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		<title>The Last Olympian &#8211; Rick Riordan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last Olympian is the fifth and final volume in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. My reviews of the first four books are here, here, here, and here. The bare-bones explanation: Percy Jackson is a half-blood, the son of a human mother and a Greek god. There&#8217;s a prophesy that when he turns [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com&blog=4194995&post=772&subd=thebooleyhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Curse Dark as Gold &#8211; Elizabeth C. Bunce</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The short version of the summary: Rumpelstiltskin in eighteenth century, early Industrial Revolution England. The medium-length version of the summary: Charlotte and her younger sister Rosie are struggling to keep their family&#8217;s mill running and pay of the debts he ran up before he died, and a series of accidents only makes it worse. Sensible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com&blog=4194995&post=769&subd=thebooleyhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Humming of Numbers &#8211; Joni Sensel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aidan is a novice, nearly ready to take his vows as a monk, despite some lingering difficult with obedience. Obedience may trouble him, but he&#8217;s learned not to mention the humming of numbers&#8212;he hears numbers buzzing from everything&#8212;lest he be accused of witchcraft. People hum low numbers&#8212;anxious, unpleasant ones; steadfast, loyal threes; confident eights&#8212; while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com&blog=4194995&post=759&subd=thebooleyhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Demon King &#8211; Cinda Williams Chima</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Princess Heir Raisa is trapped: expected to behave well and not make a fuss, to make a politically expedient marriage, to be politically and socially close to wizards but not to marry one, to balance her mountain clan-bred father and her flatlander mother. Han is also trapped: by his mother&#8217;s low expectations, by lack of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com&blog=4194995&post=753&subd=thebooleyhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When You Reach Me &#8211; Rebecca Stead</title>
		<link>http://thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/when-you-reach-me-rebecca-stead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1978-1979 school year is perfectly normal for Miranda. Except that her best friend stopped speaking to her, there&#8217;s an apparently crazy man who sleeps with his head under the mailbox on her corner, a naked man is seen running by her school on several occasions, and weird things keep happening. Like her spare house [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com&blog=4194995&post=745&subd=thebooleyhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Penderwicks on Gardam Street &#8211; Jeanne Birdsall</title>
		<link>http://thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/the-penderwicks-on-gardam-street-jeanne-birdsall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the gentle, nostalgic lead established in The Penderwicks, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street escorts the titular family back from summer vacation and into another school year. The four sisters&#8212;Rosalind, age 12; Skye, 11; Jane, 10; and Batty, 4&#8212;are faced with life after a first crush; boring homework; sneaky chances to avoid said boring homework; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com&blog=4194995&post=742&subd=thebooleyhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Goose Girl &#8211; Shannon Hale</title>
		<link>http://thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/the-goose-girl-shannon-hale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first exposure to this particular fairy tale was only a few months ago, when I was reading Troll&#8217;s-Eye View &#8211; a collection of short stories told from the villains&#8217; points of view. The Goose Girl tells the story from a more traditional perspective, but with plenty of personality anyway.
Ani never fit in as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com&blog=4194995&post=739&subd=thebooleyhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Runemarks &#8211; Joanne Harris</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maddy has always been a bit of an outcast. Her father and sister are popular in town; perfectly normal, unimaginative, never dreaming, never wanting to hear any stories that aren&#8217;t in the Good Book. Maddy, on the other hand, dreams, imagines, loves stories. She also has a strange mark on her hand and can get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com&blog=4194995&post=730&subd=thebooleyhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bloodhound &#8211; Tamora Pierce</title>
		<link>http://thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/bloodhound-tamora-pierce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloodhound is Tamora Pierce&#8217;s second book about Beka Cooper, an ancestress of a character in her other books set in the world (referred to from here out as &#8220;Tortall books,&#8221; as Tortall is the central country). Beka has finished her Puppy year&#8212;a year of training to become a member of the Provost&#8217;s Guard, the police [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com&blog=4194995&post=727&subd=thebooleyhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Color of Earth &#8211; King Dong Hwa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this graphic novel, Ehwa lives with her mother, a single parent and tavern-keeper, in a rural Korean town in an unspecified era. Over the course of the book&#8212;the first in a trilogy&#8212;Ehwa goes through puberty, slowly learning about sex, sexuality and relationships. Her education is fitful; she picks up bits and pieces from her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebooleyhouse.wordpress.com&blog=4194995&post=724&subd=thebooleyhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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