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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>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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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>The Legendary Amber Brown</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many a SCBWI conference, I have heard the name of Amber Brown, one of those unforgettable characters.  Likewise her creator, author Paula Danziger, who from what I can tell, was quite a character herself.  Paula Danziger has written over thirty books, several about divorce.  Amber Brown is Feeling Blue (G.P. Putnam&#8217;s Sons, 1998; this edition [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Friendship Stories]]></category>
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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>
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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>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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Early Readers]]></category>
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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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		<title>Snow Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Picture Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since it&#8217;s summer, probably the last thing you&#8217;re thinking about is a snow day.  But in some ways, summertime seems like one long snow day&#8211;no school, a change in the schedule, extra family time. Snow Day! by Lester Laminack and illustrated by Adam Gustavson (Peachtree, 2007) praises those magical days (to kids and teachers at least) when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Stories:  Andrew Clements&#8217; Lost and Found</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lost and Found (Atheneum, 2008) is another fun school story by Andrew Clements (author of one of my all-time favorite books&#8211;Frindle).  Lost and Found tells the story of two identical twins, Ray and Jay, who move to a new school.  Since Ray is sick on the first day of school, Jay attends alone and quickly realizes that [...]]]></description>
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