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  6. A Boy Called Dickens by Deborah Hopkinson: Lynn: Wonderfully timed for the celebration of Charles Dickens’ birth... bit.ly/JW0bDU 6:39 AM May 19th via twitterfeed
  7. Eddie: The Lost Youth of Edgar Allan Poe by Scott Gustafson: Lynn: Edgar Allan Poe’s work is part of the canon ... bit.ly/LWgdhO 6:14 AM May 17th via twitterfeed
  8. A Real Mystery…: Cindy: I recently ran two book fairs in my middle school libraries and ran into a real-life mys... bit.ly/Ko9Ft2 5:36 PM May 14th via twitterfeed
  9. Jennifer Brown puts words to what I could not: shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?iss… 2:41 AM May 10th via web
  10. A Girl Named Digit by Annabelle Monaghan: Lynn: Seventeen-year-old Farrah Higgins is a math genius.  She can see... bit.ly/LS157B 4:36 PM May 9th via twitterfeed
  11. Maurice Sendak: 1928-2012: Cindy: Oh, I know. Circle of life and all, but I’m still sad after yesterday’s news o... bit.ly/LNTsin 7:13 AM May 9th via twitterfeed
  12. Seeing Symmetry by Loreen Leedy: Cindy: WOW! It seems appropriate for a blog called Bookends to promote a book a... bit.ly/KUHhgJ 7:01 PM May 7th via twitterfeed
  13. The Case of the Deadly Desperados by Caroline Lawrence: Lynn: Hang onto your slouch hat and seven shot derringer... bit.ly/IW3hcb 3:06 AM May 2nd via twitterfeed
  14. Hunger Games…: Cindy: I finally scraped together a couple of free hours with my husband in town so we could go s... bit.ly/JwND5f 5:53 PM Apr 30th via twitterfeed
  15. Poem in Your Pocket Day!: Cindy: Since 2002 one of the National Poetry Month celebrations includes “Poem in Your... bit.ly/KcOerj 4:53 AM Apr 26th via twitterfeed
  16. Pete Hautman wins the L.A. Times Book Prize for YA Literature: Cindy: I am still recovering from a fun weekend i... bit.ly/IjnkO2 4:39 AM Apr 25th via twitterfeed
  17. Bookends Hitting the Road – or it is the sky?: Cindy and Lynn: The two halves of Bookends are flying out tonight... bit.ly/IXKUUJ 12:31 PM Apr 19th via twitterfeed
  18. Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson: Lynn: I am writing this review on April 15th – the 100t... bit.ly/J14ScP 4:15 AM Apr 16th via twitterfeed
  19. The Lonely Book by Kate Bernheimer: Lynn: If there was ever a book designed to go straight to a booklover’s hear... bit.ly/IPXgyv 10:34 AM Apr 14th via twitterfeed
  20. Rock the Drop 2012: Cindy and Lynn: Tomorrow, Thursday, 4.12.12 is Rock the Drop Day. What’s that, you say? Read... bit.ly/IsP0D4 6:54 AM Apr 11th via twitterfeed
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