Melissa Robinson

Melissa’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (100)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1270)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
picturebooks‎ (318)
youngadultlit‎ (234)
changing-the-world‎ (109)
audio‎ (90)

kids-chapter-books‎ (87)
christian-fiction‎ (84)
glbt‎ (81)
amish‎ (59)
favorites‎ (56)
historical-fiction‎ (40)
jesus-loving‎ (38)
simplicity‎ (38)

democracy‎ (33)
kidsbios‎ (15)
parenting‎ (14)
doula‎ (13)
twinbooks‎ (12)
chickadee-awards‎ (8)
making‎ (8)
libraries‎ (7)

community-picture-books‎ (4)
poetry-tea-time‎ (4)
for-kindergarten‎ (3)
story-collections‎ (3)
children-s-nonfiction‎ (2)
independent-readers‎ (2)
learning-justice‎ (0)
school-library-poetry-time‎ (0)

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“[Readers] are escaping from a narrow, limiting view of the world and journeying to a place where it is possible to experience a deeper connection to our real selves and to live fully in our world.”
― Duncan Smith

tags: books, readers

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“Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.”
― Doris Haddock

tags: love, service

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“There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.”
― Doris Haddock

tags: fear, love, politics

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“The part libraries play in education is the part bubbles play in champagne. They may seem at first to be merely a shimmery addition, but they are the central feature of the entire enterprise and the reason, joyous and astonishing, to keep imbibing.”
― Lemony Snicket

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“I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

tags: being-saved, librarians, love

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