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Laurel Snyder
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July 2007
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Orphan Island
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2017
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Bigger than a Bread Box
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2011
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My Jasper June
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2019
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Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova
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2015
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Charlie & Mouse (Charlie & Mouse, #1)
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2017
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Penny Dreadful
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2010
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Seven Stories Up
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2014
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Charlie & Mouse & Grumpy (Charlie & Mouse, #2)
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2017
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Any Which Wall
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The Forever Garden
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My big spring project…
I am reading the new biography of Roald Dahl…
and have decided I need an office!
Currently, my office is also the laundry room, and Chris' office, and the walk-thru between the kitchen and the deck, and the room we store crap in. I need a place. A space. A spot. But I cannot afford to renovate my house, obviously.
So… I want to turn my no-electricity-having, moldy, trashed, hole-in-the-roof shed in
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Once Upon a Time... there was a woman who spent too much time lost in the internets...
“Problems don't always get fixed. Lots of the time things are boring or dumb for no good reason. Or even terrible. And you can't do anything about it. That's life.”
― Penny Dreadful
― Penny Dreadful
“Everything had its purpose. If you waited long enough, a useless thing would become useful again.”
― Orphan Island
― Orphan Island
“But sometimes it doesn't matter whether someone is right or wrong. Sometimes you just have to love them when they need you.”
― Bigger than a Bread Box
― Bigger than a Bread Box
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What book should we read in July?
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Restart by Gordon Korman
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The Someday Birds by Sally J Pla
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Orphan Island
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Beyond the Bright Sea
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Thick as thieves
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Crystal Ribbon by Celeste Lim
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The King's Locket by Jacob Stull
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A Crack in the Sea by H.M. Bouwman
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| YA Reads for Teac...: August 2012 - Book Giveaway - Bigger than a Bread Box by Laurel Snyder | 89 | 269 | Sep 16, 2012 09:02AM | |
| YA Reads for Teac...: September 2012 - Bigger than a Bread Box by Laurel Snyder | 75 | 77 | Feb 20, 2013 07:21PM | |
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“Problems don't always get fixed. Lots of the time things are boring or dumb for no good reason. Or even terrible. And you can't do anything about it. That's life.”
― Penny Dreadful
― Penny Dreadful
“But sometimes it doesn't matter whether someone is right or wrong. Sometimes you just have to love them when they need you.”
― Bigger than a Bread Box
― Bigger than a Bread Box
“Mom always says you can solve most problems at the library, and there's a lady there who's my friend. We could ask her about helping Bernice. She has to answer people's questions. It's her job.”
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“Sometimes it's nice to be sick, to give up trying to function, to crawl into bed and be cared for a little.”
― Bigger than a Bread Box
― Bigger than a Bread Box
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Hey!I followed the brouhaha this week vaguely, and then, fiddling around Goodreads, I realized that was YOU.
I'd like to apologize on behalf of all authors (not that anyone has authorized me to do that, but hey, why not? :) It's shameful when people get defensive and lash out.
None of us like getting bad reviews, but they're a chance to LEARN things, you know? Write better. And your pull-quotes were pretty inarguably awful.
I'm a fan of honest reviewing, even when the reviews are hard to read. Keeps us all on our toes.
keep it up!
Hi Laurel, thanks for the friendvite! I look forward to snooping your shelves for more middle grade recommendations. Cheers.
Glad you liked the review - I certainly liked the book.
I can't wait to read "Penny Dreadful" ... I received it in the mail last week! It's at the top of my 'to-read' list!!!
Hi LaurelCongratulations on the publication of 'Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains'
best wishes!
Laurel, I've written some Irishy books myself. I wandered around there when I was a kid. Got a movie about Isaac Bashevis Singer. I remember when he won the Nobel Prize. I used to deliver the Forward in which he wrote articles.
