Librarian/collection development specialist ❤️ 📚🐶🚴🏻♀️🏒 Former Texas Bluebonnet Award Selection & Program Committee & ALA Pura Belpre member
Joined June 2012
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Rhyming text as a boy & father run errands, ultimately to eyeglasses store. They encounter friends & neighbors, all races & ages, text describing all the emotions found in their different colored eyes. Notice the art on bedroom wall 😉@lsuepark1960 @DISD_Libraries #bookaday
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The Grants & teams of students returned to Daphne Island for 40 years to study finches. The remote, isolated area is perfect for observing how plants and animals have changed over time. I visited the Galápagos Islands in 2024. @jamiegreenillus @DISD_Libraries #NFfriday #bookaday
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Based on actual animal friendships in zoos, an orphaned cheetah and a rescue dog become friends and ambassadors for their zoo home. Love how their relationship is portrayed! Great author notes. 5⭐️ #JasmineWarga @MacmillanUSA @DISD_Libraries #bookaday
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Ursula keeps is born and dies, then reborn into her same life, each time living a little bit differently, longer/older. Cascade of echoes, that’s what her memories were. Cool time loop story with sprinkles of alt history. #KateAtkinson #FenellaWoolgar @HachetteAudio #bookaday
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Outstanding historical fiction/mystery! Love the backstory of Martha and Ephraim and the way the story unfolds with flashbacks. Tempest the fox was a lovely addition. Fascinating author notes! If you haven’t read it yet, what are you waiting for? 5⭐️ @ArielLawhon #bookaday
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Text describes the changing seasons thru all the senses except sight. Even Raschka’s cool illustrations have a tactile quality, like crayon on rough paper. Will students figure out that the girl is blind? @anneschwartzbks @DISD_Libraries #bookaday
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Never thought I’d learn what a cozy mystery is from a kid book 🤓What the thief really had stolen… a sense of safety and good will. The library could use a dog... there’s nothing quite like reading with a dog snoring at your feet. @Scholastic @DISD_Libraries #bookaday
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After Queen Eleanor arrives, you just know that Blanca’s plan is going to backfire! She learns that forcing people to act differently doesn’t mean they will think differently, especially how Suna is treated. History facts at the end. @MacmillanUSA @DISD_Libraries #bookaday
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Kids on a nature hike see lots of skulls. Love the cranium description that shelters the brain, a reminder that the animal had - just like you - thoughts and memories, curiosity, intelligence, and consciousness. @Candlewick @DISD_Libraries #NFfriday #bookaday
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Canyon has a lot going on: concussions from bull riding, friend competition, dad is a mess. Will winning the championship put everything back together? Dusti’s characters & stories break your heart and then put it back together again. 5⭐️ @DustiBowling @DISD_Libraries #bookaday
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Cute, fun, short chapter book for tweens/KPop Demon Hunters fans. Not just a movie spinoff or fluff, there’s a good message about believing in yourself and your team. I always want actual music/songs when I read books about KPop! 🤷🏻♀️ @simonschuster @DISD_Libraries #bookaday
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Crazy, are they gaslighting Ruby? Love the little twists, I nominate this book for sleeper hit status! Gotta love the Chessies’ epic setup: chess pieces are Twinkies and DingDongs! #RachelYong excellent on audio. Fantastic ending! 5⭐️ @WendelinVanD @DISD_Libraries #bookaday
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Rumor has it today is National Dinosaur Day! 🤔🧐 Here are 2 books from @NosyCrowBooks to celebrate! Fun mixes of fantasy and NF for the young 🦕🦖fan! @DISD_Libraries #bookaday
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Fast and fun! Once you get into the California post-war world, it’s a really cute novella. The robot characters are well developed. Setting is intriguing as well. #EmGrosland does super job with all the voices. 5 second rule even in 2064😉😆@Annaleen #bookaday
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In the very first sentence popular cheerleader Iris that cautions it could happen to you: life destroyed by internet. Why is it all coming back now? If the killing was in the spring and now it’s October? Did I miss this? #EvaKaminsky on @MacmillanAudio @DISD_Libraries #bookaday
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Alberto Salas plays potato hide and seek: find and protect all the different kinds of potatoes and their superpowers for the international potato center genebank! Gorgeous illustrations. 5⭐️ @MacmillanUSA @DISD_Libraries #NFfriday #bookaday
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Onomatopoeia fest as a father and son imagine all the sounds animals and nature provide. Bright and colorful, full of life. Be sure to check out the case cover art. Ending is tender and fun. 5⭐️ @5hawnHarri5 @DISD_Libraries #bookaday
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Ronan 🐶 & Caleb 👦🏻share narration of their adventures when 🐦⬛ start dropping from the sky & Poppy 👨🏽🦳is rushed to the hospital. Caleb is taken to an estranged aunt, Ronan is left alone in the house. Lots of adventure, wisdom from🐶! 5⭐️ @Scholastic @DISD_Libraries #bookaday
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