Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
Storytime at Home: Porcupines!
Posted about 3 days ago by Sarah Fenninger
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Book Reviews, Children's
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Welcome to the Storytime at Home series! Every other week, we share a list of book options tied to a kid-approved theme, a craft you can set up to go […]
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten: August 2025
Posted about 6 days ago by Lauren Clementi
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Book Reviews, Children's, Families, Picturebooks, Reading Recommendations
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten is a nationwide initiative to encourage reading to babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. To learn more about how to start the program, visit the 1,000 Books Before […]
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So, You Want to Read Horror…
Posted about 1 week ago by Louis Maranski
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Adult, book discussions, ghosts, haunted houses, horror, Inform * Enrich * Empower, reading suggestions
Horror is an interesting genre of fiction. All stories are meant to elicit a response from us, for our enjoyment or education. Comedies make us laugh, mysteries intrigue us, thrillers […]
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July Book Chat with the YA Team
Posted about 1 week ago by Genevievre Wood
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Book Reviews, By Teens, Fiction, For Teens, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Teens, young adult
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Don’t know what to read next? Looking for YA book recommendations? Welcome to the Book Chat with the Young Adult Team. Every month, the YA Team each recommends a favorite […]
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200 pages, more or less
Posted about 2 weeks ago by Lisa Crisman
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Adult, books in translation, Fiction, Reading Recommendations, Short fiction
| Tagged with book recommendations, books in translation, reading suggestions, short reads
It’s sometimes difficult to find time to read. I love to lose myself in a great book and lately there are not enough minutes in the day to commit to […]
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Storytime at Home: Boats!
Posted about 2 weeks ago by Sarah Fenninger
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Book Reviews, Children's
| Tagged with #bookchat, #bookrecs, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #rplrecommends, #storytimeathome, storytime at home
Welcome to the Storytime at Home series! Every other week, we share a list of book options tied to a kid-approved theme, a craft you can set up to go […]
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Reading in the Middle: Historical Fiction
Posted about 3 weeks ago by Adriane Marshall
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Book Reviews, Children's, reading suggestions
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The term “middle grade readers” refers to children in the middle of elementary school, students between the ages of 8 and 12, or third though sixth grade. These readers have […]
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Reading in the Adult Age: 15 Books that are better as Audiobooks
Posted about 3 weeks ago by Adriane Marshall
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Adult, Book Reviews, reading suggestions, Travel
| Tagged with #adultbooks, #bookrecommendations, #readingintheadultage, #rplrecommends, #tweenbooks, book recommendations, book recs, reading suggestions, verse
This month we have a selection of books that might even be better as an audiobook! Why should you listen to an audiobook? Audiobooks are great for multitasking! They are […]
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July Book Chat with Youth Services Team
Posted about 4 weeks ago by Lisa Wiertel
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Book Reviews, Children's, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #rplrecommends, #youthservices, book reviews, children's books, picture books, reading suggestions
Welcome to another installment in our series of blog posts featuring children’s books we’re currently loving! “Book Chat with the Youth Services Team” features one book recommendation from each of […]
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YA Reads: Young Adult Contemporary Romance and Romantasy
Posted about 4 weeks ago by Genevievre Wood
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Book Reviews, Fiction, For Teens, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, romance, Teens, young adult
| Tagged with #bookrecs, #yabooks, #yalit, #yareads, #yatrends, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, contemporary romance, reading suggestions, romance, romancereaders, romantasy, teenreads, ya, yabooks, yareads, young adult
Youth is an emotional whirlwind, and nothing captures that quite like Young Adult Contemporary Romance and Young Adult Romantasy. From high school halls to high fantasy, these stories vary in […]
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