Book Reviews
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Read a #booktok rec — 2022 RAD Reading Challenge for Teens
Posted about 2 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Book Reviews, Reading Challenge, Reading Recommendations, Teens
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Welcome back to another month of the RAD Reading Challenge, RPL style! If you missed my prior posts, you can find the intro post here and last’s month’s prompt to […]
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HARRIET TUBMAN, INSPIRING AMERICAN HERO
Posted about 2 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Biographies, Black History Month, Book Reviews, Children's, Events, Fiction, Film, Graphic Novels, History and Preservation, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, Movies, nonfiction, Picturebooks, Reading Recommendations, Teens, Women's History
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Harriet Tubman (c. 1820-1822 – March 10, 1913) is an icon of courage, a true American hero. Born Araminta “Minty” Ross, she was enslaved at birth in Maryland. In 1849 […]
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By Teens, For Teens – Red Wolf & The Hunger Games
Posted about 2 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations, Teens
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In this By Teens, For Teens blog post, we have two teen contributions. Magdalena W., age 12 reviews Red Wolf by Rachel Vincent, a dark fantasy where creatures of the […]
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Black History Month
Posted about 2 years ago by Nico D'Archangel
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Book Reviews
While February is Black History Month, (celebrated in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.) black history can and should be learned/taught/acknowledged all year round by everyone. It’s about honoring the […]
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By Teens, For Teens – Sherlock Holmes Read-Alikes
Posted about 2 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations, Teens
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Welcome back to our By Teens, For Teens blog series! Apologies that it’s been awhile since our last post. We hope you’ve been reading some awesome books during the wait. […]
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Read a Graphic Novel — 2022 RAD Reading Challenge for Teens
Posted about 2 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Adult, Book Reviews, Graphic Novels, Reading Challenge, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with aradreadingchallenge, book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, booksforteens, graphicnovels, ireadya, reachingchallenge, reading suggestions, readingchallenge2022, teenreads
Welcome back! I hope my intro post to this year’s RAD Reading Challenge has you all excited and ready to dive in! I’m starting out my challenge with the first […]
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A New You in 2022
Posted about 2 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Book Reviews, Cooking, Families, Health and Wellness, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction
| Tagged with celebrity, clean eating, cookbook, diet, endometriosis, flavor, food, food is medicine, healing, health and wellness, immune system, junk food, lifestyle, migraines, plant-based, recipes, vegan, vegetarian
So, we’ve come through well over a year of quarantine. It has become clear that physical health, including astrong immune system, is very important. This is a good time to revisit, […]
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Bah! Humbug!
Posted about 2 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Bah! Humbug! How did this phrase come to convey curmudgeonly displeasure? The origin of the word humbug is unknown. It emerged in England in the mid-18th century, with a first […]
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National American Indian Heritage Month
Posted about 2 years ago by kathryn Coker
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Adult, Book Reviews, environment, Events, Families, History and Preservation, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, Reading Recommendations
Introduction National American Indian Heritage Month has particular significance to Virginia, home to eleven state recognized American Indian tribes. “State recognition is the formal declaration of recognition to an American […]
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Learning to Love Our Autumn Years
Posted about 3 years ago by Laura Price
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Adult, Aging, Book Reviews, Children's, Families, Golden Years, Picturebooks, Reading Recommendations
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“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made…” Robert Browning The official start of autumn, also known […]
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