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It looks like Channel 11 pulled the video story down, but I found this from his local Utah station. The boy is from Keller, not too far from me, and is a huge Fablehaven fan. He suffers from Cystic Fibrosis and may not live long enough to see the final book published. Brandon made a call to his h...
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Cool Kids Read Yet another reason to love Brandon Mull! This will break your heart. If there's anyone who deserves an ARC of Keys to the Demon Prison, it's this kid. (C'mon Shadow Mountain, let's get this kid the book!!!)

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Think Ch 11 pulled this story down, it doesn't seem to load? If it's not, read the story here: http://connect2utah.com/content/news/story?cid=66781
December 12 at 7:22pm
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Cool Kids Read Have you seen the new trailers for Percy Jackson? Can't wait for February!

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The fifth trailer for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. :]
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I saw it last night when I went to see New Moon. It made the movie look a lot more exciting than the first two trailers! Yay!
December 5 at 9:00am
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Hey, we went to see New Moon last night too! What'd you think?
December 5 at 11:51am
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I liked it, but I did do quite a bit of giggling over the campy/corny bits. It did a good job of making me feel like I had experienced the book. And I do love werewolves. What did you think?
December 5 at 1:58pm
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Cool Kids Read Some GREAT books recently nominated to the Texas Bluebonnet list for 2011! Which ones have you read? 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass Brawer is one of my favorites ;)

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Last week, the Texas Library Association announced the nominees for the 2010-2011 Texas Bluebonnet Award. We don’t have them all yet, but we should by the January!
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Cool Kids Read Things winding down from the Thanksgiving weekend? Spend some time with a book today! What are you reading?

November 29 at 7:26am
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This is one of the most disturbing books I've ever encountered. There have been a few of these reads here over the past year: from Jay Asher's 13 Reasons Why to Sang Pak's Wait Until Twilight. But Living Dead Girl (2008, Simon Pulse) by Elizabeth Scott literally made my stomach hurt for the full ...
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Cool Kids Read A flashback review from last March to kick off this Thanksgiving week...

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If you've been a reader of this blog for any time you already know I'm a huge fan of Wendy Mass. Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life is on my top 10 favs of all time list (and that was a hard list to create... ...
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Cool Kids Read Going Bovine by Libba Bray is quite a departure from the Gemma Doyle Saga. Check out the review on Cool Kids Read.

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If you like your quest adventures filled with existentialism and satire, Going Bovine (2009, Random House Children's Books) by the most-awesome Libba Bray will rock your world.
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Stephenie Meyer, honey, watch out. Twilight fans, you are gonna l-o-v-e Eternal (2009, Candlewick) -- the follow up/prequel to Tantalize -- written for ages 14 and up by Cynthia Leitich Smith (read my interview with her here.)
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Toddlers hear the adults around them use the words "green", "recycle" and "global", and if questions have come up around your house about these ideas, turn to Little Pickle Press to help make these big concepts more accessible to young ones. ...
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Cool Kids Read While Twi-hards probably won't learn anything new, any chance to catch Stephenie Meyer in the media is worth checking out. She's also answering questions online for the next day or so at www.thetwilightsaga.com.

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This is the only interview she's doing to promote New Moon, so why not do it with the Queen of all Media? Check out Stephenie's blog for the whole scoop and here for local listings to make sure you don't miss it!
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Teaching children the importance of keeping a clean and green planet Earth, Colonel Trash Truck (2009, Big Tent Books) is a rhyming picture book that will appeal to the pre-school set.
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It's been a weekend for glimpses at new covers and here's another one (note that it's "not final") -- the new series from Rick Riordan. For all you Percy Jackson fans who have been waiting for Mr. Riordan to pen another series, here's something to look forward to.
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Cool Kids Read Did you attend the LIve chat? What did you think?

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Brandon Mull hosted a fantastic live chat last night and revealed this mind-blowing cover to the final Fablehaven book.... look for it on the shelves next year!