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	<title>Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists! &#187; Why Should Your Parents Have All the Fun?</title>
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		<title>Why Should Your Parents Have All the Fun?: Adult Reads for Teens</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2007/05/03/why-should-your-parents-have-all-the-fun-adult-reads-for-teens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 14:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If YOU, my older Reading Rants adolescent friend, are anything like the teenagers I know and work with, I would guess that you tend to troll both the teen AND adult section of your local library or bookstore when looking for new reading material. Some of you even stoop to poking through your parents&#8217; stacks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Habibi by Craig Thompson</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2011/10/16/habibi-by-craig-thompson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graphic Fantastic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite books of all time is Craig Thompson’s transcendent adolescent love story Blankets. I feel as though I have preached the gospel of that gorgeous graphic novel to thousands of friends, colleagues and students&#8211;probably until they were sick of hearing about it! Thompson’s latest opus is also about love, a fervent love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swamplandia! by Karen Russell</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2011/02/15/swamplandia-by-karen-russell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When world champion alligator wrestler Hilola Bigtree dies of ovarian cancer, it is the beginning of the end for the renowned family-run Swamplandia! Florida Everglades theme park. Her husband, the jocular Chief Bigtree, heads to the mainland in search of investors to help pay the park’s staggering debt, her eldest son Kiwi goes to work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Vampire by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque &amp; Stephen King</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/11/05/american-vampire-by-scott-snyder-rafael-albuquerque-stephen-king/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2010/11/05/american-vampire-by-scott-snyder-rafael-albuquerque-stephen-king/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fanging Around]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I was done with the played out vampire genre, and then this beastly little beauty walked into my life. Creator Scott Snyder and the legendaryStephen King have penned a new breed of vampire, one who can walk in the sun and was born to wreak havoc from the day he was “born” by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under the Dome by Stephen King</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/12/05/under-the-dome-by-stephen-king/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gen-X Files]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Their first sign was the small-engine plane crash. By the time the huge Irish Airlines jet crashed a few days later, they were already beginning to understand that the situation was not good, and wasn’t likely to get better. They are the townspeople of Chester’s Mill, Maine. There are about two thousand of them, give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columbine by Dave Cullen</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/06/15/columbine-by-dave-cullen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reality Bites!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Why Should Your Parents Have All the Fun?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Columbine. A word that has become synonymous with terror, pain and sadness. So what compelled me to read and review a book about the worst school shooting America has ever known? Well, for much the same reason that most adults who work with teens want to read it: to try and understand WHY. Author Dave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Walls of the Universe by Paul Melko</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/06/10/the-walls-of-the-universe-by-paul-melko/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boy Meets Book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would you do if your doppleganger suddenly walked up to you and offered to show you the parallel universes that existed right outside the thin fabric of your reality? One day when Ohio teenager John Rayburn heads to the barn to do chores, he is confronted by an identical man who claims he is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dog On It by Spencer Quinn</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/05/15/dog-on-it-by-spencer-quinn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 09:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boy Meets Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nail Biters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Bernie and Chet, the two hard-bitten P.I.’s  of the Little Detective Agency. Though one has two legs and the other four, both are tough, not easily fooled dudes with hearts of gold. Bernie Little is a down-on-his-luck detective with a big debt and small checking account. Chet “the Jet” is his loyal-to-the-bone mongrel sidekick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner&#8217;s Semester at America&#8217;s Holiest University by Kevin Roose</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/02/10/the-unlikely-disciple-a-sinners-semester-at-americas-holiest-university-by-kevin-roose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/02/10/the-unlikely-disciple-a-sinners-semester-at-americas-holiest-university-by-kevin-roose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gods and Monsters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Brown University student Kevin Roose told his parents he wanted to attend Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University for a semester, they were obviously shaken. After all, they had raised him to be a good liberal with solid Democratic values—where had they gone wrong?! Then Kevin explained that he wanted to enroll undercover in order to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogface by Jeff Garigliano</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2008/10/25/dogface-by-jeff-garigliano/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2008/10/25/dogface-by-jeff-garigliano/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boy Meets Book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fourteen-year-old Loren’s first mistake was torching the golf course. His next was trusting his mom’s slimy golf pro boyfriend when he said they were going “camping.” Instead, Loren’s mom and her vindictive beau end up dropping him off at Camp Ascend!, a run-down boot camp for wayward teens. The golf course fire was the last [...]]]></description>
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