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Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Taking Teens to Brand-New Worlds with YA Science Fiction

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OMG. Did I remember to mention that I will now be blogging as part of the YALSA HUB team?


Today was my first official post, titled, Taking Teens to Brand-New Worlds with YA Science Fiction.  Anyway, go check it out! I hope it sounds okay...
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