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Patrick Ness

November 12, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review: More Than This by Patrick Ness

Before I tell you what this book is about, let me tell you about my experience reading it.  I read this book and basically thought: what the heck just happened here.  So I read it again.  Then I asked a friend to read it.  Then I found another friend who had read it and asked […]

January 4, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Booktalk This: Teary Reads

As a teen (way back in the early 1990s), my friends and I sighed over a story about one our crushes when he was in 4th grade: that was the year his teacher read Where the Red Fern Grows to him and his classmates (including our storyteller). The whole class was overwhelmed by that books’ […]

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