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		<title>Steampunk Fiction for Middle Schoolers:  Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>
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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>Catching Fire after The Hunger Games &#8211; Suzanne Collins</title>
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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>
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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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		<title>YA Thriller:  The Adoration of Jenna Fox</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson (Henry Holt, 2008) is a fantastic young adult book&#8211;a sci-fi novel that has the creepy thrill of a scary movie.  Teenager Jenna Fox wakes from a coma to discover that she remembers nothing of her past.  She has to relearn how to talk, walk, eat, live.  Her adoring parents have taken video after video of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (Tor 2006).  I just finished this fantasy novel at the recommendation of a reader comment (see comments for the November post &#8221;Luke Skywalker vs. Edward Cullen&#8221;).  Mistborn is Book 2 of Brandon Sanderson&#8217;s epic fantasy series, and it&#8217;s a great read.  The main character Kelsier combines the brash devil-may-care adventurism of Indiana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Cullen vs. Luke Skywalker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought long and hard about the topic for my very first blog.  Something special.  Relevant.  A fascinating topic with mass appeal.  So it had to be Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight.    The just-released blockbuster movie is raking in major bucks ($70.5 million in the first week alone).  Meanwhile Robert Pattison (vampire boyfriend Edward Cullen) has [...]]]></description>
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