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Question of the Week - Which Book Title Best Describes You?

Metamorphosis (Ovid)

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Question of the Week - Words that Make You Cringe

I hate the word "tender," and I don't know why.

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Question of the Week - Grammar Pet Peeves

I visited a bakery recently, and there was a display of beautifully decorated cookies all emblazoned with the words "Your Great!" I bought one as a treat for a grammar-nazi friend of mine, but didn't have the heart to point out the typo to the folks who had spent so much time decorating them. I think the mistake that irks me the most is the use of "could of" or "should of" instead of "could have" or "should have."

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Question of the Week - Favorite Banned Books

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson: A children's picture book about two male penguins at the Central Park Zoo in NYC who form a close bond and are given the opportunity to care for an egg and rear a baby penguin. According to the ALA, it's been the most challenged book of 2006-2010. Seriously, it's the twenty-first century, folks. What are we trying to "protect" our children from by censoring this book --developing a sense of tolerance and understanding?

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Reader Challenges - Twitter Tales

I used to have dreams, but I twittered my life away.

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Reader Challenges - School Jitters

Bubbling with excitement, I tugged on my first-day-of-school outfit, wolfed down some cheerios, grabbed my new backpack, and skipped outside just in time to see the bus pull away.

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Reader Challenges - Should Have but Haven't Books

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Reader Challenges - 6 Word Autobiography

Growth, decay, and all the rest.

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Reader Challenges - 50 Word Fright

For years, I slew monsters under his bed with the flick of a light-switch. Then they got smart and took refuge inside him. They haunted his waking mind; I couldn't drive them away. Nightly, I tucked them all in together and watched his monsters eat him from the inside out.

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Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

persnickety

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