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Now that we're no longer under our judging-period decree of silence, I can post my impressions of this year's graphic novel finalist...

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The nominations have been announced, and it's a kick to see how many of the Norton (YA) nominees I've either read or heard good stuf...

You know the 2009 Cybils winners have been announced, right? You DON'T?? Well, then get yourself over there right now, missy (or buddy)...

I can hardly believe it's almost time for this year's Cybils announcements! Just another day or two until the winners are revealed....

I need to do this more often: just share my interesting blog-reading from the week. I love it when people do that on their blogs. Why shoul...

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you the following library porn (thanks to my mom for the link): For more ultra-dro...

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First , let me state: I have no idea if this is a good book or not. I just want to read it, to find out. The author is Caucasian, and South ...

I wanted to share a few choice quotes from Katherine Paterson's interview with Signor Sutton in the latest Notes from the Horn Book ... ...

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