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  <name><![CDATA[Trudi Trueit]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[At age 13, I wrote a teen column for my hometown newspaper in Kent, WA and my professional writing career was off and running. I've been a television news reporter and weather forecaster, media specialist, and freelance journalist. Now, I write fiction and non-fiction books for children. I have 55 non-fiction titles in print, on everything from video gaming to storm chasing (weather is a passion!).  On the fiction side, I have published a trio of books in a middle-grade coming-of-age series, Julep O’Toole (Penguin). I also write the Secrets of a Lab Rat series (Simon &amp; Schuster). This series features an intrepid fourth-grade inventor named Scab, who spends about as much time torturing his twin sister as he does coming up with wild inventions. The first book in the series is titled No Girls Allowed (Dogs Okay). It was great fun to write, and the illustrations, done by Jim Paillot of My Weird School fame, are hilarious! The second Secrets book, Mom, There's a Dinosaur in Beeson's Lake, will debut in early 2010.
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  <title><![CDATA[Julep O'Toole: Confessions of a Middle Child]]></title>
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  <published>2005</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[No Girls Allowed]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jim Paillot]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
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  <published>2009</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Julep O' Toole: Miss Independent]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Trudi Trueit]]></name>
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  <published>2006</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Julep O'Toole: What I Really Want To Do Is Direct]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Trudi Trueit]]></name>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Mom, There's a Dinosaur in Beeson's Lake]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Trudi Trueit]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jim Paillot]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Octopuses, Squids, and Cuttlefish]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Trudi Trueit]]></name>
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  <published>2002</published>  
  
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