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Amy Timberlake's newest book, One Came Home, has been called "a True Grit for the middle school set" (Bookpage), "a valentine to sisterhood and a bird that no longer exists" (The Washington Post), and "a rare gem of a novel" (The Christian Science Monitor). It's also a 2013 Junior Library Guild pick, and it's been awarded starred reviews by Kirkus, The Horn Book, School Library Journal and The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

She's also the author ofThat Girl Lucy Moon (Hyperion Books for Children). That Girl Lucy Moon was chosen as a Book Sense Pick, a NYPL’s “100 Titles for Reading & Sharing,” a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of 2007, a 2007 Amelia Bloomer Book, and the winner of the Friends of American Writers Literary A...more



I am really digging these reviews where two folks get together and chat about a book!

Here's one from two librarians:

http://bookends.booklistonline.com/2013/05/22/one-came-home-by-amy-timberlake/

My favorite line? This: "HA! I love a gal who thinks about an index even in times of crisis. Georgia, I will miss you."

Love that!

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Published on May 23, 2013 14:39
Average rating: 3.93 · 588 ratings · 203 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
One Came Home
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions
The Dirty Cowboy
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2003
That Girl Lucy Moon
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions

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Due to popular demand we are starting our Book of the Month reading earlier.

What book should we read in April?

You may write in titles, provided the book is a 2014 Newbery contender and already published.

 
  23 votes 25.3%

 
  17 votes 18.7%

The Center of Everything by Linda Urban (write-in)
 
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  5 votes 5.5%

navigating early (write-in)
 
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jinx (write-in)
 
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  2 votes 2.2%

One came home (write-in)
 
  2 votes 2.2%

Hokey Pokey (write-in)
 
  2 votes 2.2%

Jinx by Sage Blackwood (write-in)
 
  2 votes 2.2%

Center of Everything (write-in)
 
  1 vote 1.1%

Center of Everything (read: One Came Home: book is hobbled by uncertain characterization of main character; Jinx is delightful (aimed at younger readers) (write-in)
 
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One Came Home (write-in)
 
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Mock Newbery 2014: Mock Newbery BOM 38 146 May 02, 2013 05:28pm  
“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
John Muir

“...all works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful....If you emphasize the truth-telling at the expense of art, nobody is going to be interested in it. And if you sacrifice truth in the name of art, you risk triviality. There's a constant balance between those two. ”
Alan Shapiro

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“What I know of spirit is astir in the world. The god I have always expected to appear at the woods' edge, beckoning, I have always expected to be a great relisher of this world, its good grown immortal in his mind.”
Wendell Berry, The Collected Poems, 1957-1982

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