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  MAYBE JUST ASK ME! written & illustrated by Katie Mazeika Beach Lane Books, 2025 ISBN: 978-1-6659-4989-7 Source: Blue Slip Media Ages 4 and up All opinions expressed are solely my own. Book cover & summary provided by the publisher through Goodreads.com. Curriculum guide and Teaching Books link provided by Blue Slip Media. ABOUT THE BOOK Based on the author’s own childhood experience, this clever and heartfelt picture book follows a young girl who wants to bring discussion of her disability into the open, exploring themes of acknowledging and celebrating differences. Mazie wears an eyepatch and a head scarf, and on her first day at a new school she’s prepared for her classmates to wonder why. And they do, but no one talks to her about it. Instead, wild rumors fly around the classroom that she’s a pirate or a dragon burned off her hair! Mazie doesn’t mind explaining her disability, but can she find the courage to tell the other kids to just ask her? REVIEW Maybe Just Ask M...

  ALPACAS HERE, ALPACAS THERE written by Carrie Tillotson, illustrated by Elisa Chavarri Beach Lane Books, 2025 ISBN: 978-1-6659-4202-7 Source: Blue Slip Media Ages 4-10 All opinions expressed are solely my own. Book cover & summary provided by the publisher through Goodreads.com. ABOUT THE BOOK Learn all about alpacas in both North and South America in this rhyming nonfiction picture book full of these darling fluffy friends! Alpacas here, alpacas there depend on people for their care. Thousands of years ago, people living high in the Andes Mountains of South America domesticated alpacas from wild animals. Today, millions of alpacas are still raised in the Andes, but alpaca farming has also spread to North America and around the world. Find out all there is to know about the lives of alpacas, here, there, and everywhere! REVIEW Alpacas Here, Alpacas There introduces young readers to alpacas that live in North America and South America. A vibrant combination of poetic and expo...

  WE WON'T ALL SURVIVE written by Kate Alice Marshall Viking Books for Young Readers, 2025 ISBN:   9780593691830 Source: Publisher through Netgalley. Ages 14-18 All opinions expressed are solely my own. Book cover & summary provided by the publisher through Goodreads.com. ABOUT THE BOOK From the bestselling author of I Am Still Alive comes a new nail-biter that's part survival story, part murder mystery, and all thriller—perfect for fans of Karen McManus and Holly Jackson! Two years ago Mercy Gray was hailed as a hero for saving lives during a mall shooting. She still carries souvenirs from that incident: the fragment of a bullet lodged in her back, a mountain of medical debt, and guilt for ignoring her sister’s warnings that the sweet boy next door was anything but. When billionaire-turned-TV-host Damien Dare recruits Mercy to compete on his new survivalist reality show, she can’t turn down a chance at the whopping cash prize that could send her sister to college—but when...