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		<title>Saving Francesca, by Melina Marchetta (2003)</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/06/29/saving-francesca-by-melina-marchetta-2003/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s an eventful year for Frankie: she starts a new school (the formerly all-boys St. Seb&#8217;s, at which girls are welcome officially if not in practice), her normally outgoing mother becomes so depressed she won&#8217;t get out of bed, and&#8230; y&#8217;know, boy stuff. It&#8217;s YA, after all.
I didn&#8217;t love it like I loved Jellicoe Road, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by Jacqueline Kelly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 00:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Callie Tate lives on a wealthy farm of pecan trees and too many brothers in turn-of-the-century Texas. One day she gathers the courage to ask her intimidating grandfather about the two different kinds of grasshoppers she sees in the fields, and he tells her to figure it out herself. From her eureka moment &#8212; they&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming Naomi Leon, by Pam Munoz Ryan</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/05/13/becoming-naomi-leon-by-pam-munoz-ryan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 20:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Naomi and her little brother Owen are content living with their great-grandmother in a trailer park &#8212; Naomi carves soap into animal shapes, hangs out with the (clearly flaming, even though the text doesn&#8217;t say so explicitly) librarian at school, and watches Wheel of Fortune every night with Gram and her best friend Fabiola. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cybils reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/18/cybils-reviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Now that the Cybils winners are all official &#8216;n stuff, I can review the finalists from the Middle Grade Fantasy &#038; Science Fiction category.  Here they are, in one speedy blowout:

          

The Prince of Fenway Park, Julianna Baggott
Check this premise, people: the famous Curse on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/12/06/when-you-reach-me-rebecca-stead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Sixth grader Miranda walks home with her best friend every day, helps her mom study for her $20,000 Pyramid debut, and reads A Wrinkle in Time over and over again.  But suddenly her life is full of odd characters: the crazy man under the mailbox on her street, and the kid who punches her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/11/05/the-knife-of-never-letting-go-by-patrick-ness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Oh, read it read it read it!  If you liked The Hunger Games, you must absolutely read this book.  And that means that you should skip everything past the &#8220;spoilers&#8221; cut, because you really don&#8217;t want to be spoiled.
Basically, Prentisstown is a human settlement on an alien planet.  There was a war [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mistik Lake, by Martha Brooks</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/08/08/mistik-lake-by-martha-brooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Another conference speaker with whom I was unfamiliar.  She&#8217;s also a jazz singer, and gave us a lovely impromptu a capella performance (just reinforcing the sense that I was at a folk festival).
I&#8217;ll admit, I found her book tiresome.  The prose is lovely, I guess, but it was a Woman&#8217;s Sexual Awakening and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Most Excellent Year: a Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, &amp; Fenway Park, by Steve Kluger</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/07/10/my-most-excellent-year-a-novel-of-love-mary-poppins-fenway-park-by-steve-kluger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Three three-dimensional best friends, families that genuinely love each other, disability and homosexuality just tossed in like the normal parts of life they are, and it&#8217;s even set in Boston!  Sold.
The plot is complicated &#8212; there&#8217;s a deaf kid, a theater production, a wacky road trip to New York (does it count as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, by Jack Gantos</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/07/10/joey-pigza-swallowed-the-key-by-jack-gantos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/07/10/joey-pigza-swallowed-the-key-by-jack-gantos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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In two weeks I&#8217;ll be heading to the Simmons College Children&#8217;s Literature Summer Institute.  Three days of talks by and schmoozing with fabulous authors, editors, and other people working in the children&#8217;s lit field (not to mention some dear friends).  So excited!  
I realized that I&#8217;m unfamiliar with the work of a [...]]]></description>
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