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		<title>The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/06/30/the-storm-in-the-barn-by-matt-phelan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven-year-old Jack feels useless. It’s 1937, and it hasn’t substantially rained on his family’s Kansas farm in over four years. Most folks are starting to wonder if they’ll ever see storm clouds again. The only clouds that come by these days are the deadly black dust clouds that choke the breath out of every living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood by Tony Lee, illustrated by Sam Hart and Artur Fujita</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/06/25/outlaw-the-legend-of-robin-hood-by-tony-lee-illustrated-by-sam-hart-and-artur-fujita/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
		
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 Sometimes it’s best not to mess with a classic. Instead of adding a bunch of modern bells and whistles, sometimes it’s better to just polish up an old masterpiece and introduce it to a new generation, who will still love it because it’s just that good. That’s the case in this gorgeous GN that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/06/20/the-summer-i-turned-pretty-by-jenny-han/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nail Biters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Fifteen-year-old Isabel, aka “Belly” has spent almost every summer of her life with her mom, her older brother Steven, her mom’s best friend Susannah,  and Susannah’s two sons Conrad and Jeremiah. Susannah has always been like a second mom to Belly, and Conrad and Jeremiah like another set of brothers. Belly loves the weathered [...]]]></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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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>

		<category><![CDATA[Gen-X Files]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Why Should Your Parents Have All the Fun?]]></category>

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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>Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/06/05/leviathan-by-scott-westerfeld/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/06/05/leviathan-by-scott-westerfeld/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
		
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An eight-legged thousand-ton iron frigate that moves like a deadly giant spider over a frozen wasteland.  A flying eco-system battleship made up of a sperm whale, bees, bats, falcons and hydrogen gas. These are just two of the amazing creations you will discover within the pages of Westerfeld’s startling new steampunk series. It’s the Austrio-German [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fat Cat by Robin Brande</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/05/30/fat-cat-by-robin-brande/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 14:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
		
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Catherine Locke is determined to crush the competition in Mr. Fizer’s torturous A.P. Special Topics in Research Sciences class, especially smug Matt McKinney, her ex-best friend and science fair rival since 6th grade. Each student must randomly choose a picture from Fizer’s dreaded Stack of science photos and devise a secret year long research project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reality Check by Peter Abrahams</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/05/25/reality-check-by-peter-abrahams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 11:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Boy Meets Book]]></category>

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Seventeen-year-old football quarterback Cody Laredo never considered himself a good student. He maintained grades just high enough to keep his butt off the bench, hoping that a college football scholarship would be his ticket to the NFL. But now that he’s blown out his knee, lost his gorgeous upper-crust girlfriend Clea to boarding school and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liar by Justine Larbalestier</title>
		<link>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/05/20/liar-by-justine-larbalestier/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/05/20/liar-by-justine-larbalestier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 10:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nail Biters]]></category>

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Micah is a liar. That is a fact. And the only thing you can be absolutely sure of in this dark, sexy thriller from Aussie author Larbalestier. For Micah, lying has become second nature, a way to distract herself from her outsider status, her parents’ indifference, the tiny NYC apartment that feels too small for [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.readingrants.org/2009/05/15/dog-on-it-by-spencer-quinn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 09:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Boy Meets Book]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Why Should Your Parents Have All the Fun?]]></category>

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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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