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Groups
Book
Group Archives
Booked For Lunch
2nd Friday of Each
Month at 12 pm:
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2010
Titles
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Book Title and
Author |
Month of Book
Discussion |
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"The
Book of Mercy" by Kathleen Cambor |
January |
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"The
Beekeeper's Apprentice
(or, On the Segregation
of the Queen)"
by Laurie R. King |
February |
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2009
Titles
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Book Title and
Author |
Month of Book
Discussion |
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"River
of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey"
by Candice Millard |
January |
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"Innocent Blood" by P.D.
James |
February |
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"The
Book Thief" by Markus Zusak |
March |
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"The
Giver" by Lois Lowry |
April |
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"Loving
Frank" by Nancy Horan |
May |
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"Red
Tent" by Anita Diamant |
June |
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"Someone Knows My Name" by Lawrence
Hill |
July |
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"Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from
the Unfinished
Civil War" by Tony
Horwitz |
August |
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"The
Power of One" by Bryce Courtenay |
September |
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"Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked
Witch of the West" by Gregory
Maguire |
October |
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"How Green Was My Valley"
by Richard
Llewellyn |
November |
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"The
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie
Barrows |
December |
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2008
Titles
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Book Title and
Author |
Month and Year of Book
Discussion |
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"Luncheon of the Boating Party"
by
Susan Vreeland |
January |
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"Water
for Elephants" by Sara Gruen |
February |
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"Love
and Other Impossible Pursuits"
by Ayelet
Waldman |
March |
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"I'm
Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers" by
Tim Madigan |
April |
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"White
Teeth" by Zadie Smith |
May |
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"A
Thousand Splendid Sun" by Khaled
Hosseini |
June |
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"Madonnas of Leningrad" by Debra
Dean |
July |
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"Sick
Puppy" by Carl Hiaasen |
August |
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"Three
Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver
Relin |
September |
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"Dandelion Wine" by Ray
Bradbury |
October |
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"March"
by Geraldine Brooks |
November |
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"Suite
Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky |
December |
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2007
Titles
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Book Title and
Author |
Month and Year of Book
Discussion |
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"Charming Billy" by Alice
McDermott |
January |
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"A
Great Deliverance" by Elizabeth
George |
February |
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"In
Sunlight, In A Beautiful Garden" by
Kathleen
Cambor |
March |
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"Glass
Castle" by Jeanette Walls |
April |
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"Silent
Spring" by Rachel Carson |
May |
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"Saints
and Villains" by Denise
Giardina |
June |
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"Pope
Joan" by Donna Woolfolk Cross |
July |
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"Snow
Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa
See |
August |
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"The
Piano Lesson" by August Wilson |
September |
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"Appointment in Samarra" by John
O'Hara |
October |
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"Out of
This Furnace" by Thomas Bell |
November |
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"Leaving Cecil Street" by Diane
McKinney-Whetstone |
December |
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2006
Titles
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Book Title and
Author |
Month and Year of Book
Discussion |
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"Fallingwater Rising" by Franklin
Toker |
January
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"The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time"
by Mark Haddon |
February |
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"The
Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri |
March
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"The
Kite Runner" by Khaled
Hosseini |
April
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"An
American Childhood" by Annie
Dillard |
May
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"Dear
Zoe" by Philip Beard |
June
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"The
Shipping News" by E. Annie
Proulx |
July
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"Atonement" by Ian
McEwan |
September |
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"God of
Small Things" by Arundhati Roy |
October |
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"In the
Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship
Essex" by Nathaniel Philbrick |
November |
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"Gilead" by Marilynne
Robinson |
December |
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2005
Titles
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Book Title and
Author |
Month of Book Discussion |
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"Angle
of Repose" by Wallace Stegner |
January
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"Ethan
Frome" by Edith Wharton |
February |
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"Fried
Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" by Fannie
Flagg |
March
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"The
Storyteller's Daughter" by Saira
Shah |
April
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"Girl
With A Pearl Earring" by Tracy
Chevalier |
May |
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"The
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" by Alexander
McCall Smith |
June |
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"Unless" by Carol Shields |
July
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"Fifth
Business (Part One of the Deptford Trilogy)" by
Robertson Davies |
August
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"Where
Angels Fear To Tread" by E. M.
Forster |
September |
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"The
Water is Wide" by Pat Conroy |
November |
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"One of
Ours" by Willa Cather |
December |
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2004
Titles
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Book Title and
Author |
Month of Book
Discussion |
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"The
Women of Troy Hill" by Clare
Ansberry |
January |
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"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel
Keyes |
February |
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"Nickel
and Dimed: on (not) getting by in America" by
Barbara Ehrenreich |
March
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"Oscar
and Lucinda" by Peter Carey |
April
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"Everyday People" by Stewart
O'nan |
May
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"The
Sweet Hereafter" by Russell Banks |
June
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"Independence Day" by Richard
Ford |
July
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"Parliament of Whores" by P.J.
O'Rourke |
September |
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"A
Summons to Memphis" by Peter Taylor |
October
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"A
Prayer for Owen Meany" by John
Irving |
November |
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"Old
School" by Tobias Wolff |
December
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2003
Titles
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Book Title and
Author |
Month of Book
Discussion |
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"In A
Sunburned Country" by Bill Bryson |
January
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"To
Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee |
February |
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"The
Road from Coorain" by Jill Ker
Conway |
March
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"The
Hours" by Michael Cunningham |
April |
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"Out of
this Furnace" by Thomas Bell |
May
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"The
Stone Diaries" by Carol Shields |
June
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"The
Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean |
July
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"The
Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk
Kidd |
August
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"Undaunted Courage" by Stephen
Ambrose |
September |
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"A
Summons to Memphis" by Peter Taylor |
October
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"The
Color of Water" by James McBride |
November |
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"Bel
Canto" by Ann Patchett |
December |
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Evening Book Discussion Group
4th Monday of
Each Month at 7 pm:
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2009
Titles
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Book Title and
Author |
Month of Book
Discussion |
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"The
Time-Traveler's Wife" by Audrey
Niffenegger |
January
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"The
Zookeeper's Wife" by Diane Ackerman |
February |
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"Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara
Kingsolver |
March
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"The
Giver" by Lois Lowry |
April |
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"The
Heretic's Daughter" by Kathleen Kent |
May
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"Run"
by Ann Patchett |
June
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"The
Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup" by Susan
Orlean |
July
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"The
Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson
McCuller |
August
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"One
Thousand White Women" by Jim Fergus |
September |
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"The
19th Wife" by David Ebershoff |
October
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"The Soloist" by Steve
Lopez |
November |
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2008
Titles
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Book Title and
Author |
Month of Book
Discussion |
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"House
of Mirth" by Edith Wharton |
January
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"The
Known World" by Edward P. Jones |
February |
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"The
Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver |
March
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"I'm
Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers"
by Tim Madigan |
April |
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"A Walk
in the Woods" by Bill Bryson |
May
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"The
Good Earth" by Pearl Buck |
June
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"The
Rest of Her Life" by Laura Moriarty |
July
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"The
Birth of Venus" by Anita Diamant |
August
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"The
Coffee Trader" by David Liss |
September |
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"Saturday" by Ian McEwan |
October |
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"Wrong
about Japan: a Father's Journey with His Son"
by Peter Carey |
November |
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2007
Titles
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Book Title and
Author |
Month of Book
Discussion |
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"Shadow
of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
September |
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"The
Diagnosis of Love" by Maggie Leffler |
October |
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"Peace
Like a River" by Leif Enger |
November |
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Parent/Child Book
Group:
The Parent/Child Book Group meets one
Wednesday evening a month. This book group is
intended for parents and their children, ages 8 through
10. Refreshments are provided.
Pre-registration is requested. Below are some of
the titles that have been discussed in the
past:
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Book Title and
Author |
Month and Year of Book
Discussion |
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"Under
the Blood Red Sun" by Graham
Salisbury |
January, 2003 |
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"Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli |
February, 2003 |
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Poetry
Reading |
March,
2003 |
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"Tree
Castle Island" by Jean Craighead
George |
May,
2003 |
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"Macaroni Boy" by Katharine
Ayres |
July,
2003 |
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"Walk
Two Moons" by Sharon Creech |
October, 2003 |
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"The
Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen
Cushman |
January, 2004 |
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"The
Tale of Despereaux" by Kate
DiCamillo |
February, 2004 |
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"Olive's Ocean" by Kevin
Henkes |
March,
2004 |
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"Joey
Pigza Swallowed the Key" by Jack
Gantos |
April/May, 2004 |
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"Hoot"
by Carl Hiassen |
June-September, 2004 |
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"Midnight Magic" by Avi |
October
2004-January 2005 |
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"Nory
Ryan's Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff |
February-March, 2005 |
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"Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen |
March-July 2005 |
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"The
Boggart" by Susan Cooper |
October, 2005 |
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"The
Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" by C.S.
Lewis |
November, 2005 |
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"Midnight for Charlie Bone" by Jenny
Nimmo |
January, 2006 |
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"Prince
Caspian" by C.S. Lewis |
February and March, 2006 |
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"Fish"
by L.S. Matthews |
April,
2006 |
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"Series
of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony
Snicket |
October, 2006 |
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"Charlotte's Web" by E.B.
White |
November, 2006 |
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"The
Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles" by Julie
Andrews Edwards |
January, 2007 |
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"Bridge
Over Terabithia" by Katherine
Paterson |
February, 2007 |
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"Matilda" by Raold Dahl |
March,
2007 |
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"Chasing Vermeer" by Blue
Balliett |
June
2007 |
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"The
Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin |
July
2007 |
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