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  <title><![CDATA[The Sweet In-Between]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2008</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Sweet in Between (Readers Circle Series)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sheri Reynolds]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sherri Reynolds is one of my favorite authors and she did not disappoint with this story.  Kendra, also known as Kenny, lives with her father's girlfriend while he serves time in prison for trafficking.  She is getting close to being 18 and is worried about where she'll go after she hits the landmar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41211022">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32365085">
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    <location><![CDATA[Saint Paul, MN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 08 13:16:00 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kendra AKA Kenny is going through a difficult period in her life.  Like most characters in Reynolds's novels, she is dirt poor and living in the South.  Her father is in jail, her mother is dead, and she is currently living with her father's girlfriend, Aunt Glo. <br/><br/>And did I tell you that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32365085">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <location><![CDATA[Amherst, NH]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 06 16:28:52 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 13 10:39:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The other day I was listening to Lucinda Williams, and when I heard &quot;Car Wheels on a Gravel Road&quot; I thought immediately of this book (&quot;little bit o' dirt, mixed with tears&quot;). The protagonist seemed entirely real to me--the very picture of unhinged, devastating Southern poverty an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48459096">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 20 07:07:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 21 15:38:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a coming-of-age story about a &quot;gender-confused&quot; girl whose mother has died, and she lives with her dad's girlfriend since her dad was sent to prison for drug dealing.  She also is concerned that she will be thrown out once the foster-care money stops coming when she turns 18.  The ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56728751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39066555">
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    <location><![CDATA[Saint Louis, MO]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 01 17:38:43 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 17 15:00:45 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[     Seventeen-year-old Kendra “Kenny” Lugo is the protagonist in Sheri Reynolds’ The Sweet In-Between.  Her mother died from cancer when was a kid, and father is doing time for selling and taking drugs.  Kenny lives with “Aunt Glo,” a former (before Mom) and current lover of her father’...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39066555">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62130501">
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    <location><![CDATA[Springfield, MO]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 04 11:35:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 11 11:44:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this is my least favorite of the Sheri Reynolds books I have read, it is still an engaging story.  Kenny (Kendra) is an adolescent girl, struggling with sexual identity, living in a “family” that barely makes it, financially, emotionally, socially, most of the time.  A deceased mother a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62130501">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60195793">
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    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 18 12:20:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 18 12:21:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A novel by the author of <em>The Rapture of Canaan</em>, it was the story of a hard-luck 17-year-old girl named Kendra and all the fears and ambivalence she encountered being raised by a stepmother, “Aunt Glo”, in a hard-luck southern family of “yours, mine and ours.”  (Her mother had died of breast ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60195793">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49847605">
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    <name><![CDATA[Louise]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Ontario, ON, Canada]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 20 03:02:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 10 03:21:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As usual, another fabulous story by Reynolds!<br/><br/>From dust jacket:<br/><br/>&quot;Kendra, or &quot;Kenny&quot;, has grown up in a family that's not really hers. Her momma died of cancer when Kenny was very young, and &quot;Aunt&quot; Glo is, in fact, her daddy's girlfriend, who took her in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49847605">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54273756">
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    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Apr 28 14:11:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 28 23:58:37 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This site is called good reads. I debated even putting this on here.  NOT a good read.  I grabbed it off the library shelf knowing zip about it.  I wish that is where it would have remained for the next sucker instead of me.  I finished it today, and am not sure how or why I made it to the end. This...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54273756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43564707">
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    <location><![CDATA[Indianapolis, IN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 19 07:31:40 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 20 07:04:10 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Go figure that the very first time I see my name used for a main character in a book, she has gender identity disorder and prefers to go by Kenny -- a nickname that I spent my whole childhood avoiding.  Anyway, this is a short, quick read, and Kenny is a sad, sweet character.  She spends her time ob...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43564707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44172441">
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    <location><![CDATA[Nelson, NH]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 24 09:31:28 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 24 09:35:05 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sheri Reynold's previous theme resurfaces in this book - the young girl's punishment and disguise of herself as a girl who is apparently not worth any attention as a human being - only a sex object.  I enjoyed the book, but at times was annoyed but the excessive use of dialogue - only a personal opi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44172441">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63760140">
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    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jul 18 11:02:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love it when I stumble upon good books and discover another great author. This is an incredible story about a young teenage girl in the midwest who is struggling with living in a girls body and feeling like she doesn't belong....anywhere. The girl &quot;Kenny&quot; will totally make you cry with a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63760140">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[To quote Publisher's Weekly:  Simple prose rich with subtext, convincing dialogue and a fascinating protagonist combine to produce a heartstring-plucker that's explicit, tender, sad and hopeful.<br/><br/>This is the story of a 17 year old living in Virginia.  Her mother is dead, her father is in j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48099189">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63660403">
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    <location><![CDATA[Mechanicsville, VA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 22 14:10:22 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jul 22 14:10:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once again, Sheri Reynolds has fully engrossed me as she introduces me to Kenny-a gender confused teenager living in a &quot;less than traditional&quot; family in the South. I found myself simultaneously feeling sorry for Kendra/Kenny and yet in the end I knew that Kenny had strength of character th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63660403">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A “gender-confused” 17-year-old girl is living with her dad's girlfriend while her dad is in jail, and fears she will be kicked out when she is 18.  She binds her breasts and drinks only at night so she won't have to go to the girls' bathroom during the day.  A touching story about a very likabl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63427404">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58730897">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book deals with poor American families in a matter of fact, sometimes funny way and somewhere along the line it sucker punches you with the sheer power of blossoming female sexuality.(Sorta the same way the protagonist gets sucker punched with her own sexuality.) Well written, easy to read, wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58730897">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41637976">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book starts off slow, so I'm glad I stuck with it. Sheri Reynolds has such a knack for developing deep characters and she knows the perfect moment to reveal information- just as the reader is wanting to more, she unveils yet another facet. This book is just a great reminder that everyone has a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41637976">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Apr 15 20:41:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really did not think I liked the story until about 100 pages in and then I appreciated it a lot more. I just love the way Reynolds writes. She has this gift to draw you in and make you feel like you are a true observer of what is happening. I think this is the kind of book that people will either ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52578031">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 13 08:05:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always enjoy Sheri Reynolds' books.  This has a similar protagonist as her previous books in that she is a very poor adolescent girl.  Kenny is a girl struggling with gender identity and worrying that she will lose her home once she turns 18, since she is not a &quot;true&quot; daughter or niece. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63270437">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Dec 20 08:48:15 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 20 08:50:21 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as magical as Sheri's older books, but an entertaining read, nonetheless.  When I say magical, I mean that glow you get inside when you read an amazing plot.  No glow, but I read it cover to cover, which is a decent sign.  The exploration of the main character's struggles with gender identity wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40521682">more...</a>]]></body>
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