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	<title>Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists! &#187; Historical Fiction for Hipsters</title>
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		<title>Historical Fiction for Hipsters: Stories from the past that won&#8217;t make you snore!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 22:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my experience, most teens won&#8217;t even look at hist. fic. unless they have to read it for a school assignment. You know, stuff like My Brother Sam is SO Dead, or Johnny TREmain (as in TREmendously booorrrriiinnggg!) Oh, trust me, my adolescent friends, I have been there, and I know your pain. That&#8217;s why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Cloud by Andrew Lane</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boy Meets Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction for Hipsters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nail Biters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There have been so many adaptations of Sherlock Holmes lately, you knew it was just a matter of time before we met up with Sherlock Holmes, age fourteen. The year is 1868, and Young Master Holmes has just been informed that due to his army officer father’s deployment to India, his mother’s illness and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction for Hipsters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teen Tearjerkers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“They took me in my nightgown.” So begins teenage Lina’s horrific journey from her beloved home in Lithuania to the icy land of Siberia, when she and her family are deported by the Soviets who have annexed her country and are systematically ridding it of anyone they consider “anti-Soviet.” Lina, her mother and brother are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boy Meets Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction for Hipsters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s 1973 and Ben Tomlin is thirteen-years-old when his parents bring home his new baby brother, Zan. Like most babies, Zan needs baby food and diapers, and can throw a serious tantrum when things don’t go his way. But unlike most babies, Zan’s tantrums can be epic and may involve biting that requires stitches. Because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/08/25/forge-by-laurie-halse-anderson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boy Meets Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction for Hipsters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen-year-old Curzon Smith, freed slave and former traveling companion of the stubborn Miss Isabel Finch, gets himself in quite a fix when he saves the life of a Patriot boy soldier during the fall of 1777. The result of that one selfless act causes him to become a member of the 16th Massachusetts regiment of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picture the Dead by Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/08/05/picture-the-dead-by-adele-griffin-and-lisa-brown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gen-X Files]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction for Hipsters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennie Lovell is one sad little spinster. Her parents are dead and the Civil War has taken both her brother Toby and her betrothed Will, leaving her at the mercy of her stuffy aunt and uncle’s reluctant charity. Now she has nothing to look forward to except a slow slide into servitude in her cold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction for Hipsters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1961, fourteen-year-old Lucia Alvarez lives a charmed life on the beautiful island country of Cuba. She loves reading the latest fashion magazines, daydreaming about her crush Manuel and planning her up-coming quincenara with her best friend Ivette. But storm clouds are gathering. President Fidel Castro has ordered factories to be shut down and churches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Folly by Marthe Jocelyn</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/01/30/folly-by-marthe-jocelyn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction for Hipsters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Somehow I knew there were a gulch between what got writ down about history and what were remembered by the people who went along living it.” In this hip hist. fic. about Victorian London, Marthe Jocelyn successfully channels the authentic voices of the ordinary people who “went along living” history, and whose stories are just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mercury by Hope Larson</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/01/10/mercury-by-hope-larson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graphic Fantastic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction for Hipsters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1859 Nova Scotia, shy pioneer teen Josey is thrilled when a handsome stranger named Asa Curry claims he can find gold on her family’s farm, and partners with her father to form a business. Josey is of marrying age, and what better beau could she have than her father’s attractive new associate? But Josey’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/08/20/the-evolution-of-calpurnia-tate-by-jacqueline-kelly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/08/20/the-evolution-of-calpurnia-tate-by-jacqueline-kelly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction for Hipsters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Fries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riot Grrrl!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1899 Texas, girls are expected to know how to knit, sew, cook and clean in order to make some lucky man a good wife. But Calpurnia Virginia Tate, the only daughter in a family of six rowdy brothers, couldn’t be less interested in the domestic arts. “I had never classified myself with other girls. [...]]]></description>
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