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Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians – Brandon Sanderson

At Home, Reading / Megan

This is a fun book – it’s a middle reader, so goes by pretty fast. The conceit is that Brandon Sanderson is the pen name a young man named Alcatraz, and is using this book to get his story out to those of us in the lands the Librarians are in charge of. They’re in […]

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The Prince of the Pond – Donna Jo Napoli

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This is a kid’s book (I read it in a about twenty minutes, so I wouldn’t even give it full YA status). And it’s surprisingly dark. This is the story of the Frog Prince, while he’s a frog. He meets up with a lady frog in the pond near the house of the hag that

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Mary Poppins in the Park – P. L. Travers

At Home, Reading / Megan

When I was young, and we still lived in Portland, about a block away from the local elementary school, which also contained the local branch library, my mother, sister and I would walk up there seemingly all the time.    We would get picture books, and my mother would get more complicated chapter books that she

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