Look what I saw in the checkout line at the HEB in Frisco! I love running into my books in the wild. 😍

A middle grade retelling of REBECCA but with cats?!?! 🤯🤩😻 I'm in. I want to read this right meow.

Someone bring this guy a cup of coffee and a book. 🥰

I stole the baby Jesus from the chocolate nativity scene in the faculty lounge during winter break of my first year teaching. I believe in the separation of church and state. And in chocolate. It tasted stale and a little sacrilegious. I have no regrets. -from Teacher Haiku #Memoir #UnhingedPit

✅ kid sticks a paperclip in his eye ✅ kid puts on clown makeup during my lesson ✅ the mascot has ringworm ✅ crazy parents, covid, weird lost & found All this and more in... Twenty Years in the 7th Grade: A Memoir Told in Haiku (Mostly) #haiku #memoir #teachers #humor #nonfiction #UnhingedPit #Q

twenty-year teaching career condensed down into five hundred haiku a bite-sized memoir about the world’s weirdest (and most important) job #haiku #memoir #teachers #humor #nonfiction #giftbook #Q #UnhingedPit

And now for something completely different... Because I contain (and write) multitudes. #UnhingedPit

“Keys.” Hands tossed them to her. “Cane.” I passed her the stick for reaching the pedals. “Chaos.” Ringo lifted his paws & yelled, “Woo hoo!” Roxy turned the key in the ignition, & the golf cart hummed to life. “Buckle up, bandits.” -Sisters in Crime #Q #MG #Humor #Heist #Raccoons #UnhingedPit

Mitzie is a leucistic raccoon who wants to give up crime but her sister says thieving is in their blood. -Moral dilemmas -Humor+heart -Heist gone wrong -Clever dialogue -Opossums, coyotes, & crows…oh my! (Call them "trash pandas" & the scat will hit the fan!) #SistersInCrime #Funny #MG #UnhingedPit

SISTERS IN CRIME is a #MG novel about a raccoon with no mask trying to stop being a thief without losing her sister. It's hilarious & NONE OF THE ANIMALS DIE because your children should not have to live through the same Old Yeller hell and Where the Red Fern Grows trauma that we did. #UnhingedPit

*me reading the #unhingedpit posts while eating breakfast and waiting for 8am central time*

Help me settle this debate. 🎃☕🤷😊 cariejuettner.com/2025/09/15/g...

I'm all over the place with my reading right now. These are the four books I'm currently in the middle of. They couldn't be more different, but I'm loving them all. #amreading #mg #poetry #scifi #thriller

Endless possibilities this Saturday morning...

"I had never heard her so passionate. Her anger made me feel good. I can't explain it. It's like she took the fire inside me, put it in a torch, and then set it between us. It was no longer just mine." ❤️ - from THE EYES AND THE IMPOSSIBLE by Dave Eggers