Hi everyone, it’s Pride month here in New Zealand and we’re celebrating the LGBTQI community in Auckland Libraries!! To reflect the work we do and the commitment my team and I put in every year I thought I’d do my bit and showcase Rainbow Reads on my blog this month!!
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And so ends January friends!! Can you believe February is just over a week away??!! To wrap up this month of all things letters, I thought I’d give you a break from the traditional letter-form and give you a collection of titles with a little bit of extra added to them. These are teen reads with more than just letters in them…
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Welcome everyone to 2024!! I hope you all had a peaceful and stress-free New Year’s Eve!! My family and I had a somewhat quiet few days together. As my title suggests, I’m beginning this New Year, 2024, with letters. With this I mean, written letters, missives or short notes…
Continue reading “Let’s begin the New Year with letters…”Hi everyone, this week’s booklist will give you a delightful selection of reads featuring five awesome teachers. I call them awesome because I’ve always wished I had had them when I was growing up. I know, it would be impossible as these are characters in books, but you never know if they were inspired by actual teachers. Shall we delve inside to find out…
Continue reading “Five Awesome Teachers in Tween Reads”Hi friends, today’s post is a booklist of read-a-like suggestions for fans of stories by Enid Blyton. If you are like me and grew up in the 1980’s then you most probably enjoyed these as a child I presume. Would you like to know about the modern equivalent to those stories you read? You would? Then this booklist is for you and your tween to enjoy…
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Hi everyone, I hope you are all enjoying the build up of suspense I’m planning for you this month of August. Well, as the title reads, this week’s post is a short booklist of my Top Five Tween Time-Slip reads to date!! If you want to find out which titles made the final list, go one, press the button below…
Continue reading “My Top Five Time-Slip Tales for Tweens”Hello everyone, this week’s booklist features a selection of historical reads where our young protagonists have overcome some form of health-battle or illness. Be warned friends, some of these reads have themes and settings that could lead to episodes of crying…
Continue reading “History, health and tweens”Hi everyone, do you know of anyone heroic who has overcome some form of illness as a child? You do?? Well, this next post has a booklist of a selection of tween heroes who have done just that!! Are you keen to find out more about them? Well, you know the drill…
Continue reading “Health, heroes, and tweens”Hi everyone, as this week’s title suggests, you will get some technical and historical background to music in the post below. I’ve hand-picked for you a selection of books that can give you a guide to introduction to music and its main players…
Continue reading “Music explained for tweens”Hi everyone, are you in the mood for some musical tween reads? Well, today’s post will give you a booklist of specially curated tween reads just for you music lovers out there!! So, if you want to find out what they are, you know what to do next…
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