Read Rec Rachel: Template for Reader’s Advisory Booklets One of the things I’m happiest to create for my library teens are recommendation booklets. I love talking face to face with teens about what they’re reading and what they’re looking for, but let’s fac...

Read Rec Rachel: Template for Reader’s Advisory Booklets

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Read Rec Rachel: Books to Rec and Read for Recc-ers and Readers Dealing with Burnout It’s May! Summer Reading is almost upon us, the birds are chirping (probably), and some of our brains need some shuteye. I wasn’t sure who that last one could possibly be referring to other than the f...

Read Rec Rachel: Books to Rec and Read for Recc-ers and Readers Dealing with Burnout

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Read Rec Rachel: Recs for Teens to Read After Sunrise on the Reaping It’s that time my friends, Sunrise on the Reaping releases tomorrow. This Hunger Games title is highly anticipated, as many fans have hoped for a prequel with a young Haymitch Abernathy for a long tim...

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🚨Have you heard?!?🚨 The YALLWEST 2025 author list is LIVE!!! Check it out at yallwest.com/authors!

Who are you excited to see?!? 👀📚

P.S. More announcements to come! Stay tuned!

#yallwest #yabooks #authors #booklovers

This is ethnic cleansing

One of my fave MG series !!!

A paperback book upright on a table

It's the official publication day for The Black Fantastic. The future is here, and it's Black AF #BlackSky #SFF
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"No matter who is president, everyone living in the U.S. has certain basic rights under the U.S. Constitution. Undocumented immigrants have these rights, too. It is important that we all assert and protect our basic rights.”

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Publishers, Authors Guild, and More File Lawsuit Against Idaho's Discriminatory Book Banning Bill Plaintiffs claim that Idaho's HB 710, implemented last summer, violates First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

BREAKING: Major publishers, alongside the Authors Guide, bestselling authors, and others, have filed a lawsuit against Idaho's draconian book ban bill, claiming First and Fourteenth Amendment violations.

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The 75 Best Adult Books of 2024 — Rec-It Rachel It’s my final post of Best of 2024, and this time I’m talking about adult books! This is the first year ever that I’ve read more adult books than YA books (I still read more YA books than likely anyon...

It took me lots and lots of time but I did finally finish my Best of 2024 posts with my Adult Books list!

75 of my favorites that pubbed last year

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Legislation of Concern in 2025

Thank you to @everylibrary.bsky.social for creating a legislation tracker for the 26 book banning bills already up for 2025.

Check this list to see if your state is on it, and if it is then use the @5calls.org app to call your state reps to yell about it.

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“Hopefully, we can sit together and discuss what we consider is appropriate”: Inside Two Years of Nonstop Hell for Alpena Public Library Destruction of US public libraries may start with complaints over books, but that's not the end goal. Alpena Public Library is now the tool of those book banners and serves as a stark warning of what'...

Two small groups bent on the removal and relocation of 14 LGBTQ+ books have turned working at the Alpena Public Library in northern Michigan a living hell–and now, two of those book banners have been appointed to that library's board.

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The 35 Best Middle Grade Books of 2024 — Rec-It Rachel It’s time to talk best Middle Grade of 2024. I have a lot of feelings about middle grade right now—and especially that in between space of Middle Grade and Young Adult (and between Middle Grade and Ea...

"LOUDER THAN HUNGER is a deeply personal story that is told so very well." —@recitrachel.bsky.social www.recitrachel.com/blog/2024-be...

Hahaha yep it was my mom’s best friend because I got the “John schu was at Avery Coonley!” From the other side of the convo

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The 35 Best Middle Grade Books of 2024 — Rec-It Rachel It’s time to talk best Middle Grade of 2024. I have a lot of feelings about middle grade right now—and especially that in between space of Middle Grade and Young Adult (and between Middle Grade and Ea...

My picks for the best MG I read that published in 2024:

In many ways this was a hard list to finalize, but also it was my easiest list to pick.

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I asked the teens at my library (suburbs of Chicago), these are direct quotes

“Go to the park”
“Ride around”
“Stupid stuff”

(This being, when they aren’t playing Roblox)

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Love this! SO many good books. And thank you for spreading the word about MAID AND THE CROCODILE and THAT SELF-SAME METAL! ❤️

There’s so many good books on this list!!!!🥰

The 75 Best Young Adult Books of 2024 — Rec-It Rachel Welcome to the second of four lists I’m doing chronicling my favorite books released in 2024. As a teen librarian, YA is the category I’ve read the most in, and this particular post covers about 30% o...

I rounded up what I think are the 75 Best YA Books of 2024*

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*75 books I REALLY loved of the 250 I read and I actually like/loved most of them or at least know who to recommend it to

Thank you! I enjoyed putting it together :)

The 35 Best Picture Books of 2024 — Rec-It Rachel Rec-It Rachel picks her favorite picture books of 2024 which include previous Caldecott honorees, many large cats, and a lost stick.

It's the first of four posts from me chronicling my favorite books of the year! Here's 35 awesome picture books I loved that released in 2024.

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I Read 400 Books This Year, and These Are the 15 Best Books of 2024 From a retold classic to a tale of magical Timbuktu, the best books of 2024 will introduce you to worlds known and unknown.

Whenever You’re Ready was named one of the 15 best books of 2024 in Reader’s Digest!! www.rd.com/list/best-bo...

I Read 400 Books This Year, and These Are the 15 Best Books of 2024 From a retold classic to a tale of magical Timbuktu, the best books of 2024 will introduce you to worlds known and unknown.

this is so great -- the lovely @recitrachel.bsky.social gave her list of the 15 best books of 2024, and When Among Crows is one of them!

A list that also wisely includes @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social 's most recent (and fabulous) book.

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I Read 400 Books This Year, and These Are the 15 Best Books of 2024 From a retold classic to a tale of magical Timbuktu, the best books of 2024 will introduce you to worlds known and unknown.

Oh hey--I talked about what I think are the 15 Best Books of the Year for Readers Digest!

And if you think this isn't enough, trust that my personal blog will have a LOT more recommendations very soon :)

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Read Rec Rachel: YA Books for Your Favorite Recent Blockbuster Movie Characters (Wicked / Moana 2 / Gladiator II) It was a huge week in the movie world this Thanksgiving, as Wicked and Gladiator II continued their streaks and Moana 2 premiered to huge numbers. So I thought, while listening once again to the Wicke...

Read Rec Rachel: YA Books for Your Favorite Recent Blockbuster Movie Characters (Wicked / Moana 2 / Gladiator II)

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