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Closet Readers
When I was around my daughter’s age, my parents separated, and we moved into a tiny apartment that was cozy enough for my ,mom and me. When I wanted to escape from the world, I would hide in the only closet. It had just enough space for myself, a blanket, a flashlight and a handful Read more
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Summer Reading Goals
Today is the very first day of summer! It would be something to celebrate, if we weren’t still a family of school goers for ANOTHER WEEK. Snow days seemed worth it at the time….. Since a week can feel like forever, we started to make our summer reading goals. We searched the Scriptorium’s shelves for Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
