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	<title>Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists! &#187; Slacker Fiction</title>
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		<title>Slacker Fiction: Twenty-Something Reads for Older Teens</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/03/slacker-fiction-coming-of-age-in-the-90s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 22:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Slacker Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even if you more Gen-Y than X, these 20-something reads might be just what you&#8217;re looking for. Tell the truth, those adult books you&#8217;ve been reading lately are just so&#8230;middle-aged. I mean, I know the Da Vinci Code was cool, but do you really want to always be reading the same books as your parents? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scott Pilgrim: Precious Little Life, vol. 1 by Bryan Lee O&#8217;Malley</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/05/15/scott-pilgrim-precious-little-life-vol-1-by-bryan-lee-omalley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 11:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graphic Fantastic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you tell me, I KNOW. I know Scott Pilgrim has been around since 2004 and I probably should have covered his precious little life before now. I know tons of you have already read all five volumes (#6 debuts July 2010) of his graphic novel adventures. But for those of you who haven’t yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French Milk by Lucy Knisley</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/03/15/french-milk-by-lucy-knisley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graphic Fantastic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this charming graphic memoir, twenty-two-year-old artist Lucy Knisley narrates her trip to France with her mother in photographs and drawings. Lucy is about to graduate from college, so her parents spring for the ultimate graduation present—a six week trip in the  spring of 2007 to Paris where she and her mother will stay in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crazy School by Cornelia Read</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2008/06/01/the-crazy-school-by-cornelia-read/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2008/06/01/the-crazy-school-by-cornelia-read/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nail Biters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slacker Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Why Should Your Parents Have All the Fun?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sarcastic, twenty-something amateur sleuth Madeline Dare, grown-up child of hippie parents, takes a job as a teacher at an elite, if fairly cult-ish private school for troubled teens. The head guru in charge, Santangelo, promises desperate parents results, no matter what technique he has to employ to get them, including isolation and humiliation. Madeline, who&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Not You by Michelle Wildgen</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/09/01/youre-not-you-by-michelle-wildgen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/09/01/youre-not-you-by-michelle-wildgen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Slacker Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bec is a college student at loose ends. Not crazy about her advertising major, she’s successfully avoided deciding what to do with her life thus far by partying hard with her roommate and best friend Jill and carrying on a guilty affair with a married professor. Then, while looking for a new part-time job that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Same Difference and Other Stories by Derek Kirk Kim</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/03/same-difference-and-other-stories-by-derek-kirk-kim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/03/same-difference-and-other-stories-by-derek-kirk-kim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 21:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amutch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Slacker Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Graphic novels are a format, not a genre. So even though these melancholy autobiographical short stories are told in illustrated panels, they really belong on my Slacker list. Kim pens short, poignant pieces about love, loss, fear and failing in your insecure twenties. Common experiences like living off of Raman noodles and regretting that crush [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grosse Pointe Girl: Tales from a Suburban Adolescence by Sarah Grace McCandless and illustrated by Christine Norrie</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 21:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amutch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Slacker Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the late 80&#8242;s/early 90&#8242;s in the pricey Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and Emma Harris&#8217;s rites of passage include securing the right jeans, (Guess?) jelly shoes (pink) and friends (Stephanie, NOT Katrina) While I hear that at the time of this review the 80&#8242;s are hot again (just take a gander at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Than Running at Night by Hilary Frank</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/03/better-than-running-at-night-by-hilary-frank/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/03/better-than-running-at-night-by-hilary-frank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 21:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amutch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Slacker Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ellie is a savvy, street-smart native New Yorker, and as she starts her freshman year at a art college in New England, she&#8217;s pretty sure she will find herself at the top of her painting class. After all, she&#8217;s been creating dark, brooding canvases for years, full of blood, gore and despair. Her stuff is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shopgirl by Steve Martin</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/03/shopgirl-by-steve-martin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/03/shopgirl-by-steve-martin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 21:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amutch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Slacker Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mirabella is just standing around at the fine glove counter at Neiman&#8217;s waiting for her life to begin. Ray Porter is a wealthy, world-weary businessman who is clueless about women. How these two meet and navigate their somewhat odd relationship is the basis for funnyman Steve Martin&#8217;s first stab at fiction. Full of wicked truth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myrtle of Willendorf by Rebecca O&#8217;Connell</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/03/myrtle-of-willendorf-by-rebecca-oconnell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/03/myrtle-of-willendorf-by-rebecca-oconnell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 21:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amutch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Slacker Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t read such a GOOD first book in a long time. A short novel, every word is precisely right and ideally placed&#8211;a small, perfect gem. Myrtle is a college sophomore who adores art and junk food in equal measure. Left to her own devices, she&#8217;d probably be okay with her bigger than average body [...]]]></description>
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