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  • Middle Grade Fiction: LGBTQ+ Community

    In honor of Pride month, Scholastic listed a series of books that promote the LGBTQ+ community within middle grade fiction. It is important that members of these communities are valued and represented within our literature, especially Middle Grade Fiction where adolescents are at the cusp of displaying and understanding their identities.     In Children […]

    Faith Allaire

    June 14, 2018
    Reading, Uncategorized
    books, Children of the Planes, Gender Nonconformity, LGBTQ, middle grade fiction, Pride Month, Reading
  • The Girl Who Drank the Moon

    The Girl Who Drank the Moon

      A sacrifice to witches, a bog monster, and a snuggle bug dragon. Barnhill uses these elements to spin a tale of a young girl Luna, trying to cope with irreversible consequences of not sticking to a standard diet of milk and pureed peas. This week the kids and I finished Kelly Barnhill’s “The Girl […]

    Faith Allaire

    June 10, 2018
    Reading, Review
    middle grade fiction, Reading
  • Family Reading Time

    Family Reading Time

    In the Allaire Family Constitution, it specifically states that 7-8 p.m. is reading time. Any use of electronics at this time results in the guilty party having to cluck like a chicken…     Suffice to say, we take our reading time seriously. I found a lot of information on why you should read to […]

    Faith Allaire

    June 4, 2018
    Reading
    books, family, Harry Potter, Neil Gaiman, parenting, Reading
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