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See you at TLA!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Texas Library Association<\/a> is meeting in Houston this week.<\/p>\n

I’m signing these books on Wednesday, April 18, 2012<\/strong>. (That’s tomorrow!)<\/em><\/p>\n

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I’m signing Road Work Ahead<\/strong> from 10am-12pm at Overlooked Books<\/strong> Booth #2629<\/p>\n

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I’m signing All-Star Cheerleaders<\/strong> from 10am-12pm at Overlooked Books<\/strong> #2629<\/p>\n

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I’m signing Read and Write Sports<\/strong>\u00a0from 1-3pm at ABC-Clio<\/strong> Booth #1502<\/p>\n

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I’m signing A Girl’s Guide to Volleyball<\/strong>\u00a0from 3-4pm at Capstone<\/strong> Booth #1919<\/p>\n

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Picture Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A Hockey Story<\/a>
\nby Richard L. Torrey (Author, Illustrator)<\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> A young boy joins a new hockey team…<\/p>\n

Snippet:<\/strong> Every Saturday morning I wake up really, really early and go to the ice rink.
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Chapter Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Wood Queen<\/a>
\nby Karen Mahoney (Author)
\n336 pages<\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> To keep her best friend, Navin, from being killed at the hands of vicious wood elves, Donna Underwood stole the elixir of life. Now she\u2019s facing an alchemist tribunal while her mother lies dying, succumbing to the elven curse that shattered her mind. In desperation, Donna seeks an audience with Aliette, the fierce and manipulative Wood Queen, who offers a deal: if Donna can use her strange and burgeoning powers to help the wood elves, Aliette will free her mother from the curse. Along with Navin and Xan, the half-fey guy she\u2019s falling for, Donna struggles to unlock the secrets of her iron tattoos in time to save her mother\u2019s life. But some secrets are better left untold.<\/p>\n

Snippet:\u00a0<\/strong>And the crows; so many of them. A murder of crows? Circling around and around in an indigo sky, shedding oly feather that look like black petals.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’m just having anxiety dreams ahead of the trial. Aunt Paige gets mad when I call it that–my trial–but isn’t that what it is?
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April 2012 Carnival Of Children’s Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n

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