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

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app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal... 💙📚
2026 Women To Know Challenge
Here are 12 recently published book about women who may have been overlooked in the history to...
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app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal... 💙📚
2026 Women To Know Challenge
Here are 12 recently published book about women who may have been overlooked in the history to...
app.thestorygraph.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
taralorraine.bsky.social
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
taralorraine.bsky.social
I love Red 💙📚
kaaauthor.bsky.social Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · Jun 17
I wrote wishtree just before an election, and I knew I wanted to tell a story about being kind and welcoming. As I was thinking about who my characters might be, I noticed that I spent a lot of time looking at a beautiful oak in my courtyard.

All of a sudden, I knew Red had to be my narrator. ❤️🌳
June 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The best and worst superpower a teacher has is how we always succeed when someone says "just find a way to make it work"

We constantly patch up a patchwork system, so nobody sees the need to actually fix it
June 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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We are two MS librarians with over 30 yrs combined experience in school libraries who are advocating for a new publishing category that focuses on the forgotten age range of kids that are too old for MG books and too young for much of what is being published for young adults.
Move Over, Middle Grade: Take Two, by guest bloggers Christina Chatel and Marcia Kochel
Two middle school librarians talk about the need for Young Teen Lit
teenlibrariantoolbox.com
June 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
taralorraine.bsky.social
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
taralorraine.bsky.social
As an English teacher it sometimes feels very overwhelming to both want to go 100% paper/pencil to avoid AI, and also know it’s my responsibility to prepare my kids to use technology - and this is another extremely good case in point.
June 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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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
taralorraine.bsky.social
Really great book! 💙📚
katemessner.com Kate Messner @katemessner.com · Jun 6
Ten years ago today, two inmates escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in Northern NY, prompting a three-week manhunt. And ten years ago tomorrow, I started scribbling ideas for the novel that would eventually become BREAKOUT!
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Breakout
Check out Breakout - <p><b>Told in letters, poems, text messages, news stories, and comics--a series of documents Nora collects for the Wolf Creek Community Time Capsule Project<i>--Breakout</i> is ...
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June 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
taralorraine.bsky.social
An absolutely brilliant writer!! 💙📚
June 5, 2025 at 4:20 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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June 4, 2025 at 9:31 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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merriam-webster.com
We hope you don't find the etymology of 'tawdry' morally sordid, base, or distasteful.
June 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
taralorraine.bsky.social
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