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Newsletter #274

June 1, 2020

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3 books featured in this issue

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Sin Eater

by Megan Campisi

MADE-UP

Sin Eater takes a little-known historical role and expands it in this imaginative novel set in an alternate Elizabethan England. For stealing a loaf of bread, teenage orphan May is forced to become a... (Haley)

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The Little Island

by Margaret Wise Brown and Leonard Weisgard

MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #52

The Little Island We usually choose new picture books for Phinney by Post Kids, but when this one—which I had never seen before, even though it was written by Margaret Wise Brown and won a Caldecott i... (Tom)

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The Living Mountain

by Nan Shepherd

TRUE Phinney by Post #65

The Living Mountain It's hard to imagine that a book this powerful sat unread in its author's drawer for thirty years. Written in the '40s and finally brought out a few years before Shepherd's death,... (Tom)

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