Mindi

Mindi’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (416)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (3586)
picture-books‎ (777)
five-star-reads‎ (490)
2016-reads‎ (344)
2017-reads‎ (316)
2018-reads‎ (310)
2021-reads‎ (235)
2020-reads‎ (230)
2022-reads‎ (223)
2019-reads‎ (216)

2013-reads‎ (211)
2012-reads‎ (202)
2011-reads‎ (191)
informational-books‎ (190)
2014-reads‎ (157)
2023-reads‎ (148)
picture-book-biographies‎ (148)
professional-books‎ (144)
2015-reads‎ (130)
2024-reads‎ (130)
antiracist‎ (121)
graphic-novels‎ (118)

2025-reads‎ (82)
free-verse-novels‎ (37)
2024-caudills‎ (23)
2012-caudills‎ (22)
2021-bluestem-list‎ (21)
2022-bluestem-list‎ (21)
2013-caudills‎ (20)
2014-caudills‎ (20)
early-chapter-books‎ (19)
poetry‎ (19)
2024-bluestem‎ (17)
2025-caudills‎ (16)

2026-caudillls‎ (15)
wordless-picture-books‎ (15)
2026-reads‎ (7)
2012-walden-award-finalists‎ (5)
2013-walden-finalists‎ (4)
abandoned‎ (4)
first-reads‎ (4)
2026-bluestem‎ (2)
audiobooks‎ (2)
classroom-bookaday-suggestions‎ (1)
road-to-reading-challenge‎ (0)

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“Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, Zen and the Art of Faking It

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“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

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“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

tags: change

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“The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.

[from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]”
― Lois Lowry

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