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I Guess I Was Ready

Remember* this entirerecitative about the Gift of Magic cover I could never find, no matter how often I scoured used book tables on Sixth Avenue, so much so that I actually thought it was possible I was going crazy?

My best friend had it in her room the entire past year, having no knowledge of my search, meaning to give it to me.

A Gift of Magic

BEHOLD the true cover of A Gift of Magic! Which Loi...

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	Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick (Goodreads Author), Laura Lippman (Goodreads Author), Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author) 3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alias: The Pursuit: A Michael Vaughn Novel (Prequel Series #5) 3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alias: Shadowed (Prequel Series #12) 3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2004	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pursuit by Lizzie Skurnick (Goodreads Author), Elizabeth Skurnick 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girls' Life Big Book of Friendship Fiction 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

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May 30, 2011 07:52am

Lizzie Skurnick liked Maria M. Elmvang's review of Shelf Discovery:

" An incredibly charming book! Not having grown up in an English speaking country, I'd read depressingly few of the books mentioned (only 18 in total, actually), but I have my own list of Teen Classics I've Never Stopped Reading, so though I might n... "
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Jun 24, 2010 07:20am

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Lizzie Skurnick liked Lori W's review of Shelf Discovery:

" I really liked this book. I loved reminiscing about old favorites (hello Judy Blume, Cynthia Voigt, and that old favorite, Summer of My German Soldier!), remembering books I wanted to read but never got around to (if only Goodreads existed when I... "
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Lizzie Skurnick said "yes" to attending the event: Launch event: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot - MC'd by Jad Abumrad of Radiolab

date: February 01, 2010 07:00PM
location: McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street, New York, NY, The United States
description: Book for sale day before publication date at this launch event. Free & open to the public. Skloot will discuss & sign her new book. Event MC'd by Jad Abumrad of WNYC's RadioLab. Rumor has it, members of the Lacks family will be there too.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The firs...more Book for sale day before publication date at this launch event. Free & open to the public. Skloot will discuss & sign her new book. Event MC'd by Jad Abumrad of WNYC's RadioLab. Rumor has it, members of the Lacks family will be there too.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—more than 100 Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, & the effects of the atom bomb; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, & gene mapping; & have been bought & sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, & voodoo—to East Baltimore today, where her children & grandchildren live, & struggle with the legacy of her cells. Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists began using her husband & children in research without informed consent. The story of the Lacks family—past & present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, & the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.

“Skloot’s book is wonderful—deeply felt, gracefully written, sharply reported.” –Susan(less)

Jan 30, 2010 07:45am

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“Now, suddenly, I was the kind of girl who felt true physical pain when asked to put down a book at the dinner table, who asked friends over and ignored them to finish Island of the Blue Dolphins for the fifth time.”
― Lizzie Skurnick, Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading

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“I was amused and surprised by the odd, visceral details that returned to me with each work: Pa bringing the girls real white sugar wrapped in brown paper in Little House in the Big Woods, Sally J. Freeman having a man-o-war wrapped around her foot (who even know what a man-o-war was?), Claudia choosing macaroni at the Automat in From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. These strong, charged images that have never left me - they're often stronger than memories I have of my old life.”
― Lizzie Skurnick, Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading

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“I was amused and surprised by the odd, visceral details that returned to me with each work: Pa bringing the girls real white sugar wrapped in brown paper in Little House in the Big Woods, Sally J. Freeman having a man-o-war wrapped around her foot (who even know what a man-o-war wa?), Claudia choosing macaroni at the Automat in From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. These strong, charged images that have never left me - they're often stronger than memories I have of my old life.”
― Lizzie Skurnick, Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading

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