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		<title>Ship Breaker takes the Printz!</title>
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I picked up Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi to take with me during my holiday travels, and was gearing up to write a glowing review when I woke up this morning to find that it has been awarded the 2011 Michael L. Printz award!
I must stay that I absolutely agree with the committee on this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cardigannation.com/2011/01/10/ship-breaker-takes-the-printz/</link>
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		<title>GalleyCat&#8217;s Best YA Novels of 2010</title>
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GalleyCat did a YA Novel &#8220;mixtape&#8221; where they asked their readers to submit their best YA Novels of 2010, with the stipulation that each novel on the list had to also have a free chapter excerpt available online. Some of the novels, like Markus Zusak&#8217;s The Book Thief, was a 2007 release, but the list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cardigannation.com/2010/12/08/galleycats-best-ya-novels-of-2010/</link>
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		<title>Figment.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Came across this article in the New York Times about the new teen literary site, Figment.com. On the surface, it seems like a neat idea, for teens to upload their stories and poems to a wider audience, but I&#8217;m a little leery of the way that the site makes its money. Publishers will pay for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cardigannation.com/2010/12/05/figment/</link>
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		<title>Reading through the YALSA blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m behind on my Google Reader, so I&#8217;ve just started to work through the posts on the YALSA blog regarding the YA Lit Symposium.
The YALSA blog is really a wealth of information, and I encourage anyone with an interest in teen services/teen literature to check it out. One of the many resources offered was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cardigannation.com/2010/12/01/reading-through-the-yalsa-blog/</link>
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		<title>A couple of YA recommendations&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of links for the holiday:
American Indians in Children&#8217;s Literature : Good Books about Thanksgiving List
Gayle Forman&#8217;s NPR List of the Year&#8217;s Best Teen Reads
Make sure to read through the comments on both, they add a lot to the posts!
The smell of pumpkin pie baking in the oven is making me hungry and happy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cardigannation.com/2010/11/25/a-couple-of-ya-recommendations/</link>
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		<title>In honor of the first snowfall of the season&#8230;</title>
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Femme Fisherman Cardigan &#8211; Anthropologie

and even though this isn&#8217;t a cardigan, it is just beautiful:

Intelligencer Coat &#8211; Anthropologie
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		<link>http://www.cardigannation.com/2010/11/21/in-honor-of-the-first-snowfall-of-the-season/</link>
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		<title>Books about people &#8220;trapped together&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this reader&#8217;s advisory thread on Ask Metafilter. At first I thought it was a little morbid, then I realized that I had read a lot of the titles, so I&#8217;m not sure what that says about me.
I think a lot of these could be crossover titles, especially Life of Pi, the Stephen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cardigannation.com/2010/09/09/books-about-people-trapped-together/</link>
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		<title>Wow, just wow.</title>
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This is pretty terrible. I usually love Leifsdottir, but no, no, no. Maybe there is a way to cut off the Poni? Too bad we&#8217;ll never get to see this in person, since it is only available online. 
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		<link>http://www.cardigannation.com/2010/09/08/wow-just-wow/</link>
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		<title>Some Baking to Scare By&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, summer is over here in Washington State. The line of children at the bus stop, all bundled in their rain slickers and goulashes, lets you know that not only is it raining buckets, but that school is back in session. So, naturally, once school begins, you start thinking of the days when you can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cardigannation.com/2010/09/08/some-baking-to-scare-by/</link>
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		<title>Hunger Games Word Puzzles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Need a Hunger Games word puzzle for your Mockingjay realease party? Check out the Puzzlemaker at Discovery Education to create word search or criss-cross puzzles.
Here is one that whipped up today: Hunger Games Criss Cross Puzzle
Also, if you need help creating the clues, you can use the Hunger Games Wiki to help you with all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cardigannation.com/2010/08/11/hunger-games-word-puzzles/</link>
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