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March 27, 2015 by Robin Willis

Friday Finds – March 27, 2015

March 27, 2015 by Robin Willis   Leave a Comment

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What is up with Indiana these days? Their Supreme Court decided that public schools aren’t required to provide bus service? And I’m sure we all heard about their ‘freedom to discriminate’ legislation. Here is YA author “John Green, likely the most high-profile Indiana resident in contemporary pop culture” with his take.

Robot Test Kitchen talks program failures.

Clean Reader critics speak out. Read Chuck Wendig’s take on the program here. Lilith Saintcrow details how to have your books taken out of the catalog (for authors.) And now, updates from Chuck Wendig at his Terrible Minds blog. Plus Karen shared some thoughts and rounded up some comments here.

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After working in middle school libraries for over 20 years, Robin Willis now works in a public library system in Maryland.

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