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		<title>In The Small, Small Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kofi can&#8217;t sleep in his new home in the United States, so his older sister Abena soothes his fears about life in a different country by telling him two folktales from their native Ghana about the nature of wisdom and perseverance.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kofi can&#8217;t sleep in his new home in the United States, so his older sister Abena soothes his fears about life in a different country by telling him two folktales from their native Ghana about the nature of wisdom and perseverance.</p>
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		<title>The Crossing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 19:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This young, lyrical picture book reveals the adventure and natural wonders that Lewis &#38; Clark encountered on their Western expedition in the early 1800s. Told from the point of view of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the baby on Sacagawea&#8217;s back, this story offers a fresh perspective of a young country and gives voice to a character [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This young, lyrical picture book reveals the adventure and natural wonders that Lewis &amp; Clark encountered on their Western expedition in the early 1800s. Told from the point of view of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the baby on Sacagawea&#8217;s back, this story offers a fresh perspective of a young country and gives voice to a character readers will already be familiar with&#8211;at least visually (the baby is shown on the golden Sacagawea dollar).</p>
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		<title>Diego Rivera: His World and Ours</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This charming book introduces one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, Diego Rivera, to young readers. It tells the story of Diego as a young, mischievous boy who demonstrated a clear passion for art and then went on to become one of the most famous painters in the world. Duncan Tonatiuh also prompts [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This charming book introduces one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, Diego Rivera, to young readers. It tells the story of Diego as a young, mischievous boy who demonstrated a clear passion for art and then went on to become one of the most famous painters in the world. Duncan Tonatiuh also prompts readers to think about what Diego would paint today. Just as Diego&#8217;s murals depicted great historical events in Mexican culture or celebrated native peoples, if Diego were painting today, what would his artwork depict? How would his paintings reflect today&#8217;s culture?Diego Rivera: His World and Ours is a wonderful introduction to this great artist.</p>
<p>See the <a href="http://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/review/wow-review-volume-iv-issue-3/4/">review</a> at WOW Review, Volume 4, Issue 3</p>
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		<title>Beneath A Meth Moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside she&#8217;s still reeling from the loss of her beloved mother and grandmother after Hurricane Katrina washed away their home. Laurel&#8217;s new life is going well, with a new best friend, a place on the cheerleading squad and T-Boom, co-captain of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside she&#8217;s still reeling from the loss of her beloved mother and grandmother after Hurricane Katrina washed away their home. Laurel&#8217;s new life is going well, with a new best friend, a place on the cheerleading squad and T-Boom, co-captain of the basketball team, for a boyfriend. Yet Laurel is haunted by voices and memories from her past.</p>
<p>When T-Boom introduces Laurel to meth, she immediately falls under its spell, loving the way it erases, even if only briefly, her past. But as she becomes alienated from her friends and family, she becomes a shell of her former self, and longs to be whole again. With help from an artist named Moses and her friend Kaylee, she&#8217;s able to begin to rewrite her story and start to move on from her addiction.</p>
<p>See the <a href="http://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/review/wow-review-volume-iv-issue-3/3/">review</a> at WOW Review, Volume 4, Issue 3</p>
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		<title>The Wild Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fefa struggles with words. She has word blindness, or dyslexia, and the doctor says she will never read or write. Every time she tries, the letters jumble and spill off the page, leaping and hopping away like bullfrogs. How will she ever understand them? But her mother has an idea. She gives Fefa a blank [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fefa struggles with words. She has word blindness, or dyslexia, and the doctor says she will never read or write. Every time she tries, the letters jumble and spill off the page, leaping and hopping away like bullfrogs. How will she ever understand them? But her mother has an idea. She gives Fefa a blank book filled with clean white pages. &#8220;Think of it as a garden,&#8221; she says. Soon Fefa starts to sprinkle words across the pages of her wild book. She lets her words sprout like seedlings, shaky at first, then growing stronger and surer with each new day. And when her family is threatened, it is what Fefa has learned from her wild book that saves them.</p>
<p>See the <a href="http://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/review/wow-review-volume-iv-issue-3/12/">review</a> at WOW Review, Volume 4, Issue 3</p>
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		<title>Ghost Hands</title>
		<link>http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780399250835/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Auki, a young member of the Tehuelche tribe in Patagonia, wants to prove himself as a hunter but when he sets out on his own to face the puma, he stumbles upon a sacred cave and its guardian.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Auki, a young member of the Tehuelche tribe in Patagonia, wants to prove himself as a hunter but when he sets out on his own to face the puma, he stumbles upon a sacred cave and its guardian.</p>
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		<title>Circles of Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After many futile attempts to plant a tree in honor of his new baby sister, a young Haitian boy discovers the perfect solution.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After many futile attempts to plant a tree in honor of his new baby sister, a young Haitian boy discovers the perfect solution.</p>
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		<title>A Hen for Izzy Pippik</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Shaina finds a magnificent hen, she knows that Izzy Pippik, the hen&#8217;s owner, is sure to return for her. In the meantime, Shaina decides she will care for the animal. But when dozens of eggs hatch and rowdy chickens scatter throughout the village, Shaina must fight the entire town if she has any hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Flyary</title>
		<link>http://wowlit.org/catalog/9781554534487/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One-eyed alien Frazzle recounts his flying adventures in a new journal (in alien vernacular, of course). He bighearts his little Model 7, but as time passes, it starts making strange sounds, and Frazzle &#8212; pressured by friends and co-workers &#8212; wonders if he should trade it in. One day, when it goes CLUNK in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larf</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one believes Larf exists, and he likes it that way. Larf, you see, is a sasquatch, the only sasquatch in the world (or so it seems). He has a very pleasant, and very private, life in the woods, where on any given day he might be found jogging, gardening or walking Eric, his pet [...]]]></description>
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