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Anna Monders

Anna Monders is the booktalk specialist for Jackson County Library Services. She visits 200 elementary and middle schools classes a year, getting kids excited about reading.

Book Review: Moto and Me by Suzi Eszterhas

January 13, 2018 by Anna Monders
Cover of Moto and Me: My Year as a Wildcat's Foster Mom by Suzi Eszterhas

When Suzi Eszterhas was a kid, she told her mom that when she grew up, she was going to live in a tent in Africa. And she did. She became …

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Categories Book Reviews, Children's Books, Conservation

Book Review: Whippoorwill

May 8, 2016May 1, 2016 by Anna Monders

When sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor’s neighbors get a dog and leave him staked in the yard in freezing weather, she tries to ignore the whimpers and cries—the clear neglect—that is going …

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Categories Animal Rights, Children's Books, Fiction

Book Review: The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim by E.K. Johnston

March 27, 2015March 23, 2015 by Anna Monders

Imagine a world that is just like our own—same countries, same technologies, same history—but with one major difference: dragons. The dragons in The Story of Owen don’t limit themselves to …

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Categories Book Reviews, Children's Books, Fiction, Oil

Review of The Eye of the Whale by Jennifer O’Connell

March 5, 2015March 3, 2015 by Anna Monders
Cover of The Eye of the Whale by Jennifer O'Connell

A humpback whale is tangled in hundreds of yards of crab-trap lines. She can’t get free. She can barely keep her blowhole above water to breathe. The whale has been …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Children's Books, Oceans

Book Review: Mikis and the Donkey by Bibi Dumon Tak

February 24, 2015February 23, 2015 by Anna Monders
Cover of Mikis and the Donkey by Bibi Dumon Tak

“Mikis stroked the donkey’s ears. It was six feet from the bottom of the ears to their very tip…and then six feet all the way back down again. Well, that’s …

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