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A mother of two girls and an award-winning educator, Melissa Taylor holds a Master’s Degree in Global Education, with expertise in early childhood and elementary education and a focus on literacy and play. She has taught all subjects for the elementary grades and preschool.

Bilingual in English and Spanish, Taylor has taught English as a Second Language, taught Spanish-speaking children in inner-city Denver Public Schools and in the federal migrant program, and served as a literacy trainer in underperforming schools for the Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC). She was a four-time consecutive winner of Outstanding Teacher in Douglas County.

Melissa writes about education, learning, children’s literature, technology, and advocacy for p
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30 Best Middle Grade Books of 2025

As the year wraps up, it’s time for me to share my favorite middle grade books of 2025. These are compelling, engaging, well-written books for...

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Published on December 09, 2025 08:38
Average rating: 3.75 · 271 ratings · 54 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
Pinterest Savvy: Strategies...

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Book Love: Help Your Child ...

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Planting Friendship by Callie Lovvorn
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BUILDING BRIDGES by Melissa Stoller
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PLANTING FRIENDSHIP by Melissa Stoller
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Tiny Worlds by Brittany Cicchese
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The boy loves his Tiny World and Tiny Town at Grandma’s that (like my daughter) he created himself with upcycled materials, paint, and creativity.

But Grandma thinks he should play at the park with other kids but the boy finds a tiny world outside in
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Anyone Else Awake? by Carmela LaVigna Coyle
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A young girl wakes in the dark of morning in this read-aloud treasure filled with the onomatopoeia of bird songs. As the birds awake for the morning, they speak to each other in a conversational chorus while the sky lightens little by little. Robin, ...more
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C.S. Lewis
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
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Eileen Kennedy-Moore
“Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.”
Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential

Albert Einstein
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
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Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
Narcotics Anonymous

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message 2: by Melissa (last edited Aug 25, 2016 10:58AM)

Melissa Most recently, I really liked the Thirteenth Tale. Have you read the Other Boleyn Sister, that was very interesting and compelling!


message 1: by Triffany (last edited Aug 25, 2016 10:58AM)

Triffany Thanks for the add! I'm in between books right now, which of yours would you recommend?


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