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		<title>A Year in Review: 2008-2009</title>
		<link>http://yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/a-year-in-review-2008-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, despite a slow last couple of months, my blog has reached it&#8217;s one year anniversary.  And I think the year has been rather successful.  I experimented with different styles of reviews, having polls, and the types of YA lit that I&#8217;ve read.  I have plenty more to do, and I am hoping to renew [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com&blog=5333209&post=551&subd=yalitgoodbadugly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween, Cake, and YA Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agirlnamedsara</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tonya Hurley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received an email today telling that me that on the October 29th season finale of Ace of Cakes one of the featured cakes will be in the shape of Charlotte from Tonya Hurley&#8217;s  Ghostgirl. The cake is being made on the episode for the launch party of Ghostgirl: Homecoming. According to the email the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com&blog=5333209&post=547&subd=yalitgoodbadugly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Returned</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Classroom Read]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for my long hiatus.  Once I started teaching full time I seemed to lose any extra time to just read for pleasure.  And with it, the time to post about anything I&#8217;ve read.  But, I need to find more time for myself, and I am going to make a more concentrated effort to begin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com&blog=5333209&post=540&subd=yalitgoodbadugly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ghostgirl:Homecoming- Tonya Hurley</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 

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This is the sequel to Ghostgirl- Tonya Hurley which I already reviewed.  Again the cover is visually appealing, and the book has a rich feel to it.  I think that overall I enjoyed the first book more, but I can&#8217;t say why exactly- I guess I just found the story line a bit more intriguing. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com&blog=5333209&post=535&subd=yalitgoodbadugly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>July Recap</title>
		<link>http://yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/july-recap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agirlnamedsara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry this is so late!
I managed to finish 4 books in July, and got most of the way through another so my August is off to a pretty good start as well.  
Books read in July:
33. So Not the Drama- Paula Chase
34. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes- Chris Crutcher
35. The Quickie- James Patterson 
36. Ghostgirl: Homecoming- Tonya [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com&blog=5333209&post=529&subd=yalitgoodbadugly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes- Chris Crutcher</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes was a great read.  The story is told from the perspective of a teenage boy who is overweight.  He tells about his friendship with a girl named Sarah Byrnes, whose face is horribly disfigured due to burns suffered when she was three.  Along with issues of appearance and friendship, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com&blog=5333209&post=523&subd=yalitgoodbadugly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So Not the Drama- Paula Chase</title>
		<link>http://yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/so-not-the-drama-paula-chase/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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So Not the Drama is a light easy read that still talks about some serious issues.  Mina is entering high school along with 3 best friends (1 girl, 2 boys) and is very concerned with becoming one of the &#8220;popular&#8221; crowd.  Throughout the novel Mina deals with keeping up her friendships, forming new ones, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com&blog=5333209&post=517&subd=yalitgoodbadugly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Question of the week #1</title>
		<link>http://yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/question-of-the-week-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t think of a good poll, so I&#8217;m going with a question of the week.  Please post your response in the comments below.  
 
If you could be any character in any book and live their life who would you choose and why?
 
I&#8217;ll post my response in a few days.  I&#8217;m really curious to see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com&blog=5333209&post=514&subd=yalitgoodbadugly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins</title>
		<link>http://yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/the-hunger-games-suzanne-collins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agirlnamedsara</dc:creator>
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The Hunger Games had been on my reserve list at the library for several weeks before it finally came.  It was worth the wait.  I would not classify myself as being a lover of sci-fi or fantasy, but I really liked this book.  In this book 24 teens are forced to compete to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com&blog=5333209&post=510&subd=yalitgoodbadugly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ultimate YA Bookshelf</title>
		<link>http://yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/ultimate-ya-bookshelf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agirlnamedsara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[John Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Halse Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walter Dean Meyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YALSA Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Crutcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gene Luen Yang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Haddix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marjane Satrapi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markus Zusak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meg Cabot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melina Marchetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Farmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Cormier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suzanne Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terry Pratchett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YA Literature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[YALSA has come out with their &#8220;Ultimate YA Bookshelf&#8221; which has 50 books, 5 magazines, and 5 audiobooks.  The premise behind it and a link to the pdf can be found here.
Here are the 50 books-  I am interested in how many of them I&#8217;ve read- and whether most of them are specifically YA lit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yalitgoodbadugly.wordpress.com&blog=5333209&post=507&subd=yalitgoodbadugly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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