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    In This Moment by Gabrielle Meyer

    January 22, 2025 / Comments Off on In This Moment by Gabrielle Meyer

    When You Know, You Know In This Moment by Gabrielle Meyer is a beautiful Christian timeslip novel that I absolutely adored. It is the second book in the Timeless series but can be read as a stand-alone. This novel is set in 1861, 1941 and 2001. Historians will recognize these dates as the starting point […]

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    Love Your Yard: Nature Study Books to Spark “Creation Appreciation”

    July 21, 2020

    5 Ways to Encourage Art Appreciation with Picture Books

    October 4, 2023

    How to Be a Person by Catherine Newman

    August 8, 2020
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    Newbery Roundup #2: Plain Jane, Wrong Way Home, and First State of Being

    January 22, 2025 / Comments Off on Newbery Roundup #2: Plain Jane, Wrong Way Home, and First State of Being

    Our second roundup of Newbery-buzzing books includes a graphic-novel fairy tale, an escape narrative, and a time-travel adventure. The post Newbery Roundup #2: Plain Jane, Wrong Way Home, and First State of Being appeared first on Redeemed Reader.

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    The Boy, the Cloud, and the Very Tall Tale by Heather Smith

    January 21, 2024

    Engage with Culture: Two Books for Parents

    January 5, 2021

    Bookish Christmas Fun

    December 4, 2020
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    My Block Looks Like by Janelle Harper

    January 21, 2025 / Comments Off on My Block Looks Like by Janelle Harper

    Dynamic and vibrant, My Block Looks Like is a fun ode to life in the big city. The post My Block Looks Like by Janelle Harper appeared first on Redeemed Reader.

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    Alternative Physics: Larklight

    July 19, 2023

    Romantic Reads for Teens: A Book List for Girls and Guys

    February 8, 2023

    Back Porch Book Chat: Miranda Collingridge (High school senior and social media intern)

    March 31, 2020
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    The Storyteller’s Daughter by Victoria Scott

    January 17, 2025 / Comments Off on The Storyteller’s Daughter by Victoria Scott

    Secrets, Families, Ambitions The Storyteller’s Daughter by Victoria Scott is a beautiful dual timeline novel that I loved. The action is set in 1941 and 2008. The periods are united by a family house and woodland as we follow a young woman in 2008 and her aunt in 1941. Both main characters are similar in […]

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    13 Books for 13 Year Old Boys (and Girls!)

    November 14, 2020

    Spy Runner by Eugene Yelchin

    March 23, 2019

    Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink by Tod Olson

    May 26, 2020
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    Newbery Buzz #3: Ferris

    January 17, 2025 / Comments Off on Newbery Buzz #3: Ferris

    Betsy and Hayley discuss Ferris by Kate DiCamillo, another new favorite. (See our starred review, here.) Hayley: Betsy, it’s no secret I love Ferris. In fact, I loved it so much I spent one newsletter last fall talking about it! I’m going to unashamedly steal some of what I wrote then and incorporate it into… The post Newbery Buzz #3: Ferris appeared first on Redeemed Reader.

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    The Turnover by Mike Lupica

    September 4, 2020

    Epic Poetry: Learning to Read–and Enjoy–It in 5 Steps

    April 14, 2020

    My Name Is Tani by Tanitoluwa Adewumi

    August 1, 2020
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    Murder On The Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood

    January 16, 2025 / Comments Off on Murder On The Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood

    Engaging, Entertaining & Wholesome Murder On The Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood is a fabulous contemporary cosy crime novel that gripped me from the start. It is the fourth book in The Marlow Murder Club series but can be read as a stand-alone. I enjoyed meeting up with familiar faces – the trio of women […]

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    A Hopeful Heart by Deborah Noyes

    December 9, 2020

    Brand New Kid by David Almond

    August 19, 2022

    9/11 for Middle Graders: Ground Zero and In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers

    September 14, 2021
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    Widows Waive The Rules by Julia Jarman

    January 16, 2025 / Comments Off on Widows Waive The Rules by Julia Jarman

    All For One Widows Waive The Rules by Julia Jarman is a wonderful contemporary novel that I absolutely loved. The book is part of The Widows Wine Club series but can be read as a stand-alone. I enjoyed meeting up with familiar faces. Once more the widows are off on an adventure, travelling from Britain […]

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    Longitude by Dava Sobel

    May 20, 2020

    Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander

    January 6, 2021

    Stress Reading is a Thing (for Kids, too)

    April 18, 2020
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    The Great Race by Sun Chara & Joe Happy-Light

    January 15, 2025 / Comments Off on The Great Race by Sun Chara & Joe Happy-Light

    A Message For Us All The Great Race by Sun Chara & Joe Happy-Light is a delightful children’s novel for ages five to eight years. It is the first book in Return To Fable Land series. The story is a variation of an Aesop’s fable about the hare and the tortoise. There are important lessons […]

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    *Berliners by Vesper Stamper

    December 16, 2022

    2022 In the Books

    December 30, 2022

    20 ABC Books for All Ages

    November 1, 2022
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    The Christmas Cottage by Sarah Morgan

    January 15, 2025 / Comments Off on The Christmas Cottage by Sarah Morgan

    Jigsaw Pieces The Christmas Cottage by Sarah Morgan is a most charming Christmas contemporary novel that I absolutely adored. Once more Sarah Morgan has captured the essence of Christmas within her book. Christmas is family, fun, laughter – all things that had been missing from the leading lady’s life. We see the loneliness of never […]

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    13 Books for 13 Year Old Boys (and Girls!)

    November 14, 2020

    Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen

    July 23, 2019

    Dust by Kara Swanson

    October 1, 2020
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    Newbery Buzz #2: One Big Open Sky

    January 15, 2025 / Comments Off on Newbery Buzz #2: One Big Open Sky

    Today Betsy, Janie, and Hayley discuss a verse novel we all loved. The post Newbery Buzz #2: One Big Open Sky appeared first on Redeemed Reader.

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    Newbery Buzz #6: Cardboard Kingdom

    January 27, 2019

    *Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

    April 21, 2020

    A Better Than Anything Christmas by Barbara Reaoch

    November 8, 2020
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