Currently stalking the mailbox for:
Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Willow, by Julia Hoban
If I Stay, by Gayle Forman
When the Whistle Blows, by Fran Cannon Slayton
The Earth Shook, by Donna Jo Napoli
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Authors I more or less worship
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Subjects I'll read anything about
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- Armenian genocide
- Circuses
- Disney (the man and the World)
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Helen Keller
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- Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Salem witch trials
- Titanic
- Triangle Shirtwaist fire
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Authors whose porches I'd like to live under:
- Jay Asher
- Shannon Hale
- Patricia Polacco
- Brian Selznick
- Sarah Stewart
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