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Brisingr is now available!
Click here for downloadable activities to complement the third book in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance cycle.

Read the book, see the movie!
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan is now on the big screen.

Click here for a sneak peak behind the creation of the artwork of Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem by Maya Angelou; illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher.

Meet your favorite authors!

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Juliet Marillier will be appearing on randombuzzers.com on October 16 & 17.

Stay tuned for our next Author 411 installment, in which Margo Lanagan answers teen readers' questions about Tender Morsels, and how she came to write this dark and vivid story. The Q&A goes live, right here, on October 14!

Tender Morsels has already received 4 starred reviews:

Booklist, The Horn Book, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly

Your questions, your favorite authors.

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WHAT’S NEW!

Tender Morsels

Tender Morsels
Margo Lanagan

The Lincolns:

A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
Candace Fleming

Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different
Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

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How to Make a Cherry Pie and See the U.S.A

How to Make a Cherry Pie and See the U.S.A
Marjorie Priceman

It's Storytime!

Click here to download a brochure with tips and arts & crafts projects to make your story sessions a wondferful time!

The River

The River
Gary Paulsen

Cabin fever kicking in? Escape with wild survival adventures in this month's Backlist Gems.

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Spanking Shakespeare

Spanking Shakespeare
Jake Wizner; illustrated

by Richard Ewing

Pat Scales was the director of Library Services at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina, and has has recently retired after working as a school librarian for 36 years. She is known throughout the country as an advocate for Children's Literature and Intellectual Freedom. Every month Pat will be found here on the Web discussing an important issue affecting librarians, books, and children.

To read Pat's column,

10 Trick or Treaters

10 Trick or Treaters
Janet Schulman; illustrated by Linda Davick

Happy Halloween! We've got more treats than tricks on this month's Booklist.

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