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Newsletter #109

October 3, 2016

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of The Journey

The Journey

by Francesca Sanna

MADE-UP

What a beautiful and haunting book. This story of a family that loses its home and father to war and must set out for a safer home might not be a soothing bedtime tale, but for a child curious about t... (Tom)

Cover of The Secret Language

The Secret Language

by Unknown

Out-of-Print Book of the Week The Secret Language by Ursula Nordstrom A few weeks back, I wrote about The Secret Language, the only book the legendary kids' editor Ursula Nordstrom ever wrote herself,... (Tom)

Cover of Today Will Be Different

Today Will Be Different

by Maria Semple

MADE-UP

If people walked around with authors' names on their jerseys there would be almost as many "SEMPLE"s here as "SHERMAN"s and "WILSON"s, and the stadiumful of Where'd You Go, Bernadette? fans (me includ... (Tom)

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