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Allergies, Lots of Reading, and Finishing a DNF

September 28, 2009 Books and Reading

After looking forward to The Word on the Street all week, we all ended up missing the entire event. On Saturday, with the colder weather and the rain, allergies began hitting us – not the tiny-sniffle type of allergies, but full blown sinus-pressure, drippy nose (you wanted to hear that one, didn’t you?), cough [...]

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Review: The Calder Game, by Blue Balliett

November 20, 2008 Books and Reading

Synopsis:
Two Calders are missing. One is a sculpture. One is a boy.
When Calder Pillay travels with his father in a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery … including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while other people have less-than-friendly [...]

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Review: The Wright 3, by Blue Balliett

November 15, 2008 Books and Reading

Ms. Bookish’s Quick Take: The Wright 3 is a wonderful sequel to Balliet’s award-winning Chasing Vermeer. An elegant and literary mystery, The Wright 3 follows Petra and Calder, and Calder’s old friend Tommy as they become deeply immersed in the mystery of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House. The three are drawn into an intricate [...]

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