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Review of Summer in the City

Review of Summer in the City
Dean Schneider,  May 14, 2012
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Summer in the Cityby Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel; illus. by Marie-Louise GayIntermediate    Groundwood    151 pp.4/12    978-1-55498-177-9    $15.95    ge-book ed.  978-1-55498-200-4    $15.95Sixth grade is almost over, summer’s approaching, and Charlie’s parents haven’t revealed the family’s summer plans yet. What great adventure is in store? In the past, they’ve been caught...
Review of Beneath a Meth Moon: An Elegy

Review of Beneath a Meth Moon: An Elegy
Lauren Adams,  Mar 27, 2012
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Beneath a Meth Moon: An Elegyby Jacqueline WoodsonHigh School    Paulsen/Penguin    182 pp.2/12    978-0-399-25250-1    $16.99Woodson takes us on the dark journey of addiction, mimicking the slow, hazy spell of drug use with the lull of her poetic prose. Laurel’s happy childhood on the Gulf shore ends abruptly when Hurricane Katrina destroys...
Review of Zombie Mommy

Review of Zombie Mommy
Christine M. Heppermann,  Oct 19, 2011
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Zombie Mommy [Pals in Peril]by M. T. Anderson; illus. by Kurt CyrusIntermediate, Middle School    Beach Lane/Simon    222 pp.10/11    978-1-4169-8641-6    $16.99    ge-book ed. 978-1-4391-5610-0    $9.99Mrs. Gefelty, Lily’s mom — worried now that Lily has begun appearing as a book character along with her longtime adventure-series-hero friends Jasper Dash and Katie — has...
Review of Wonderstruck

Review of Wonderstruck
Roger Sutton,  Sep 13, 2011
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Wonderstruckby Brian Selznick; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School     Scholastic     640 pp.9/11     978-0-545-02789-2     $29.99     gWith Wonderstruck’s opening wordless sequence of an approaching wolf, readers might think they’ve embarked upon a Gary Paulsen novel, but this is a story not of wilderness adventure but of two young people running — to...
>Excuse My Dust

>Excuse My Dust
Roger Sutton | Blogs,  Nov 26, 2007
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>A Horn Book interview with Philip Pullman is forthcoming on our website later this week; Philip and I spent a few minutes on Friday discussing the upcoming Golden Compass movie and the peculiar Bill Donohue of the Catholic League, whose job I totally want: the man makes more than 300,000...
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