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July 30, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review: A Really Awesome Mess by Trish Cook and Brendan Halpin

Just when you thought Egmont Week was over….. one more review from their fall catalog! The writing pair behind Notes from the Blender, a great bit of realistic fiction about the complications and joys of becoming, through no effort of your own, part of a blended family during high school, is back for another novel […]

January 15, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Siblings? We don’t need no stinkin’ siblings (Family in YA Lit)

The other day an interesting conversation popped up on my Twitter feed, which I then hijacked.  Lindsey Leavitt (@lindsey_leavitt), Jessica Day George (@JessDayGeorge), and Shannon P (@StalkintheBooks) were talking about the way that siblings, and a lack thereof, were depicted in YA Lit.  It really put me in a position to pause and think about […]

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