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Michael L. Printz Award for excel­lence in lit­er­a­ture writ­ten for young adults. Melina Mar­che­tta, author of Jel­li­coe Road, is the 2009 Printz Award win­ner. The book is pub­lished by Harper­Teen, an imprint of Harper­Collins Pub­lish­ers. Four Printz Honor Books also were named: The Aston­ish­ing Life of Octa­vian Noth­ing, Trai­tor to the Nation, Vol­ume II, The King­dom …

For kicks and gig­gles, I’ve posted a few short sto­ries on my web­site at www.davidmacinnisgill.com/stories/. Some of them have been pub­lished. Some of them haven’t, and when you read them, you’ll know why. I thought I would share them any­way because there’s noth­ing sad­der than a story want­ing to be read.  It goes with­out say­ing …

Lau­rie Halse Ander­son has been blog­ging about the lake effect snow falling on her home town in west­ern New York. She’s posted a photo of her doing her Lucy sam­pling the snowflakes imi­ta­tion, which is an annual occur­rence.  Mean­while, I sit here in rel­a­tively balmy coastal North Car­olina where today’s high was 64, accord­ing to …