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		<title>A Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Middle Grade:  The Gollywhopper Games by Jody Feldman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d already heard a lot of buzz in my Missouri SCBWI group before I read The Gollywhopper Games (HarperCollins 2008).  After all, author Jody Feldman is a regular at Missouri SCBWI events. Well, the buzz was justified.  The Gollywhopper Games was one middle-grade book that my 3rd grader couldn&#8217;t put down.  She started reading one morning before school and by bedtime she&#8217;d read seventy-nine pages (and that&#8217;s with school and piano lessons thrown in too)! In her acknowledgments, author Jody Feldman says the book was inspired by a ten-year-old boy who came to her school library looking for a book like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and couldn&#8217;t find it.  It&#8217;s a good comparison.  Instead of street-urchin Charlie, we have Gil Goodson whose dad has been wrongfully accused of stealing.  Instead of a golden ticket, we have a sweepstakes ticket to enter the Gollywhopper Games.  And instead of Willy Wonka&#8217;s magical chocolate factory, we have the amazing headquarters of the Golly Toy and Game Factory. In honor of their fiftieth year in business, Golly Toy is hosting The Gollywhopper Games  and Gil is determined to win.  What kid wouldn&#8217;t want to win a full college scholarship, a copy of every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Garden of Eden with a Twist:  K.L. Going&#8217;s The Garden of Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Garden of Eve by K.L. Going (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) takes the images of the Biblical Garden of Eden and reworks them into a poignant novel about life, death and love. When ten-year-old Evie&#8217;s mother dies of cancer, her father decides to buy an old apple orchard far away in Beaumont, New York.  Evie longs to stay in her childhood home, a home full of memories of her mother.  These very memories break her father&#8217;s heart again and again, and he feels must leave in order to move overcome his grief.   But when Evie and her dad arrive in Beaumont, they discover the old orchard hasn&#8217;t produced fruit in years.  Years ago a girl disappeared in the orchard, and the locals claim it is cursed.  Evie&#8217;s mother taught her to believe in wonder and miracles and the magic of fairy tales, but a cursed garden seems awfully hard to believe.  If only Evie&#8217;s mother were there.  If only her dad would stop working in the orchard constantly and give her more attention.  If only Evie could turn back time . . . The Garden of Eve creates a fairy-tale world of magic seeds, an otherworldly tree, and a mysterious ghostly boy.  But more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plucky Heroine:  The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes by Kelly Easton</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caddie Woodlawn, Hermione Granger, Violet Beauregarde, Anne of Green Gables&#8211;you gotta love the girls that are smart and spunky, clever and courageous.  Author Kelly Easton gives us another plucky heroine in her middle-grade novel The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes (Random House, 2009). Liberty Aimes, nicknamed Libby, lived in a decrepit old house on 33 Gooch Street.  It was so run down, &#8220;If it could walk, it would limp.  If it could talk, it would stutter.  If it could smile, it would have rotting teeth.&#8221; Libby&#8217;s father, Mal, was a sort of Count Olaf, Vernon Dursley, and an evil magician all rolled into one.  Libby&#8217;s mother, Sal, sat on the couch all day watching TV and eating nonstop.  She complained that &#8220;because of Libby, she was now fat, married to a dud, and stuck in her life.&#8221;  (Turns out her mother was bewitched by one of Mal&#8217;s evil spells.)  Libby never left the house;  she was a prisoner (Think Sarah Crewe in A Little Princess). Libby led a dull, relentless existence of chores, cooking, and non-stop dishes while her dad cheated people with bogus insurance policies and her mother ate and watched TV.  Luckily, Libby discovered a secret stash of books hidden under a loose board, so at least she could read. Then Libby finished her last book.  &#8220;She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of the Newspaper Industry?  Sue Corbett&#8217;s The Last Newspaper Boy in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I regularly run across news stories about the decline of the newspaper industry, but I was shocked when I saw the newspaper stand at my local gas station.  The papers are so puny now, printed on shrunken, skinny paper, a telltale sign of the Internet takeover of media. Sue Corbett&#8217;s The Last Newspaper Boy in America (Dutton, 2009)  explores a similar theme.  Protagonist Wil has been dying for his twelth birthday because he&#8217;ll finally be old enough to inherit the family paper route.  In the small town of Steele, Pennsylvania, Wil&#8217;s family has delivered the paper for four generations.  Grandpa, dad, and two older brothers all delivered the paper, and now it&#8217;s finally Wil&#8217;s turn.  Finally, a chance to beat dad&#8217;s speed record.  A chance to perfect a near-perfect aim.  A chance to save up for a laptop (no more having to go to the library to surf the Internet). But the day before his birthday, Wil discovers that his route is about to be cancelled.  The town of Steele is just too small, especially since the hairpin factory closed, to justify a route.  Wil rides twelve miles on his bike to complain to the editor.  But it&#8217;s a corporate decision made by higher-ups in a far-off city.  Wil&#8217;s parents [...]]]></description>
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