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		<title>WE&#8217;VE MOVED!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Reading Public Library has updated their entire web site.  This includes the &#8220;Teen&#8221; page and all related info &#8211; including our book reviews!
We will no longer be adding new reviews to this site, however be sure to bookmark (subscribe, check out &#8211; WHATEVER!) our new page:
http://www.readingpl.org/teens/booklists/
OR (to keep up to date on events [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rplteenbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2454846&post=124&subd=rplteenbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rplteenbooks.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/weve-moved/</link>
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		<title>Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nobody Owens lives in the graveyard. Raised by the spirits who dwell there, Bod tries to live as normal a life as possible. He climbs trees, chats with the ghosts and tries to make friends with newcomers (live and dead) to the graveyard (live and dead).  Bod knows that he can&#8217;t go outside the boundaries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rplteenbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2454846&post=110&subd=rplteenbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rplteenbooks.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/graveyard-book-neil-gaiman/</link>
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		<title>Graceling (Kristin Cashore)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Katsa is a killer. While only a select few are graced with extraordinary skills, most Gracelings are blessed more acceptable arts such as dancing or cooking. Katsa, on the other hand, can kill anyone, anywhere.  Used as a threat and tool by her uncle, the king, Katsa tries to find other ways to use her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rplteenbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2454846&post=108&subd=rplteenbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rplteenbooks.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/graceling-kristin-cashore/</link>
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		<title>Nation (Terry Pratchett)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meet Mau, a boy on the verge of manhood. While on a voyage away from his island, the sea consumes his village, his whole Nation. Mau deals with the aftermath of the Great Wave, sending the bodies into the dark waters, nearly perishing himself until a ghost girl appears.
Daphne the ghost girl (a.k.a Ermintrude – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rplteenbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2454846&post=106&subd=rplteenbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rplteenbooks.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/nation-terry-pratchett/</link>
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		<title>Fly on the Wall  (E. Lockhart)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t we all said &#8220;I wish I could be a fly on the wall &#8230;&#8221; For Gretchen Yee; these were more than just words.  They became reality.  Gretchen attends the Manhattan High School for the Arts, otherwise known as Ma-Ha, in New York City, where all the students are &#8220;different&#8221; and &#8220;special.&#8221;  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rplteenbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2454846&post=96&subd=rplteenbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rplteenbooks.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/fly-on-the-wall-e-lockhart/</link>
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		<title>The World According to Dog:  Poems and Teen Voices    (Joyce Sidman)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This collection of poems, essays written by teens, and black-and-white photographs, describes the good, the bad, and even the ugly among our canine friends.  Whether it is our dog’s cold wet noses in our faces or the shedding fur all over the furniture or even the occasional accident, we still love our four-legged friends and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rplteenbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2454846&post=88&subd=rplteenbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rplteenbooks.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/the-world-according-to-dog-poems-and-teen-voices-joyce-sidman/</link>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Want To Be Crazy (Samantha Schutz)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all had that anxious feeling along with a rapid heartbeat and sweaty palms.  But what if it turned into a full blown panic attack and you were essentially rendered incapacitated.  In this memoir about her life as a victim of an anxiety disorder, Samantha Schutz paints a vivid picture of her challenges [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rplteenbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2454846&post=71&subd=rplteenbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rplteenbooks.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/i-dont-want-to-be-crazy-samantha-schutz/</link>
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		<title>The Seems: The Glitch In Sleep (Hulme)</title>
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Imagine that our world is just an illusion, created and maintained by people in a whole other dimension.  Imagine a whole factory dedicated to creating and sending sleep and dreams, personalized for every human being on Earth.  Now imagine a Glitch in that system.  Enter Becker Dane, a human boy trained as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rplteenbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2454846&post=65&subd=rplteenbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rplteenbooks.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/the-seems-the-glitch-in-sleep/</link>
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		<title>Alfred Kropp: The Thirteenth Skull (Yancey)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the third installment in the Alfred Kropp series.  Once again, Alfred finds himself in the middle of a big mess.  At least one person is out to kill him, OIPEP wants his blood (quite literally), and the police think he&#8217;s a nut-case.  Alfred is a reluctant hero, looking to live [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rplteenbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2454846&post=62&subd=rplteenbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rplteenbooks.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/alfred-kropp-the-thirteenth-skull-yancey/</link>
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		<title>Your Own, Sylvia     (Stephanie Hemphill)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are unfamiliar with the works of Sylvia Plath, this is a perfect book to introduce you to this awarding-winning, Massachusetts poet.  Stephanie Hemphill has captured the essense of Plath in her collection of poems about the poet.  The poems are either written in a Plath-like style or written in the words [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rplteenbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2454846&post=47&subd=rplteenbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rplteenbooks.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/your-own-sylvia-a-verse-portrait-of-sylvia-plath-stepanie-hemphill/</link>
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