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Felicity
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Booklover & teacher librarian living in Sydney, Australia.
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Merriam-Webster's top word look ups right now:
1. Rubicon 2. fascism 3. dog 4. oligarchy 5. commutation 6. pardon 7. gender 8. gaslighting 9. pandemic 10. primeval
January 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Cute frogs on bamboo - a present from Japan from my library colleague.
A bamboo bookmark with a picture of some weeping willow fronds and two frogs on a lily pad sheltering under a leaf.
January 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 20 #Booksky #BookChallenge #TLSky
January 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 19
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Book cover of Who Is Bugs Potter? by Gordon Korman. Cover is from 1980s (Apple Paperbacks) and shows a teenage boy standing on a stage in front of a drum kit, holding a pair of drumsticks triumphantly in the air. He is flanked by two rock guitarists. The tagline is "When Bugs is around there's always one adventure after another!"
January 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Very interesting thread, thanks for pursuing! Fyi, here are some stats from a 2022-23 Australian study on teen fiction/nonfiction reading preferences: teenreading.net/wp-content/u...
While the reading tastes of individual teen readers vary, there are broad trends in terms of the genres and titles most popular with teen readers. Teen readers who read fiction were asked to rank fiction genres, and those who read non-fiction did the same for non-fiction genres, using a five-star rating system. Overall, fiction genres were ranked higher than nonfiction genres. While variations in rankings emerge across ages and types of readers, the most notable differences appear to be between genders. This is shown in Figure 8. Figure 8: Teen Readers: Preference for Fiction or Non-fiction by Gender (mean score for each gender) - my note, these mean scores are out of 5 stars. Male: fiction 2.77, nonfiction 2.70 Female: fiction 2.77, nonfiction 2.19 Non-binary; trans: fiction 3.00, nonfiction 2.57 Average: fiction 2.7, nonfiction 2.47 Source: Discovering a Good Read Survey (DAGR) 2022/3
January 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 18 #Booksky #BookChallenge #TLSky
Book cover of The Flyaway Highway by Norman Lindsay. A photo of a young boy and girl in old fashioned clothes pushing through a door in a wall. Photo is surrounded by Norman Lindsay's comical illustrations from various books.
January 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17 #Booksky #BookChallenge #TLSky
Book cover of What Do People Do All Day by Richard Scarry. Picture shows a drawing of a town peopled by animals dressed as humans buying things, running butcher's shops and bakeries, being police officers, fixing things, etc.
January 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16 #Booksky #BookChallenge #TLSky
Book cover of Penny Pollard's Diary by Robin Klein illustrated by Ann James - a tartan notebook with "hands off" written on it, as well as "private keep out" on a bandaid.
December 31, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15 #Booksky #BookChallenge #TLSky
Book cover of 'First Poems of Childhood' illustrated by Tasha Tudor. It's an older looking book with a green background. Two children sit back to back reading. There are flowers, a doll in a dress, apron and cap, and a teddy bear in a jumper and trousers.
December 30, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14 #Booksky #BookChallenge #TLSky
Book cover of Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, illustrated by Garth Williams. Shows a young girl holding a young pig and looking at a spider. Other farm animals in the background.
December 30, 2024 at 1:17 AM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13
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December 28, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12 #Booksky #BookChallenge #TLSky
December 28, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11
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Book cover: The Raiders' Road by Elizabeth Leitch. Old fashioned dust jacket, illustration shows two young adult women in dresses hiding behind a rock, looking in alarm at the distant figure of a woman in black. A river and hills are in the background.
December 27, 2024 at 4:07 AM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10
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December 25, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9

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Cover of the book Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden. Shows a fairground juxtaposed with barbed wire. The tagline says "Electrifying, relentless and frighteningly real".
December 24, 2024 at 4:04 AM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8

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December 22, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7

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December 20, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6

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Book cover of The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter. Cover includes a picture of a clothed mother and father bunny surrounded by a lot of baby bunnies.
December 20, 2024 at 1:15 AM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 5
#Booksky #BookChallenge #TLSky
December 18, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4

#Booksky #BookChallenge #TLSky
December 17, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 3
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Book cover of The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
December 16, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2
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December 15, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1 #Booksky #BookChallenge #TLSky
December 14, 2024 at 9:33 PM