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		<title>Abby Carnelia&#8217;s One &amp; Only Magical Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn’t it be awesome to discover you had magical powers?  Like Harry Potter—one day living a completely normal, nothing special kind of life, and the next day—poof!  Off to Hogwarts. That’s exactly what happens to eleven-year old Abby Carnelia in Abby Carnelia’s One and Only Magical Power, a middle-grade novel by David Pogue (Roaring Brook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soaring with Violet the Pilot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What kid hasn’t taken a pile of junk (aka treasures), combined it with a heavy dose of imagination, and then spent untold hours making something wondrous?  Violet Van Winkle does just that in Violet the Pilot.  Written and illustrated by Steve Breen (Dial 2008), this picture book captures the imaginative spirit that all kids seem to possess. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nancy Drew for the Younger Set: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 01:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a girl, I read every Nancy Drew mystery written.  A few years later, I graduated to Agatha Christie.  Recently I ran across the book Nancy Drew and Clue Crew #1:  Sleepover Sleuths (Simon and Schuster, 2006).  I was surprised to see the author as Carolyn Keene since the original Carolyn Keene (a pseudonym for Mildred Wert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G.P. Taylor&#8217;s Graphic Novel:   The Doppleganger Chronicles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be honest.  I got this book exclusively based on the teaser quotes on the back cover:  &#8220;The new C.S. Lewis&#8221; and &#8220;Hotter than Potter.&#8221;  Wow! I thought.  The first book in The Doppleganger Chronicles, The First Escape (Tyndale Press, 2008) introduces us to the Dopple twins, Saskia and Sadie, who have been abandoned at Isambard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steampunk Fiction for Middle Schoolers:  Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld</title>
		<link>http://greatbooksforchildren.com/660/steampunk-fiction-for-middle-schoolers-leviathan-by-scott-westerfeld</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special thanks to my son, co-writer of this blog entry. Steampunk fiction is a sub-genre of sci-fi &#8220;set in an era or world where steam power is widely used&#8221; (wikipedia).  Think 19th century Victorian England with a fantasy/sci-fi twist.  Scott Westerfeld&#8217;s steampunk novel Leviathan  (Simon &#38; Schuster, 2009) is set during the beginning of World War [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Companion to Life as We Knew It:  the dead &amp; the gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Beth Pfeffer&#8217;s the dead &#38; the gone (Harcourt 2008) is a companion story to her previous YA novel Life as We Knew (Harcourt 2006).  The novel takes the same cataclysmic disaster, but this time tells the story from the perspective of Alex Morales, a seventeen-year-old boy living in New York City. When a meteor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twins and Time Travel:  The Magic Half by Annie Barrows</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re a sister sandwiched between two sets of twins, you pretty much get ignored.  It&#8217;s the twins everyone finds interesting, they&#8217;re the novelty&#8211;you&#8217;re just an extra.  At least that&#8217;s how Miri feels in The Magic Half (Bloomsbury, 2008).  This middle grade novel by Annie Barrows weaves a story of family and friendship with a unique time travel twist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Treasure Goes to Rome: Ring of Fire by P.D. Baccalario</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems like everyone likes a treasure hunt.  Add to that a web of historical artifacts, ancient symbols, and mythic beliefs, and you&#8217;ve got such stuff as The DaVinci Code and National Treasure are made of (to paraphrase Shakespeare).  You&#8217;ve also got the stuff of the YA Novel Ring of Fire: Century Quartet #1by Pierdomenico Baccalario and translated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catching Fire after The Hunger Games &#8211; Suzanne Collins</title>
		<link>http://greatbooksforchildren.com/526/catching-fire-after-the-hunger-games-suzanne-collins</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who loved The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins has written a sequel, Catching Fire (Scholastic, 2009).  The story picks up where Hunger Games left off, with Katniss awkwardly trying to choose between Peeta and Gale and living a life of ease as a Hunger Games champion. But things start to fall apart when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survival of the Fittest:  The Hunger Games</title>
		<link>http://greatbooksforchildren.com/511/survival-of-the-fittest-the-hunger-games</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Amazing Race, American Idol, Project Runway, The Biggest Loser, Man vs. Wild, Dancing with the Stars&#8211;reality shows are all over television.  But what if winning Survivor meant being the last one left alive?  What if the bloody battles of the Roman gladiators had been broadcast as reality TV?  Reality TV meets Lord of the Flies in the [...]]]></description>
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