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    <updated_at>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:49:39 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Futurist geeky Japanese girl saves the world. Very  imaginative and totally believable. Themes of friendship, family, loyalty, how to succeed, be popular, find yourself, as well as fighting for good &amp; recognizing evil. Now I am going to read the first three in the series.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:15:23 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Ms Nelson had created an amazing tribute to Emmett Till, a 14 year old boy who was lynched in 1955. His murderers were identified but acquitted. His heartbroken mother held an open casket funeral, drawing the attention of the whole world to his brutal torture and murder, and sparking the Civil Right...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64848940">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2871746.The_Surrender_Tree_Poems_of_Cuba_s_Struggle_for_Freedom">The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/103963.Margarita_Engle">Margarita Engle</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:32:22 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Short blank verse poems tell the story of a young woman and her husband working as nurses in the jungles of Cuba during the three revolutionary wars between 1870 - 1899. They are healers and don't discriminate between Spanish soldiers and Cuban rebels. There is a price on their heads and  they have ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64849223">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:20:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[You are right! I bumped it up. I don't know what I was thinking. It really is a great book.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:33:47 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Really enjoyed this book and the other ones by Wein. This is the story of a young man in Ethiopia or North Africa around the 6th century. It's a made up world and others have said the story combines Arthurian legends with the mythology of many cultures. Telemakos is sent by his grandfather Arthur, w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40579473">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169762.The_Astonishing_Life_of_Octavian_Nothing_Traitor_to_the_Nation_Vol_1_The_Pox_Party">The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/31688.M_T_Anderson">M.T. Anderson</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:20:41 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Loved this book. It tells the story of a 18th century American slave named Octavian. He was raised in Boston and used in a social experiment to see what would happen if an African American child was educated with the best classical education. The horror of that idea sinks in slowly. His owners and t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45820655">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2751662.The_Astonishing_Life_of_Octavian_Nothing_Traitor_to_the_Nation_Volume_II_The_Kingdom_on_the_Waves">The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/31688.M_T_Anderson">M.T. Anderson</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:17:31 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I couldn't wait to read this second volume in the story of Octavian Nothing. <br/><br/>In this book he escaped and lives in Boston, making a living as a musician, and volunteering for the American revolutionary forces. He later runs to Virginia and then joins the British Army under Lord Dunmore, w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45820662">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/517932.Day_of_Tears">Day of Tears (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8161.Julius_Lester">Julius Lester</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:08:51 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The largest slave auction in US history took place in Georgia in 1859. Plantation owner sold 400 slaves in two days to pay of debts. This book is a piercing look into the minds and hearts of all the participants. Families torn apart, relationships betrayed, spirits broken, and tragedy exposed. It's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60525203">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225725.The_House_of_Dies_Drear">The House of Dies Drear (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/24588.Virginia_Hamilton">Virginia Hamilton</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:01:54 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I don't really get this book. Anyone else like it? 13 year old Thomas moves into a huge, creepy old house with his family when his dad gets a job as visiting professor in an Ohio college. The house was an important stop in the underground railroad and is said to be haunted by murdered slaves. The dr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60525323">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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