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		<title>The Pool of Fire, by John Christopher (1968)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Old-School Apocalypse April]]></category>
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After the discussion of trilogies (and Martini-Corona&#8217;s eternal John Christopher obsession), I decided this project wouldn&#8217;t be complete without a Tripod book. The Tripod trilogy (&#8230;heh) might have been the first major YA science fiction trilogy, and is certainly a classic.

If you somehow missed these books, the premise is that aliens invade, in giant metal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exiles of ColSec, by Douglas Hill (1984)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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A group of bad-ass teen criminals get kicked off Earth to be the lead team of colonizers of the planet Klydor. If they die, eh, no harm done. If they survive, ColSec &#8212; Colonization Section, part of the massive government that runs Earth &#8212; shows up to claim a nicely broken-in planet. There are giant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fat Vampire, by Adam Rex</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/03/07/fat-vampire-by-adam-rex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Ah, vampires. Sexy, powerful, immortal vampires. What if you achieved immortality at your dorkiest? Would you be stuck an awkward high school boy forever?
While we&#8217;re asking questions, what if you were sick to death of vampires, but the author of The True Meaning of Smekday, one of the most brilliant pieces of children&#8217;s fiction in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Golem&#8217;s Eye (bk. 2), by Jonathan Stroud</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/03/06/the-bartimaeus-trilogy-the-golems-eye-bk-2-by-jonathan-stroud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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My main gripe with the first Bartimaeus was how much Nathaniel&#8217;s chapters dragged as compared with Bartimaeus&#8217;s.  The Golem&#8217;s Eye ameliorates this problem by giving us plenty of the ever-delightful Bartimaeus, and adding a third point of view: Kitty, the young Resistance leader.  Nathaniel is also older now, and more of a love-to-hate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Peter Cameron</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/01/06/someday-this-pain-will-be-useful-to-you-peter-cameron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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I was rather torn between wanting to love this book (evocative title, colleague recommendation, a flap that begins &#8220;In re: James Sveck &#8212; eighteen-year-old New Yorker, charming, precocious, confused, doesn&#8217;t quite fit in (doesn&#8217;t really want to)&#8221;) and expecting to hate it (how very much the reviews, and the book itself, want it to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cybils: Salt Water Taffy, by Matthew Loux</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The full title, for the record, is Salt Water Taffy: the Seaside Adventures of Jack and Benny, v. 1: The Legend of Old Salty.)
Ok, get a load of this plot summary: Jack, Benny, and their parents go to a small coastal Maine town to spend the summer.  Upon arrival, they meet a crusty old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cybils: Real v. 1, by Takehiko Inoue</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2008/12/06/cybils-real-v-1-by-takehiko-inoue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2008/12/06/cybils-real-v-1-by-takehiko-inoue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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After a motorcycle accident that puts a girl he barely even knows in a wheelchair, Tomomi Nomiya gets kicked out of school &#8212; which means he can&#8217;t play basketball anymore.  His old teammates treat him like dirt.  One day he comes to the gym to practice by himself, and meets Kiyoharu Togawa.  [...]]]></description>
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