Are You the Parent
of a Middle Schooler?

Hello! My name is Jen...

(aka MamaBookworm) 

helping parents of middle schoolers navigate the tween years. 

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PARENT OF TWO MIDDLE SCHOOLERS | READING & WRITING ADVOCATE | DIGITAL STORYTELLER | BOOK REVIEWER

Literacy & learning start at home. 

The middle school years can be tumultuous. Parenting tweens can be hard! During this time of rapid growth, relationships, experience, and positive reinforcement continue the foundation built over the elementary years.  

My goal is to equip parents of middle schoolers with research-based information and enrichment activities to spark creativity and generate interest in reading and writing to nurture tweens and unlock the potential that stems from the purposeful parenting of this age group. 

MAMABOOKWORM BLOG TOPICS

It’s time to give the week a big ol’ middle finger!

I’m giving book buying bans the middle finger as well. They’re dumb.

Any fun weekend plans?

On Saturday, my son plays the drums in pit orchestra for the school musical Newsies. He has his last performance with the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra on Sunday as well. It’ll be a music-centered weekend with lots of spectating.

When I’m not chauffeuring kids around or spectating at concerts & performances, I’ll be reading The Scourge Between Stars & listening to The Wilderwomen.

Have a bomb weekend, bishes! 💣

#bookbuying #bookbuyingban #buyingbooks #bookreel #reelsinstagram #weekendreading #weekendreads #bookhumor #bookishproblems #newbooksmell #funnyreel #mybookishlife
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Alexa, play Hello Darkness My Old Friend 😵‍💫

I messed up last night, friends. Stayed up waaaaaaaay too late reading, and today I’m a literal corpse. And I have a million things to do.   

Evie Green’s The New One (sci-fi thriller) was too good to put down. I was just about to set the book aside when a twist came out of left field and left me mindblown. Just kept turning pages…

Do you ever do this? Last book that was so binge-able it kept you up late into the night? 

#insomniacs #latenightreading #latenightreads #bookbinge #uptoolate #readerproblems #bookishproblems #readallday #readallnight #bookaddicted #addictedtobooks #bookreelsofinstagram #bookishreel #foryoupage🔥 #mybooklife #readingforlife #bookhangover #bookstagramit #bookmoments #bookmoment
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Review: Ren DeStefano’s 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐈`𝐥𝐥 𝐊*𝐥𝐥 𝐘𝐨𝐮. ***Release Day!***

Identical triplets have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, but what happens when the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark? 🔪

The premise of this one hooked me. Who wouldn’t love serial killer triplets? DeStefano did an excellent job of creating identical siblings with distinct personalities and voices on the page. I loved Iris the most. The sisters’ dynamics entertained me, even when the subject turned dark. The twists at the end paid off, and I got that sense of gratification I always look for in thrillers. 

The book comes in at 352 pages, but it feels longer due to an unexpected dark romance subplot. I didn’t expect that. Still, this makes an entertaining popcorn thriller. 🍿

FYI: Don’t write this full title in a caption or comment. You’ll get dinged from IG. I did 👀

Thanks to @netgalley and @berkleypub for the digital copy!

What’s one of your worst personality traits? And one of your best?

#howillkillyou #rendestefano #berkleypub #thrillerbooks #thrillerjunkie #serialkillers #murdermystery #ilovebooks #bookrecommendation #bookrecs #booklovers #howillkillyoubook #netgalley #darkromance #darkromancereads #darkromantic #tripletsisters #berkleypublishing #sisterstories #sistersforlife #domesticthriller #newbookrelease #thrillerbookreview #ebookreader #bookflatlays #thrillerbooksaddict
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Productivity at its finest 💁🏻‍♀️

You know the moment. You’ve formed a strong emotional attachment & invest in the personal journey and arc. You come to love the character. And then the author pulls the rug out from under you…

*sits and stares at the wall for a full two hours*

I know you get it.

If you’re a fan of The Last of Us, you felt the rug pull several times. In honor of the series finale, I’ve got another TLOU post cooked up for later this week. You’re welcome.

Also, Pedro Pascal. 🔥 If you know, you know.

Current reads: Evie Green’s The New One (print) & Emilia Hart’s Weyward (audio)

Can you think of a fictional death that broke you - from a book, tv show, or movie? What made you relate to the character?

#fictionalcharacters #fictionalcharacter #bookhangover #pedropascal #thelastofus #readerproblems #bookishreels #reelsbookstagram #favoritecharacter #bookishproblems #fictionaldeathsiwillnevergetover #lastofus #trendingreelsinstagram #snackysnack #readersgonnaread #bookstan
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Something I can really commit to 💋

My toxic trait is loading up my online shopping cart with tons of crap & then not buying anything at all. Forever.

Reading Updates: Last night, I finished Ren DeStafano’s How I’ll Kill You. Review coming soon! I’ve moved onto Leopoldo Gout’s Piñata & Emilia Hart’s Wayward.

I look forward to chatting with my gal pals in my #litficpicks bookclub about Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions for You this weekend!

I’m genuinely curious about your thoughts on Instagram right now. I’ve got mixed feeling about this platform at the moment…

Make reels they said. Things will be great they said. 🙄

#bookbuying #bookbuy #stressshopping #bookreels #bookreelsofinstagram #reelbookish #bookclubs #readerproblems #booksaremyhappyplace #mybookishlife #bookstoreday #bookhumor
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Constantly! 🫣

Leopoldo Gout’s 𝐏𝐢𝐧̃𝐚𝐭𝐚 came out yesterday!

Piñata is a possession tale about an archaeologist who returns home to supervise the excavation of an ancient abbey. She brings her 2 daughters along in order to reconnect them with their Mexican heritage. Following an accident at the abbey, the archeologist loses her job and has her family trip cut short. What follows them home will herald an inevitable catastrophe…

This book has possession, ancient rage, and religious trauma. More details in my stories today! Thank you so much @tornightfire for my gifted copy! You’re my fave 🖤

Will Ferrell cracks me up, so I had to use this in a reel. Seriously, though. I live in the creakiest, loudest house ever. There must be ghosts living among my family.

Are you easily freaked out by noises? Last thing that truly scared you? Do you like possession stories?

#pinatabook #leopoldogout #spookyvibes #tornightfire #diversereads #horrordebut #pinata #mexicanauthor #horrorbooks #nightfire #possessionhorror #horrorbooks #horrorbookstagram #booktok #bookreel #bookpost #girlswhoreadhorror #possession #latinxauthors #diversifyyourbookshelf #tbrlistthatneverends #funnyreelsdaily #willferrell
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parents of middle schoolers
parents of middle schoolers

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BRIDGE OF SOULS

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

– Mortimer J. Adler

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