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		<title>Reading Log: In Search of April Raintree, by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Search of April Raintree: Critical Edition, by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier (Critical Edition edited by Cheryl Suzack). Portage &#38; Main Press, 1999.
April and Cheryl Raintree are Métis sisters growing up in Manitoba. Taken from their alcoholic parents after their youngest sister dies, the two are separated and raised in a variety of foster homes. April, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awake and Dreaming, by Kit Pearson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awake and Dreaming, by Kit Pearson, Puffin Books, 1996.
Even the happiest child longs, sometimes, for another life. And Theo is far from happy: she&#8217;s the perpetual new kid, moving from school to school while her mother, Rae, struggles to pay the bills and seems more concerned with her own loneliness than she is with Rae&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Log: Wondrous Strange, by Lesley Livingston</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wondrous Strange, by Lesley Livingston• HarperCollins, 2009
There&#8217;s something to be said for ebooks &#8212; I downloaded this one from my library, and I have to say, with the borderline Twilight-meets-bosom-heaver cover, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d have taken the genuine, real world book-book off the shelves.
But I&#8217;m glad I got my hands on it one way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Log: Ghost Train, by Paul Lee, illustrated by Harvey Chan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ghost Train, by Paul Yee, illustrated by Harvey Chan • Groundwood Books/Douglas &#38; McIntyre, 1996. 32 Pages.
Choon-yi is a Chinese peasant girl, born with only one arm. Her mother is horrified by her daughter&#8217;s deformity, but Choon-yi and her father are close, and he strives to give her the happiest childhood possible.
Choon-yi was also born [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Log: Adventure in Istanbul, by Cora Taylor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adventure in Istanbul, by Cora Taylor • Coteau Books, 2005. 257 pages.
Twins Maggie and Jennifer couldn&#8217;t be more different. Maggie is quiet and careful, loves school, and isn&#8217;t likely to do something rash like trying an invisibility spell found stuck inside a book she snuck from the library. Jennifer, on the other hand, is liable [...]]]></description>
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