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Die Men­schen haben den Mars besiedelt und ver­suchen, den Plan­eten bewohn­bar zu machen. Der 16-jährige Durango gehört zu den Reg­u­la­toren, einer Art Söldner-Kaste, die für Ruhe und Ord­nung sorgt. Er soll eine abgele­gene Minen­sied­lung beschützen — vor den kan­ni­balis­chen, halb­men­schlichen Dræu. Read a pre­view of Das Mars-Labyrinth, the Ger­man ver­sion of Black Hole Sun: jetzt reiniesen

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Wastepa­per Prose is read­ing a series of inter­views with authors, ask­ing each author the same ques­tion in each post.  The lat­est ques­tion is: Where is your favorite place to peo­ple watch?  My answer: The subway.

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Appli­ca­tions are now being accepted for the Annual Vir­ginia Hamil­ton and Arnold Adoff Cre­ative Out­reach Grants for Teach­ers and Librar­i­ans. Two grants up to $1,000 each will be given. One grant will be given to a teacher and another to a librar­ian for pro­pos­als to develop new class­room or library pro­grams that raise aware­ness of …

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Matt de la Pena is fight­ing the removal of his books from class­rooms in Ari­zona directly, accord­ing to SLJ: “Author Matt de la Peña is tak­ing a more hands-on approach: he’s using his $1,000 speak­ing fee to pur­chase copies of his novel Mex­i­can White­Boy(Dela­corte, 2008) for the Tuc­son High Mag­net School, where he’s sched­uled to appear …

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A Ver­mont prison inmate who makes sta­tionery and license plates has got­ten the best of the state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruis­ers. Some­where in Ver­mont, there’s a tal­ented artist with a wicked sense of humor.  Too bad he’s in jail.

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