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		<title>SPORTS MAD?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tennis&#8230;cricket&#8230;football&#8230;.soccer&#8230;whatever. If you are sports crazy this is your chance to excel.
You might like to write a tv/radio commentary for a game that sticks in your mind, or just describe one amazing move by your favourite player.
You could comment on Federer&#8217;s reaction to losing the Australian Open Final &#8211; did it surprise you and why?
What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reviews competition</title>
		<link>http://theportal.edublogs.org/2009/02/05/reviews-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What did you read during the holidays? Do you realise it could earn you SCRUMPTIOUS REWARDS? We&#8217;re looking for intriguing, scintillating or otherwise impressive reviews that will inspire your fellow students to read the books you have enjoyed&#8230;or did you read something that is to be avoided? Do your friends a favour and warn them!
There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gilla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s about a boy, Todd Hewitt, who is the last boy in Prentisstown, a town with no women. (shock, horror!)he will be a man in 31 days but Prentisstown is dying, all because of the Spackle.
This book is a work of art.  It&#8217;s one of the best books i&#8217;ve ever read and i encourage everyone else to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Centurion by Simon Scarrow</title>
		<link>http://theportal.edublogs.org/2009/01/30/centurion-by-simon-scarrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Sweeney</dc:creator>
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A novel of the &#8220;sword and sandals&#8221; genre, &#8220;Centurion&#8221; follows the trials and tribulations of two Roman generals, Cato and Macro, who are dispatched to the kingdom of Palmyra to quell revolt and deliver the city from Parthian invasion. A rather gratuitously gruesome, gritty and predictable tale unfolds with the outnumbered Romans triumphing against overwhelming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Sweeney</dc:creator>
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Parallel narratives follow clues extracted from the pages of an ancient Jewish text illustrated in the manner of Christian prayer book and rescued twice by Muslim librarians in Kosovo. The book&#8217;s story, from its creation to concealment, from Spain to Venice during the Inquisition, to war torn Sarajevo in the 1940&#8217;s via syphilis-ridden Vienna in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breath by Tim Winton</title>
		<link>http://theportal.edublogs.org/2009/01/30/breath-by-tim-winton-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SENIOR FICTION ONLY
This is Winton’s first novel in 7 years and it won the Age “Fiction of the Year”  Award. It is the story of one boy’s discovery of surfing and the friendships he makes while finding the courage to surf some seriously big waves. Even if you don’t surf, Winton makes you feel like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLER
If you like a good mystery or ghost stories then this is the book for you. This is a dark, somewhat Dickensian tale, full of eccentric characters. Set in the bleak English countryside, a writer tries to piece together the mystery of Vida Winter and the ruin of Angelfield, an old house [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Worries by Bill Condon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short-listed for the Children’s Book Council Awards, this short, well-written novel tells the story of Brian. He is chronically shy, 17 and struggling to deal with his mentally ill Mother, a new job and falling in love. Well worth a read. 

Ms Ophelia Hopkins
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		<title>Precocious and published</title>
		<link>http://theportal.edublogs.org/2008/12/05/precocious-and-published/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Sweeney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scotch Scribes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those budding Scotch Scribes looking for a role model, here&#8217;s an interesting list of authors who were published whilst still under the age of 20 (or who wrote their books that young but were published later). 
Teen/Child published authors
*       Nancy Yi Fan: Swordbird (published at 12 yrs)
*       Zlata Filipovic: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger</title>
		<link>http://theportal.edublogs.org/2008/12/04/chasing-harry-winston-by-lauren-weisberger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Sweeney</dc:creator>
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The author of the Devil Wears Prada has come up with a trio of new characters, all living in Manhattan and trying to juggle careers, family and relationships. Leigh is a book editor for a prestigious publishing house, Emmy is in the restaurant business and Adriana has never worked in her life, living off her [...]]]></description>
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