Author: cholliman1
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The Plot In 5 Sentences Or Less: Jesse Alderman is the hook up man at Wakefield High, the guy who can get you anything–for a price. But when a big shot jock wants a shot at dating school hottie Bridget Smalley, Jesse’s real troubles begin. He ingratiates himself into her life and becomes good friends…
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The Plot In 5 Sentences: After Emily and Navin’s dad perishes in a horrible accident, their mother moves them to a spooky, rural house once owned by their grandfather. The children soon discover his old workshop as well as an amulet that Emily ties around her neck. That night, when a creature kidnaps their mom,…
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The Plot In 5 Sentences Or Less: Polly lives in a bustling house full of children and loves to read and think about ghosts. Ruby has the opposite problem in that she feels abandoned by her family but has the unwanted power of seeing the dead. By accident one day, the girls discover that they…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: Will, raised as a ward of the castle and having never known his parents, faces his destiny on his Choosing Day. Hoping that he will go to fighting school, Will is surprised when the shadowy figure of Halt requests that Will join his team of Rangers, a stealthy…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: Daphne and Sabrina have bounced among foster homes for the past few years ever since their parents passed away. Their latest foster mother is an eccentric old woman calling herself Mrs. Grimm and claiming to be the girls’s grandmother. She takes the girls to her old house stocked…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: While mourning the disappearance of his father two years prior, Gregor and his younger sister Boots are sucked into an underworld through a grate in their apartment building’s laundry room. They soon discover thriving societies of crawlers (cockroaches), humans, spiders, and rats that live together through a fragile…
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Last week I did a post on the best preschool read a louds. Below is a companion post on what I consider to be the best books for toddler storytime. I have always found storytime for the 2 year old crowd to be a bit more challenging. At our library, toddler time is 10…
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The Plot in 5 Sentences Or Less: Each of the fifth graders in Mr. Terupt’s class at Snow Hill School has a story. Jessica, for instance, just moved across country with her mother to get away from her dad, while Alexia is intent upon spreading gossip throughout the class in order to start a war…
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We all have our storytime favorites. After 8 years as a children’s librarian, I have a selection that I return to again and again that always work in front of a preschool crowd. 1) Let’s Play in the Forest While the Wolf is Not Around by Rueda The animals in the forest are scared of the wolf until they…
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The Plot in 5 Sentences or Less: Alfred Bunce and his apprentice Birdie work in Victorian era London as boglers, a kind of early ghostbusters that traps and kills nasty monsters and demons that haunt the dark places in cities and eat children. Their boggling business runs smoothly enough until the high class folklorist Miss…
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