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E loves to read poetry, creepy stories, and genre mashups. A fan of anything that goes bump in the night, E loves offbeat mysteries, supernatural twists, and almost anything set in a weird town or told in a quirky, first person narrative voice. Many of E’s favorite books respond to real-life questions with other-worldly solutions. A Youth Librarian (Lee Road), E also loves whimsically illustrated picture books, animal fantasies featuring heroic mice, and other stories about growing up with just a hint of magic.
Little Women & Adjacent Tween Reads

Little Women & Adjacent Tween Reads

This month Dobama Theatre is bringing Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to life on stage through December. If you're planning on attending the play or simply interested in revisiting the story or later works celebrating sisterhood, there are plenty of middle grade...

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Read if You Dare: Middle Grade Summer Scares

Read if You Dare: Middle Grade Summer Scares

2023 marks the fifth annual Summer Scares, a program partnership of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), United for Libraries, Book Riot, and Booklist to promote horror as a fun reading option during any time of year. Designed with titles for all ages, this year,...

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The Book That No One Wanted To Read… is for Everyone

The Book That No One Wanted To Read… is for Everyone

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be a book stuck on a library shelf? A tome with telepathic powers searches for a reader and along the way offers some hilarious insights in Richard Ayoade's The Book That No One Wanted to Read. This witty genre-busting...

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Always, Clementine

Always, Clementine

With Always, Clementine, Carlie Sorosiak delivers a heartfelt tale of wonder that will hold strong appeal for budding animal advocates.   A highly intelligent mouse named Clementine escapes a research lab and tries to find a place where she can be safe. Clementine is...

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Middle Grade Thrills & Chills: Shadow Grave by Marina Cohen

Cohen delivers her fourth shiveringly fun middle grade novel with the standalone book, Shadow Grave. Primarily set in an isolated New Hampshire logging town where nothing is quite what it seems, readers meet twelve year old Arlo after a difficult year dealing with his...

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