Read! Enjoy! — Ms. Nancy

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I’m going back to work in a school library, as soon as spring break is over. It’s one of our neighborhood elementary schools, K-5, and to say that I am over the moon is pretty much an understatement. For the little kids, I plan to read them “Go, Dog. Go!” and “Press Here” (in Spanish […]

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Great list, check it out. Hey, I haven’t blogged in a little while, what’s up with that? I’ve been busy teaching, that’s what! What’s new with you? xo, Ms. Nancy (Photo by Steve Rawley)

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(Photo by Steve Rawley) I would like this egret to be in charge of the library. And on your way out? Please remember to close the door and keep out the bats.

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Got this from this week’s issue of The Nation. Thanks, Katha Pollitt! (Here’s her entire list.) “10. Fill the Shelves. Ferocious cuts to public school funds have taken a big toll on school libraries—whose collections are tattered, outdated and shrinking. This website posts school librarians’ wish lists—buy a volume in the ever-popular Bone series for a […]

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Here is the reading list for grades 6-8. Interesting picks for titles. Happy almost winter! — Ms. Nancy (Photo by Steve Rawley)

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