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		<title>&#8220;Home Fries&#8221;: Country-fied Fiction for Teens</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 22:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when the world is just too hard to take we all need a little comfort food&#8211;you know, mom or grandma&#8217;s down-home fried chicken or oatmeal with brown sugar and raisins. It makes us feel all warm and cozy inside and able to face another day of high school hell. The books listed below are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s very appropriate that this debut novel was inspired in part by a Sufjan Stevens song, as this story has the same melancholy and bittersweet tone of that indie bard’s music. Cullen Witter is a suspicious, sarcastic seventeen-year-old who works at a gas station, fills his journal with the titles of books he might write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction for Hipsters]]></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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		<title>Ludie&#8217;s Life by Cynthia Rylant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 18:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ludie lived during a different time, in a place called West Virginia, in a region known as Appalachia. A time when girls married in their teens, when families were dependant on what could be mined from the ground, one of the only forms of entertainment was gossiping with the neighbor over the back fence, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 18:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[D.J.&#8217;s good at two things: milking cows and playing football. She&#8217;s been working on her family&#8217;s Wisconsin dairy farm since she could walk, and learned all the ins and outs of playing ball from her two older brothers, both school champions. So when a close family friend (the coach of her school&#8217;s rival team) asks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alice&#8217;s Tulips by Sandra Dallas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 18:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sassy 18 year old Alice doesn&#8217;t know if she can take being shut up with her dried up mother in law one second more. Her handsome new husband Charlie has gone off to fight in the Civil War on the side of the Union and left her in the care of his mother, a sour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 18:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[India Opal Buloni (sounds like the lunch meat) isn&#8217;t sure about her new hometown of Naomi, Florida. She hasn&#8217;t made any friends yet, because of the people her age in town, Amanda Wilkenson is &#8220;pinch-faced&#8221; and the Dewberry brothers are mean and due to their summer crew cuts, a pair of &#8220;bald headed babies&#8221; besides. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belle Prater&#8217;s Boy by Ruth White</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 18:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody in Coal Station, Virginia thinks Woodrow Prater is a little kooky, including his cousin Gypsy. See, one night Woodrow&#8217;s mama Belle just up and disappeared and no one has seen hide nor hair of her since. Now, Woodrow is living next door to Gypsy with their grandparents and Gypsy can&#8217;t wait to find out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 18:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have been plum embarrassed by our parents at least once in our lives&#8211;usually between the ages of 12 and 17. But Tiger Ann Parker suffers from flaming cheeks more often than most teenagers because her parents are both a little on the &#8220;slow&#8221; side. The entire town of Saitter, Louisiana has seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of the Sawdust Man by A. LaFaye</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 18:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nissa Bergen knows that her free-spirited mother has left forever when she finds all the purple rose blossoms cut from the bushes. Nissa has always known that the small town of Harper, Louisiana was too small for her butterfly-chasin&#8217;, hibiscus-tea-drinkin&#8217; mama but she hoped against hope that her mother would be able to rise above [...]]]></description>
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