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		<title>If You Come Softly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gigi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jacqueline Woodson Young Adult Puffin, 1998 ISBN: 0698118626/ ISBN: 978-0698118621 * ALA Best Books for Young Adults * Detroit Public Library Author&#8217;s Day Award An Audre Lorde poem inspired this 1998 love story by Jacqueline Woodson. Lorde&#8217;s poem begins: If you come softly as the wind within the trees you may hear what I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=397&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Mountains</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gigi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle Grade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edwidge Danticat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle grade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resilience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scholastic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Edwidge Danticat Middle Grade Scholastic, 2002 ISBN: 439-37300-x *BookSense 76 Pick * Americas Award Honor Book *New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age Grown-up girls of summer will recognize Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat as a two-time National Book Award finalist for Krik? Krak! and Brother, I&#8217;m Dying. After the 2010 earthquake in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=393&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Huntress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gigi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Young Adult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adventure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[glbt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[huntress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[little brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[malinda lo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Malinda Lo Young Adult Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2011 ISBN: 9780316040075/9780316175203 Hardcover/ebook O, Huntress! Some books defy categorization; some books reject our need to make the world linear and instead turn our imaginations inside out for a nice cleaning out of cobwebs, a good letting in of sunshine. Open the pages of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=302&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mockingbird</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg Medina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle Grade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asperger's Syndrome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disabilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Erskine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philomel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puffin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Kathryn Erskine Middle Grade Philomel, 2010; Puffin books, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-399-25264-8/978-0-14-241775-1 National Book Award 2010 I couldn’t have completed my picks without including Mockingbird by fellow Virginian, Kathryn Erskine. This novel, which won a National Book Award, is the story of ten-year-old Caitlin, who struggles to make sense of her brother’s death in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=323&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Girl Stolen</title>
		<link>http://girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/girl-stolen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg Medina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Young Adult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[April Henry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Henry Holt Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by April Henry Young Adult Christy Ottaviano Books: Henry Holt BYR, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-8050-9005-5 * American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults * American Library Association Quick Picks for Young Adults Sometimes, I&#8217;m reminded that we tend to read the way we eat. For some meals, we fill our plate with nutritious food that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=279&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg Medina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Young Adult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Cultural Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Holt Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ying Chang Compestine Young Adult Henry Holt BYR, 2007 ISBN: 0805082077 / 978-0805082074 California Book Award for Young Adult Literature  * 2008 ALA Best Books For Young Adults  * 2008 ALA Notable Children&#8217;s Books  * 2007 Publishers Weekly Best Children&#8217;s Fiction Book List Revolution is Not a Dinner Party offers a look at a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=286&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Calling</title>
		<link>http://girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/the-calling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gigi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle Grade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candlewick Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cathryn Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiritual]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cathryn Clinton Middle Grade Ages 10 and up/Grades 5 and up Candlewick Press, 2001 ISBN 0763613878/ 978-0763613877 Formats: Hardcover, paperback * Parents&#8217; Choice Awards Gold Award Cathryn Clinton&#8217;s first novel, The Calling, made me a lifelong fan of hers and of her book&#8217;s publisher, Candlewick Press. The strong girls that I know are spiritual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=298&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shark Girl</title>
		<link>http://girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/shark-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gigi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Young Adult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candlewick Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelly Bingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kelly Bingham Young Adult Candlewick Press, 2007 ISBN: 0763632074 / 9780763632076 Hard cover, paperback, e-book * South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards Reading List * Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland) * Florida Teen Read Award * Oprah&#8217;s Book Club &#8211; Kids Reading List * Bank Street College Best Children&#8217;s Book of the Year Find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=263&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Speaks Who I Am</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg Medina</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elise Paschen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edited by Elise Paschen; Series Editor: Dominique Raccah Middle Grade Sourcebook Jabberwocky, 2010 ISBN: 13-978-1-4022-1074-7 * National Parenting Publications Award Oh man, do I love this book-and-CD collection – and I say this as someone who is not particularly drawn to poetry. (Forgive me poets!) There are more than 100 poems here that range from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=250&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Butterfly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg Medina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sonya Hartnett Young Adult Candlewick Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7636-4760-5 There is a particular kind of girl who moves from middle grade novels straight into the adult world, without looking back. Her heart and mind are big enough to make the leap into all kinds of reading &#8211; just as long as it moves her. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=166&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bink &amp; Gollie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg Medina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Picture Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tony Fucile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee; illustrated by Tony Fucile Early reader/picturebook/or some new form these brilliant people have discovered, ages 4 – 8 Candlewick Press, 2010 978-0-7636-3266-3 * ALA Notable Children’s Book 2010 * Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Charming, sweet, funny – you could use any of those descriptions for Bink &#38; Gollie. But what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=160&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Crazy Summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meg Medina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle Grade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amistad Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HarperCollins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle grade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rita Williams Garcia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Rita Williams Garcia Middle Grade Amistad Books (Div. of HarperCollins), 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-076088-5 * National book Award finalist * Newbery Finalist * Coretta Scott King Award *Scott O&#8217;Dell Award for Historical Fiction Once I got past the fact that a time period I actually remember qualifies for historical fiction, I warmed up to One [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=150&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Comes After</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 04:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gigi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Young Adult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candlewick Press]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Steve Watkins Young Adult Candlewick Press, 2011 Hardcover/ebook/audio 10-0763642509 / 13-9780763642501 Once while at a writing conference, I heard a famous author ask, &#8220;Does the world really need more stories about child abuse?&#8221; Almost everyone in the audience laughed. I got kind of ticked off. Does the world need more baseball stories? More World [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=124&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Olive&#8217;s Ocean</title>
		<link>http://girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/olives-ocean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 03:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gigi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle Grade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenwillow Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Henkes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olive's Ocean]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Kevin Henkes Middle Grade Greenwillow Books: HarperCollins (2003); paperback, 2005 ISBN:0-06-053543-1/9780060535452 * Newbery Honor Book * ALA Booklist Editor&#8217;s Choice * ALA Notable Children&#8217;s Book * Virginia Young Readers Award * ALA Best Books for Young Adults * New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age No one knows the heart of feisty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=109&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Before We Were Free</title>
		<link>http://girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/before-we-were-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 01:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gigi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Young Adult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBYA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Alvarez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knopf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ya]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Julia Alvarez Young Adult Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2002 ISBN: 0375815449 / 978-0375815447 Also available in paperback and audio * ALA Best Books for Young Adults * ALA Notable Book; Miami Herald Book of the Year * Winner of the Amércias Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature * Winner of the Pura [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=22&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bird</title>
		<link>http://girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/bird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gigi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle Grade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBYA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bird]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle grade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[southern]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Angela Johnson Middle Grade Dial Books, 2004 ISBN: 0803728476 Formats: Hardcover, paperback, audiobook * Louisiana Young Readers Choice Award Nominee * ALA Notable Book * ALA Best Book for Young Adults Angela Johnson writes the South, writes summer, and writes family like nobody&#8217;s business. Her middle-grade novel, Bird, stands as a testament to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=19&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Side of Blue</title>
		<link>http://girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/the-other-side-of-blue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 01:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gigi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Young Adult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clarion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valerie Patterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ya]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Valerie O. Patterson Young Adult Clarion Books, 2009 (hardcover); 2010 paperback ISBN: 978-0-547-24436-5 * Agatha Award The summer after her father drowns in a boating incident, 15-year-old Cyan and her mother return to their vacation home in Curacao. Surrounded by blue sky and sea, her mother, a celebrated painter, needs desperately to work and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=10&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just Us Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 00:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gigi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Picture Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family bond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeanetter Caines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Cummings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[picture book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red hats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road trip]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jeannette Franklin Caines, illustrated by Pat Cummings Picture Book Publisher recommends ages: 4-8, Girls of Summer recommends ages 4-88 Harper Collins, 1984 ISBN: 9780064430562 * Reading Rainbow Book A summer road trip. Two shoe boxes jam-packed with fried chicken, pound cake, and deviled eggs. A summer road trip. Jump off, journey back to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23155272&amp;post=5&amp;subd=girlsofsummerlist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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