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		<title>New YA for Twilight Lovers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matched by Ally Condie:  Dystopian YA romance.  Twilight meets The Hunger Games. Nevermore by Kelly Creagh.  Suspenseful YA romance.  Twilight meets Edgar Allen Poe. Great reads!]]></description>
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		<title>Companion to Life as We Knew It:  the dead &amp; the gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Beth Pfeffer&#8217;s the dead &#38; the gone (Harcourt 2008) is a companion story to her previous YA novel Life as We Knew (Harcourt 2006).  The novel takes the same cataclysmic disaster, but this time tells the story from the perspective of Alex Morales, a seventeen-year-old boy living in New York City. When a meteor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Treasure Goes to Rome: Ring of Fire by P.D. Baccalario</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems like everyone likes a treasure hunt.  Add to that a web of historical artifacts, ancient symbols, and mythic beliefs, and you&#8217;ve got such stuff as The DaVinci Code and National Treasure are made of (to paraphrase Shakespeare).  You&#8217;ve also got the stuff of the YA Novel Ring of Fire: Century Quartet #1by Pierdomenico Baccalario and translated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capturing the Castle in Michelle Cooper&#8217;s YA Novel:  A Brief History of Montmaray</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper (Alfred A. Knopf 2008), is a great young adult novel written as the diary of sixteen-year-old Sophie FitzOsborne.  Sophie and her cousins are the royal family of Montmaray (population approximately twelve), a tiny fictional island that lies between England and Spain.  All the parents are dead, except for one crazy uncle, so the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apocalyptic &#8211; Life as We Knew It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written as a diary, Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Harcourt 2006) tells the survival story of sixteen year old Miranda and her family.  When a meteor collides with the moon, everything on Earth changes.  The moon is pushed closer to the Earth and the change in gravitational pull causes massive worldwide destruction&#8211; tides rise, magma [...]]]></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>Slavery in America:  Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like historical fiction?  Then try Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (Simon &#38; Schuster, 2008).  It looks at slavery from a different vantage point, that of the American Revolutionary War. With their mother dead and their father sold long ago, thirteen year old Isabel and her younger sister Ruth are slaves at the mercy of their [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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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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