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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Hi everyone, this week’s personal post is one I had a bit of difficulty trying to write up. I was thinking about writing a letter to my dad telling him how much we missed him but I changed my mind halfway through it. Several workshopped ideas later, I came up with an advice letter to my past sixteen-year-old self. So, if you want to have a peek at what I ended up writing, press the button below…
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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…
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Hi everyone, can you believe 2023 is about to end? I hope everyone had a good Christmas yesterday. My nieces had a visit from Santa with a reasonable amount of gifts under their decked out Christmas tree. This last post is one of reflection over the year that has passed.
Continue reading “My final reflections for 2023…”Hi everyone, this week’s post is an adult historical read I found sometime last year. Once I had read it I found out quite a bit about a particular period in American history regarding education and teachers; which strangely happened to be my theme for last month! Interesting how our choices end up being linked from one to another…
Continue reading “The Moonlight School by Suzanne Woods Fisher”Hi everyone, welcome to this second week of December. Christmas is just around the corner and my nieces are getting super excited. This week I’m giving you a teen book for your reading pleasure. Hope you enjoy the sunshine and laughter this read brings you!!
Continue reading “Listen to your heart by Kasie West”Hi everyone, this first post for December is a tween review. It’s funny how some titles pop out and when you look closely it’s actually one that resonates with you. Maybe I was meant to choose this particular title. Shall we find out what makes it so….
Continue reading “Allie, first at last by Allie Cervantes”Sadly, another year has come to an end. I seriously didn’t think 2023 would have had half the things I had experienced. For one, our family had no idea we would have to farewell our father and have our lives changed irrevocably. This month’s posts are a mixed bunch. Would you like to find out a little bit about them?
Continue reading “And so ends 2023…”Hi everyone, this week’s post focuses on a couple of tween series written by acclaimed Rob Buyea. If you were after tween reads about some amazing and inspirational teachers, then this is the week for you!!
Continue reading “Rob Buyea’s tween series to enjoy”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…
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