tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81571875822031748962024-02-20T04:21:56.177-05:00Bigfoot ReadsYA and Children’s Book RecommendationsBigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.comBlogger289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-68638269265360135912014-10-26T11:25:00.001-04:002014-10-26T11:25:29.618-04:00Return of the Cryptids<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>A Mini Travel Log by Bigfoot</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Maybe you noticed BIGFOOT READS hasn’t had new posts since the spring. Maybe you were too busy all summer long reading comic books and making sandcastles to notice my friends and I were gone for seven months. Whether or not you noticed, we were far, far away in a place with no Wi-Fi—a planet called Zeenton.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Here’s what happened. Last March we cryptids were winter weary. After months of ice and snow, Morzant’s constant nagging for us to visit his home planet—a place that’s mostly desert—seemed like a great idea.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Have you ever taken a road trip with your family? Remember the car-sickness? The bickering? Your dad refusing to make stops because you’re making good time? Imagine that, but you’re in a spaceship with a tone-deaf sea monster who sings to the radio even when she doesn’t know the words. Then there’s this half-invisible turtle who repeats the same three knock-knock jokes over and over. You’re traveling at the speed of light, so forget about passing time watching out the window. And don’t get me started on the spacesick guinea pig.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Knowing Morzant, when he said we’d only be gone a week I should have guessed he was measuring time by Zeenton’s standards. Jot this down for future reference: 1 Zeenton week = 7 Earth months</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The worst part? Somehow I’d gotten the idea I might be able to take photographs on Zeenton. Nope. My photography impediment made the trip with me. Too bad. There really were a lot of spectacular things to see. Here are some of the pictures I tried to take.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is a big bird. A really big bird. Size-of-an-elephant big. I can’t remember what it’s called and I’m not about to ask Morzant or I’ll get an hour-long lecture about this freaky bird’s habitat, favorite foods, and the molecular structure of its beak. And I’m talking a Zeentonian hour, not an Earth one.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You’ve probably seen plenty of blurry photographs of U.F.O.s. Here’s another. Only this flying object isn't “unidentified.” It’s Morzant’s ship. It definitely wasn't designed to comfortably transport nine cryptids and a guinea pig across three galaxies.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">What a trip. And, oh goodie. Look at the calendar. We got back just in time for the start of winter. At least being cooped up inside will give me time to catch up on my reading.</span></div>
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Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-75647243535841689102014-08-24T11:02:00.000-04:002014-08-24T11:02:53.117-04:00ReRunday: A Close Encounter<br />
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Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-4197083014715701752014-03-14T11:04:00.002-04:002014-03-14T11:04:56.096-04:00Briar’s Journal (March 1 to 25, 2014)<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">May 6, 2005</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b></b><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I can only remember fragments of my dream:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Beverly and Penny throwing waffles at the side of a blue house.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Norman and Bigfoot teaching Morzant how to whistle.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A walrus handing out books to my friends, a duck, and three puppies.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b></b><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b></b><br /></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books the walrus gives BIGFOOT:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HUNG UP</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Kristen Tracy</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Simon Pulse-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PRINCESS LABELMAKER TO THE RESCUE!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Tom Angleberger</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—FIFTH IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>ORIGAMI YODA SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Amulet-Abrams</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sarah Mlynowski</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Delacorte-Random House</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HOPE IS A FERRIS WHEEL</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Robin Herrera</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Amulet-Abrams</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PROMISE OF SHADOWS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Justina Ireland</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">30 DAYS OF NO GOSSIP</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Stephanie Faris</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[TWEEN]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Aladdin-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE EDGE OF FALLING</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Rebecca Serle</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Simon Pulse-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Julie Murphy</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Balzer & Bray-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE CRACKS IN THE KINGDOM</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jaclyn Moriarty</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—SECOND IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>COLORS OF MADELEINE TRILOGY]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Arthur A. Levine-Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE SUMMER OF LETTING GO</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Gae Polisner</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Algonquin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE UNDERTAKING OF LILY CHEN</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Danica Novgorodoff</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—GRAPHIC NOVEL]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">First Second-Roaring Brook</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books the walrus gives MORZANT:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">AVIARY WONDERS INC. SPRING CATALOG <span style="font: 15.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>AND INSTRUCTION MANUAL</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Kate Samworth</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Clarion-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE SCRAPS BOOK: NOTES FROM A COLORFUL LIFE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lois Ehlert</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Beach Lane-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A POND FULL OF INK</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Annie M. G. Schmidt, <span style="font: 15.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Sieb Posthuma</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—POETRY]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Eerdmans</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FIREFLY JULY AND OTHER VERY SHORT POEMS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Paul B. Janeczko, <span style="font: 15.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Melissa Sweet</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—POETRY]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">GRANDFATHER GANDHI</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus, <span style="font: 15.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Evan Turk</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Atheneum-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A BABY ELEPHANT IN THE WILD</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Caitlin O’Connell, <span style="font: 15.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>photographed by Timothy Rodwell</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE BEATLES</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Mick Manning and Brita Granström</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Frances Lincoln</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MAMA BUILT A LITTLE NEST</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jennifer Ward, illustrated by Steve Jenkins</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Verdana;">Beach Lane-</span>Simon & Schuster</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PRESIDENT TAFT IS STUCK IN THE BATH</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Chris Van Dusen</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
<div style="font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books the walrus gives PENNY:</span></b></div>
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">LET THE STORM BREAK</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Shannon Messenger</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—SEQUEL TO <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>LET THE SKY FALL]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Simon Pulse-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">NIL</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lynne Matson</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Henry Holt</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PANIC</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lauren Oliver</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperCollins</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ACID</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Emma Pass</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Delacorte-Random House</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">LIV, FOREVER</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Amy Talkington</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Soho Teen-Soho Press</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE MIRK AND MIDNIGHT HOUR</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jane Nickerson</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Knopf-Random House</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">RUINS</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Dan Wells</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—FINAL IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>PARTIALS SEQUENCE SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Balzer & Bray-HarperCollins</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ELUSION</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Claudia Gabel and Cheryl Klam</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—FIRST IN THE SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Katherine Tegen-HarperCollins</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">UNDER THE EGG</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Laura Marx Fitzgerald</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Dial-Penguin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE RIVERMAN</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Aaron Starmer</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—FIRST IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>RIVERMAN TRILOGY]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Farrar, Straus and Giroux</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">NEARLY GONE</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Elle Cosimano</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kathy Dawson-Penguin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books the walrus gives THE DUCK:</span></b></div>
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">GILDED</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Christina Farley</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—FIRST IN THE GILDED SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Skyscape-Amazon</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 1, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">DEATH SWORN</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Leah Cypess</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Greenwillow-HarperCollins</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HALF BAD</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sally Green</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—FIRST IN THE TRILOGY]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Viking-Penguin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE ASSASSIN’S BLADE</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sarah J. Maas</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—PREQUEL TO THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>THRONE OF GLASS]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Bloomsbury USA</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 13, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE MARK OF THE DRAGONFLY</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jaleigh Johnson</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Delacorte-Random House</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL SORROWS OF AVA LAVENDER</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Leslye Walton</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE UNFAIREST OF THEM ALL</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Shannon Hale</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[TWEEN—SECOND IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>EVER AFTER HIGH SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Little, Brown-Hachette</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books the walrus gives NORMAN:</span></b></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">LOST IN BERMOODA</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Mike Litwin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—FIRST IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>WELCOME TO BERMOODA! SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Albert Whitman</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 1, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">IN THE ZONE</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lincoln Peirce</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—SIXTH IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>BIG NATE SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperCollins</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SKY RAIDERS</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Brandon Mull</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—FIRST IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>FIVE KINGDOMS SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Aladdin-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE LAST WILD</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Piers Torday</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Viking-Penguin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE GLORKIAN WARRIOR DELIVERS A PIZZA</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by James Kochalka</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY READER—GRAPHIC NOVEL—</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FIRST IN THE</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">GLORKIAN WARRIOR SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">First Second-Roaring Brook</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MISS EMILY</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Burleigh Muten, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>with illustrations by Matt Phelan</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[CHAPTER BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books the walrus gives BEVERLY:</span></b></div>
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SKIN AND BONES</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sherry Shahan</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Albert Whitman</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 1, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A DEATH-STRUCK YEAR</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Makiia Lucier</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I LIVED ON BUTTERLY HILL</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Marjorie Agosin, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>with illustrations by Lee White</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Atheneum-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE DANDELION’S TALE</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Kevin Sheehan, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Rob Dunlavey</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Schwartz & Wade-Random House</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">CAMINAR</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Skila Brown</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—NOVEL-IN-VERSE]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">STAY WHERE YOU ARE AND THEN LEAVE</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by John Boyne, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>with illustrations by Oliver Jeffers</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Henry Holt</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books the walrus gives OLIVER:</span></b></div>
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">CHEERS FOR A DOZEN EARS: <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>A SUMMER CROP OF COUNTING</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Felicia Sanzari Chernesky, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Susan Swan</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Albert Whitman</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 1, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HANNAH’S NIGHT</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Komako Sakai</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Gecko Press</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 1, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">POM AND PIM</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lena Landström and Olof Landström</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Gecko Press</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 1, 2014</span></div>
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">STARRING ME AND YOU</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Geneviève Côté</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—THIRD IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>PIGGY AND BUNNY SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kids Can Press</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 1, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">CAT SAYS MEOW: AND OTHER ANIMALOPOEIA</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Michael Arndt</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chronicle</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">GOODNIGHT SONGS</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Margaret Wise Brown, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by various picture book artists</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK WITH CD]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sterling</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE GREAT DAY</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Taro Gomi</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chronicle</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PEEK-A-ZOO!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Nina Laden</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[BOARD BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chronicle</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PLEASE, LOUISE</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Shadra Strickland</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Paula Wiseman-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SOME BUGS</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Angela DiTeriizzi, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Brendan Wenzel</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Beach Lane-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TINY RABBIT’S BIG WISH</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Margarita Engle, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by David Walker</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WE’RE GOING TO THE FARMERS’ MARKET</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Stefan Page</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[BOARD BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chronicle</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE ODD ONE OUT</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Britta Teckentrup</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Big Picture Press</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A WALK IN PARIS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Salvatore Rubbino</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">AT THE SAME MOMENT, AROUND THE WORLD</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Clotilde Perrin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chronicle</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I SPY IN THE SKY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Edward Gibbs</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Templar-Candlewick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">RUN, DOG!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Cecile Boyer</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chronicle</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WHERE’S MOMMY?</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Beverly Donofrio, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Barbara McClintock</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—COMPANION TO <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>MARY AND THE MOUSE]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Schwartz & Wade-Random House</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">100 BEARS</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Magali Bardos</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Flying Eye Books</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">COYOTE RUN</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Gaëtan Dorémus</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Enchanted Lion</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE FOX AND THE CROW</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Manasi Subramaniam and Shobha Viswanath,<span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Culpeo S. Fox</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chitra</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HAVE YOU HEARD THE NESTING BIRD?</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Rita Gray, illustrated by Kenard Pak</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">LETTER LUNCH</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Elisa Gutiérrez</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Owlkids</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PRESTO CHANG-O: A BOOK OF ANIMAL MAGIC</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Édouard Manceau</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Twirl-Chronicle</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A TREE FOR ALL SEASONS</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Maryse Guittet</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[BOARD BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Twirl-Chronicle</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A LION IN PARIS</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Beatrice Alemagna</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tate</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TAP TAP BOOM BOOM</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Elizabeth Bluemle, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by G. Brian Karas</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books the walrus gives LENNY:</span></b></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SCARLATTI’S CAT</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Carlyn Beccia</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Carolrhoda-Lerner</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 1, 2014</span></div>
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SNOW DOG, SAND DOG</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Linda Joy Singleton, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Jess Golden</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Albert Whitman</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 1, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">NAT THE CAT CAN SLEEP LIKE THAT</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Victoria Allenby, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Tara Anderson</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Pajama Press</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 1, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THERE ONCE WAS A COWPOKE WHO SWALLOWED AN ANT</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Helen Ketteman, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Will Terry</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Albert Whitman</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 1, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I DIDN’T DO MY HOMEWORK BECAUSE…</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Davide Cali, illustrated by Benjamin Chaud</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY READER]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chronicle</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">NO SLURPING, NO BURPING!: <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>A TALE OF TABLE MANNERS</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Kara LaReau, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Lorelay Bove</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">START YOUR ENGINES: 5-MINUTE STORIES</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by various authors</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—COLLECTION]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE HOUSE THAT ZAC BUILT</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Alison Murray</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ERIC, THE BOY WHO LOST HIS GRAVITY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HOW TO CHEER UP DAD</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BOK! BOK!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">STONE SOUP WITH MATZOH BALLS: <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TOCAN CAN!</span></div>
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</span>illustrated Sarah Davis</span></div>
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</span>illustrated by Eva Eriksson</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Gecko Press</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PEGGY: A BRAVE CHICKEN <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SNORING BEAUTY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
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</span>illustrated by Joe Cepeda</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BABY’S GOT THE BLUES</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Carol Diggory Shields, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Lauren Tobia</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">LET’S DANCE, GRANDMA!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Nigel McMullen</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">POOR DOREEN: A FISHY TALE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sally Lloyd-Jones, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Alexandra Boiger</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Schwartz & Wade-Random House</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ROOTING FOR YOU</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Susan Hood, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Matthew Cordell</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SPARKY!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jenny Offill, Chris Appelhans</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Schwartz & Wade-Random House</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TROLL SWAP</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Leigh Hodgkinson</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nosy Crow-Candlewick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BETTY BUNNY WANTS A GOAL</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Michael B. Kaplan, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Stephane Jorisch</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—BETTY BUNNY SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Dial-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PRINCESSES ARE NOT JUST PRETTY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Kate Lum, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Sue Hellard</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—THIRD IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>PRINCESSES ARE NOT SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Bloomsbury USA</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SHARE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sally Anne Garland</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Owlkids</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WHEN THE WIND BLEW</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Alison Jackson, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Doris Barrette</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Henry Holt</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 18, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">OLIVER’S TREE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Kit Chase</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Putnam-Penguin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 20, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SPROUT HELPS OUT</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Rosie Winstead</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Dial-Penguin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 20, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE GEESE MARCH IN STEP</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jean-Francois Dumont</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Eerdmans</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 21, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HOW TO BABYSIT A GRANDMA</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jean Reagan, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Lee Wildish</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—SEQUEL TO <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>HOW TO BABYSIT A GRANDPA]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Knopf-Random House</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SHOE DOG</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Megan McDonald, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by Katherine Tillotson</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Richard Jackson-Atheneum-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TIPPY-TIPPY-TIPPY, SPLASH!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Candace Fleming, G. Brian Karas</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Atheneum-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">March 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">* The dream entries from Briar’s journal contain premonitions of books that will be published in the future. Briar’s dream self foresees the books’ summaries and knows which will likely appeal to each of her friends. Briar always wakes up before she can see whether her friends will enjoy the books.</span></div>
Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-58735291692797974512014-02-23T09:47:00.000-05:002014-02-23T09:47:04.424-05:00ReRunday: RAJ THE BOOKSTORE TIGER (Picture Book)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Originally posted on January 26, 2012.</i></span><div>
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by Kathleen T. Pelley, illustrated by Paige Keiser</div>
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I’m Daffodil the Flower Shop Wolf except that I am just kidding and my name is really Violet and I am a beagle who loves to read. I am going to tell you about one of the books that I love to read and that book is called RAJ THE BOOKSTORE TIGER.</div>
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RAJ THE BOOKSTORE TIGER is about Raj and you probably think that Raj is a tiger because this book is called RAJ THE BOOKSTORE TIGER but Raj is not really a tiger. Raj is a cat who thinks he is a tiger and the reason he thinks he is a tiger is because his person calls him a tiger because he is orange and has stripes like a tiger. His person is named Felicity and she has a bookstore. Raj likes being a tiger and because he spends all day in a bookstore that is why this book is called RAJ THE BOOKSTORE TIGER.</div>
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Every day Felicity reads a story to the kids who come to the store and those kids love to see Raj and Raj loves when the kids pet him and call him a tiger. There is a man who works at the bookstore and he has a white cat named Snowball and the man starts bringing his cat Snowball to the bookstore. Snowball is cranky and not nice and Snowball says that Raj is not really a tiger and that makes Raj feel bad because Raj likes being a tiger. Raj is sad not being a tiger until Felicity reads him a poem about a tiger and that poem about a tiger makes Raj feel like a tiger again and then he is not sad any more. You might think that Raj would be mad at Snowball but you would be wrong. Raj is nice and wants Snowball to be happy and that is why he tells Snowball about white tigers. Snowball likes the idea of being a tiger and it makes him happy and then he isn’t mean and cranky and then the two tigers become friends. I am happy that Raj and Snowball are friends at the end of this story and that is why I love this book.</div>
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There is another reason that I love this book and that reason is because of the pictures. My favorite picture is the picture on the first page where Felicity is holding Raj and Raj is smiling with his eyes closed and you can tell that he is a happy tiger. My other favorite pictures are the pictures where you can see all the books that are on the shelves at the bookstore and I want to read the book that has a boy blowing a big bubble gum bubble on the cover and the book about an elephant named Bob. I like the soft colors in the pictures and when I read this book and look at the pictures I wish I could spend my days in the bookstore with Raj and Snowball.</div>
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Cats who like tigers.</div>
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Readers, cats, and tigers who like bubble gum.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hi, there. Briar here in Morzant’s lab. Morzant is supposed to interview me today, but he’s going to be late because his toaster is about to burst into flames. I’d hate for you to have to wait, so I’ll get things started by answering the questions I predict he’d ask if pumpernickel weren’t so combustible.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Yes. No. In the year 2027. One time when I chased a squirrel up a tree, but never since. Fifteen, maybe sixteen. Excess orange rinds. Huey, Louie, and Dewey, in that order. Walla Walla, Washington. Peanut butter cookies. Sometimes rolling on a dead fish can help. CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG. Working on my own graphic novel. I’m not sure. A large meteor.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Well. That didn’t take too long, did it? I sense Morzant has put out the fire. If you’d like, I could share my most recent vision with you to pass the time while we wait for Morzant to join us. In the vision, I saw a giant armadillo buttering a piece of burnt toast. He offered me a bite, then grabbed it away and started lecturing me on the importance of cleaning toast gunk out of the toaster. I was sure that could mean only one thing—oh, here he is. Morzant, I mean. Not the giant armadillo.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>BRIAR: </b>I hope it’s okay that I started the interview without you since I knew the questions you were going to ask.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>MORZANT: </b>Your ability to predict future events is astounding. The scientist in me wonders how your psychic ability works and why, when you knew in advance the questions I intended to ask you, you didn’t also know about the piece of pumpernickel that had wedged itself dangerously in my toaster’s heating element.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>MORZANT: </b>You <i>knew</i>?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>MORZANT: </b>Forgive me, but why then didn’t you come warn me about my impending toaster crisis rather than come to my lab to conduct your own interview?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>MORZANT: </b>No harm done. Aside from the scorched ceiling tiles and melted countertop. And incinerated pumpernickel, of course. Let’s continue the interview, shall we? Where did you leave off?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>MORZANT: </b>Even the one about what causes Bigfoot’s photography impediment?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>BRIAR: </b>Yes, I said— uh-oh. Morzant? I think you’d better get back to your ship.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>BRIAR: </b>You won’t believe what the giant armadillo just told me about your blender.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Norman and Bigfoot are fencing with icicles.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">“Stop! Stop!” Morzant cries. “It’s almost time!”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Mortimer breathes fire on the ice swords until they melt. Then all my friends, a duck, three puppies, and I file into an enormous stadium. The stadium is full of cheering cryptids waving striped socks.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A walrus runs into the arena carrying a small pot of orange flowers. He runs up a staircase to a platform. He breaks the pot, then plants the flowers in a bathtub. The flowers immediately start to grow at an accelerated rate. They spill over the edge of the tub and of the platform. The walrus gets tangled in the growing stems and swept toward the bleachers. The cheering gets even louder.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Soon the flowers are covering everybody in the bleachers. The flowers are as big as books, and soon they turn into books. They smell like pickles. Everybody picks them and starts to read.</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pickle-scented flowers BIGFOOT reads:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BEYOND MAGENTA: TRANSGENDER TEENS SPEAK OUT</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Susan Kuklin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">GRASSHOPPER JUNGLE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Andrew Smith</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Dutton-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">LORD AND LADY BUNNY—ALMOST ROYALTY!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Polly Horvath, with illustrations by Sophie Blackall</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—SEQUEL TO MR. AND MRS. BUNNY—DETECTIVES EXTRAORDINAIRE!]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Schwartz & Wade-Random House</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SPLIT SECOND</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Kasie West</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—SEQUEL TO PIVOT POINT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperTeen-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BRIGHT BEFORE SUNRISE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Tiffany Schmidt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Walker</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 18, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SCHOOL OF CHARMS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lisa Ann Scott</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Katherine Tegen-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 18, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BETTER OFF FRIENDS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Elizabeth Eulberg</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Point-Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE DUMBEST IDEA EVER!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jimmy Gownley</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—GRAPHIC NOVEL]</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Graphix-Scholastic</span></span><div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HALF A CHANCE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Cynthia Lord</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">INVASION OF THE UFONUTS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Laurie Keller</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[CHAPTER BOOK—SECOND IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>ADVENTURES OF ARNIE THE DOUGHNUT SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Henry Holt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pickle-scented flowers MORZANT reads:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">LITTLE POEMS FOR TINY EARS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lin Oliver, illustrated by Tomie dePaola</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—POETRY]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nancy Paulsen-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE NOISY PAINT BOX: THE COLORS AND <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>SOUNDS OF KANDINSKY’S ABSTRACT ART</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Barb Rosenstock, illustrated by Mary GrandPré</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Knopf-Random House</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A TASTE OF FREEDOM: <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>GANDHI AND THE GREAT SALT MARCH</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, illustrated by Guiliano Ferri</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Walker</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">DARE THE WIND: THE RECORD-BREAKING VOYAGE OF<span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>ELEANOR PRENTISS AND THE FLYING CLOUD</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Tracey Fern, illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Farrar, Straus and Giroux</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 18, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ALASKA’S DOG HEROES: <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>TRUE STORIES OF REMARKABLE CANINES</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Shelley Gill, illustrated by Robin James</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Little Bigfoot-Sasquatch</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FEATHERS: NOT JUST FOR FLYING</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Melissa Stewart, illustrated by Sarah S. Brannen</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Charlesbridge</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pickle-scented flowers MORTIMER reads:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE BROKEN PATH</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Erin Hunter</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—FOURTH IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>SURVIVORS SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MY HUMONGOUS HAMSTER</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lorna Freytag</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Henry Holt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pickle-scented flowers PENNY reads:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THREE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Kristen Simmons</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—THIRD IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>ARTICLE 5 SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tor Teen-Tom Doherty Associates</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WHITE SPACES</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Ilsa J. Bick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—FIRST IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>DARK PASSAGES SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Egmont USA</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PERFECT LIES</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Kiersten White</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—SEQUEL TO MIND GAMES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperTeen-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 18, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FIRE & FLOOD</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Victoria Scott</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TIN STAR</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Cecil Castelluci</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Roaring Brook</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE WELL’S END</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Seth Fishman</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Putman-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pickle-scented flowers THE DUCK reads:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FERAL CURSE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Cynthia Leitich Smith</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—SECOND IN THE FERAL SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE TINKER KING</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Tiffany Trent</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—SEQUEL TO THE UNNATURALISTS]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ALASKA’S SLEEPING BEAUTY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Mindy Dwyer</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Little Bigfoot-Sasquatch</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE SHADOW THRONE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jennifer A. Nielsen</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—FINAL IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>ASCENDANCE TRILOGY]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pickle-scented flowers NORMAN reads:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">CHAMPION OF BREAKFAST</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Adam Rex</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—THIRD IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>COLD CEREAL SAGA]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Balzer & Bray-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TESLA’S ATTIC</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—FIRST IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>ACCELERATI TRILOGY]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">OPERATION BUNNY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sally Gardner, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>with illustrations by David Roberts</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—FIRST IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>WINGS & CO. SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Henry Holt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">STINK AND THE SHARK SLEEPOVER</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Megan McDonald, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>with illustrations by Peter H. Reynolds</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[CHAPTER BOOK—NINTH IN THE STINK SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MISSING MONKEY!</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Mary Amato, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>with illustrations by Ward Jenkins</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[CHAPTER BOOK—FIRST IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>GOOD CROOKS SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Egmont USA</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TIMMY FAILURE: NOW LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Stephan Pastis</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—SEQUEL TO<span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>TIMMY FAILURE: MISTAKES WERE MADE SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE SECRET BOX</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Whitaker Ringwald</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—FIRST IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>SECRET BOX SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Katherine Tegen-HarperCollins</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A SNICKER OF MAGIC</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Natalie Lloyd</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THREATENED</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Eliot Schrefer</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BY THE GRACE OF TODD</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Louise Galveston</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Razorbill-Penguin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 27, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<br /></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pickle-scented flowers BEVERLY reads:</span></b></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BEFORE MY EYES</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Caroline Bock</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">St. Martin’s Griffin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">STORM</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Donna Jo Napoli</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Paula Wiseman-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE TYRANT’S DAUGHTER</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by J.C. Carleson</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Knopf-Random House</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WILLOW</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Tonya Cherie Hegamin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">NIGHTINGALE’S NEST</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Nikki Loftin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Razorbill-Penguin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 20, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WHAT THE MOON SAID</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Gayle Rosengren</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Putnam-Penguin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 20, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FAKING NORMAL</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Courtney C. Stevens</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperTeen-HarperCollins</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I SURVIVED THE NAZI INVASION, 1994</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lauren Tarshis</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[CHAPTER BOOK—NINTH IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>I SURVIVED SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE LION WHO STOLE MY ARM</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Nicola Davies, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>with illustrations by Annabel Wright</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[CHAPTER BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">YEAR OF MISTAKEN DISCOVERIES</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Eileen Cook</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Simon Pulse-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ZANE AND THE HURRICANE: A STORY OF KATRINA</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Rodman Philbrick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Blue Sky Press-Scholastic</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pickle-scented flowers BRIAR reads:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FATES</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lanie Bross</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Delacorte-Random House</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TSARINA</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by J. Nelle Patrick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Razorbill-Penguin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 27, 2014</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pickle-scented flowers OLIVER reads:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SAY HELLO LIKE THIS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Mary Murphy</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TAKING CARE OF MAMA RABBIT</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Anita Lobel</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Knopf-Random House</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TIME FOR BED, FRED!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Yasmeen Ismail</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Walker</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">GREEN IS A CHILE PEPPER: <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>A BOOK OF COLORS</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Roseanne Greenfield Thong, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by John Parra</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chronicle</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 18, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BUSY BUNNY DAYS: IN THE TOWN, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>ON THE FARM & AT THE PORT</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Britta Teckentrup</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chronicle</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">DREAM DOG</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lou Berger, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>illustrated by David J. Catrow</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Schwartz & Wade-Random House</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">GO! GO! GO! STOP!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Charise Mericle Harper</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Knopf-Random House</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HI, KOO!: A YEAR OF SEASONS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jon J Muth</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">S IS FOR SALMON: <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>A PACIFIC NORTHWEST ALPHABET</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Hannah Viano</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Little Bigfoot-Sasquatch</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pickle-scented flowers LENNY reads:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">EXTRAORDINARY WARREN: <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>A SUPER CHICKEN</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sarah Dillard</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY READER]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Aladdin-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Anne Isaacs, illustrated by Kevin Henkes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY READER]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Schwartz & Wade-Random House</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MR. BALL MAKES A TO-DO LIST</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Michael Townsend</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY READER—JUMP-INTO-CHAPTERS SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Blue Apple Books</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">OKAY, ANDY!</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Maxwell Eaton III</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY READER—JUMP-INTO-CHAPTERS SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Blue Apple Books</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PENGUIN IN PERIL</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Helen Hancocks</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Templar-Candlewick</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">DUCK TO THE RESCUE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by John Himmelman</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—FOURTH IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>BARNYARD RESCUE SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Henry Holt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 18, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WAKE UP, RUPERT!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Mike Twohy</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Paula Wiseman-Simon &Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 18, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WHEN AN ALIEN MEETS A SWAMP MONSTER</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Cornelius Van Wright</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nancy Paulsen-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 20, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">EIEIO: HOW OLD MACDONALD GOT HIS FARM</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM A HEN</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Judy Sierra, illustrated by Matthew Myers</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE END (ALMOST)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jim Benton</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MOTOR DOG</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Kurt Cyrus, illustrated by David George Gordon</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ROSIE & REX: A NOSE FOR FUN!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Bob Boyle</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WEASELS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Elys Dolan</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pickle-scented flowers VIOLET reads:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">29 MYTHS ON THE SWINSTER PHARMACY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Lisa Brown</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">McSweeney’s McMullens</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">JESSICA FINCH IN PIG TROUBLE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Megan McDonald, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>with illustrations by Erwin Madrid</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY CHAPTER BOOK—FIRST IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>JUDY MOODY AND FRIENDS SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ORANGUTANGLED</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">with illustrations by Aaron Zenz</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Two Lions-Amazon</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PRICKLY ROSE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Shelley Gill, illustrated by Judy Love</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Charlesbridge</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ROCKY ZANG IN THE AMAZING MR. MAGIC</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Megan McDonald, <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>with illustrations by Erwin Madrid</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY CHAPTER BOOK—SECOND IN THE <span style="font: 16.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>JUDY MOODY AND FRIENDS SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Anne Isaacs, illustrated by Kevin Henkes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Schwartz & Wade-Random House</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PENGUIN IN PERIL</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Helen Hancocks</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Templar-Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TIPPY AND THE NIGHT PARADE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lilli Carre</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY READER—GRAPHIC NOVEL]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Toon Books-Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 11, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MAPLE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lori Nichols</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nancy Paulsen-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 20, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MAISY GOES TO THE MOVIES</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lucy Cousins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 25, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">* The dream entries from Briar’s journal contain premonitions of books that will be published in the future. Briar’s dream self foresees the books’ summaries and knows which will likely appeal to each of her friends. Briar always wakes up before she can see whether her friends will enjoy the books.</span></div>
Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-53922000136889551972014-02-03T21:09:00.001-05:002014-02-03T21:15:10.053-05:00Three Minutes Changing Gears<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #39200c; font-family: "Verdana";">A month ago I had a brilliant idea. Genius, really. To get you to share your writing on this blog, I bribed you with the chance to win fabulous creative writing-related prizes and a trip in Morzant’s ship. Okay, there was never talk of Morzant’s ship, but there <em>were</em> fabulous creative writing-related prizes.</span>
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<span style="color: #39200c;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don’t know what went wrong. Bribing has always worked for me in the past. The hundreds of responses I expected never came. To cheer myself up, I took the money I’d saved for the Normanday Creative Writer’s Hundred-Percent-Visible-Prize Bundle and spent it on a gourmet worm and snail dinner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #39200c; font-family: "Verdana";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I digest this expensive, slimy spread, I’m going to rethink Normanday. Maybe I’ll keep posting writing prompts. Maybe I’ll use Normanday to showcase sections of the novel I’m working on. Maybe I’ll perform séances or post dip recipes. I don’t know yet. I just know whatever I come up with is bound to genius.</span></span></div>
Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-44815563033040429812014-01-30T11:13:00.000-05:002014-01-30T11:13:30.092-05:00Briar’s Journal (January 26 to February 6, 2014)<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">May 3, 2005</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Norman and Bigfoot are playing horseshoes. Morzant grabs up the shoes that land far away from the stakes. He sets them on a cookie sheet and puts them into an oven. When he pulls out the cookie sheet, it’s piled with books.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">“Fresh books! Come and get them!” he calls.</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">BIGFOOT’s fresh-from-the-oven books:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ODD, WEIRD & LITTLE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Laura Lyn DiSiena and Hannah Eliot, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">illustrated by Pete Oswald</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">NICK AND TESLA’S ROBOT ARMY RAMPAGE: </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">with illustrations by Scott Garrett</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—SECOND IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">NICK AND TESLA’S HIGH-VOLTAGE DANGER LAB SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WEEDS FIND A WAY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Cindy Jenson-Elliot, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">illustrated by Carolyn Fisher</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Beach Lane-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">MORTIMER’s </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fresh-from-the-oven books</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">:</span></b></div>
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE MINIATURE WORLD OF MARVIN AND JAMES</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Elise Broach, with illustrations by Kelly Murphy</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY CHAPTER BOOK—FIRST IN THE </span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MASTERPIECE ADVENTURES SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Henry Holt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">PENNY’s </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fresh-from-the-oven </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">books: </span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">DIVIDED WE FALL</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Trent Reedy</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—FIRST IN THE SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Arthur A. Levine-Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HER DARK CURIOSITY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Megan Shepherd</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—SEQUEL TO THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MADMAN’S DAUGHTER]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Balzer & Bray-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">INTO THE STILL BLUE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Veronica Rossi</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—THIRD IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">UNDER THE NEVER SKY TRILOGY]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE UNBOUND</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Victoria Schwab</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—SECOND IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ARCHIVED SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">UNIVITED</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sophie Jordan</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperTeen-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MINDERS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Michele Jaffe</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Razorbill-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 30, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ALIENATED</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Melissa Landers</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FIRST IN THE ALIENATED SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">IGNITE ME</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Tehereh Mafi</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—FINAL IN THE </span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SHATTER ME SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4,2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">LANDRY PARK</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Bethany Hagen</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNGA ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Dial-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">UNITE ME</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Tahereh Mafi</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—COMPANION TO THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SHATTER ME SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">THE DUCK’s </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fresh-from-the-oven </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">books: </span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">CRUEL BEAUTY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Rosamund Hodge</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Balzer & Bray-HarperCollins</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FIRSTBORN</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lorie Ann Grover</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Blink-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">OPHELIA AND THE MARVELOUS BOY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Karen Foxlee</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Knopf-Random House</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">CRESS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Marissa Meye</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—THIRD IN THE </span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">NORMAN’s </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fresh-from-the-oven </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">books: </span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">JUNGLE OF BONES</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Ben Mikaelsen</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic Press-Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE LOST PLANET</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Rachel Searles</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Feiwel & Friends-Macmillan</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">LUNCH LADY AND THE SCHOOLWIDE SCUFFLE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jarrett J. Krosoczka</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—GRAPHIC NOVEL—</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MARTY MCGUIRE HAS TOO MANY PETS!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Kate Messner, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">with illustrations by Brian Floca</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[CHAPTER BOOK—THIRD IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic Press-Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE RAIN DRAGON RESCUE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Suzanne Selfors, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">with illustrations by Dan Santat</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—THIRD IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">IMAGINARY VETERINARY SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Little, Brown-Hachette</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SEVEN STORIES UP</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Laurel Snyder</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—COMPANION TO </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BIGGER THAN A BREAD BOX]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Random House</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SPELL ROBBERS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Matthew J. Kirby</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—FIRST IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic Press-Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">JUST JAKE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jake Marcionette, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">with illustrations by Victor Rivas Villa</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FIRST IN THE JUST JAKE SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Grosset & Dunlap-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ICE DOGS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Terry Lynn Johnson</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SPACE ROCKS!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Tom O’Donnell</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—FIRST IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SPACE ROCKS! SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Razorbill-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 6, 2014</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">BEVERLY’s </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fresh-from-the-oven </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">books:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BIRD</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Crystal Chan</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Atheneum-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HEART BEAT</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Elizabeth Scott</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Harlequin Teen-Harlequin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">NO PLACE</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Todd Strasser</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUND ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Simon & Schuster</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND EVERY OTHER WEEKEND</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Karen Stanton</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Feiwel & Friends-Macmillan</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE GHOSTS OF TUPELO LANDING</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sheila Turnage</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SEQUEL TO THREE TIMES LUCKY]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kathy Dawson-Penguin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TEEN SPIRIT</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Francesca Lia Block</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperTeen-HarperCollins</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE SOUND OF LETTING GO</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Stasia Ward Kehoe</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Viking-Penguin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 6, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">BRIAR’s </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fresh-from-the-oven </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">books:</span></b></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MANOR OF SECRETS</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Katherine Longshore</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Point-Scholastic</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">LEONCE AND LENA</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jurg Amann, </span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—PLAY]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">NorthSouth</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 1, 2014</span></div>
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">OLIVER’s </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fresh-from-the-oven </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">books:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></b></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BLUEBIRD</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lindsey Yankey</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Simply Red</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 26, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">EARY BIRD</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Toni Yuly</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Feiwel & Friends-Macmillan</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">NEST</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jorey Hurley</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Paula Wiseman-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">OCTOPUS’S GARDEN</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Ringo Starr, illustrated by Ben Cort</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK WITH CD]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Aladdin-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ZOOM! ZOOM!: </span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SOUNDS OF THINGS THAT GO IN THE CITY</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Robert Burleigh, </span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">illustrated by Tad Carpenter</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Paula Wiseman-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">LENNY’s </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fresh-from-the-oven </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">books: </span></b></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HERE COMES THE EASTER CAT</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Deborah Underwood, </span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">illustrated by Claudia Rueda</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Dial-Penguin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MONKEY ME AND THE GOLDEN MONKEY</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Timothy Roland</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY CHAPTER BOOK—</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FIRST IN THE MONKEY ME SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PETE THE CAT: BIG EASTER ADVENTURE</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by James Dean and Kimberly Dean, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">illustrated by James Dean</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—PETE THE CAT SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperFestival-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SUPERWORM</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Julia Donaldson, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">illustrated by Axel Scheffler</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Arthur A. Levine-Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BECAUSE I STUBBED MY TOE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Shawn Byous</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Capstone</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 1, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WHEN ELEPHANT MET GIRAFFE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Paul Gude</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY READER—FIRST IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ELEPHANT AND GIRAFFE SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FROGGY GETS A DOGGY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jonathan London, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—FROGGY SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Viking-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 6, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BOOKMARKS ARE PEOPLE TOO!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, </span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">with illustrations by Scott Garrett</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[CHAPTER BOOK—</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FIRST IN THE HERE’S HANK SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Grosset & Dunlap-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 6, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A SHORT TALE ABOUT A LONG DOG</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, </span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">with illustrations by Scott Garrett</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[CHAPTER BOOK—</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SECOND IN THE HERE’S HANK SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Grosset & Dunlap-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 6, 2014</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">VIOLET’s </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fresh-from-the-oven </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">books: </span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A BUNNY IN THE BALLET</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Robert Beck</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Orchard Books-Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">IT WASN’T ME</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Oliver Jeffers</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SECOND IN THE HUEYS SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Philomel-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PINK CUPCAKE MAGIC</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Katherine Tegen, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">illustrated by Kristin Varner</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Henry Holt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 28, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MONKEY NUT</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Simon Rickerty</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 31, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">GOOSE THE BEAR</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Katja Gehrmann</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sky Pony Press-Skyhorse</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">EXTRAORDINARY JANE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Hannah E. Harrison</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Dial-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 6, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">GOLDI ROCKS & THE THREE BEARS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Corey Rosen Schwartz and Beth Coulton, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">illustrated by Nathan Wragg</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Putnam-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">February 6, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">* The dream entries from Briar’s journal contain premonitions of books that will be published in the future. Briar’s dream self foresees the books’ summaries and knows which will likely appeal to each of her friends. Briar always wakes up before she can see whether her friends will enjoy the books.</span></div>
Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-44345004529436493442014-01-27T17:28:00.000-05:002014-01-27T17:28:03.215-05:00Three Minutes During Halftime<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Normanday #113: I always root for the team with blue uniforms.</span></b></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">…a time you lost (or won) a game.</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Email what you wrote to <b>bigfootreads dot wernert at gmail dot com</b> by the end of the day <b>February 2</b> (put “Norman Likes to Knit While Watching Football” in the subject line). I’ll post as many of my favorite entries as I want next Monday, but all entries will be entered in the raffle. Include your first name (or, even better, use a pen name) and age (unless you’re tortoise-old).</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">…where on Earth you’d take an extraterrestrial sightseeing.</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Don’t forget, every month this year I’ll give away a <b>Normanday Creative Writer’s Hundred-Percent-Visible-Prize Bundle</b>. For a chance to win, just send me three minutes of writing based on one of that month’s weekly writing prompts. You can enter once each week for the month to increase your chances of winning. <b>This is the last chance to enter for the January drawing.</b></span></div>
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<li style="color: #39200c; font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HOW WRITER’S WORK by Ralph Fletcher</span></li>
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<li style="color: #39200c; font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SPILLING INK: A YOUNG WRITER’S HANDBOOK <span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>by Ellen Potter and Anne Mazer, will illustrations by Matt Phelan</span></li>
<li style="color: #39200c; font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bigfoot Reads journal</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Winners under 13-years old will need to have a parent or guardian send me mailing information. I can only mail prizes within the continential United States. (I’m a half-invisible turtle on a budget.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You got all that? Okay, then, get writing! (And sending.)</span></div>
Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-57268973492956699942014-01-20T18:07:00.000-05:002014-01-20T18:07:34.824-05:00Three Minutes as a Tour Guide<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Normanday #112: Would an extraterrestrial enjoy seeing the world’s largest ball of twine?</span></b></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You’re minding your own business when an odd-looking little creature approaches you. At first you think he’s a mutant frog, but then he speaks. He explains that he’s a traveller from another universe. He only has a little time to spend on Earth. Write for three minutes about where on Earth you’d take the extraterrestrial.</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Email what you wrote to <b>bigfootreads dot wernert at gmail dot com</b> by the end of the day <b>January 26</b> (put “Norman is Out of This World” in the subject line). I’ll post as many of my favorite entries as I want next Monday, but all entries will be entered in the raffle. Include your first name (or, even better, use a pen name) and age (unless you’re tortoise-old).</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">…your observations of the people you encounter during the week.</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Don’t forget, every month this year I’ll give away a <b>Normanday Creative Writer’s Hundred-Percent-Visible-Prize Bundle</b>. For a chance to win, just send me three minutes of writing based on one of that month’s weekly writing prompts. You can enter once each week for the month to increase your chances of winning.</span></div>
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<li style="color: #39200c; font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bigfoot Reads bookmarks</span></li>
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<li style="color: #39200c; font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SPILLING INK: A YOUNG WRITER’S HANDBOOK <span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
</span>by Ellen Potter and Anne Mazer, will illustrations by Matt Phelan</span></li>
<li style="color: #39200c; font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bigfoot Reads journal</span></li>
<li style="color: #39200c; font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bigfoot Reads bookmarks</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Winners under 13-years old will need to have a parent or guardian send me mailing information. I can only mail prizes within the continential United States. (I’m a half-invisible turtle on a budget.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You got all that? Okay, then, get writing! (And sending.)</span></div>
Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-80203597565299312562014-01-19T08:46:00.000-05:002014-01-19T08:46:26.628-05:00ReRunday: MINI RACER (Picture Book)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Originally posted on April 28, 2011.</i></span><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MINI RACER is a picture book about a race between lots of animals. Some animals race alone and those animals are a seal and a bear and a mouse and a bulldog and a giraffe and a monkey and a snail. Morzant will like this book because he likes snails. I don’t know why he likes snails but he does.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Some of the animals race as a team. There is a team with three dogs and a team with two cats and a team with four owls and a team with two rabbits and a team with two alligators, except that the team with two alligators might really be a team with two crocodiles.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">All the racers have different vehicles and the vehicles are fun to look at. There’s a banana car and a carrot car and a wheelchair with rainbow-colored wheels and a skateboard and a tree car and a car that’s a wedge of cheese and lots of other vehicles. The carrot car is my favorite and the banana car is my other favorite and my other favorite is the car with spots.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The words in the book tell about how the racers race on bumpy roads and on curvy roads and on roads where they get stuck. The racers are going fast, fast, fast the whole time except for when they crash or get stuck or when they stop to rest and eat honey or pizza or a cheese wedge car. But then they start racing again. The book rhymes and when you read the sentences you can feel that the racers are going fast, fast, fast.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The racers want to go, go, go but you need to stop and look, look, look at all the pages because there are lots of things happening on every page and you will want to look at all the things happening because it is fun. You will see spotted dogs in a spotted car and a rabbit getting a band-aid after crashing and bees following the bear’s bee hive vehicle and the cats riding their bike on telephone wires and the mouse eating his cheese wedge car.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">First one racer is winning and then another racer is winning but by the end most of the racers are walking or flying because they have crashed and wrecked their vehicles or driven them into a river or eaten them. I have a favorite racer and that racer is really two racers and those two racers are two rabbits in the carrot car. Do the rabbits in their carrot car win? Maybe they do, but maybe they don’t. Do they eat their carrot car? Maybe they do, but maybe they don’t.</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Observe the people near you—at the movies or the mall, the park, a classroom…anywhere at all. Write for three minutes about what they say and do, what they look like, and possibly how they smell. Leave no detail unrecorded.</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Email what you wrote to <b>bigfootreads dot wernert at gmail dot com</b> by the end of the day <b>January 19</b> (put “Norman is Suave” in the subject line). I’ll post as many of my favorite entries as I want next Monday, but all entries will be entered in the raffle. Include your first name (or, even better, use a pen name) and age (unless you’re tortoise-old).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SHARK GIRL (young adult novel), FORMERLY SHARK GIRL (young adult novel), and Z IS FOR MOOSE (picture book)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">January 11, 2014<br />To: Muffin@cmail.com<br />From: Mr.Whiskers@cmail.com<br /><br />Dear Muffin: Everyone’s gone for the day, so I’m settling in with coffee and doughnuts, and will spend a little time catching up on E-mail and Twitter. I had to write and tell you: I had the weirdest dream last night. I dreamed I had <i>thumbs</i>. You know what else was strange about this dream? I LIKED it. I LIKED having thumbs. Not cat-thumbs, mind you. Real, actual human thumbs, poking right out of my paws. In the dream, I was able to do SO MUCH with them. For example , I could type e-mails like this one so much FASTER. I could twist open the doorknob super easy. I let myself out and wandered the yard, chasing butterflies to my heart’s content. Can you imagine the freedom, the joy, of being able to come and go <i>as you please</i>?</span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used my thumbs to operate the television remote and watch the Cat Channel. They NEVER put the Cat Channel on here, can you believe it? Even though it was a dream, it sure was nice to be able to flip the channels around to what I wanted to watch for a change.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the best part of the dream? I was able to open a can of food whenever I wanted! I just popped that sucker right open! <i>I didn’t have to wait on anyone to feed me!</i></span><i> </i></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I woke up feeling sad that I don’t actually have thumbs. I know I’m perfect, but….I sure wouldn’t mind having a couple of thumbs to work with. It would make a lot of things easier.<br /><br />—Mr. Whiskers</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She’s yelping. Her lip is twitching. She must be having a nightmare. I should wake her up, right? She’s probably dreaming about that giant Great Dane who lives down the street. Listen to her cry. That Great Dane scares her in real life. In her dreams, maybe the Great Dane has poisonous tentacles and three rows of sharp teeth, like a shark. I’ll just shake her a little to wake her up. Except now her tail is wagging. Maybe they’ve made friends. And they’re probably chasing that neighborhood squirrel that’s always teasing her from way up in the tree in the back yard. Mean squirrel. I should let her keep sleeping. In her dream, she can probably finally catch that squirrel.</span> </blockquote>
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Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-82609408350113725572014-01-12T16:55:00.000-05:002014-01-12T16:55:11.231-05:00ReRunday: Andrew Auseon, Interview<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Originally posted on February 28, 2011.</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Tuesdays with Morzant: </span></b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Getting to Know an Author</span></b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
Zulko, humans. Please join me in welcoming Andrew Auseon. Andy is the
author of three young adult novels and of a middle grade novel,
ALIENATED, on which he collaborated with David O. Russell. Zulko, Andy.
It’s nice to finally meet the person Bigfoot names as the author most
likely to write a book while brushing his teeth.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">ANDREW AUSEON:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> It’s wonderful to be here, Morzant, and I am honored that Bigfoot holds me in such high esteem. He is one of the few.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
I’m certain many others do as well. I, for one, am exceedingly
impressed with you and I only met you seven seconds ago. Not long ago, I
met another of your appreciators. When I interviewed Kelly Bingham,
author of SHARK GIRL (Candlewick, 2007), she credited you with the idea
to write her novel in verse. That demonstration of braininess caused me
to suspect you might be Zeentonian. Now that I’ve met you, I see that’s
not the case. While I’d been looking forward to chatting with somebody
from my home planet, I’m confident you’ll enlighten and entertain the
BIGFOOT READS audience today.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I’d
like to begin with ALIENATED. In it, two boys, Gene and Vince, report
in their own newspaper about the extraterrestrial life forms they
discover living secretly in their town. The main protagonist is Gene who
supposes that revealing the existence of aliens will gain him
acceptance among his peers. Quite the opposite happens, however, and he
becomes an even greater object of ridicule. Have you ever suffered
similar disappointment with respect to your aspirations?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
Not really. Gene is always on the lookout for ways to elevate his
social standing. He spends most of his time dissecting those potential
opportunities, which is pretty unhealthy. Like most kids, I wanted my
classmates to like me, but there was never an “aha” moment when a single
act could have changed my reputation. There was never a silver bullet
for cool. Plus, I don’t have that kind of obsessive focus, except when
it comes to breakfast cereal. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
I can understand your preoccupation with breakfast cereal. Followers of
this blog are familiar with my experiments regarding the tensile
properties of Rice Krispies Treats.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Much
as in real life, the general human population in Gene’s reality does
not believe in extraterrestrials. On December 2, 2010, you Tweeted about
an unusual bacteria discovered by NASA. You speculated that the
bacteria might be alien. Your tone of wonderment at that possibility led
me to believe that you’re typically doubtful of the presence of
extraterrestrial life on Earth. Am I the first being from another planet
you’ve met?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
Give me a break, Morzant. It’s 2011. Everybody’s from another planet.
The security guard at my office building is first-generation Ventrovian.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
Forgive me. Most Earthlings I meet are rather incredulous when I tell
them where I’m from. It’s refreshing to meet somebody already familiar
with the concept of visitors from other planets.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">A
particularly interesting aspect of ALIENATED is that the aliens each
have a power, almost as if they’re superheroes. The only unique ability I
have is that I can swim the 200-meter freestyle in less than a minute,
which isn’t all that extraordinary when you take into account that my
feet are essentially flippers. Not that I’m a frog, mind you. Because
I’m not. Do you have any unique abilities?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
I am very good at Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Is that a super power? By
the way, are you sure you’re not a frog? You look very amphibious.
There’s no shame in it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
Amphibians transform from beings who live, and therefore breathe,
underwater to creatures who can move about on dry land. In the case of
frogs, tadpoles lose their swimming tails and grow appendages. Some go
on to host variety shows starring comedic bears and volatile pigs. I
assure you that I was born as you see me now, albeit much smaller and
without pants. No, I’m not a frog, nor have I ever been a tadpole.
Admittedly, breathing underwater would be a desirable super power.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Superheroes
are mentioned frequently in your books. In fact, FREAK MAGNET’s main
character wears a Superman costume every day under his clothing. Are you
a comic book fan?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
I am, or was. I guess you could say I’m a lapsed comic book reader and
occasional graphic novel enthusiast. Comic books are a commitment, and
they’re really expensive now. Since budgets are tight and free time is
rare, I tend not to read monthly titles. It’s too easy to get sucked
into that world again. Comics can be addictive, like spandex cigarettes.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I recently received the reprint of the <i>Marvel Comics Encyclopedia</i>
as a gift, and the more I paged through it the more I realized that I
was completely out of touch. Over the last twenty years most of my
favorite characters have died, disappeared into some other reality,
become villains, or gotten divorced. It’s depressing, like a class
reunion gone wrong. I’ve become an old person who remembers the good old
days.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
Perhaps you’d be less depressed writing your own comics rather than
reading current incarnations of old favorites. Have you ever considered
writing a graphic novel?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
Yes. I’ve got a hundred pages or so of one book that I really like, and
a rough start of another. A perk of my day job is getting to work with
many talented artists, and I’ve talked to a few of them about working on
a book. But collaborations are very difficult to coordinate, and they
get even more complicated when both parties have other jobs and busy
lives. Maybe I should make a commitment to finish one of them. Or maybe I
could have another bowl of cereal instead.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> You could merge the two notions and create a character whose powers are derived from sugar-coated, processed grain.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Given
the typical complications with coordinating busy schedules, might I
suggest a project you could complete on your own? How about a work of
non-fiction? Along with discovering the cause of Bigfoot’s photography
impediment, one of my objectives is to encourage the publication of more
gastropod books. Despite several fine fictional books that were
recently brought to my attention by Kathi Appelt, and another mentioned
in a comment posted on BIGFOOT READS, gastropods seem grossly
underrepresented in Earth literature. Are you interested in filling that
vacuum? You could title your book FASTER THAN A SPEEDING GASTROPOD. It
has an appealing superhero sound to it, don’t you agree? Norman
suggested GASTROPODS ARE A GAS, GAS, GAS, and Penny likes THE POKY
LITTLE GASTROPOD. But I think my title has more flair, don’t you?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> If I had to choose, I would probably go with, I, GASTROPOD, but definitely not GASTROPODS: THEY’RE WHAT’S FOR DINNER. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
Oh, dear. I agree that second option would be an unfortunate title. As
to the other, I like the idea of a ghostwritten gastropod autobiography.
I look forward to reading it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I
understand that ALIENATED is being made into a major motion picture. I
love cinema, but as you can imagine it can be a problem for my friends
and me to go to the theater. Like you and your artist friends, we have
difficulty coordinating our busy schedules with the limited showtimes
offered at theaters. When ALIENATED comes out, could you arrange for a
private screening for us? And possibly popcorn? And gummy worms?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
I don’t believe in cruelty to gummy animals, so I won’t be able to
deliver on that, but popcorn should be fine, unless Zeenton is still
under the popcorn embargo.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">You
know. I’m not sure if ALIENATED is still going to end up on the big
screen or not. As you’ve probably heard, my co-author David O. Russell
(who was recently nominated for an Academy Award—a prestigious Earth
accolade), has a pretty busy schedule. I know the project is floating
around in the sweet-smelling mists of Hollywood, but as Briar knows,
mystical forces (and motion pictures) can be tricky things.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Trust
me. If ALIENATED ever makes it out to your neck of the universe
(meaning the Holo-Cinema 250 that orbits Io) I will most definitely get
you free passes. And gummy worms.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
You’re very generous, but the Holo-Cinema 250 usually only plays
ancient quantum physics seminars. I’m just beginning my studies of Earth
literature and I intend to be on Earth a good while longer. Assuming
I’m still here when the movie is released, I’d be honored to accompany
you.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">In
addition to writing novels, you also work as a video game designer. It
must be thrilling to see the stories you’ve written transformed into
other mediums such as cinema and video games. Can you envision any of
your novels as a puppet show?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> ALIENATED would be a fantastic puppet show. There are so many tentacles. Hip Hop Sasquatch would be played by Frank Oz.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
I want to thank you for acknowledging me in your dedication for
ALIENATED which reads: “For everyone who’s ever felt like an alien, on
Earth or elsewhere.” As a visitor from another planet, I often
experience a sense of alienation. That’s likely why I noticed that the
main character in each of your novels is an outsider. Is there a reason
you have a special interest in those who are estranged from society?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> You’re very welcome, Morzant. (I expect you to remember this next time I’m near the Zeenton Asteroid Belt and need a favor.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I
think a lot of books claim to be about outsiders, but few really are.
These days even the outsiders are cool. Their awesomeness is just
misunderstood. They’re actually cooler than the cool kids, only no one
has figured it out yet. To me, that kind of defeats the purpose of any
outsider story. Besides, I don’t buy those characters because they’re
not like anyone I knew as a kid, or that I know now. The “outsider”
characters in most YA books would probably make fun of the characters in
mine.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I
want to write about normal people who aren’t that hip, or smart, or
handsome, or clever, but who are just trying to scrape by. These are the
characters that would lurk in the background, behind the protagonists
in a John Green novel. It’s probably not the best career decision, but
hey when have I ever cared about that? (This is when I start crying.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
I’ve recently learned about rhetorical questions and I think you meant
that as one. However, it seems to me that your decisions pertaining your
characters’ personalities have been worthwhile. I applaud your efforts
to present readers like me with relatable characters.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I’d
like to discuss another of your characters. Arty Moore from FUNNY
LITTLE MONKEY feels alienated from the study body because of his
diminutive size. Ostensibly because he isn’t close to his classmates, he
mentally assigns them nicknames based on superficial attributes. His
name for a flatulent fellow is Mustard. A boy who always wears a
Spiderman shirt is Arachnid. A girl who is constantly greasy from
working on car engines is Oil Change. What nickname would Arty assign to
me?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> Close Encounters, or maybe Alf. For the record, I don’t consider either of those negative.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> Thank you from refraining from a frog-related moniker.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I
also noticed that each of your books includes musical groups with
offbeat names. ALIENATED’s Gene has two names for the band that exists
only in his imagination: Galactic Hammer and the Gene Brennick
University of Funk. In FUNNY LITTLE MONKEY a rock band called Atomic
Suppository performs at the quarry, a name I assume is of your own
invention. Indeed, an inventive rock band name, The Fiendish Lot, is
used in a novel’s title. As I’ve recently become preoccupied with
hypothetical questions, I thought it might be fun to ask what you’d name
your own rock band were you to be in one. Mine would either be
Experimental Mishap or Bunsen Burning.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
Silver Dollar Pancake, or Footie Pajamas, maybe the Duplo Army. I could
sit around and make up fake band names all day. Didn’t you ask before
if I had super powers? Well, this might be one of them.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> It would be if you could find a way to use that ability to fight the forces of evil.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I’m
a scientist. It’s my job to be observant. I observed that each of your
main characters has suffered a personal loss. In ALIENATED, Gene has
lost his father. In FUNNY LITTLE MONKEY, Arty’s grandfather has died. In
FREAK MAGNET, Gloria’s brother has died and Charlie’s mother is
suffering from a debilitating disease. JO-JO AND THE FIENDISH LOT’s
title character is devastated when his girlfriend is murdered. In spite
of these sad events, your books are infused with humor. How do you
manage to find the perfect balance between tragedy and comedy?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
Do I balance them well? I have no idea. I don’t worry too much about
doling out equal portions of happiness and sadness. One of the things I
try to do in every story is to be honest. I’ve found that life is a
pretty messy affair. One second it’s insanely wonderful and you’re
laughing all day until milk shoots out of your face, and then suddenly
everything slides into the composter and gets picked apart by rabid
raccoons. Most of the time things are normal, average, and we enjoy an
uneventful everyday life; but everybody has their favorite days and
their worst days ever of all time, OMG! We all have that in common.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
As long as the rabid raccoons you’re referring to are metaphorical, I
agree wholeheartedly that those variations in fortune are experienced by
beings universally.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Accompanying
those variations, your novels cover a wide spectrum of emotions
including grief. Grief is most pervasive in JO-JO AND THE FIENDISH LOT.
An unexpected act of violence sends Jo-Jo to the Afterlife where he
desperately searches for his girlfriend, Violet. Your version of an
afterlife is desolate and disturbing. Do you believe in a hereafter?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> Um…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
I’ve never rendered an interview subject speechless before. I’m at a
loss as to how to respond to your lack of response. Let’s just move on
to the next question.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I’m
still learning the vagaries of your universe’s laws of physics. Until I
read your novel FREAK MAGNET, none of my studies had exposed any
information regarding a magnetic attraction between freaks and certain
others with more socially acceptable personalities. Might I suggest
pursuing publication of your theories in scientific journals? Until you
do, I’m afraid Earth’s scientific community will continue to ignore your
findings.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> I have been legally forbidden from ever again seeking publication in <i>Scientific American</i> or <i>Popular Science</i>.
It is a long story, but depositions should be available through the
Freedom of Information Act. Just look for the heading: “Auseon vs. Area
51.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> Nevertheless, your observations of the “freak magnet” phenomenon are fascinating.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">As
an obviously technologically sophisticated person, what’s your opinion
of the newfangled digital reading devices? We don’t have paper on
Zeenton, so I enjoy the novelty of reading a book with pages. Which do
you prefer?</span></span></span></div>
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I like paper books best, of course, but I am a recent convert to
e-books, although I am stuck reading them on my iPod, which is the size
of a Nabisco cracker. (If Bigfoot wants to “donate” an iPad to the
cause, I would be very appreciative.) My current favorite format is
probably audio books, since I spend a lot of my time in the car.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
According to a post on your blog, last summer you experienced a writing
breakthrough while bicycling. If a casual bicycle ride provided the
impetus for connecting the disjointed elements of your story, I can’t
help but wonder what a regular bicycle riding regime would do for your
productivity. Participating in the Tour de France might be beneficial to
your craft.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> I would be a disgrace to the yellow jersey.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> I understand that you used to work as a photo researcher. Did you ever chance upon a photo of Bigfoot that wasn’t blurry?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> Yes. An arrangement was made. Bigfoot’s presence remains safe, and I now have a nice new Airstream trailer.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
I’m at a lost to understand what transpired with the photo you say you
discovered. Bigfoot has never tried to conceal his existence, as many
have come to believe due to his inability to be photographed clearly.
Furthermore, he doesn’t have, nor has he ever had, the means to purchase
extravagant vehicles and offer them as payment for blackmail. Not to
mention he would never make such a payment in the first place. And after
getting to know you, I doubt you’re the type of being who would exploit
a cryptid for his own gain, as Gene does in ALIENATED. The only
possible conclusion for me to draw is that you’re teasing me. Are
Earthlings jokesters in general, or is it that writers in particular
are? I’ll make a note to study that further.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I’ve
enjoyed our talk immensely, Andy. Before we finish, I have a final
question. Our resident psychic, Briar, has had visions of several of
your as yet unpublished novels. I won’t mention them since I’m not
certain what you’re inclined to reveal at this time. Do you have any
information you’d be willing to share with your fans who are, no doubt,
eagerly awaiting your next book?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">AA:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
I am in the thick of writing my next YA novel right now and hoping to
finish this summer. I am very excited about it, which likely means it
will be a miserable failure. With every project I learn a bit more about
my strengths, weaknesses, and writing process, so I’m always eager to
put all of that knowledge to work. Keep an eye out of for it. In fact,
keep all of your eyes out for it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">MORZANT:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">
The BIGFOOT READS audience and I will do just that. Good-bye for now,
humans. If you haven’t yet read Andy’s current works, I suggest you do
so. You won’t be disappointed. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>MIDDLE GRADE</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">ALIENATED</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">(Aladdin-Simon & Schuster, 2009)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>YOUNG ADULT</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">FUNNY LITTLE MONKEY</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">(Harcourt, 2005)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">JO-JO AND THE FIENDISH LOT</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">(HarperTeen-HarperCollins, 2009)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">FREAK MAGNET</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">(HarperTeen-HarperCollins, 2010)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-35701302272619847092014-01-07T12:12:00.000-05:002014-01-07T12:12:51.090-05:00Briar’s Journal (January 1 to 23, 2014)<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dream Entry*</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">October 15, 2007</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I can only remember fragments of my dream:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Beverly and Penny arguing about whether it’s faster to ice skate or sled to the library.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Norman and Bigfoot throwing ice cubes into a hibernating bear’s cave.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">POEM-MOBILES: CRAZY CAR POEMS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by J. Patrick Lewis and Douglas Florian, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">illustrated by Jeremy Holmes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—POETRY]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Schwartz & Wade-Random House</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SEARCHING FOR SARAH RECTOR: </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE RICHEST BLACK GIRL IN AMERICA</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Tonya Bolden</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Abrams</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THOMAS JEFFERSON: LIFE, LIBERTY </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">AND THE PURSUIT OF EVERYTHING</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Maira Kalman</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nancy Paulsen-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">UNDER THE FREEDOM TREE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Susan VanHecke illustrated by London Ladd</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Charlesbridge</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">JOSEPHINE: THE DAZZLING LIFE OF JOSEPHINE BAKER</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Patricia Hruby Powell, illustrated by Christian Robinson</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chronicle</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 14, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books MORTIMER caught:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HORSES OF THE DAWN: THE ESCAPE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Kathryn Lasky</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—FIRST IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HORSES OF THE DAWN SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic Press-Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books PENNY caught: </span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ERASED</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jennifer Rush</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—SEQUEL TO ALTERED]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Little, Brown-Hachette</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">INDEPENDENT STUDY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Joelle Charbonneau</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—SECOND IN THE TESTING SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">NO ONE ELSE CAN HAVE YOU</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Kathleen Hale</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperTeen-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WINTER SKY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Patricia Reilly Giff</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Wendy Lamb-Random House</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HOLLOW CITY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Ransom Riggs</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—SECOND IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MISS PEREGRINE’S PECULIAR CHILDREN SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Quirk</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 14, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FADE ID</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lamar Giles</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Amistad-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 21, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FRAGILE SPIRITS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Mary Lindsey</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Philomel-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 23, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books THE DUCK caught: </span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">DEFY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sara B. Larson</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic Press-Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">JINX’S MAGIC</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sage Blackwood</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Putnam-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE FORBIDDEN STONE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 4, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A HUNDRED HORSES</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Katherine Tegen-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">JACKPOT</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Gordon Korman</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—SIXTH IN THE SWINDLE SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic Press-Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ALMOST SUPER</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Marion Jensen</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 21, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">AVALON</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Mindee Arnett</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Balzer & Bray-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 21, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE RULE OF THREE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Farrar, Straus and Giroux</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 21, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">NO SURRENDER SOLDIER</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Merit Press-F & W Media</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 1, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE IMPOSSIBLE KNIFE OF MEMORY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Laurie Halse Anderson</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Viking-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE TRUE TALE OF THE MONSTER BILLY DEAN</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by David Almond</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE GOSPEL OF WINTER</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Brendan Kiely</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Margaret K. McElderry-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 21, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A MAD, WICKED FOLLY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sharon Biggs Waller</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Viking-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 23, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books OLIVER caught: </span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FIVE LITTLE DUCKLINGS GO TO BED</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Carol Roth, illustrated by Sean Julian</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">NorthSouth</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 1, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BABY BEAR</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Kadir Nelson</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Balzer & Bray-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A BOOK OF BABIES</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Il Sung Na</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Knopf-Random House</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HEART</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Thereza Rowe</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY READER—GRAPHIC NOVEL]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Toon Books-Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">YELLOW IS MY COLOR STAR</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Judy Horacek</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Beach Lane-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PEEK-A-BOO BUNNY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Holly Surplice</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 21, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books LENNY caught: </span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BAD KITTY DRAWN TO TROUBLE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Nick Bruel</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY READER—SEVENTH IN THE SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Roaring Brook</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">DON’T PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Bob Shea</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—FIRST IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BUDDY AND THE BUNNIES SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">DUCK, DUCK, MOOSE!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">illustrated by Noah Z. Jones</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">JUNKYARD</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Mike Austin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Beach Lane-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">LET’S GET CRACKING!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Cyndi Marko</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[EARLY CHAPTER BOOK—FIRST IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">KUNG POW CHICKEN SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Scholastic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FREDDIE & GINGERSNAP</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Vincent X. Kirsch</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—FIRST IN THE SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 14, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THAT NIGHT, A MONSTER…</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Marzena Sowa, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">illustrated by Berenika Kolomycka</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[GRAPHIC NOVEL]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Uncivilized Books</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 14, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TRAINING TALLULAH</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Rosie Reeve</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Walker</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 21, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE ANIMAL?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by miscellaneous illustrators</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Henry Holt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 21, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books VIOLET caught: </span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BABY PENGUINS LOVE THEIR MAMA!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Melissa Guion</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—SEQUEL TO </span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BABY PENGUIN EVERYWHERE!]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Philomel-Penguin</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 2, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">BEAR, BIRD AND FROG</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Gwen Millward</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Egmont</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 2, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HENNY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Elizabeth Rose Stanton</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Paula Wiseman-Simon & Schuster</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">GOLDY LUCK AND THE THREE PANDAS</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Natasha Yim, illustrated by Grace Zong</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Charlesbridge</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">LITTLE FROG’S TADPOLE TROUBLE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Feeney Tatyana</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Knopf-Random House</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">MY BLUE BUNNY, BUBBIT</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Maggie Smith</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Clarion-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PATTI CAKE AND HER NEW DOLL</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Patricia Reilly Giff, illustrated by Laura J. Bryant</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Orchard Books-Scholastic</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 7, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">GOONEY BIRD AND ALL HER CHARMS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lois Lowry, with illustrations by Middy Thomas</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[CHAPTER BOOK—SIXTH IN THE </span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">GOONEY BIRD GREENE SERIES]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 14, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE VERY FIRST KISS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Guido Van Genechten</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Clavis</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 14, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HOW TO WASH A WOOLLY MAMMOTH</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Michelle Robinson, illustrated by Kate Hindley</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Henry Holt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 21, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I HATCHED!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jill Esbaum, illustrated by Jen Corace</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Dial-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">January 23, 2014</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">* The dream entries from Briar’s journal contain premonitions of books that will be published in the future. Briar’s dream self foresees the books’ summaries and knows which will likely appeal to each of her friends. Briar always wakes up before she can see whether her friends will enjoy the books.</span></div>
Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-51777734221069836322014-01-06T16:29:00.001-05:002014-01-06T16:29:21.480-05:00Three Minutes Bribing Creative Writers<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: #39200c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Okay three-minute writers, not one of you sent me anything for
the writing prompt I gave you last week. Now that we’re on the subject, hardly
anybody has sent me any writing in ages. It’s depressing. Ever see a depressed
half-invisible turtle? I have. Every time I look in the mirror. I spend all
this genius energy coming up with these incredible writing prompts. Is it
asking too much to get to read what you come up with? Answer: No. It’s not.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #39200c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I guess I’m going to have to take a new approach in the new
year. You three-minute writers clearly need a bribe. Fine. Here it is:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #39200c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every month this year I’ll give away a <b>Normanday Creative
Writer’s Hundred-Percent-Visible-Prize Bundle</b>. For a chance to win, just
send me three minutes of writing based on one of that month’s weekly writing
prompts. You can enter once each week for the month to increase your chances of
winning.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #39200c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Winners can choose between a children’s or teen prize bundle.
Adults are welcome to enter, too. If you’re a published writer for children or teens, I’ll include a
link to your Web site if you want me to.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #39200c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I suppose you want to know more about the bribe—er, I mean
prize.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #39200c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The winner will choose between:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #39200c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Children’s Normanday Creative Writer’s <br />Hundred-Percent-Visible-Prize
Bundle</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #39200c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rory’s Story Cubes, Original</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #39200c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">HOW WRITER’S WORK by Ralph Fletcher</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #39200c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bigfoot Reads journal</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hated that name though because it always sounded like they were in the middle of a sentence. “Colleen ann…” “And what? AND WHAT?! TELL MEEEEE!” When I turned 14 I picked a second middle name, Felicity, because that is the sort of cheesy girly name you pick for yourself when you are 14. While it made my full name translate to “Happy Little Truthful Girl,” I got over calling myself the long-winded Colleen Ann Felicity, and shortened it to Colleen AF.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reason for no periods between the initials? I was bad at typing. REALLY bad at typing. I kept accidentally hitting the coma key instead and while Colleen AF Venable was mysterious and memorable looking, Colleen A,F, Venable was not. My lack of ability to hit the period key drove me crazy enough to decide the world could deal with my weird middle name sans punctuation. I was eco-friendly before it was trendy. I’m sure those periods I’ve saved have gone to much needier sentences. Maybe even this one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your GUINEA PIG, PET SHOP PRIVATE EYE series is much loved by my lab assistant, Mortimer. Mortimer is a guinea pig as is the main character of the series, Sasspants. Sasspants resides at Mr. Venezi’s pet shop along with a variety of other Earth species commonly kept as pets by humans. Notably absent from the menagerie are any type of gastropod. I calculated the likely exponential increase in book sales that would result from the inclusion of snails. It’s significant. Financial considerations aside, don’t you think a snail or two, or twelve, would make a marvelous addition to the cast of characters from a creative standpoint?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> I tried to write a volume starring all snails called COME SNAIL AWAY, but the band Styx threatened a lawsuit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of your stated influences for a character in the GUINEA PIG, PET SHOP PRIVATE EYE series is an imaginary friend from your childhood. You’re the second author I’ve spoken to who grew up with an imaginary friend. Yours was a hamster named Hamisher, which is the name of the hamster who plays Sasspant’s assistant. Was the real imaginary Hamisher as lovably exuberant as the fictional Hamisher is portrayed?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> The real Hamisher…or should I say the real imaginary, as opposed to the real fictional….um, my brain hurts. I have that problem in common with both Hamishers. They get overwhelmed easily.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The imaginary Hamisher I had growing up was a bit more of a troublemaker, always getting me yelled at for knocking things over while spinning ballet turns in the living room. Geez, Hamisher! Watch those hamster legs! The imaginary Hamisher also didn’t have as many friends as Hamisher from the books. It’s almost as if no one other than me could see him!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">In each book Hamisher provides supplemental information about the animal species mentioned in the books. Because the mystery genre is a mystery to me, I especially appreciated the <i>additional</i></span><span style="color: black;"> supplemental information provided at the back of the third book, THE FERRET’S A FOOT. There I became better acquainted with mystery terminology such as purloin, alibi, deduce, red herring, scapegoat, and denouement. I learned that a red herring is essentially a writer’s attempt to lead the reader to incorrect conclusions, thereby making the mystery more difficult for the reader to solve. As a scientist, my life’s work is to illuminate the truth while yours, as a mystery writer, seems to be to obfuscate it. Does that realization ever cause you to suffer moral qualms?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Red herrings often lead to an innocent person—or in your books, an innocent animal—being blamed for the crime. That animal is called a “scapegoat” regardless of the animal’s actual species. Hamisher makes a startling observation about the nature of scapegoats relative to a mystery story’s guilty party. He says: “If it’s obvious that a certain person did the crime, that person didn’t do it.” That statement is counterintuitive, but it does seem to coincide with a mystery writer’s goal to befuddle the reader. Not to dwell on this, but, as a writer, what is your motivation for wanting to trick your readers into believing falsities? Alternatively, what do you think the appeal of mysteries is for readers?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> I loved loved loved (copy and paste that a million more times…or please don’t because I’d be sad if I broke your blog) mysteries growing up. I read everything I could get my hands on. All of Agatha Christie’s books. All of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My favorite book on the planet when I was 10 was THE WESTING GAME. My favorite book on the planet, and possibly even other planets, like yours, is still THE WESTING GAME. There’s this amazing feeling when everything comes together, and the best writers leave clues throughout.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the greatest things about writing the Guinea Pig books as graphic novels is Stephanie and I can hide those clues visually. We pride ourselves in making mysteries where it isn’t the pull-the-mask-off-the-ghost Scooby-Doo endings. I want the readers to have as much fun figuring out the mystery as Hamisher, and even sometimes Sasspants, have. (Though she’d never admit she liked it.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> I see. Essentially mystery readers are like scientists in that they’re inquisitive, they examine evidence and develop a hypothesis, and they delight in discovery. And as a mystery writer, you’re responsible for helping the reader experience the exhilaration that accompanies the search for knowledge. I’ve amended my opinion of the mystery genre. Next to writers of non-fiction, mystery writers may be the most meritorious writers of all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for introducing me to this type of fiction, Colleen. I should also thank you for introducing me to a literary device I was previously unacquainted with—puns. The title of each of the GUINEA PIG, PET SHOP PRIVATE EYE books is a pun. At least, I believe that to be the case. I haven’t grasped the concept of puns as confidently as I’d like. Are those titles considered puns?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Those are absolutely puns. The original title for book one in my series proposal was the almost cringe-worthy LEAVE ME PROVOLONE, which still makes me giggle and think of cheese, two of my favorite pastimes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> My dad is the King of Puns. He tells so many jokes, that I am confused when he says real sentences.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> I had no idea puns held such high literary regard as to necessitate a royal representative. I’m even more eager to learn all I can about puns. Shall we begin our battle?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Okay! A pun war! Often it starts with a subject, which we run pun after pun until someone runs out or one makes us groan so loudly we fall down dead. Since I am still thinking about cheese, let’s do that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So if I said “Morzant, it is so gouda to brie here.” You would reply…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> I swiss I knew you guys a whole lot cheddar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> We’re often mistaken for muensters, but you’d find we’re actually quite slice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Wow! Ewe caught on to this game of curd play very quickly. Keep practicing dairy and you’ll get even feta!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORTIMER: </b></span><span style="color: black;">Hi, Ms. Venable. I’ve been wanting to meet you for a long time. I want to know if there’s a difference between a comic book and a graphic novel?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Both names are pretty interchangeable. If I want people take me seriously I say I write graphic novels. If I want kids to actually pick up my books I say I write comic books. Comic books in general are much shorter, like the difference between a weekly stapled SUPERMAN or a longer story that’s all bound together pretty and has a spine on a bookshelf. Since the Guinea Pig books are 48 pages, they kinda lie between the two terms, so I just like to say I write silly fuzzy books, and leave the category making up to awesome librarian and bookstore pros who are the smartest people in the world. I fear playing them in that Scrabble tournament I just entered with Bigfoot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">[<i>Enter Morzant.</i></span><span style="color: black;">]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> I apologize, Colleen. I don’t know who that could be.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>PENNY:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> I can’t. I promised the puppies I’d take them for snow cones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Very well. Please excuse me again, Colleen. This will just take a moment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>PENNY:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> I’m so sorry! I waited and waited and I really thought it would be safe to come over by now. But, you know, I’m glad you’re still here because I have a question for you. See, I want to throw a party, but it’s nobody’s birthday and it’s not a holiday. I know you and your friend invented Lumberjack Day. Would you help me do that? Invent a whole new holiday? Something that would call for confetti but wouldn’t make me have to wear any sort of false facial hair? I have such sensitive skin, I’d get a rash.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Sure! Hmmm…how about Dandruff Day! Everyone can wear white confetti in their hair. Not only would it be super fun, but it would bring awareness to people with dry scalps in the Before people in commercials. They always seem like more fun than those boring After people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>PENNY:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> That’s kind of gross. But I like that the confetti gets to be two things at once, like how chocolate coins are dessert <i>and</i></span><span style="color: black;"> money.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">[<i>Enter Morzant.</i></span><span style="color: black;">]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> This is all the scrap paper I have.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>PENNY:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Thank you so much, Morzant! And you’re invited to my party to celebrate Dandruff Day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Dandruff Day? I’ve never heard of that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>PENNY:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> That’s because it’s new. Colleen just helped me invent it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> You can invent a holiday? Without a permit? Is that legal?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> My friend Marianne Ways and I DID invent a holiday a few years ago. Lumberjack Day, celebrated every Sept 26. It’s not legal to invent a holiday but as long as they never find out my full name (Colleen Ann Felicity Venable) or Marianne’s full name (Marianne Knifefight Ways) they’ll never catch us!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>PENNY:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> And nobody can ever find any of us cryptids.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">[<i>Enter Oliver the Telepathic Puppy, Lenny the Levitating Puppy, and Violet the Telekinetic Puppy.</i></span><span style="color: black;">]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>LENNY:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Oliver, follow me! I smell Rice Krispies Treats!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Puppies! I’ve told you before. This is a laboratory, not a puppy playground. Come back here! And stay away from the Hortozapher!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>PENNY:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Well, see, I tear up the paper into little pieces like this and then later I’ll throw it up in the air to celebrate Dandruff Day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>VIOLET: </b></span><span style="color: black;">Hey! You’re the guinea pig lady who writes the books about Hamisher and Sasspants and Mr. Venezi and the chinchillas who are really funny and the snake who is scary except when he’s funny and the turtle named Herbert who makes Norman mad and the rabbits who eat books instead of reading them. I love your books and I read them all the time and I can’t wait until there are more stories about Hamisher because he’s so funny and he can draw and when Hamisher came up with a catchphrase in the third book Lenny and Oliver and I decided to come up with a catchphrase for Lenny and the catchphrase we came up with for him is “flying saucers away!” and he says it right before he levitates and it makes us laugh. Is that a connect-the-dot puzzle on your leg because I love connect-dot-puzzles. Can I connect the dots on your leg?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can wake up now guinea pig lady!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like your giraffe tattoo and I liked drawing on your leg and I drew some extra stuff so you probably won’t want to take any more baths or my drawings will come off and that will probably make you sad. And you know what? I can’t levitate like Lenny can and I’m not telepathic like Oliver but I can make things move with my mind and I’ll show you. Watch me make that paper float and I’m going to stop talking for a minute because I can’t make things move with my mind while I’m talking……see?……watch how high I can make it go……do you have any special abilities? I bet you do because you’re so nice and I bet you can do lots of things.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">[<i>Enter Lenny and Oliver with Morzant.</i></span><span style="color: black;">]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Okay, puppies. Time to go. Don’t forget Penny is taking you for conical frozen vapor confections.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>LENNY:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Flying saucers away!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>OLIVER:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Last one to the clearing is a Herbert!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Now, where were we?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>BRIAR:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Nice to meet you, Ms. Venable. Don’t worry about the explosion. Morzant will stop it from happening. I saw it all in my dream, including you being here and me asking you about the dream journal you keep. Do your dreams foretell future events like mine sometimes do?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> My dream journal! I forget sometimes to keep that secret. Ninety percent of my dreams are ridiculous and I love to share with the world and the other 10 percent is that same recurring dream about finding out I didn’t actually graduate high school and my entire career is taken away because I never passed Chemistry. NOTE: I got an 85 percent in Chemistry. My worst grade ever. Excuse me while I adjust the white tape on the brim of my nerd glasses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes I’ve been keeping a dream journal since I was 15. Sometimes the dreams are frightfully close to something that later happens in reality, at which point the Twilight Zone music starts to swell up in the background out of nowhere. But unfortunately all of the best ones, like a group of my friends and I starting an all Garfield cover band that plays at a Garfield theme park where the rides include THE NAP ride, and the SQUASH THE SPIDER ride…have yet to become true.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>BRIAR:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Sometimes events from my psychic dreams take so long to happen, I start to think the dreams were just regular dreams. But then the dream thing happens. That’s why you should never give up on your dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About that secret new project you’re working on with Stephanie Yue, the artist for the GUINEA PIG, PET SHOP PRIVATE EYE series? I love it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> I won’t say much, but I love it, too! Hopefully in the next few months I can speak about it, but I’ll tell you what it’s about in code: A _______ who goes to _______ and then ______ and ______ while at the same time a _______ and ________ join forces with a ________ to ______!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Congratulations, too, on the future success of your young adult graphic novel, KISS NUMBER EIGHT. And I see big success for the young adult novel you’re working on now, too. One thing. When you’re at the book signing in Spokane, don’t shake hands with the man in the green turtleneck. He has the flu. I mean, he will.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Turtlenecks! Why would someone wear a turtle on their neck!? I’ll be sure to look out for that weirdo! Thanks Briar. You saved me!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>BRIAR:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Um, that’s not—<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">[<i>Enter Morzant.</i></span><span style="color: black;">]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> I don’t know what Mortimer was thinking. I’ve told him eight times not to conduct experiments that require using the Bunsen burner when I’m not present. Colleen, I promise that will be the last interruption.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>BRIAR:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Um, I wouldn’t necessarily say that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> What do you mean?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>BRIAR:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> You’ll see. Nice to meet you, Colleen. Watch out for that gum on the sidewalk in front of your building next Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> What do you suppose she meant about—<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">[<i>Knock, knock.</i></span><span style="color: black;">]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Oh. Of course. She’s psychic. I’ll try to encourage whoever that is to leave.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">[<i>Enter Bigfoot.</i></span><span style="color: black;">]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>BIGFOOT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Hi, Morzant. I was hoping I could pick up that hat. I’m going to try taking some photographs this afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Certainly, certainly. Introduce yourself to your future Scrabble partner while I retrieve it. I may have finally solved the mystery of your photography impediment. The special transmitters in the hat should act to cancel out the unusual force that you seem to—<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>BIGFOOT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> That’s great, Morzant, but you already explained all that to me. In excruciating detail. Remember?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know, I’ve seen some of your photography work. I like it. Like Morzant was saying, every photo I take turns out blurry. No matter what. My friend Beverly tells me that my blurry photos have artistic merit, but I think she’s just being nice. Although, she usually isn’t nice at all, so it’s hard to tell. Oh, look. Here’s one of Morzant’s notebooks. He’s probably got some of my photos in it. Yeah, here we go. What do you think of this one? Be honest. I can take it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">[<i>Enter Beverly the Other Half-Invisible Turtle.</i></span><span style="color: black;">]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>BEVERLY:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> I guess my opinion doesn’t count.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>BIGFOOT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> It’s not like that. I just wanted—<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>BEVERLY:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Forget it. I don’t care. Hey, Colleen. I heard you work as a book designer. So, are you the type of person who thinks it’s a good idea to judge a book by its cover?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> I will still buy a great book with a hideous cover. Actually I will be a lot more inclined to buy it if it has a hideous cover. Nothing makes me happier than the ridiculous covers of books from the 1980s. You know the ones, with the pink borders and the bad oil paintings where everyone is wearing pants up to their chins. I have bookshelves full of those, and also other covers I love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>BEVERLY:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Let me get this straight. You actually buy books because they have tacky covers? And people think cryptids are strange.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> While a bad cover won’t detract me from buying a good book, the opposite is also true. Even when a book is not amazing, if it has an amazing cover I will buy it. I don’t really judge books by their covers, but there is something amazing about the feeling when an incredible book has an equally incredible jacket. Few things (other than Kit Kats, naps, and the idea of Garfield-themed cover bands) make me as happy. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT: </b></span><span style="color: black;">It appears that my newfound understanding of puns has resulted in a condition of reflexive pun verbalization. I feel queasy. I’ll have no choice but to set aside my studies regarding the tensile properties of Rice Krispies Treats while I work to develop a cure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>BIGFOOT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> It’ll be a snap. I’m sure once you take a crackle at it, the solution will pop right up.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Colleen, you didn’t warn me that word play is contagious.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> I mean you had a lot of really good theories. It was most likely all of them. Or Miss Scarlet in the Conservatory, with the candlestick. Notes probably got too close to the candle when she was trying to play her violin…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>MORZANT:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Colleen? What’s that bit of blue sticking out of your pocket? Is it paper? It is! My interview notes! <i>You’re</i></span><span style="color: black;"> the culprit? But why? True, you had ample opportunity, but what was your <i>motive</i></span><span style="color: black;">?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>CAFV:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Sigh. Alright. It was me. I did it. I stole your notes. But I </span>had to! You see…I made a promise to Penny. I promised her a holiday, but my scalp was too moisturized and you just can’t host Dandruff Day without dandruff! Err…and I have blue dandruff. That’s why I needed your notes. It runs in my family. All of the Colleen Venables have it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As to your blue dandruff…that’s truly fascinating. Would you consider submitting to a semi-invasive study of your scalp? My attention is already excessively fractured by my multitudinous studies, but I just can’t resist a good mystery.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good-bye for now, humans. Multitasking is difficult, so drop absolutely everything you’re doing to read these books by my new, blue-dandruffed friend, Colleen AF VENABLE:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>SILLY FUZZY BOOKS</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">GUINEA PIG, PET SHOP PRIVATE EYE #1: HAMSTER AND CHEESE</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(illustrated by Stephanie Yue; Graphic Universe-Lerner, 2010)<br /><br />GUINEA PIG, PET SHOP PRIVATE EYE #3: THE FERRET’S AFOOT</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(illustrated by Stephanie Yue; Graphic Universe-Lerner, 2011)<br /><br />GUINEA PIG, PET SHOP PRIVATE EYE #4: FISH YOU WERE HERE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(illustrated by Stephanie Yue; Graphic Universe-Lerner, 2011)<br /><br /><b>FUTURE SILLY FUZZY BOOK<br />(as predicted by Briar the Psychic Beagle)</b><br />GUINEA PIG, PET SHOP PRIVATE EYE #5: RAINING CATS AND DETECTIVES</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(illustrated by Stephanie Yue; Graphic Universe-Lerner, 2012)<br /><br /><b>FUTURE YOUNG ADULT GRAPHIC NOVEL<br />(as predicted by Briar the Psychic Beagle)</b><br />KISS NUMBER EIGHT</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">First Second-Roaring Brook, not getting a clear vision of the release date…)<br /><br /><b>A SUPER SECRET BOOK IN COLLABORATION WITH STEPHANIE YUE</b><br />(as predicted by Briar the Psychic Beagle)<br />Colleen has asked that Briar not yet reveal the details.</span></span></div>
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Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-26806355483643900942014-01-01T21:51:00.000-05:002014-01-02T00:16:21.120-05:00Which Books From 2013 Would You Take With You to a Deserted Island?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">New Year’s
Day with Morzant:</span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Morzant Poses a
Hypothetical Question to His Friends. Again. Even Though He Realizes It’s
Pretty Much Pointless.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<u1:p></u1:p>
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Zulko, humans. Asking
my friends to name the <em><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">one</span></em>
book published during Earth’s most recent orbit around the sun they would
take with them to a deserted island has become an annual exercise in futility.
With few exceptions, they have repeatedly and steadfastly refused to adhere to
the restrictions of the hypothetical question and have provided multiple book titles
in answer to my query. One year I even allowed myself to be corrupted by their
reckless abandon. As I understand it, the purpose of a hypothetical question is
to force a degree of limitation on potential answers thus compelling
the individuals answering the question to carefully deliberate their
answer. Since my friends are unlikely to follow the constraints of my
experiment, I see no reason to repeat it this year.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BIGFOOT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Really? That’s a shame. We were
totally going to do it right this year.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<u1:p></u1:p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> You were?</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<u1:p></u1:p>
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BIGFOOT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Well, yeah. I got to feeling
bad about giving you a hard time and not playing along those other times. This
year I talked with everybody. We all agreed we’d choose only <i>one </i>favorite
book from 2013 to hypothetically take with us to a deserted island. But if
we’re not doing it this year—</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<u1:p></u1:p>
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> We can! I would very much like to,
Bigfoot. I’ve waited three years for this opportunity to observe a hypothetical
question answered correctly. This will fill a woeful gap in my studies of Earth
literature. Would you like to begin?</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<u1:p></u1:p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BIGFOOT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Actually, we all wrote down
our answers. You know. To help out since you’ll want to record all of this for
your studies.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> How wonderful! Thank you. This
will indeed simplify the process.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">[<em><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Morzant examines the document.</span></em>]</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> I don’t understand. </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BIGFOOT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Something the matter?</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Each of you has selected more
than one book. Again.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BIGFOOT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> No we haven’t.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> You most certainly have. There are
four books listed next to <em>your</em> name alone.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BIGFOOT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> You’re mistaken. I
picked COALTOWN JESUS.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<u1:p></u1:p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><em>And
</em> DOLL BONES. <em>And </em></span>FORMERLY SHARK GIRL. <em>And</em>—</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<u1:p></u1:p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BIGFOOT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> No, no. Those are <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Bigfoot Number One and Two’s</span> picks.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<u1:p></u1:p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Bigfoot Number <em>One</em>? Bigfoot Number <em>Two</em>?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<u1:p></u1:p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BIGFOOT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> That’s right.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<u1:p></u1:p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Who are <em>they</em>?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
<u1:p></u1:p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BIGFOOT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> My clones.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> I’m stunned. This is absolutely
incredible. Bigfoot, when did you acquire the technology to clone yourself?</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BIGFOOT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Hypothetically speaking, around the
time you asked your hypothetical question.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> I don’t understand.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BIGFOOT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> For the purposes of your
hypothetical scenario where I hypothetically get stranded on a deserted island
and can hypothetically take only <em><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">one</span></em>
book with me, I hypothetically clone myself and each of my cloned selves can
choose <em>one</em> book to bring to the island.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[<em>Morzant sighs.</em>]</span><br />
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<u1:p></u1:p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> There’s an Earth saying I’ve
learned that advises one to partake in the madness of those whose illogic
proves indefatigable.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BIGFOOT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Do you mean, “If you can’t
beat ’em, join em”?</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Precisely. That being established,
may I hypothetically borrow your hypothetical cloning machine so that I can pick <em>two</em> favorites
from 2013?</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BIGFOOT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> I don’t know. Do you think the
world is ready for two Morzants?</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">MORZANT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> It will need at least that many to
counteract the shenanigans of four Bigfoots.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">BIGFOOT:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Good point.</span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cryptids and
their clones would bring the following books published in 2013 with them
to a deserted island:</span></span></strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>ORIGINAL BIGFOOT’S PICK:</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">COALTOWN JESUS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Ron Koertge<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Candlewick<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>BIGFOOT CLONE #1’S PICK:</strong><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DOLL BONES<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Holly Black, with illustrations by Eliza Wheeler<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[MIDDLE GRADE]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Margaret K. McElderry-Simon & Schuster<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>BIGFOOT CLONE #2’S PICK:</strong><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FORMERLY SHARK GIRL<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Kelly Bingham<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Candlewick<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>BIGFOOT CLONE #3’S PICK:</strong></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">MONSTER ON THE HILL<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Rob Harrell<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[GRAPHIC NOVEL]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Top Shelf Productions<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>ORIGINAL MORZANT’S PICK:</b></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WHAT THE HEART KNOWS: <br />CHANTS, CHARMS, AND BLESSINGS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Joyce Sidman, with illustrations by Pamela Zagarenski</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[POETRY]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Houghton Mifflin-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span> </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>MORZANT CLONE #1</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">YOUR SKELETON IS SHOWING: <br />RHYMES OF BLUNDER FROM SIX FEET UNDER<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Kurt Cyrus, illustrated by Crab Scrambly<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK—POETRY]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>ORIGINAL PENNY</strong><strong>’S PICK:</strong></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE 5TH WAVE<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Rick Yancey<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[YOUNG ADULT]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Putnam-Penguin<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>PENNY CLONE #1</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">EXTREMITIES: STORIES OF DEATH, MURDER, AND REVENGE<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by David Lubar<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[YOUNG ADULT]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tor Teen-Tom Doherty Associates<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>PENNY CLONE #2</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HOLLYWOOD, DEAD AHEAD<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Kate Klise, with illustrations by M. Sarah Klise<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[MIDDLE GRADE—FIFTH IN THE <br />43 OLD CEMETERY ROAD SERIES]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>PENNY CLONE #3</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE WAKING DARK<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Robin Wasserman<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[YOUNG ADULT]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Knopf-Random House</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>ORIGINAL NORMAN</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ODD DUCK<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Cecil Castellucci, illustrated by Sara Varon<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[MIDDLE GRADE—GRAPHIC NOVEL]<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">First Second-Roaring Brook</span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>NORMAN CLONE #1</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE TRUE BLUE SCOUTS OF SUGAR MAN SWAMP<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Kathi Appelt<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[MIDDLE GRADE]<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Atheneum-Simon & Schuster</span></span></span></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>ORIGINAL BEVERLY</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CHARM AND STRANGE</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Stephanie Kuehn<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[YOUNG ADULT]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">St. Martin’s Griffin</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>BEVERLY CLONE #1</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">KETCHUP CLOUDS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Annabel Pitcher</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Little, Brown-Hachette</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>BEVERLY CLONE #2</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PICTURE ME GONE<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Meg Rosoff<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[YOUNG ADULT]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Putnam-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>ORIGINAL OLIVER</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">123 VERSUS ABC<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Mike Boldt<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">HarperCollins<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>OLIVER CLONE #1</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BALL<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Mary Sullivan<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>OLIVER CLONE #2</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DREAM FRIENDS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by You Byun<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nancy Paulsen-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>OLIVER CLONE #3</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">GHOST IN THE HOUSE<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Ammi-Joan Paquette, illustrated by Adam Record<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Candlewick<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>OLIVER CLONE #4</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">IF YOU WANT TO SEE A WHALE<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Julie Fogliano, illustated by Erin E. Stead<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Roaring Brook</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>OLIVER CLONE #5</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">STICK!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Andy Pritchett<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Candlewick<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>OLIVER CLONE #6</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TEN ORANGE PUMPKINS: A COUNTING BOOK<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Stephen Savage<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dial-Penguin<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>OLIVER CLONE #7</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE WATERMELON SEED<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Greg Pizzoli<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>ORIGINAL LENNY</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AH HA!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Jeff Mack<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chronicle<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>LENNY CLONE #1</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">COUNT THE MONKEYS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Kevin Cornell<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>LENNY CLONE #2</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CRANKEE DOODLE<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Tom Angleberger, illustrated by Cece Bell<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Clarion-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>LENNY CLONE #3</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE GINGERBREAD MAN LOOSE ON THE FIRE TRUCK<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Laura Murray, illustrated by Mike Lowery<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Putnam-Penguin<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>LENNY CLONE #4</strong><strong>’S </strong><strong>PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JOE AND SPARKY GO TO SCHOOL<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Jamie Michalak<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[EARLY READER—THIRD IN THE <br />JOE AND SPARKY SERIES]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>LENNY CLONE #5</strong><strong>’S PICK:</strong></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">MR. WUFFLES!</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by David Wiesner<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Clarion-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>ORIGINAL VIOLET</strong><strong>’S PICK:</strong></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AGAIN!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Emily Gravett<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Simon & Schuster</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>VIOLET CLONE #1</strong><strong>’S PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CUTE & CUTER<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Michael Townsend<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Knopf-Random House<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>VIOLET CLONE #2</strong><strong>’S PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I DARE YOU NOT TO YAWN<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Hélène Boudreau, illustrated by Serge Bloch<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>VIOLET CLONE #3</strong><strong>’S PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">IF IT’S SNOWY AND YOU KNOW IT, CLAP YOUR PAWS!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Kim Norman, illustrated by Liza Woodruff<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sterling Children’s<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>VIOLET CLONE #4</strong><strong>’S PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FLORA AND THE FLAMINGO<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Molly Idle<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chronicle<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>VIOLET CLONE #5</strong><strong>’S PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SOPHIE’S SQUASH<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Pat Zietlow Miller, illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Schwartz & Wade-Random House</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>VIOLET CLONE #6</strong><strong>’S PICK:</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">UNICORN THINKS HE’S PRETTY GREAT<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Bob Shea<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[PICTURE BOOK]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Previous years</strong><strong>’</strong><strong> desert island picks:</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://bigfoot-reads.blogspot.com/2013/01/which-books-from-2012-would-you-take.html" target="_blank">2012</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://bigfoot-reads.blogspot.com/2011/12/which-books-from-2011-would-you-take.html" target="_blank">2011</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://bigfoot-reads.blogspot.com/2010/12/which-books-from-2010-would-you-take.html" target="_blank">2010</a></span></div>
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Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-86887969558115358592013-12-30T17:13:00.001-05:002013-12-30T17:13:38.112-05:00Three Minutes on the Phone<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Normanday #109: Leave a message at the beep.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your phone rings. You don’t recognize the number, but you answer it anyway. Write for three minutes about…</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">…who’s calling and what they say.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Email what you wrote to <b>bigfootreads dot wernert at gmail dot com</b> by the end of the day January 5 (put “Norman is Intuitive” in the subject line). I’ll post as many of my favorite entries as I want next Monday. Include your first name (or, even better, use a pen name) and age (unless you’re tortoise-old).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is the single entry from last week when I asked you to write for three minutes about…</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">…your plans and hopes for the upcoming year.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Norman</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What with all I accomplished this year, you probably think I’d want to take a year off to rest. But you’d be wrong. When you have a reputation for being awesome, people expect you not only to live up to, but to surpass your past feats of glory. This year’s list of accomplishments is too long to get into now since I only have three minutes, so I’ll focus on what I plan to do in the upcoming year. My list includes, but is not limited to:<br /><ul>
<li>discovering a cure for hiccups</li>
<li>climing Mount Everest (especially treacherous for a reptile because of the whole ectothermic thing)</li>
<li>rollerblading with the bulls in Pamplona</li>
<li>writing a biography about Archie Fairly Carr, Jr.</li>
<li>learning how to make homemade waffles</li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Bigfoot</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many years ago I found a hollowed-out tree in a particular forest on a particular continent on a particular planet in a particular universe. It was the perfect size for my—never mind what for…the point is, it was the perfect place to hide this secret valuable thing that’s none of your business. I spend a lot of time in the woods, so I didn’t think I’d have trouble finding the tree again. That’s why I didn’t bother to make a map. I’ve tried to find the tree again and again, but have never been able to. It’s been a long time. The thing I hid must be worth a fortune by now. My goal this year is to find the tree so I can get my hands on the thing I hid inside it. Don’t get any crazy ideas of finding it yourself. Remember, I have an alien for a friend. For all you know, it’s not even on Earth. Come to think of it, for all I know it <i>is</i>. I don’t remember which forest on which continent on which planet in which universe the tree is. My new year’s resolution is already doomed, isn’t it?</span></blockquote>
Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-59695761411308537082013-12-24T12:13:00.002-05:002013-12-24T12:13:28.418-05:00Season’s Readings 2013<br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Message From Bigfoot:</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I’ve been having trouble getting in the Christmas spirit this year. Don’t ask me why. I put up a tree and decorated it with ornaments I made when I was a kid. I drank eggnog. I ate donuts with green and red sprinkles. I took the puppies caroling. More like carol-howling, actually. I watched Linus explain the meaning of Christmas to Charlie Brown. But here it’s Christmas Eve and I don’t have that Christmassy feeling.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">My friends are trying to help. They made this list of Christmassy books they say will help put me in the mood. I can think of worse ways to spend Christmas Eve than with a bunch of good books. (The Christmas Eve Morzant forced us to compare the tensile properties of Rice Krispies Treats to those of fruitcakes comes to mind.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You know, having friends who would make this list for me is already starting to do the trick. Now, if only it would snow…</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">JUNIE B., FIRST GRADER: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">JINGLE BELLS, BATMAN SMELLS! </span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx45gwcDfxRqolHoEE3ywhJ7K25TYhglECqrxyxw_kKOVk_gDiwlvMpD1yfL6UbKRho_krktJE-wAYiwqEne1yl96WHT39BOYKQwTyo_nXT_I3JOy4U8RzBETIwW3NZAkWLvKlKUXAZMc/s1600/Christmas_Tales_of_Terror_Chris_Priestley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx45gwcDfxRqolHoEE3ywhJ7K25TYhglECqrxyxw_kKOVk_gDiwlvMpD1yfL6UbKRho_krktJE-wAYiwqEne1yl96WHT39BOYKQwTyo_nXT_I3JOy4U8RzBETIwW3NZAkWLvKlKUXAZMc/s320/Christmas_Tales_of_Terror_Chris_Priestley.jpg" width="208" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I like Christmas lights and carols and snow and all that, but I also like creepy stuff. Usually I think of Halloween as being the best time to read scary stories, but this year I found a scary <i>Christmas </i>eBook. It has seven super freaky, ultra eerie, keep-you-awake-with-fear-on-Christmas-Eve stories. In<i> A Christmas Carol </i>by Charles Dickens, mean old Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by a bunch of Christmas ghosts. The story is a little creepy because of the ghosts, but mostly it’s warm and fuzzy because the ghosts are good. They visit Scrooge to warn him that he’d better be good for goodness sakes or bad things will happen to him and, at the end, Scrooge is nicer and lives happily ever after.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Most of the characters in CHRISTMAS TALES OF TERROR aren’t very nice to begin with either, but instead of getting a friendly nudge to mend their ways, they get a dose of creepy Christmas comeuppance. The characters mostly don’t live happily ever after, and some don’t live ever after period.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">All the stories build off familiar Christmas traditions, so they make you look at Christmas in a new, spooky light. This is extra thrilling and chilling while reading by the familiar old lights on your Christmas tree.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This book has everything a Christmas book needs. It has snow, flying reindeer, elves, Santa Claus, and a good story. It’s about Santa as a little boy. He and his family live in the North Pole. He has two parents, three brothers, three sisters, and a dog. It’s hard work to live in the North Pole. They cut firewood to keep them warm. They shovel snow all the time. They ice fish.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Only Santa likes living in the North Pole. He makes snowmen and likes to decorate trees and make gingerbread cookies. His favorite thing to do is go down the chimney. The rest of his family wants to move to Florida.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">They’re getting ready to move, but there’s a blizzard. It snows so much the Claus family gets trapped in their house. Santa goes out the chimney. He goes to find somebody to help dig his family out of the house. He meets a reindeer who can fly. Together they find lots of elves who live together in a big house. The elves are nice. They make shovels and a sleigh so they can fly back to Santa’s house and help his family.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The elves help the family with their North Pole chores, too. That makes the family happy, but they still want to leave the North Pole. Santa doesn’t go to Florida with them. He stays with the elves and grows up to be the Santa Claus we all know.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Getting ready for Christmas means seeing lots of colors. In this book there are colorful Christmas goodies that make me drool. There are colorful wrapped-up presents under the tree. The author of the book made the pictures, too. She makes the mouse and cat look soft and furry and the ornaments look bright and shiny.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Poor guy is probably tired of milk and cookies. Don’t get me wrong. Cookies are good. I like a nice chocolate chip or snickerdoodle for the holidays. But even the best cookie can’t beat the worst donut. I know I’m probably riling some cookie fans out there, but I’m just telling it like it is. So I’m thinking, Santa goes to the first few million houses on Christmas Eve, he’s pretty burnt out on cookies by the time he gets to my place. Then he sees that glorious plate by the fireplace—a baker’s dozen of glazed donuts. Enough for him, his reindeer, and a few extra for the road…er, I mean sky. I’m thinking Santa’s going to love that. It’s the least I can do. The guy is always getting me something nice. Maybe he’ll even leave some glazed donuts under my tree this year.</span></blockquote>
Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-79677533695014895502013-12-19T09:56:00.000-05:002013-12-19T09:56:42.111-05:00I DARE YOU NOT TO YAWN (Picture Book)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Have you ever noticed that when you see somebody yawn, it makes you feel like yawning, too? This book is about that. It’s also about how you have to be careful not to yawn. When you yawn, you look tired. If you look tired, you’ll be told it’s bedtime. Sometimes you don’t want to go to bed. You want to play. You want to draw. You want to watch TV. This book has tips for how to keep from yawning so you won’t have to go to bed early.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you don’t want to be sent to bed, be careful when you read this book. It has a lot of pictures of people and animals yawning. Seeing those pictures made me yawn. I yawned three times when I read this book. You should only read this book if nobody is around to see you yawn or if you’re ready to go to bed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">An archduke wants the box of yarn and when Annabelle won’t give it to him he steals it because he is a mean and greedy archduke. But guess what? When <i>he</i> opens the box there isn’t lots and lots and lots of yarn in it. There isn’t any yarn in the box at all. Then Annabelle gets the box back and there is lots and lots and lots of yarn in it again.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lenny says that the box is magic but I think it is the yarn that is magic and Oliver thinks it is Annabelle’s knitting needles that are magic. Maybe all three of us are right or maybe all three of us are wrong and it is <i>Annabelle</i> who is magic. It is fun to wonder where the yarn comes from and how it all fits in the small box and it is also fun to look at the pictures in this book and my favorite picture is at the end when Annabelle and some cats and some dogs are sitting in a tree wearing sweaters and even the tree is wearing a sweater.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">After I read this book I wanted to make sweaters for everybody and everything but I can’t knit because knitters need thumbs and I am a puppy and puppies don’t have thumbs. At first I was sad but then I got happy because I figured out a way to make sweaters without knitting and if you want me to I will show you how so you can make lots and lots and lots of sweaters too.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I made a sweater for a dog with floppy orange ears and a green collar who is named Barney and I tried to make the sweater look just like the sweaters that Annabelle makes in the book EXTRA YARN.</span></div>
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Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-40507097129155653992013-12-16T19:41:00.000-05:002013-12-16T19:41:06.392-05:00Three Minutes Giving Santa a Present, Take 2<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Normanday #107: Put Santa on your “nice list.”</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week I asked you to write about the present you’d give to Santa Claus. I didn’t hear from a single writer. Tsk, tsk. Doesn’t the poor guy deserve a little something? And if you won’t do it for Santa’s sake, do it for mine. Let your Christmas present to me be three minutes of writing about…</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">…the present you plan to give to Santa Claus.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Email what you wrote to </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bigfootreads dot wernert at gmail dot com</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> by the end of the day December 22 (put “Norman Has Been Good All Year” in the subject line). I’ll post as many of my favorite entries as I want next Monday. Include your first name (or, even better, use a pen name) and age (unless you’re tortoise-old).</span>Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-57282794428000841582013-12-11T10:28:00.002-05:002013-12-11T10:28:30.630-05:00Briar’s Journal (December 1 to 31, 2013)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It’s Christmas Eve. Santa calls Bigfoot with a problem. The magic that makes the reindeer fly isn’t working. Bigfoot tells Santa not to worry. He rounds up my friends, three puppies, and a duck and takes them to the North Pole. When they get there, the reindeer are already hooked up to the sleigh. Santa is pacing nervously. He keeps checking his watch. Bigfoot tells him everything will be fine. He instructs everybody to climb onto a reindeer. They do. Blitzen doesn’t look too happy to have Bigfoot sitting on his back.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Everybody is holding a sack. At first I think the sacks are full of toys for all the good little girls and boys, but they aren’t. They’re full of books. Everybody pulls out a book and starts to read aloud. A glowing light surrounds each book. Reindeer ears flick. Reindeer noses twitch. The reindeer start to prance.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">“Hurry, Santa!” Bigfoot calls.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Santa jumps into the sleigh just as the reindeer begin to fly. All through the night, the cryptids keep reading to the reindeer to keep them flying.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The books MORZANT</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> reads</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">:</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by C.F. Payne</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WE SHALL OVERCOME: THE STORY OF A SONG</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Debbie Levy, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 17, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The books PENNY</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> reads</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">: </span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE SYSTEM</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Gemma Malley</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—FINAL IN THE KILLABLES TRILOGY]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hodder & Stoughton</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 5, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THESE BROKEN STARS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—FIRST IN THE SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disney-Hyperion</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 10, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">THE INTERRUPTED TALE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Maryrose Wood, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">with illustrations by Eliza Wheeler</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—FOURTH IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">INCORRIGIBLE CHILDREN OF ASHTON PLACE SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Balzer & Bray-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 17, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ASHES TO ASHES</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Melissa Walker</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Katherine Tegen-HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 23, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">CONTROL</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lydia Kang</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Dial-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 26, 2013</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books THE DUCK reads:</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">REBEL SPRING</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Morgan Rhodes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT—SECOND IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">FALLING KINGDOMS SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Razorbill-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 3, 2013</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books NORMAN reads: </span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I EVEN FUNNIER</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">with illustrations by Laura Park</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—SECOND IN THE I FUNNY SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Little, Brown-Hachette</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 9, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HUNT FOR THE HYDRA</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Jason Fry</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[MIDDLE GRADE—FIRST IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">JUPITER PIRATES SERIES]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">HarperCollins</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 23, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The books BEVERLY </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reads</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">:</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SPOILS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Tammar Stein</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[YOUNG ADULT]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Random House</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 10, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">KNOCK KNOCK: MY DAD’S DREAM FOR ME</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Daniel Beaty, illustrated by Brian Collier</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Little, Brown-Hachette</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 17, 2013</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books OLIVER reads: </span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">COLOUR FOR CURLEWS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Renée Treml</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Random House Australia</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 1, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ONCE UPON A MEMORY</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Nina Laden, illustrated by Renata Liwksa</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Little, Brown-Hachette</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 3, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PAUL MEETS BERNADETTE</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Rosy Lamb</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Candlewick</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 10, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Lorena Siminovich</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Dial-Penguin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 26, 2013</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The books LENNY </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reads</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">: </span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">AND THE CARS GO…</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">DOG DAYS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Karen English, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[CHAPTER BOOK—FIRST IN THE </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">CARVER CHRONICLES]</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The books VIOLET reads: </span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PICTURE BOOK—REISSUE]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">* The dream entries from Briar’s journal contain premonitions of books that will be published in the future. Briar’s dream self foresees the books’ summaries and knows which will likely appeal to each of her friends. Briar always wakes up before she can see whether her friends will enjoy the books.</span></div>
Bigfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057862302489279721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157187582203174896.post-5764383339668932882013-12-09T21:05:00.001-05:002013-12-09T21:05:49.632-05:00Three Minutes Giving Santa a Present<div class="tr_bq">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">…the present you plan to give to Santa Claus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Email what you wrote to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>bigfootreads dot wernert at gmail dot com</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> by the end of the day December 15 (put “Norman Knows It’s Better to Give Than to Receive” in the subject line). I’ll post as many of my favorite entries as I want next Monday. Include your first name (or, even better, use a pen name) and age (unless you’re tortoise-old).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Here is the single entry from last week when I asked you to write for three minutes about…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">…the woman examining oranges in the produce department.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 12pt;">She was there when I came into the store. Squeezing the oranges. I didn’t think much about it at the time. I mostly noticed that her sweater was bright orange. I snickered to myself imagining that she was in camouflage. I was in the store a long time, going up and down the aisles getting everything on my list. A couple of times I had to backtrack because I’d forgotten something. When I passed the produce section again on my way to the checkout, I was surprised to see the Orange Lady still squeezing oranges.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 12pt;">But no, she wasn’t squeezing them. I watched as she picked one up and lift it to her mouth. I couldn’t believe it. Was she going to take a bite out of it? That would be weird both because she hadn’t yet paid for it and because it hadn’t been peeled.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 12pt;">But no, she didn’t bite the orange. She whispered to it. Then she put it to her ear. She shook her head, then put the orange back. She selected another, whispered to it, and then put it to her ear. Again and again she repeated this.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">I’ll always wonder if she put the oranges back because they didn’t answer or because she didn’t like what they had to say.</span></blockquote>
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