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		<title>Hilarious Middle Grade &#8211; The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleburger</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is the sage of the universe?  Who can you go to for wisdom when all around you is confusion?  Who can you trust?  Yoda, of course.  Tommy knows it, and his fellow sixth graders know it.  Maybe Yoda appears as an origami puppet on the finger of uber-nerd Dwight, maybe Yoda talks in a [...]]]></description>
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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>Abigail Iris: The One and Only</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wished you were an only child?  No annoying brother or sister.  Parents all to yourself.  Your own room and fantastic presents and giant birthday parties and fancy vacations and maybe even a pony (ok, maybe not the pony) . . .  Abigail Iris has four kids in her family, schoolteacher parents that are always on a budget, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imaginary Friends:  Lissy&#8217;s Friends by Grace Lin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you do if you&#8217;re the new girl at school and no one smiles at you or talks to you or sits by you at lunch?  Well, if you&#8217;re Lissy, you make a friend.  You make an origami crane to be your new friend at your new school. Author/illustrator Grace Lin uses wonderfully vibrant patterns and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nancy Drew for the Younger Set: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew</title>
		<link>http://greatbooksforchildren.com/697/nancy-drew-for-the-younger-set-nancy-drew-and-the-clue-crew</link>
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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>A Modern Time Wrinkle: Rebecca Stead&#8217;s When You Reach Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I first heard about Rebecca Stead&#8217;s When You Reach Me (Random House 2009) from a  book editor who said, &#8220;There is so much buzz about this book, I think it might win the Newbery.&#8221;  Set in the 70&#8242;s in New York City, the story centers on sixth grade Miranda and her best friend Sal.  Miranda (a girl) [...]]]></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>Coined Words and Good Deeds:  Sharon Creech&#8217;s The Unfinished Angel</title>
		<link>http://greatbooksforchildren.com/558/coined-words-and-good-deeds-sharon-creechs-the-unfinished-angel</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big fan of Sharon Creech and have read almost everything she&#8217;s ever written.  I love her lyrical, creative use of language and her endearing characters.  Her new book The Unfinished Angel  (HarperCollins, 2009) is a short masterpiece with characters that you can&#8217;t help but love. There is an angel that lives in the tower of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Beginning Readers &#8211; Annie Barrow&#8217;s Ivy and Bean: Doomed to Dance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years we&#8217;ve read just about every Junie B. Jones book there is.  Another fun series is Ivy + Bean.  We just finished Doomed to Dance where Ivy and Bean decide they want to take ballet lessons.  They have seen a video of a gorgeous ballet with a thrilling fight scene.  Ivy and Bean are dying to take ballet lessons.  [...]]]></description>
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