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	<title>Reading Backwards book reviews &#187; young adult</title>
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		<title>Me on Jezebel on The Song of the Lioness</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/06/me-on-jezebel-on-the-song-of-the-lioness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[young adult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jezebel.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamora Pierce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a fan of Jezebel.com, though I do wind up there sometimes. Sreya sent me a very me-oriented link, however: Alanna: The First Adventure: For The Crossdressing Knight In Every Girl. Jezebel takes a look at YA lit they loved as kids, and evaluate them now. (Not a new concept, but something that does <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/06/me-on-jezebel-on-the-song-of-the-lioness/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ella Enchanted</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/05/ella-enchanted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 07:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dragons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairy tales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fluff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[for kids]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gail Carson Levine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Gail Carson Levine
Read: Repeatedly since 1997. Most recently, April 2010
Rating: J&#8217;adore
Some books are like old friends. It doesn&#8217;t matter where you left off, or how long it&#8217;s been, you fall right back into friendship as soon as you meet up. Ella Enchanted is one of my favorite books. I can still remember sighting it <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/05/ella-enchanted/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Summers at Castle Auburn</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/04/summers-at-castle-auburn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/04/summers-at-castle-auburn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fairy tales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loved it]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sharon Shinn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Sharon Shinn
Read: Again and again, starting in 2002, now April 2010
Rating: LOVE
I love, love, love this book. It is one of the first Shinn books I ever read, and it was serendipitous the way I found it. We were on vacation in California, and the only redeeming quality of the crappy little town we <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/04/summers-at-castle-auburn/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rapunzel: The One With The Hair</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/04/rapunzel-the-one-with-the-hair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/04/rapunzel-the-one-with-the-hair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fairy tales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[for kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[romance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wendy Mass]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Wendy Mass
Read: April 2010
Rating: Sweet
This is a really cute book, best for younger readers. Disney&#8217;s new Rapunzel movie, Tangled, is coming out in a year or so, making this a timely choice. It&#8217;s told in diary form, which allows the kids to speak like kids.
Rapunzel has grown up with her loving parents, who make <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/04/rapunzel-the-one-with-the-hair/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Princess Academy</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/04/princess-academy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fairy tales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[for kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loved it]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shannon Hale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Shannon Hale
Read: April 2010
Rating: Really sweet
I&#8217;ve been wanting to read this for a long while, but never enough to get around to buying it. Luckily, my bestie had a copy she let me borrow. Very, very glad I got to read it at last.
Miri lives with her family on top of a mountain, where <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/04/princess-academy/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Graceling</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/03/graceling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/03/graceling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[book trailers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental powers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kristin Cashore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Kristin Cashore
Read: Feb/Mar 2010
Rating: Worthy
Graceling was a gift, from someone who swore it was excellent. It should be, it has the endorsement of Tamora Pierce. It is a good book, with a good world, and enough momentum to keep one reading. I won&#8217;t say I adored it, but it was very enjoyable.
In the world <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/03/graceling/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tithe</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/tithe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/tithe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boys kissing boys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemporary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairy tales]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holly Black]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Holly Black
Read: February 2010
Rating: REAL
As someone who tends toward fantasy, I&#8217;ve heard over and over again that in order to make the fantastic seem believable, you have to ground it in the real. I never expected to find a book, any book, that would seem to mimic my own life so closely.
Kaye is a <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/tithe/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie vs. Book: Ella Enchanted</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/movie-vs-book-ella-enchanted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/movie-vs-book-ella-enchanted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie vs. Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairy tales]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fluff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hated it]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gail Carson Levine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/?p=888</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, I discovered a wonderful, wonderful book. Gail Carson Levine&#8217;s Ella Enchanted is immerses you in Ella&#8217;s world, giving you a best friend as well as an adventure.
Then Hollywood got their hands on it. And THEY RAPED IT.
Below is an off-the-cuff rant I wrote in 2004, before the movie was even released. <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/movie-vs-book-ella-enchanted/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Safe Boundaries</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/beyond-safe-boundaries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/beyond-safe-boundaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twentieth Century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[for kids]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[young adult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Sacks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Margaret Sacks
Read: February 2010
Rating: Hmm
I want to talk about this book in two capacities&#8211;as a story, and as a representation of South Africa. My bestie gave it to me for Xmas, and it looks like a pretty rare find to me. I had no idea there were kids books about SA in 1989, when <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/beyond-safe-boundaries/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Louder Than Words: Marni</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/01/louder-than-words-marni/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/01/louder-than-words-marni/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Americas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[for Feminist Review]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marni Bates]]></category>

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By Marni Bates
HCI Teens
Louder Than Words is a series aimed at teenagers about teenage experiences. Atypically, the volumes are also written by teenagers. It may seem bizarre to ask teenagers to write memoirs—as Marni says, her siblings laughed—but Louder Than Words is dedicated to “reinforce[ing] the message that the experiences of teenagers and their perceptions <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/01/louder-than-words-marni/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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