Hi everyone, Until my new combined website is ready, thebrainlair will be posting at: https://www.brainlairbooks.com/thebrainlair This week we will have a guest post by author, Angie Smib...
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WHAT DO YOU THINK OF PERSONALIZED SUBSCRIPTION BOXES? The boxes would be available in 1, 3, 6, or 12 mos increments and include 1 or 2 books. Subscribers would receive a survey to com...
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#BuildABookstore #SaveALife Kickstarter cancelled for now: Dear Family and Friends, Thank you for your support! In about 3 weeks, we raised over $11,000! That is amazing and we should be...
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My One Word for 2017 is GRATITUDE. It was tough to settle on a word this year. Not because one didn't come to me but because Gratitude sounds HARD! I'd had a tough year, I was not feel...
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My One Word for 2016 was bravery. Without "BRAVERY"which is what I named my iphone, I would not have been able to kickoff the NerdTalks at NerdCampMI in July 2016. Without "BRAVERY", I...
In light of the recent election, Maria and I have been jolted out of our comfort zones and have been trying to take action in our respective states. The appointments over the last month hav...
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Mills, Claudia. Write This Down . Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR, Macmillan), 2016. 256 pages. $15.99. 978-0-37430-1644. AFFILIATE LINKS: Amazon | IndieBound | Book Depository Read...
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Mills, Claudia. Write This Down . Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR, Macmillan), 2016. 256 pages. $15.99. 978-0-37430-1644. AFFILIATE LINKS: Amazon | IndieBound | Book Depository GENRE: Real...
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YANG, GENE LUEN. Paths and Portals (Secret Coders, 2) . First Second (Macmillan), 2016. 96 pages. $10.99. 978-1-62672-0763. AFFILIATE LINKS: Amazon | IndieBound | Book Depository G...
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Playing for the Devil's Fire by Phillippe Diederich Cinco Punta Press Audience: Middle School and above Mexico City * Lucha Libra * Drugs * Poverty IndieBound | Amazon | Book Depository...
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Kups for Kathy courtesy LB NerdCampMI - Since the Summer of 2013, I've trekked to MI to attend NerdCamp! So proud to be a part of this group! This year I couldn't wait to drive up on for t...
A RAISIN IN THE SUN by Lorraine Hansberry Vintage (November 29, 2004) Audience: Teens to Adults Drama * African-American Life * Poverty IndieBound | Amazon | Book Depository For the f...
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WHAT I PURCHASED/BORROWED Zeroes (Zeroes, 1) by Scott Westerfeld, audiobook, borrowed In Twenty Years by Allison Winn Scotch Tiny Pretty Things by Sonia Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton Th...
We bring you this special edition of It's Monday, What Are You Reading! Today I want to look at what my K-4 students have checked out this past school year. The Top Ten Circulated Books 10...
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Recently I was honored to present at the 34th Annual Sharjah International Book Fai r in Sharjah UAE. This was the second annual American Library Association (ALA) Library Conference . It was a a...
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Samples and prizing are PROVIDED BY RANDOM HOUSE CHILDREN’S BOOKS #VoyagersHQ - check out the site! All right science fiction fans, there's a new series that already has two books ...
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Taking the atelier apart in preparation for the renovation. Sinks have been removed!
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At the end of the school year, the Head of School gathered a bunch of volunteers to pack up the library. That was good and bad. The good was I had a lot of volunteers. The bad was I couldn't cont...
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Fall of 2014, I moved to The Stanley Clark School in South Bend. It's a small private school serving students from PreK-8. I would oversee 4 small libraries: Main (all ages but mostly 1-4), Fan...
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VARIOUS AUTHORS. FABLE COMICS. MACMILLAN (FIRST SECOND BOOKS ). 2015. 128 PG. 978-1626721074. $19.99 FROM THE PUBLISHER: From classics like “The Tortoise and the Hare” and “The Gr...
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BATTY ABOUT BOOKS presents SHADOWSHAPER by Daniel Jose Older (@djolder , ghoststar.net ) Join us as we read and discuss Shadowshaper. My (@thebrainlair ) comments are in blue and ...
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BATTY ABOUT BOOKS presents SHADOWSHAPER by Daniel Jose Older (@djolder , ghoststar.net ) Join us as we read and discuss Shadowshaper over the next two weeks. SCHEDULE Today, J...
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Mata, Julie. Kate Walden Directs: Bride of Slug Man. Disney-Hyperion , 2015. 288p. $16.99. 9781423194606. from Goodreads : > After her huge success with her first feature-length mov...
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Woot! Today is Free Comic Book Day! Use FreeComicBookDay.com's store locator to find a store near you! If you are looking for some graphic novels to buy, here are the Top Ten Graphic Novels ...
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Celebrate kids comics with Q&As with fantastic children’s cartoonists for Children’s Book Week! Join us as great authors talk about their own creative work and the graphic novel industry ...
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