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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

2013 Second Takes: Wonder, by R.J. Palacio

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Wonder does what it does well skillfully enough to make nearly any reader stop and take notice. It's a "problem novel" -- may...
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Friday, October 26, 2012

Individually distinct.

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"Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. The very name Troubadour means a 'f...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

2013 Second Takes: Three Times Lucky, by Sheila Turnage

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Recently, Sam and I were talking about music, and which genres  we like enough to tolerate mediocrity. For him, it's Euro girl pop - he ...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

2013 Contenders: We've Got a Job, by Cynthia Levinson

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We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March does an excellent job of capturing a critical time and place in American hi...
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Thursday, October 11, 2012

2013 Second Takes: Crow, by Barbara Wright

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Crow is a singularly effective piece of historical fiction. It both captures and transcends the time and place it describes, and I think st...

2013 Second Takes: Mr. and Mrs. Bunny - Detectives Extraordinaire!, by Polly Horvath

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It's really, really hard to describe Mr. and Mrs. Bunny - Detectives Extraordinaire! It exists in a nebulous space between Watership Do...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Your passport to revelry!

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We interrupt this blog to report the publication of a new Cat Valente book, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There. ...