Breaking Dawn, the highly anticipated fourth volume of the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer, will be released at 00:01 am on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008. In celebration, McNally Robinson Grant Park will open its doors from midnight to 1:00 am so that fans can get their hands on a copy.
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The winners of the 2007 Cybils Awards (The Children's and YA Bloggers' Literary Awards) were announced on Thursday, February 14th. The Cybils are the only online literary awards. To win, books must combine both literary merit and kid or young adult appeal.
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Ivy and Bean are hilarious. Ivy and Bean are spunky. Ivy and Bean are forever getting into (and out of) trouble.
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Long a darling of the fashion world, model (and granddaughter of the one, the only Roald Dahl) Sophie Dahl has proven that she is also herself deserving of praise as an author. Playing with the Grown-Ups, her second work of fiction, is a bittersweet coming-of-age story.
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Sixteen-year-old Tessa is dying from cancer. After fighting the disease for years, she has been told that she only has a few months left. As her time runs out, Tessa constructs a list of 10 things she wants to do before she dies. At the top of the list is sex, but she also wants to fall in love, experiment with drugs, and break the law. It's a premise that, tackled by a less skilled and sensitive author, could have easily become gimmicky...
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