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BookMark features weekly book reviews submitted by anyone who likes to read and lives within the WPSU-FM listening area.

New releases and books by Pennsylvania authors are preferred, but classics will be considered if the reviewer is able to shed new light on the book.

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02-03-2010

The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963 by by Christopher Paul Curtis

A young adult fiction novel that takes place at the height of the civil rights movement.

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01-27-2010

Slamming Open the Door by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno

A shocking and moving collection of poems about the murder of Bonanno’s daughter.

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01-20-2010

Rules by Cynthia Lord

This Newbury-award winning novel for young adults captures the life of a family with an autistic child.

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12-23-2009

Fit for Table by Mike Robinson

Pennsylvania publisher Stackpole Books has a new offering for hunters--a book that tells you what to do with wild game.

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12-16-2009

Pine Creek Villages by David Ira Kagan

The “Images of America” series offers concise histories of American towns in picture-postcard format. This installment features the logging towns that grew up along Pine Creek in the late 19th century.

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12-09-2009

Of the Wing by Georgia Anne Butler

This book, set in the Pennsylvania woods, is an action-packed adventure that also helps kids learn about birds.

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12-02-2009

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Like the classic 1984, this post-apocalyptic tale presents a post-apocalyptic world where leaders keep the populace pacified--but in this case, with television rather than drugs. In a warped version of the TV show “Survivors,” teens must compete . . . to the death.

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11-18-2009

Gettysburg Gospel by Gabor Borit

PResident Abraham Lincoln’s best known speech may also be his most misunderstood. This book cuts through the myths.

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