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Entries from July 2008

Alma Fullerton Book Chat Transcript Now Available

July 12th, 2008 · No Comments

As you may recall, the ALAN Book Chats for the month of June featured Alma Fullerton and her novel, Walking on Glass.
If you missed the Book Chat featuring our conversation with Alma Fullerton, you can now access the transcript of the chat by clicking on the link below.  
Alma Fullerton Book Chat Transcript
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ALAN’s Picks: July 2008

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments

“ALAN’s Picks” is a recurring post on ALAN Online featuring book reviews of the newest titles in Young Adult Literature.  Reviews are compiled and posted monthly.  Please visit often to read about the latest titles from the best authors in the business.
Reviewed this month:

Alive and Well in Prague, New York by Daphne Grab
Allie Finkle’s Rules [...]

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An Interview with Ashley Rhodes-Courter

July 6th, 2008 · No Comments

An Interview with Ashley Rhodes-Courter,
author of Three Little Words: A Memoir
by Pam B. Cole 
At the age of three, Ashley Rhodes was taken from her biological mother by Florida child welfare system and placed in foster care. Ashley never again lived with her biological mother. Over the next nine years, she lived in fourteen different foster [...]

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