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Friday, September 6, 2013

2014 Contenders: Beholding Bee, by Kimberly Newton Fusco

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So there's a book out this year that's set during World War II. Its protagonist is a girl who lives with a caretaker; said caretak...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

2014 Contenders: Barbed Wire Baseball, by Marissa Moss

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The mass internment of Japanese Americans (and others, including those of German, Italian, and Hungarian descent) during World War II is a...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

2014 Contenders: Sure Signs of Crazy, by Karen Harrington

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Rachael Stein : what category am i describing: 1. talks to a plant, and says it's her best friend 2. loves the dictionary...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

2014 Contenders: Becoming Ben Franklin, by Russell Freedman

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What can one say about Russell Freedman, the unquestioned dean of American children's nonfiction writers? The man could fill a room wi...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

2014 Contenders: Frog and Friends: Outdoor Surprises, by Eve Bunting

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I picked this one up on a whim, since I haven't read very many of this year's easy readers that aren't a The Henk Production....

2014 Contenders: The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi, by Neal Bascomb

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There is a challenge inherent in writing about a decade-and-a-half long manhunt - a hunt that involved bending/breaking international agreem...
Monday, August 26, 2013

2014 Contenders: You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!, by Jonah Winter

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Aside from taking in a game on a beautiful afternoon, there's nothing that diehard baseball fans (a group of which I count myself a pr...