Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
Wibbly Wobbly Words
Posted about 5 years ago by Nico D'Archangel
Dyslexia affects between 5-17% of the population worldwide. This is a higher percentage than people with red hair! (less than 2%) So what is it really? Dyslexia is a written […]
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Read Harder Challenge #20: Writing Our Way Out, Read Harder Challenge #21: As the Crow Flies & Read Harder Challenge #22: Full Cicada Moon
Posted about 5 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
Prompt #20: A book written in prison First, a warning. I know I’ve been writing about YA books for the Read Harder Challenge; however, Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs From […]
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Rising seas
Posted about 5 years ago by Natalie Draper
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Book Reviews
In The Great Derangement, acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh questions our collective “imaginative failure” in the face of global warming. He examines our failure to “grasp the scale and violence […]
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Engaging with authors
Posted about 5 years ago by Natalie Draper
I admit it, I am the sort of person who shares YouTube videos of favorite authors talking and reading at university lecterns, or hanging out in nice chairs on stages […]
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NaNoWriMo
Posted about 5 years ago by Nico D'Archangel
Welcome to NaNoWriMo! I promise, that’s not gibberish. It stands for National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel from November 1st to 11:59pm November […]
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Cooking (and eating!) in November
Posted about 5 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Book Reviews
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Long Live the Pond Scum
Posted about 5 years ago by Phil Shepard
We can all agree, the world is a pretty fascinating place comprised of the tiniest microbes to the tallest mountains and deepest oceans. But beyond the grandeur sits a more […]
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Read Harder Challenge #17: Girl Mogul, Read Harder Challenge #18: The Lost Coast & Read Harder Challenge #19: Hole in My Life
Posted about 5 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
Prompt #17: A business book Girl Mogul, by Tiffany Pham (founder and CEO of Mogul), is a must read for all teen girls who are destined for greatness! In Girl Mogul, […]
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Cowboy Fiction
Posted about 5 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations
The westward expansion of America was untamed, uncivilized, and lawless. Yet there were unwritten rules in the “wild west” that were sometimes as strict as any actual law. Zane Grey’s […]
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Positively Witchy: Books and Movies
Posted about 5 years ago by Nico D'Archangel
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Children's, Film, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with book recommendations, movies, witches
Here are a handful of books and movies depicting witches in a positive light.
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