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Holiday reading should be encouraged

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With midterm break now at an end, children and teens will be filing back into school to swap tales of their holiday antics. While many will have occupied their time with Halloween celebrations, others will have taken the opportunity to chill out and entertain themselves with a good book. For many of them holidays are…

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Building a reading community

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There are hundreds of book clubs up and down the country for both young and old that regularly meet to discuss and dissect every aspect of a book. However, most people would probably say that we don’t particularly have a reading community in this country. Reading a book is still seen as something only intelligent…

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Ignore the bullies and be yourself…

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Growing up is hard. This is not just my opinion; it’s a fact of life.  No matter who you are, no matter where you are from or what your background may be, we all experience feelings of not belonging at some point or other. More often than not, these feelings and their source will rear…

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