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Hello!

Have you seen it yet? You know what I am talking about, of course. The Harry Potter movie!!! The wormkids and I went to see it yesterday afternoon and it was FANTASTIC! We were thrilled to see how much they followed the book instead of dropping in things and making up stuff that would make us cringe.

It was fun seeing how the director interpreted every place, every person and every thing. While we all still have our own impressions from the book, it was nice to see how someone else sees it. Think about it. You rarely talk about things like that when you read a book. The impressions that you have are yours. It's not like you draw the characters for your friends.

We are planning a survey about the movie for early next week where you can tell us what YOU think.  So keep checking Kidsreads.com to look for it!

Now for this week's news...

--Booker T. Worm

Question of the Week
Here's this week's Question of the Week:

What did you think about the Harry Potter movie?

Send your answer to YouSaid@kidsreads.com. Write "Question" in the subject line. We'll post your answers online!

The Very First Americans
November has officially been declared American Indian Heritage Month, and so in celebration we put together a HUGE round-up of books by and about Native Americans. Now you can take a closer look at what these native peoples were (and are) like in our round-up of Native American books.

MY NAME IS AMERICA Series
A companion series to the highly popular DEAR AMERICA series, MY NAME IS AMERICA features stories that are part fiction, part fact, told through the eyes of young boys from ages 12 to 16. They come from different countries and different backgrounds to make a new life in America.

BOOK REVIEWS:

SUDDENLY TWINS
What if you were minding your own business, getting ready for school, when you look into the bathroom mirror and see somebody else looking back at you? He looks just like you, only he's a boy. You're a girl. Your world runs by science, so his world runs by magic. And he needs your help desperately, or else a wicked witch named Lori Lee will take over his world and control everybody. Read SUDDENLY TWINS to find out how this adventure ends.

HALF-HUMAN
The question of how and when are we human and when we are not is presented both forcefully and subtly. The authors use the short story form well, allowing the reader to think about the stories and ask themselves what the question means both personally and to humans in general. HALF HUMAN also explores what it feels like to not "fit in". While these characters may have extras --- like wings or tails --- their stories are touching and familiar to any kid who feels left out.

We Asked, You Said
To see everyone's answers to the last Question of the Week: "If you could write a book report about any book you wanted, which book would it be?" Check out the responses at We Asked, You Said.

Quote of the Week

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. --- Paul Goodman


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New trivia game added for My Name is America fans! ** WHO AM I **

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Mailbag

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Poems from fellow Bookworms

             The butterflies Fly
~~~The Butterflies fly
          In the beautiful spring rain
      and over shining stars----------~~~~

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In the morning high above,
far in the sky something yellow and bright,
people see and get out of sight,
cause the light is so bright.

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I am a major bookworm.My favorite books are  Harry potter,The amazing days of abby hayes,A sires of unfortunate events,and the agony of alice.

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Mail from fellow Bookworms

Note from Booker: Is there a great read that you'd like to tell others about? If so, drop me a note about it at BookerTWorm@aol.com and maybe you'll see it posted in the next newsletter!

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This is to the person who wrote about Hatchet. It's a great book about survival!

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Dear Booker and friends (and anyone reading),
The first letter i am want to reply to, is the one about the Zanth novels. I wish that I could spot all those great books! If i could go to Border's as often and stay there 'till they close, i bet i'd find all the best books in the world! I wish that the writer of this letter could have put the book into more detail. I wonder where him/her got it?

Next letter to reply to-
I have heard about the Dear America series. I tried to get one from the library but someone snatched up the last one! I started to read this other series like the Dear America series but I never got to finish it. sigh. :'(

Next letter:
I have heard a lot about the Dark Materials and I could never find them! Drat. I am a book LOVER , in fact our class was assigned two book reports, one on horror and one on whatever kind of book you want. The Freestyle book i got was a bonus! You won't believe what happened to me. When we went to Library class, they had gtten in a ''Brand NEW'' shipment of the GREATEST books, and I found one on ballet and dance which I LOVE also and I found the first one to the series and the second one! When we go to Library Class again this Monday I am sure that I am going to find more of that series. Oh back to this letter.(sorry) um... the writer said that there was this book called "The Great Book of Amber" and it is all about magic and I hope that I get to read it one day.
Bye guys,
A fellow 11 year old bookworm

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I have to agree with whoever said they liked Little Women a lot. It's hard and long but really good

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I love this newsletter so much!I like to read alot.I like to read this!

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Slap Your Sides is a very silly darn book name!

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Dear Booker.T. when you said next year for Holloween  to give out books I was groaning. My idea is to give out candy and books instead of onil books.

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I absolutely love Brian Jaques thrilling Redwall Series ! It is so magical ! I love them all ! I can't say I have a favorite for they are all so good ! I still have three more to read: Lord Brocktree,Taggerung,and lastly A Redwall Winters Tale .

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Just Ella is a great book!! It is just like Cinderella except they tell you what happens after the ball.  She is engaged to Prince Charming in the book but later in the book she thinks he is Prince Boring he is so boring.  So she decides to tell him that she does not want to marry him.  He gets mad and says she can't do that and locks her up in the dungeoun and threatens her to stay there till the wedding day or until she gets to her senses.  It is REALLY a good book.  You have to read it.  Will she get married to the prince or go back to her own village? You will love this book.
A fellow Bookworm

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I LOVE PATRICA  PALOCCO!!!HER BOOKS ARE GREAT BECAUSE THEY EXPLAIN TO ME HOW SHE GREW UP IN A MAGICAL WAY.I ALSO ADORE HER INSPIRERING ILLATRATIONS.WOW!!!!!!SHE IS SUCH A BRILLENT WRITTER!!!

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my favorite book is the ghost of fossil glen. it's about a girl who receives messages from a ghost of a girl was murdered. she has to find out who teh murderer was. can you please have something on that book, thanks.

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There is this really good book I read called Ella Enchanted.  It's about a duchess who has a curse on her that makes her do everything people tell her to.  It's so cool!

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Thank you for everything you have said.My favorite books are The Harry Potter series,Nancy Drew books,Bloomabilitys,and many more.

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Island of the Dolphins is such a good book ! Its about an indian girl who waits and waits with her little brother for the english men to take her tribe off the island. Then the ship arrives and she boards and she cant find her little brother ! He is still on the island ! The boat starts moving away ! She cant leave her little brother alone on the island so she jumps into the ocean and swims ashore to her brother. The is too far away now to swim to it . They are stuck on the island alone ! Her little brother goes to find there canoe on the other side of the island but is gone too long so she sets out to find him. She found him dead . He was attacked by the wolves. She stays here for years alone learning to live by herself and keeps on waiting for the English to come and fighting the wolves. She makes friends with one injured wolf and at the end of the story the english come and take her away to the rest of her tribe!

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I absoloutly love Harry Potter books. But, there is also another book that I absoloutly love. It's called The Secret of Platform 13. I recommend this book to anybody who likes Harry Potter books or who just plain likes stories that are just too good to put down. Please read the book. You'll enjoy it. I promise.

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MY FAVORITE BOOK WAS THE SCARIEST STORIES YOU EVER HEARD PART THREE

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Can you please put something about her EVERWORLD series?  I see all of this stuff on Animorphs and Remnants, but nothing on EVERWORLD!  I don't like the other series, but I'm dying to know the news with EVERWORLD. Did she stop writing them?   Is the series over?

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I think harry potter is a great set of books to read and I think you should make like a whole section for harry potter and keep Ramona Shrek out of all of it. Please make a section for only Harry Potter for MAJOR Harry Potter fans like me. Thank you for hearing me out.

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I think u should read the book Homecoming.............
it is the BEST!

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Hey...I want you to put in the newsletter about the book P.S. Longer Letter Later by Paula Danziger and Ann M. Martin. Also the sequel to that which is Snail Mail No More. In P.S. Longer Letter Later, two girls keep their friendship when one moves away by writing letters through snail mail. In Snail Mail No More, the girls get email and correspond by email. I hope for you to put some information about these 2 books in your newsletter because I think alot of girls ages 9-14 will love this book and find it very interesting like I did. Also, thank you for putting information about the Dear America series because I read the Dear America Pearl Harbor Dairy book and I LOVED it and I wanted to know more Dear America books.

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YOU CAN CHECK OUT BLUE MOON MOUNTAIN AT YOU'RE BUBLIC LIBRARY

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I am writing you to say that i love aol kids section and it is cool how you have all the authors names so I am just commenting and suggesting that all the books by Avi are totally terrific and I suggest all the ones from DIMWOOD FOREST TALES they are awsome and so is the author Avi and his illustrater Brian Floca.

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My favorite author is Carolyn Keene. She writes the Nancy Drew mystery stories. There is a set that is a series. It is the most wonderful mystery book I ever read.

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I know just about when the Harry Potter book 5- The Order of Phoenix (or something like that) is coming out. I've read all the chats AOL has had with J. K.  Rowling and I've gotten all the books on her chats, and I've even written to her. It's around June. There's this one holiday at the end of May, and she's gonna publish it just some time after that. You can tell I love the Harry Potter series!!

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THE BOOK I REALLY DID ENJOY WAS A BOOK BY WALTER DEAN MYERS CALLED THE SCORPIONS

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I recommend reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. The hobbit is the one to read before. They are a wonderful series and since the movie is coming out in December, it would be neat to read the books before you see the movie.
~Book Reader of Course!~

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Last newsletter I saw someone say that they loved Brian Jaques Redwall books.  If you like Brian Jaques, there is another really good book by him called Castaways of the Flying Dutchman.  It's not realated to Redwall at all, but it's really thrilling and great!  So if you liked the Redwall books, you should try this one!

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knock knock' who's there andy'andy who" andy he scared  me

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why did the book crose the rode?  
     Becuase so its pages wont come out.

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WELL I JUST GOT DONE READING A BOOK IT IS CALLED
LITTLE HOUSE BOOK IT WAS REALLY COOL I READ EVERY
BOOK BY LAURA INGALLS.

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I just love your site. At school we do book reports every month. Last book that I read was " Who Put That Hair In My Toothbrush." It was great!
       Currently, I am reading a novel called " A Girl Named Disaster." It is a terrific book so far!

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why didnt the skeleton  cross the road?
he didnt have the guts too

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Hi Booker T Worm. I wanted you to tell Ann Martin that I love to read all her babysitter books. My Grandma has been buying me all of these wonderful books. I want to really see Ann Martin. I will tell you all the books that I have Babysitter book #15, Karen's In Love, Babysitter book #16, Karen's Goldfish, Babysitters Club book #2, Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls, Babysitter Club book #3, The Truth About Stacey, Babysitter Club book #113, Claudia Makes Up Her Mind, Babysitter Club book #24, Kristy and the Mother's Day Surprise, Babysitter Club book #18, Stacey's Mistake, and Babysitter Club mystery book #7. That is all the books I have on Babysitters. I love these books. I hope my Grandma gives me more on Christmas.

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the best kept secret is a great book

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I read 2 many books 2 tell u but i can give u a few
1) Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
2) Harry Potter Series----though cos every1 goes on and on bout him i'm gettin kinda sick of him everywhere! by J.K. Rowling
3)Sally Lockhart Quartet and His Dark Materials Series by Philip Pullman
4)Redwall Series r ok but the plot IS kinda complicated 2 tell a WHOLE book report on them! by Brian Jacques
5)Animorph Series r ok as well but i find that, even thogh there's lotsa action and cool stuff goin on, the characters don't change. I like books with the characters at least change in some way @ the end. by K.A.Applegate
6)The Lord of the Rings Series by J.R.R Tolkien
7)The Doomspell by i can't remember------but it's a GREATbook!!!!!
8) most books in The Chrestomanci Series by Diana Wynne Jones

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Wow! "There's A Boy in the Girls Bathroom" was a superb book. It was very humorous story. I love the way Lois Sacher tells the story. He is a great author. I've read much of his work. All of his stories are witty. You never want to put his books down. At least I don't. I also read his book,"Frindle" which was very marvelous too. His stories are incredibly enjoyable and make you laugh out loud. I'd love to read more of his books for pleasure. They are lightweight stories, and very intriguing to the mind.

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I think kids should read The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles. It has cool fantasy animals in it.

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I think you have an interesting job. I am reading The School Story. It is a great book. Great job Mr. Clements!

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I just love the "My Teacher`s an Alien" series. They are GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are four books in a series, "My Teacher`s an Alien", "My Teacher Fried my Brains", "My Teacher Glows In the Dark", and "My Teacher Flunked the Planet".
They are all GREAT BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please put this up in you Newsletter so others can read these books!!!!!!!!!!

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i know this is only a site for young children, but even as a young chil in 4th and 5th and 6th i read things and i'd just like to see my favorites included- pastwatch, the redemtion of colombus is an extremely good book i was pelased to see that you had included his dark arts material and, even though ive never read this, i think maybe into the looking glass would be great. also, be sure to include douglas adams and Ender's Game

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My favorite book is Mary-kate and Ashley The Mystery Dog Camp.In    this story there are dogs that are bad get red colars that they have to were.I thot it was a really good story maybe you'll enjoy it to.

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