‎"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Steven Jobs, Stanford commencement address, 2005.

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Melissa Singleton Josef is an MLIS K-12 certified teacher librarian and author of The Suburban Barnyard as well as an environmental education resource blog called The Green Room. She is passionate about education and information literacy in all of its evolving formats as well as good old traditional love of reading. She is eclectic in her interests from science to art and graduated from the University of Delaware in 1991 with an undergraduate BAAS degree majoring in English/Business and Technical Writing and minoring in Fine Arts. She has traveled throughout Asia and the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, and Europe and speaks both French and Japanese. She is currently in search of a full-time teaching position and spends her time writing novels, children's books, blogging, job searching, and substitute teaching PT in all teaching positions K-12.

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Monday, August 8, 2011

Upcoming Book Release...

Wisteria - Welcome







 
Olive - Peace













The Language of Flowers
By Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Scheduled for release August 23rd

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh is a new release by Random House later this month. I had the pleasure of receiving an advanced reader’s copy at ALA this summer. It is a beautiful tale of a young girl who has been tossed around by the foster care system and provides the reader with some insight as to what happens when a child isn’t successfully adopted…multiple times. Victoria is filled with anger and spite, but she has a great love for plants and flowers. The story opens on the date of her emancipation from the foster care system. Each chapter unfolds the mystery of her past as she begins to try and build a future. The one thing that she has an appreciation and love for is the Victorian meaning of flowers. Emotions and meaning are carried throughout the book as the story unfolds with the meaning behind flowers. This clever and engaging story makes one ponder the state of our foster care system what we need to do to improve it.






Agapanthus - Love Letter

Freesia - Lasting Friendship


Coreopsis - Always Cheerful


Pink & Red Roses -- Grace & Love


Angelica - Inspiration

Lupine - Imagination

Abutilon - Meditation

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