Author: Holly
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Get a Job!
How to Get a Job If You’re a Teenager Pervola and Hobgood 1998 I really like the way this book is organized! It’s thorough with mostly good advice, and only 62 pages including the index. Great format for teens! As you can see from the cover image, though, it has…
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Death in a Bottle
The Brown Bottle Jones 1983 Submitter: Found this in storage (at least that’s our saving grace – this wasn’t on the shelf!) of a small town public library. I have now weeded it. It’s a picture book about a caterpillar who is an alcoholic. And dies instead of changing into a butterfly.…
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Knit yourself a toilet cozy
Knitting For Your Home Weiss 1980 Submitter: My local library had this dated book in its crafts section. What caught my eye was the section on knitting for your toilet. I guess that makes sense since we do sit there for a spell each day. Holly: Indeed we do! Do people…
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Friday Fiction: White Squaw
White Squaw: Hot Pursuit Hunter 1989 Submitter: This is not a library book, but someone put it in the book drop. wow. Is this a series? Are there White Squaw books 1-17? Wasn’t 1989 a little late for this kind of racism? Thanks for the donation, kind library patron, but I think this…
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Making Masks
Masks and How to Make Them Slade 1964 Submitter: ‘Mask-making is a fascinating and inexpensive hobby’ states the blurb. Maybe so, but should it necessarily be promoted by such a disturbing cover? Believe it or not, these are children sporting their home made paper mache ‘Big Heads’. The writing is beautifully…
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So Many Me’s
So Many Me’s Neasi 2003 Submitter: Apostrophes don’t make plurals. (Apostrophe’s don’t make plural’s?) Perhaps the scariest part is that not only did this get published, we’ve had 2 copies in our Early Reader collection for 12 years! Yikes. Holly: One of my pet peeves is definitely the apostrophe/plural thing!…
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