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The Friday 56

The Friday 56 Hosted by Freda’s Voice. Rules:*Grab a book, any book.*Turn to page 56.*Find any sentence, (or few, just don’t spoil it) that grabs you.*Post it*Add your (url) post in the Linky on Freda’s blog post. “My knees buckle, my stomach nearly wretches. Did I hear her correctly?”– What a Girl Wants by Kristin …

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Theme Thursdays

Theme Thursdays (hosted by Reading Between Pages) is a fun weekly event that will be open from one thursday to the next. Anyone can participate in it. The rules are simple:A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are readingMention the author and the title of the …

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Booking Through Thursday

Booking Through Thursday is just a fun question and answer about books! Today’s question is: If someone asked you for a book recommendation, what is the FIRST book you’d think to recommend (without extra thought)? The Lauren Holbrook series by Erynn Mangum. No question about it. I love all of Erynn’s books, and she is …

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Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read• Open to a random page• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too …

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Challenge- Spring Reading Thing 2012

I know I haven’t posted anything on here in a while, but I’m going to do things a little differently from now on. Starting with a challenge! I will be participating in Spring Reading Thing 2012 hosted by http://callapidderdays.com/2012/03/coming-soon-spring-reading-thing-2012.html . The goal is to make a list of books for yourself to read between March …

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Marvin and the Meanest Girl

Marvin and the Meanest Girl by Suzy Kline This is a story about a new girl in the class whose grandmother died recently. Marvin liked to pick on Lucy and was convinced she was a thief. It turned out the people had given her permission to borrow the things she did. Marvin then learned about …

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The Christmas Watch

The Christmas Watch by Erynn Mangum Erynn Mangum is my favorite author, and I love every one of her books. I will probably do reviews on them at a later date. All of her books make me literally laugh out loud while I’m reading, which usually results in some weird looks from whoever is around …

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Dear Mr. Henshaw

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary This book is a collection of letters a little boy named Leigh sends to his favorite author, Mr. Henshaw. We see how Leigh struggles with his parents’ divorce, and how hard it is on him. With the growing divorce rate, I’m sure there are several kids who could relate …

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Sarah, Plain and Tall

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan This is a children’s fiction story that is about a woman from the east coming to live with a widower and his two children. Sarah loves the kids, and treats them like the mother they don’t have. The children adore her as well, and can’t imagine life without …