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		<title>Teen Tearjerkers: Stories to make you sniff</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/03/teen-tearjerkers-stories-to-make-you-sniff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 23:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and again, we all need a good cry. When that feeling hits me, I usually take out my all-time favorite weeper, Old Yeller (you know, the one where the heroic dog dies). Never fails, I&#8217;m sobbing by the last page. Why do we like books that make us cry? I don&#8217;t like people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hold Still by Nina LaCour</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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“My best friend is dead, and I could have saved her.” Caitlin was devastated when her BFF Ingrid committed suicide. Now she struggles with overwhelming feelings of guilt, wondering if there was anything she could have done to halt Ingrid’s gradual and largely secret descent into depression and pain. When she finds Ingrid’s last journal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hate List by Jennifer Brown</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valerie thought she knew her boyfriend Nick. He liked Shakespeare and hated algebra. He was smart and funny and angry and sarcastic, just like Valerie. Even though they were both outcasts at their high school, Nick always made Valerie feel like she belonged. Valerie thought she knew her boyfriend Nick. Until the day he walked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/07/05/broken-soup-by-jenny-valentine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything in fifteen-year-old Rowan’s life has felt broken since the death of her older brother Jack two years ago. After Jack’s fatal accident, her father left, her mother sank into a sleeping pill stupor and her little sister Stroma came to depend on Rowan utterly. Now Rowan’s days are an endless round of school, caring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I Stay by Gayle Forman</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2008/11/20/if-i-stay-by-gayle-forman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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Seventeen-year-old Mia has everything: a promising career as a cellist, awesome former-punk parents that really get her and her music, and best of all, an understanding alterna-rock boyfriend who is the yang to her yin. Then one day on a routine drive near their home, her family is involved in a terrible car accident. Mia’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would You by Marthe Jocelyn</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2008/08/20/would-you-by-marthe-jocelyn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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“Would you rather have your father sing at the supermarket or your mother fart in the principal’s office?”
“Would you rather lose all your hair or all your teeth?”
“Would you rather know what’s going to happen or not know?”
Natalie and her friends play the “Would you…” game all the time, with the highest marks going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/10/07/cures-for-heartbreak-by-margo-rabb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“If she dies, I’ll die. But here we were.” Mia’s mom dies suddenly of a fast moving cancer after just twelve short days in the hospital. And even though Mia can’t imagine life without her, the rest of the world just keeps movin’ on, forcing Mia to cope whether she wants to or not. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before I Die by Jenny Downham</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/09/02/before-i-die-by-jenny-downham/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixteen-year-old Tessa Scott has incurable leukemia. She is going to die, probably before next spring. “It’s really going to happen…I really won’t ever go back to school…I’ll never go to college or have a job…I won’t travel, never earn money, never drive, never fall in love or leave home or get my own house. It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wrecked by E.R. Frank</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/04/wrecked-by-er-frank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 17:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the saddest things human beings endure is death of a loved one. While the idea of our own death may frighten and sadden us, living through the death of someone else, someone close to us, is the saddest thing of all. So imagine Anna&#8217;s pain when she awakes from the horrific car accident [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/04/a-time-for-dancing-by-davida-wills-hurwin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/04/a-time-for-dancing-by-davida-wills-hurwin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 17:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samantha and Julie aren&#8217;t just best friends; they&#8217;re soul mates. They&#8217;ve been having sleepovers and dancing ballet together since they were little. So when Julie gets cancer, it feels like it&#8217;s happening to Samantha, too. Told in alternating chapters from both friends&#8217; point of view, this book not only provides a frighteningly real picture of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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