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		<title>The Pool of Fire, by John Christopher (1968)</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/04/30/the-pool-of-fire-by-john-christopher-1968/</link>
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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>City of Darkness, by Ben Bova (1976)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Old-School Apocalypse April]]></category>
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Sorry it&#8217;s been awhile. Fortunately the 7th grade trip to New York was not apocalyptic in the slightest. Anyway, speaking of New York, it&#8217;s the setting of today&#8217;s old-school apocalypse! In the future, everyone lives in vast suburban Tracts in little boxes made of ticky-tacky. All Cities have been evacuated and sealed, deemed too filthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closing tabs (about food and education)</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/25/closing-tabs-about-food-and-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. No Brownies at Bake Sales, but Doritos May Be O.K. raised my blood pressure way more than a whole plate of brownies (mmm&#8230; brownies): 

Nine months after effectively banning most fund-raising food sales in city schools, a city panel will vote Wednesday on an amended regulation that will allow student groups to sell items [...]]]></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>We criticize because we love</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/12/02/we-criticize-because-we-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do we often find it so hard to criticize the stories we love?  Why do we feel we have to deny their flaws in order to love them? (*cough*Twilight*cough*)  
I just read an excellent article by Mitali Perkins in the April School Library Journal, &#8220;Straight Talk on Race&#8221;.  She designates five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the weeding shelf&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/11/19/from-the-weeding-shelf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Libraries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kids are always horrified by this, but sometimes we get rid of books.  Usually there&#8217;s a good reason.  Sometimes there&#8217;s a very, very good reason.  I want to share with you some of the best that cross my desk on their way to the &#8220;free books&#8221; cart&#8230;

Crosbie, John S. Crosbie&#8217;s Dictionary [...]]]></description>
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