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		<title>The Gen-X Files:Sci-Fi &amp; Fantasy for Teens</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/03/the-gen-x-filessci-fi-fantasy-for-teens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 22:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth is out there, but not in these books! I don&#8217;t particularly like the science fiction/fantasy genre. I&#8217;m sorry, but that elaborate building of nether-worlds and time travel and future shock doesn&#8217;t really do it for me. But I can&#8217;t say that now and then, I haven&#8217;t enjoyed some of the reads that have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Web of Air by Philip Reeve</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2011/10/25/a-web-of-air-by-philip-reeve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been two years since Fever Crumb fled post-apocalyptic London and the Order of Engineers after finding out she had some dubious memories rolling around in her head that weren’t hers. But don’t let’s spoil that story, which starts here. In this second volume of the Fever Crumb series, Fever has taken a job with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bad luck seems to be dogging Mara Dyer wherever she goes. First, she loses her best friend, boyfriend and his sister in a freak building collapse that she alone survives. Then, after her family moves to Miami to help Mara’s post-traumatic stress over the accident, she attracts the unwanted attention of her new school’s alpha [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Monstrumologist: Isle of Blood by Rick Yancey</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2011/08/25/the-monstrumologist-isle-of-blood-by-rick-yancey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We are hunters all. We are, all of us, monstrumologists.” The third book in the crazy good and wonderfully gruesome Monstrumologist series takes plucky young protagonist Will Henry to a far darker place than ever before, and this time it’s not the monsters outside he fears so much as the monster within. After receiving a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, illustrated by Jim Kay and inspired by Siobhan Dowd</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2011/08/15/a-monster-calls-by-patrick-ness-illustrated-by-jim-kay-and-inspired-by-siobhan-dowd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boy Meets Book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would you do if you had a fear that was bigger than you were? Run away? Hide? Or would you call for help? Thirteen-year-old Conor is keeping a terrible secret about his mother’s illness, one that is so awful he doesn’t dare speak it aloud. So when a giant monster shows up outside his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Name of the Star: Shades of London, bk. 1 by Maureen Johnson</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2011/07/25/the-name-of-the-star-shades-of-london-bk-1-by-maureen-johnson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aurora (Rory) Deveaux is definitely a Louisiana catfish out of water. Due to her professor parents’ European sabbatical, the gawky Southern teen has just started her senior year at a tony English boarding school called Wexford in the heart of London. Small town Rory couldn’t be more different than her brisk British classmates, and struggles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Literary Fun Fact: Victor Frankenstein had a twin! Well, at least Kenneth Oppel imagines so in this brilliant, twisted prequel to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Victor, his twin Konrad and their distant cousin Elizabeth live the good life in Chateau Frankenstein outside of Geneva, Switzerland around the mid-1790’s. The Frankenstein family is wealthy, their digs are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tighter by Adele Griffin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jamie has a pill problem. It started innocently enough with a track injury. But then her teacher Mr. Ryan (“I’d called him Sean, a couple of times, in the end.”) told her that they had to stop meeting in the back booth of Ruby Tuesdays, so she needed more painkillers for her broken heart. Soon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2011/05/15/daughter-of-smoke-and-bone-by-laini-taylor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2011/05/15/daughter-of-smoke-and-bone-by-laini-taylor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 13:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By day, Karou is a striking seventeen-year-old art student in Prague, sporting blue hair, tattooed palms, and a killer sketchbook that even Picasso would be jealous of. By night, she is an errand girl for a lonely, gentle monster named Brimstone who lives behind a hidden alley door and collects teeth for reasons known only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chime by Franny Billingsley</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2011/03/15/chime-by-franny-billingsley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2011/03/15/chime-by-franny-billingsley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gen-X Files]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Tender Morsels had a love child with Madapple, and My Sweet Audrina was the midwife, it might turn out looking like Franny Billingsley’s crazy good new fantasy, CHIME. It’s sometime in the nineteen aughts, and seventeen-year-old Briony, daughter of a rural clergyman, is convinced she’s a witch. How does she know? Well, there’s the [...]]]></description>
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