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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>Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2012/01/20/beneath-a-meth-moon-by-jacqueline-woodson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stoned]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teen Tearjerkers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Laurel used to have it all—a top spot on the cheerleading team, a loving father and brother who doted on her and T-Boom, the cute co-captain of the basketball team as her Friday night date. But now Laurel doesn’t care about pom poms, basketball or even her family. Because T-Boom introduced her to a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fault in Our Stars by John Green</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2012/01/12/the-fault-in-our-stars-by-john-green/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2012/01/12/the-fault-in-our-stars-by-john-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Riot Grrrl!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teen Tearjerkers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over&#8230;and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win.&#8221; So begins the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pearl by Jo Knowles</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2011/09/05/pearl-by-jo-knowles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Riot Grrrl!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teen Tearjerkers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pearl aka Bean, has never felt close to her mother Lexie, who had Bean when she was a teenager. Grandpa Gus has always been the one to take her fishing, teach her how to cook and tell her stories about her grandmother, who died before Bean was born. All her mother does is work, argue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, illustrated by Jim Kay and inspired by Siobhan Dowd</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2011/08/15/a-monster-calls-by-patrick-ness-illustrated-by-jim-kay-and-inspired-by-siobhan-dowd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boy Meets Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gen-X Files]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teen Tearjerkers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What would you do if you had a fear that was bigger than you were? Run away? Hide? Or would you call for help? Thirteen-year-old Conor is keeping a terrible secret about his mother’s illness, one that is so awful he doesn’t dare speak it aloud. So when a giant monster shows up outside his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2011/03/25/between-shades-of-gray-by-ruta-sepetys/</link>
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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>You Are Not Here by Samantha Schutz</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/09/15/you-are-not-here-by-samantha-schutz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teen Tearjerkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Word UP!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this heart-breaking verse novel, Annaleah is devastated when she gets the call that her sometime boyfriend Brian collapsed on the basketball court at the park and died. Just like that, Brian is gone. The situation feels surreal and Annaleah is in a state of shock. “It was absurd/that I had dirty laundry/and that Brian/was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/03/20/the-sky-is-everywhere-by-jandy-nelson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/03/20/the-sky-is-everywhere-by-jandy-nelson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Riot Grrrl!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teen Tearjerkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virgin Run]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Seventeen-year-old Lennie has felt completely lost since her older sister Bailey, aspiring actress and all around amazing gal, died suddenly from a heart arrhythmia right in the middle of play practice. Always in Bailey’s shadow, now shy Lennie doesn’t know how to be in the sun without her big sis. Further complicating matters is the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/02/20/before-i-fall-by-lauren-oliver/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/02/20/before-i-fall-by-lauren-oliver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gen-X Files]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riot Grrrl!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teen Tearjerkers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Samantha Kingston is a bitch.  She and her three best friends Lindsay, Elody and Ally rule the school with their better-than-you attitudes and sky-high stilettos. Sometimes Sam feels a twinge in what passes for a conscience at the bottom of her small black heart, but she usually manages to squish it. February 12 is a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>77</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hold Still by Nina LaCour</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/10/05/hold-still-by-nina-lacour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/10/05/hold-still-by-nina-lacour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Riot Grrrl!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teen Tearjerkers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“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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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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