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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) and Sal (a boy) live in the same apartment complex, both are from single-mom families, and they&#8217;ve been best friends forever.  Then one day Sal gets punched in the face by a random kid on the street, and suddenly Sal wants nothing to do with Miranda.  Miranda&#8217;s on her own and has to learn how to make new friends and fit in.  There is so much going on in this novel I hardly know where to start.  It&#8217;s a coming of age story, it&#8217;s a story about mother/daughter relationships, it&#8217;s a story about friendship.  But it&#8217;s also a mystery with unexplainable, unsigned letters, a missing apartment key, and a crazy homeless guy on the corner, all wrapped up with a sci-fi twist a la Madeleine L&#8217;Engle&#8217;s A Wrinkle in Time. When You Reach Me has a bit of a retro feel, kind of like the 70&#8242;s style t-shirts I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newbery Winner:  The View from Saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author E.L. Konigsburg made Newbery history in 1968 when her book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the Newbery, and her first book Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was runner up.  In 1996 she won the Newbery again, this time for The View from Saturday. The View from Saturday tells the story of five unlikely friends&#8211;four sixth graders and their teacher Mrs. Olinski.  The structure of the book is different from many children&#8217;s books because it weaves five separate stories into one larger story about friendship.  The stories seems a bit disconnected at first, but characters appear and reappear and the stories become intertwined. Noah tells the story of when he was best man for a couple of grandparents at a retirement community in Florida.  Nadia tell the story of the summer she saved baby sea turtles.  Julian tells about Nadia&#8217;s dog Ginger starring in Annie.  Ethan tells how they all became friends in the first place.   Their teacher Mrs. Olinski tells how four students won the state academic bowl. Ethan&#8217;s story is my favorite.  Every day, Ethan makes a point of sitting in the back of the school bus and draping all his stuff across it so he doesn&#8217;t have to share his [...]]]></description>
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