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🌸Tara🌻
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Mother 💕 HS English/8th History Teacher 🍎 📚Avid Reader 🧠AuDHD Thinker, with a little Crochet 🧶 for fun.

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Such a fun reading combination. 💙📚
October 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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August #storygraph 💙📚
September 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Lots of great reads for me this July! 💙📚 #storygraph #booksky
August 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I feel accomplished for the day. #msracheltonie 💖
Ms. Rachel Tonie
July 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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My #storygraph stats for June. #booksky 💙📚
Infographic showing I’ve read 18 books. My top category was young adult. Basically a 70/30 split fiction/nonfiction.
July 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Apparently my reading today had a theme. 💙📚 #booksky
Covers of two books: Rules for being a girl and Girl on Fire
June 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Look at this handsome young man. 🐓
Headshot in profile of a 4 week old rooster. He is white with a red comb and wattle.
June 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Just finished this stupendous memoir. #booksky
June 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day, in no particular order.

Day 20: Laura Ingalls Wilder

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters 📚💙
Photo of Laura as a young adult. She’s wearing a high collared black frock with a broach. The Little House books. (9 covers)
June 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day, in no particular order.

Day 19: Jacqueline Woodson

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters 📚💙
Photo of author smiling against a bright blue background. Above her is a collage of five of her many books.
June 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day, in no particular order.

Day 18: Margaret Peterson Haddix

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters 📚💙
Phot of author smiling. She has a red shirt and red lipstick. Collage of 24 covers of books by Haddix.
June 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day, in no particular order.

Day 17: Jodi Picoult

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters 📚💙
Photo of author in a purple blouse. Cover of novel: By Any Other Name
June 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I’m sorry I took so long to get to this book - but now I can share it with my students in August who I know will love it. 💙📚 #booksky #MMIW #LGBTQIA2S+
Cover of the book: The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson.
June 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day, in no particular order.

Day 16: Maya Angelou

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters 📚💙
Black and white photo of Angelou with her eyes closed, laughing. Photo collage of text of “Still I Rise” and the cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
June 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Such a lovely surprise when you realize your rose bush has bloomed! 💛🥰
Yellow roses bush blooming. One bud has a small bug in the middle. Five yellow roses on a branch. More yellow roses against a house with gray siding.
June 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day, in no particular order.

Day 15: Tracie Peterson

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters 📚💙
Photo of author smiling. Collage of cover of first book in four of her series. You can learn about Lowell, Harvey Girls, the Alaskan Gold Rush, and more.
June 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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📚💙 #bookquote I love.
“Wishes just don’t come true; they’re only the target you paint around what you want. You still have to hit the bullseye yourself.” -Laini Taylor in book Muse of Nightmares
June 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day, in no particular order.

Day 14: Sharon Mills Draper

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters 📚💙
Photo of author smiling. She’s wearing black glasses and holding two of her books. One of my very favorite books: Copper Sun.
June 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I have lost count of the number of times today my six-year-old has talked about the pizza he’s going to get at the end of the month! #bookit 📚📚 #booksky
Pizza Hut Book It app saying Great Job for completing the first day’s reading goal.
June 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 13: Suzanne Collins

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters 📚💙
Photo of author in green shirt sitting in a chair in a library. Collage of Hunger Games and Gregor the Overlander books.
June 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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💙📚 My May StoryGraph summary. #booksky

Favorite nonfiction: The Third Gilmore Girl

Goal for June: Get nonfiction up to 30%
June 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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I had a hand-written note inside my copy that said “Hamlet retelling” and if that wasn’t enough, it also said “tragedy” and yet I was still shocked by the ending - for being so tragic . . . and Hamlet-like. 💙📚
June 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 12: Sharon Creech

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters 📚💙
Photo of author - I’m assuming from the 1990s. Covers of four of Creech’s books that I like, including my favorite: Love That Dog.
May 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 11: Angie Thomas

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters 📚💙
Photo of author smiling with her chin resting on her hands. Photo of covers of six of Thomas’ books.
May 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 10: Lauraine Snelling

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters 📚💙
Photo of the author smiling. She’s wearing glasses, blue earrings, and a blue top. Cover of the book An Untamed Land. The first book in a series. This was given to me as a gift in high school and kickstarted my love of historical fiction.
May 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM