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Newsletter #210

November 19, 2018

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3 books featured in this issue

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All-of-a-Kind Family Hannukah

by Emily Jenkins and Paul O. Zelinsky

MADE-UP

When I first started to read on my own I couldn’t get enough of Sydney Taylor’s All-of-a-Kind Family chapter books, which I recently heard called the “Jewish Little House on the Prairie.” The series f... (Liz)

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Land of Smoke

by Sara Gallardo

MADE-UP

I've been reading these stories for months, off and on in between other books. I'm not sure I could have read them any other way: they read easily, but take some digesting, in the best way. Gallardo w... (Tom)

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Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History

by Glen Berger

TRUE

At some point in the previous decade, news filtered back to me that Glen Berger, the most talented person I knew in college, was writing a Spider-Man musical with U2 and Julie Taymor. What a break for... (Tom)

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