Tag: top ten
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 YA Series I Have Yet to Finish
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. Today’s topic is Series I Have Yet to Finish, and this is an easy post to write because the answer is, most of them. I am not a big fan of series—at least not for myself as a reader. For other readers,…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I Wish Students in #yalitclass Would Read
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s topic is a freebie, and I’ve decided to put together a list of 10 books I wish everyone enrolled in my Adolescent Lit class would read. Since I’m the instructor of the course, I could require all of these…
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Top Ten Picture Books Overlooked by the Caldecott
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s theme is Top Ten Underrated Authors or Books in X Genre. The illustrators on my list are hardly underrated: many have won major prizes, including Caldecott Honors. But each illustrator has a particular book that I find deserving of the…
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Top Ten Books I’d Give to Readers Who Have Never Read Middle Grade
Top Ten Tuesday is a book meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s prompt: Top Ten Books I’d Give to Readers Who Have Never Read X. I decided to focus on my current favorite type of reading, middle grade. I decided not to include any classic middle-grade titles, and I also set a rule…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Childhood Favorites
Today is a Top Ten Tuesday Freebie. I decided to share my Top Ten Childhood Favorites, the Picture Book version. (Because once I started thinking about chapter books and middle grade, my list suddenly exploded to about 30 titles.) If you grew up in the 70s, this post may bring on nostalgia and a desire…
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Ten Books I Want to Read RIGHT NOW
In grad school, I worked as a teaching assistant for a writing professor who always used to stop students after she would ask them to share their writing and they would start explaining and apologizing and contextualizing what they had written instead of just, you know, reading the writing. She would raise her hand and…
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Top 10 Favorite Graphic Novels
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Top 10 All-time Favorite Books in the genre of your choice, and I am choosing graphic novels. I was not a comics fan when I was growing up, and although I purchased graphic novels for my high school classroom library, I didn’t read them myself. I thought they…
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