What’s Saving My Life? February 2024 Edition

It's half-way through winter and time to celebrate all the little things saving my life right now.
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Book Review: The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a Japanese novel in translation which connects customers to a long-lost meal that brings up wonderful memories.
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Children’s Book Review: How Do You Spell Unfair? by Carole Boston Weatherford

MacNolia Cox earned her way to the National Spelling Bee but was met with unfair treatment and racism in 1936.
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Children’s Book Review: Peekaboo Who? by Elena Selena

Peekaboo is every baby and toddler's favorite game and now they can play it within the pages of a book, revealing an adorable animal each time.
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Children’s Book Review: Orion and the Dark by Emma Yarlett

Orion is scared of the dark, but when Dark makes a visit, he sees nighttime in a whole new light. The movie is now available on Netflix.
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Books Added to My Shelves in January 2024

Sharing the books added to my shelves in January 2024 including adult and children's fiction and nonfiction.
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Children’s Book Review: The Black Hole Debacle by Keri Claiborne Boyle

In The Black Hole Debacle, Jordie finds a Black Hole in her desk at school and soon, everything is disappearing?.Can she return it to a wide open space before it gobbles up everything in sight, including her?
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Book Review: The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri

After a fire devastates an entire Greek village, a family must find a way back to each other after trauma and loss.
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Children’s Book Review: The Boo-Boos of Bluebell Elementary by Chelsea Lin Wallace

The Boo-Boos of Bluebell Elementary shares a day-in-the-life of school nurse, Miss Peatree. A loose tooth to a hungry stomach and more are treated in her office.
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Children’s Book Review: The Bone Wars by Jane Kurtz

The Bone Wars were started after two friends in the 1800s started competing over the dinosaur fossils they were researching.
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