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		<title>Short Cuts: Teen Short Story Collections You Might Actually Want to Read</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/03/short-cuts-teen-short-story-collections-you-might-actually-want-to-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 22:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was wallowing in the teen years, I wasn&#8217;t too keen on short story collections. Too much interrupted reading&#8211;just as I got into a story and really got to know the main characters, it ended. There was one exception&#8211;an AWESOME collection of short horror fiction edited by Issac Asimov called Young Monsters. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zombies VS. Unicorns edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/07/06/zombies-vs-unicorns-edited-by-holly-black-and-justine-larbalestier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unicorns and zombies battle for supremacy in this ultra cool collection of short stories edited by YA rock stars Black and Larbalestier.  The rival authors engage in a fervent back-and-forth argument before every story, each claiming that her supernatural creature is the more badass of the two. But the spectacular stories the two editors have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Poison Eaters and other stories by Holly Black</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/04/20/the-poison-eaters-and-other-stories-by-holly-black/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/04/20/the-poison-eaters-and-other-stories-by-holly-black/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Short Cuts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Master creepologist Holly Black has collected some of her greatest short story hits (and a few new tunes) into a gleefully gruesome mix tape for your reading pleasure. Here you will meet Matilda, “The Coldest Girl in Cold Town,” who runs towards vampires instead of away from them. But when she tries to save her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Don&#8217;t Even Know Me: Stories and poems about BOYS by Sharon G. Flake</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/11/27/you-dont-even-know-me-stories-and-poems-about-boys-by-sharon-g-flake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boy Meets Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Cuts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though I am grateful for many things this Thanksgiving weekend, one item that tops my list is Sharon G. Flake’s new collection of short stories and poems featuring teenage boys and their angst. She is one of the hippest authors for teens around, and a new title from her is ALWAYS cause for celebration. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor, with illustrations by Jim Di Bartolo</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/11/15/lips-touch-three-times-by-laini-taylor-with-illustrations-by-jim-di-bartolo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/11/15/lips-touch-three-times-by-laini-taylor-with-illustrations-by-jim-di-bartolo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Short Cuts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember your first kiss? While I’m sure it was exhilarating, it was most likely a great deal tamer than the supernatural busses that take center stage in Laini Taylor’s delicious collection of fantasy romances. In “Goblin Fruit,” a lonely girl wishes for love, but finds something else entirely behind a new boy’s perfect lips: “The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sideshow edited by Deborah Noyes</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/09/15/sideshow-edited-by-deborah-noyes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/09/15/sideshow-edited-by-deborah-noyes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gen-X Files]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Cuts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers of RR know I am big fan of the multi-talented Deborah Noyes and her horror-ific short story collections. In this latest macabre mishmash, Noyes asks authors to turn their attention to that object of endless fascination: the sideshow freak. The resulting ten stories are both striking and spellbinding. Step right up to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang &amp; Derek Kirk Kim</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/04/05/the-eternal-smile-by-gene-luen-yang-derek-kirk-kim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/04/05/the-eternal-smile-by-gene-luen-yang-derek-kirk-kim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graphic Fantastic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dashing young Duncan is either a handsome knight trying to win the heart of a princess by relieving the dreaded Frog King of his head, OR just another downtrodden teen trying to get by in the projects of Oakland, as his depressed mom dates one jerk after another. Greedy Gran’Pa Greenbax is either a latter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd, edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2008/11/10/geektastic-stories-from-the-nerd-herd-edited-by-holly-black-and-cecil-castellucci/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2008/11/10/geektastic-stories-from-the-nerd-herd-edited-by-holly-black-and-cecil-castellucci/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geeks of the world, rejoice! Several of the best YA authors around have let their freak flags fly in this nerdalicious collection of dork-shorts, and the result is no less than GEEKTASTIC. Are you an astronomy aficionado? A quiz bowl questioner? A crazy ComicCon-er? Perhaps you’re compulsive online gamer, A Rocky Horror crooner, or just [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pretty Monsters: stories by Kelly Link</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2008/10/30/pretty-monsters-stories-by-kelly-link/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2008/10/30/pretty-monsters-stories-by-kelly-link/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gen-X Files]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This otherworldly collection of short stories by master fantasist Kelly Link is equal parts whimsy and menace, where dreams and nightmares walk hand in hand, and butterflies turn out to be cockroaches. Walk around in Link’s peculiar world for a while, and you might run into a dead teenage girl at the 7-11 (“The Wrong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories edited by Owen King and John McNally (Illustrations by Chris Burnham)</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2008/09/20/who-can-save-us-now-brand-new-superheroes-and-their-amazing-short-stories-edited-by-owen-king-and-john-mcnally-illustrations-by-chris-burnham/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2008/09/20/who-can-save-us-now-brand-new-superheroes-and-their-amazing-short-stories-edited-by-owen-king-and-john-mcnally-illustrations-by-chris-burnham/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gen-X Files]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This generous helping of superhero soup will quickly sate the appetites of those of you who continue to crave tales of men (or women) in tights outside of comic books. Going way beyond Superman or Wonder Woman, these superheroes range from the bizarre to the merely banal, each one unique in his or her own [...]]]></description>
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