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I just saw on Barnes & Noble's website that this book by Pseudonymous Bosch is in the Nook spotlight section for 99 cents. I am currently reading this title and am enjoying it! Of course, you can check it out at the Doss library, but I know that some of you have a Nook and it seems like a good deal to me!

Ironically, I received the following information in an email from BookPeople just this week and have been meaning to share with you...

The Name of This Camp is SECRET:

Pseudonymous Bosch Lit Camp!
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BookPeople Literary Camps is proud to present a weekend camp based on the Secret Series written by anonymous author Pseudonymous Bosch.

Pseudonymous Bosch

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The Name of This Camp is SECRET

Saturday, October 1 - Sunday, October 2nd
10am - 3pm

Pseudonymous Bosch

The author Pseudonymous Bosch is in danger - most likely a future kidnapping victim. We (you campers) have to find him (Pseudonymous Bosch) before they (the villains) can find him and do something horrible, like take his sunglasses and sell them on eBay for $10 million dollars, or reveal the author's true identity. We'll have to dodge shadowy pseudo-mystical groups and spies of all stripes to foil the villains' plans and preserve what dignity the author has left.


Are you smart enough?

"YES!"

Are you tough enough?

"YES!"

Are you humble enough?

"Ohmygosh, YES!!!"



Saturday, October 1st to Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 at BookPeople.

Pseudonymous Bosch will be involved, but don't tell any of the villains. Registration is required.

Download your registration form. Once you've filled it out, please submit the completed form in person at BookPeople or fax it to us (Attn: Topher Bradfield) 512.482.8495.


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Did I get your attention?  Well, I hope so!  This is actually the title of the first book that I read this summer.  I chose it because it has received the following accolades:
... Wow!  I also thought that the title made it a good place to start.  One Crazy Summer was written by Rita Williams-Garcia.  The story takes place in 1968 and tells of three African American sisters who leave Brooklyn to visit their mother in Oakland, California for the summer.  They live with their father and grandmother and the trip to California is strangely disconserting since their mother abandoned them many years earlier.  When the girls arrive in California, their mother does not greet them as one would expect and the story leads the reader through a tumultuous relationship and an interesting summer camp run by the Black Panthers.  Check out this book and take some time to research the true events surrounding this time period.

Hi Gang- Just wanted to let everyone know that I updated the links on my AISD teacher webpage.  I think that you might enjoy checking them out.  I will move them here and to wild4reading's posterous soon, but in the meantime, you can access them here.

Did you know that May is get caught reading month?  I will be looking for Doss readers this month and maybe you'll find yourself on wild4reading's posterous.  Thanks to Ms. G for taking the time to teach and tutor me!  You're never to old to learn new things!

I am also sharing this blog address with the Doss PTA in hopes of getting more traffic and followers.  I set up this blog last year in hopes of having a paperless and green summer reading program.  I mostly hoped that it would be a good place to share and respond to books and to encourage reading.  Though it's been a slow start, I am not giving up.  I ask that all comments be made with first name and last initial only,  I have set up the blog so that I have to approve all comments before they are posted.  I am open to suggestions and feedback look forward to some online sharing and collaboration!

Hope everyone has a very happy get caught reading month!!!!  ~Mrs. Lang

Hi Gang-  This post is for all 4th and 5th graders.  Phil's visit was awesome!  A very special thank you to Mrs. Breazeale and Mrs. Sheldon and the many PTA moms who made the Tuesday RAD event a huge success!  I hope that you enjoyed meeting Phil.  It was great to hear about the writing process from a successful author!  I am looking forward to hearing from you.... Please post a comment about a favorite book by Phil Bildner or a memorable moment from his visit.  I sure would like to hear from you!  Don't be jealous, but I am going to get to see Phil again tomorrow at the Texas Library Association conference.  I'll tell him that you say hello!

Well, I'm finally reading this book by Derek Landy.  I am only on page 57, but am already very interested...  Check out the website!  The first book was originally titled Skulduggery Pleasant, but the newer publication has been renamed, Scepter of the Ancients.  Book two is Playing with Fire and book three is The Faceless Ones.  Topher explained that subsequent books are not being published in the U.S.  We are lucky to have the forth in the series (Dark Days) because my husband was able to bring it back from the UK when he was traveling and we do not have Mortal Coil, the fifth book, but hope to at some point.  It seems that there will be others, but getting them is the challenge.  I'd like to hear from those of you who have read one or more of this series... but please don't spoil it for those who have not read them.