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Do you ever have one of those days when all of a sudden a light comes on, angels start singing, and a lightbulb literally is hovering over...

2017, Candlewick Press Trell only has one family picture with both of her parents in it.  It was taken on her 13th birthday.  Before t...

Halloween is nearly upon us and it's a good time to cuddle up with a scary book on a long night...at least for some of us.  If you know ...

Feiwel and Friends, 2018  Pub date 03/2018 compliments of the publisher via Netgalley "pitch-dark adjective       extremely or c...

I've shared quite a bit on my Twitter feed (@yabooksandmore) of great ideas I've seen in libraries I've visited since school...

Harlequin Teen, 2017 North Shore Illinois is picture perfect. Expansive lakefront properties and even neighborhoods have immaculate y...

2017, Crown Books for Young Readers The Tower of Babel was created to reach the sky and it could only do something like this because ma...

I added the hyperlink where you can buy this... I do NOT profit from it at all...just thought I'd share it :) As librarians, we k...

Sourcebooks Fire, August 2017 Sal's life is one of stealth and swiftness.  After a war that ruined the lands and completely annihila...

This was a presentation I created for professional development for teachers.  It's something they really need to understand before schoo...

Had an amazing day with librarians throughout the Dallas area!!  Here is the presentation I did for the Summit :) https://drive.google....

I and my friend, Sue Fitzgerald, had the honor of being chosen to present at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicag...

Happy new school year!!  The gears are starting to turn and school openings are around the corner.  School campuses are caught up in a whirl...

Three years ago, a group of librarians in North Texas decided to create the first ever libcamp in our area.  From the beginning it has gro...

Flatiron Books, 2017 Scarlett Dragna has been wanting to go to Caraval since she was ten.  Every year, she wrote a letter begging them ...

I was asked to present a short presentation for new library directors on what librarians want from there perspective. I thought about the l...

I've done the traditional.  I've created infographics.  This year, I wanted to try my hand at a video report.  Well, it was a toss-u...

This is a presentation I did for TxLA this year about book trailers.  We seem to always use the same tools to create book trailers, so I dec...

When I first heard about these kits, I was very very curious.  It wasn't until I went to a conference and really learned about them ...

(And there are 65 more synonyms for "ninja" so I'm not done with these yet!) I had a request from a biology teacher to colla...