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		<title>Every Man for Himself: Ten Short Stories About Being a Guy (Nancy Mercado, ed.)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how I missed this one, but I did. And I&#8217;m a bit upset about that, because there are some fine stories in here. I warmed to this book from the very beginning, because Nancy Mercado tells us …what these stories are not. They are not stories about... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=700">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Name is Brain Brian (Jeanne Betancourt)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read my posts up to now, you&#8217;ll know how strongly I feel about what makes a book work or not. And if you&#8217;ve read my &#8220;10+ Rules&#8221; page (see the link above) and I tell you that the first chapter of this book is called &#8220;The Jokers Club&#8221;... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=660">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lawn Boy (Gary Paulsen)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Worried about finding enough money to buy a new inner tube for his bike, a twelve-year-old boy gets an old riding mower from his grandmother for his birthday. Soon he is mowing his neighbors&#8217; lawns, and making more money than he thought possible. When he meets Arnold, a stockbroker who... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=561">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Brothers (Yin)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this sequel to Coolies, Shek and Wong&#8217;s younger brother Ming arrives in San Francisco from China to stay with his brothers and work in their store. Although he is admonished not to leave Chinatown, he eventually does, making his way to the local school. He meets the irrepressible Patrick,... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=608">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Coolies (Yin)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As this book opens in modern times, a young unnamed boy hears the story of his ancestors, Shek and Wong, as they came to the United States from China and worked on the railroads in California, experiencing long hours, hard work, and over racism, while at the same time managing... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=601">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Attack of the Growling Eyeballs (Lin Oliver)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve reviewed the Hank Zipzer books twice, and while I&#8217;ve had plenty to say about Hank Zipzer and Henry Winkler, I said nothing about Mr. Winkler&#8217;s cowriter, Lin Oliver, because I had never heard of her until I encountered the Hank Zipzer books, and knew nothing of her writing. So... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=577">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>PDL Book Sale – August 7, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Portage District Library had a book sale yesterday. They have six of them a year, but for some strange reason, I seem able to only get to about half of them. It&#8217;s always a lot of fun, and you can pick up some great bargains. Most paperbacks are three... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=572">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hank Zipzer Revisited: A Tale of Two Tails (Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I wrote a less than favorable review of Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver&#8217;s first book in the Hank Zipzer series, Niagara Falls, or Does It? I have since learned that they have recently published the seventeenth novel in the series, A Brand New Me! (a title which... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=523">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Encouraging Summer Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keeping kids reading during the summer is important. We want to encourage our kids to read and to enjoy it, but we need to strike a fine balance between making it optional and making it mandatory. The following tips come to us via ADDitude Magazine. While these tips are aimed... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=448">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>I Am the Messenger (Markus Zusak)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nineteen-year-old Ed Kennedy, a cabdriver in Australia, almost accidentally stops a bank robbery and nabs the would-be thief, thus achieving his Warholian fifteen minutes of fame. This would seem to be the high point in a life of mediocrity, but then a series of playing cards begin arriving in Ed&#8217;s... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=312">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>School Supplies on the Cheap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer is in full swing, so you know what that means&#8230;yup, it&#8217;s time to stock up on school supplies. I don&#8217;t have anything against those big-box office supply stores, except that they can be pretty expensive. If I&#8217;m going to spend a lot of money there, it should be for... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=340">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hank Zipzer: Niagara Falls, Or Does It? (Henry Winkler &amp; Lin Oliver)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hank Zipzer isn&#8217;t your average fourth-grader. He&#8217;s intelligent, creative, and incredibly likeable. Yet he does terribly at school because he&#8217;s dyslexic. Although the &#8220;d-word&#8221; doesn&#8217;t appear anywhere in this book, Hank mentions his brain and his &#8220;learning differences&#8221; enough for it to become annoying. I&#8217;m starting to feel as if... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=334">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Would Joey Do? (Jack Gantos)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve already read what I&#8217;ve written about the first two books in this series (Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key and Joey Pigza Loses Control) you can guess pretty easily that I love this book as well and heartily recommend it to you. And you would be right. There really... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=332">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Joey Pigza Loses Control (Jack Gantos)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end of Joey Pigza swallowed the Key, Joey finally had it together. He was living with his working mom in a more stable home, he was on the right meds, and he had gained enough self-control to get a dog, a dachshund/Chihuahua cross he christens Pablo. Alas, nothing... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=330">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Plugins I Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons that I love WordPress is that there is a large contingent of people who create code and put it out there for free, knowing that probably fewer than one in a hundred users will actually donate anything for their time and effort. It takes hundreds of... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=272">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (Jack Gantos)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t have to spend much time in a school—say a month or so—before you run into a kid (or kids) who is (or are) at once your biggest delight and your biggest terror. They&#8217;re charming, they&#8217;re delightful, they&#8217;re friendly and helpful, and yet, like that semi-wild housecat who keeps... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=45">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Matisse on the Loose (Georgia Bragg)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It took me forever to write about this book, and it&#8217;s only now that I realize it&#8217;s because I wanted to say a lot more nice things about than I actually can. Which is sad in a way, because looking back, I wish that this book had been around when... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=191">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Even CNN Can&#8217;t Get it Right All the Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when you don&#8217;t have Tivo. You see something interesting on the television, grab your camera and snap a pic of it. Then, because you get busy with other things, you find some odd image on your camera two months later, and wonder why you took this... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=182">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s (already) an app for that</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

In fact, when it comes to keeping track of the Greek and Roman gods, there's already an app for that.

It's called a book.
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		<title>Best of 2009 Booklists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you looking for the ultimate “Best of 2009″ booklists for children and young adults? Then visit Best Children&#8217;s Books of 2009: The Big List of Lists Susan Thomsen has put together a list of links for over 100 (when I stopped counting, at least) of “Best of…” lists from... <a href="http://bookblog.kjodle.net/?p=145">(Keep reading)</a>]]></description>
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