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		<title>Book Review  • Tell the Wolves I’m Home &#8211; Carol Rifka Brunt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ccasionally when people enter the bookYard I ask them about what journey they are on, about themselves and their book interests. Rarely do I find a person who contemplates a book cover but, when they do, I make sure to tickle their mind on what they think the book is about. Tell the Wolves I’m Home [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Claudia Eleibox Mc Dowell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2016 13:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ctober 11 is designated by the United Nations as the International Day of the Girl. Emma Watson, UN Goodwill Ambassador for Sustainable Development Goal number five: Gender Equality, made a social media note of all the progress that joined forces have made for the benefits of the 1.1 billion girls worldwide. The theme for IDG2016 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lapses And Infelicities &#8211; A Review by McDonald Dixon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2016 11:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[dropcap]R[/dropcap]ick Wayne’s eclectic prose meanders throughout 600 pages of this book, reminiscent of the old road from Castries to Vieux Fort when the journey was a butt-peeling two-hour drive. That was before crown agents intervened in the Seventies and straightened out the hairpin bends, with the exception of Morne Road, at the right angle suicide [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Day the Crayons Came Home</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theresa Elibox]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2016 11:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[dropcap]E[/dropcap]very kid loves to colour so you can just imagine how perturbed a child would be if one day his crayons went missing. In this book “The Day the Crayons Came Home”, little Duncan just wants to colour at school and bring to vivid life all his wild creations on the blank pages in his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review •  Book Review  •   Book Review • Book Review ~ The Gruffalo’s Child &#8211; Julia Donaldson Illustrations by Axel Scheffler</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theresa Elibox]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2016 12:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is said that everyone is a reader once they have found the perfect book. If you are trying to get your little one more engaged, especially over this extended weekend break, this may just be the perfect read. The story is about a great, big Gruffalo who tells his tales about the mysteries and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book review   •  Book review ~ The Tail of Emily Windsnap  – Liz Kessler</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2016 13:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Children’s stories are magical; they have the ability to capture a young mind and transport it to a world that invites creativity and sparks the imagination. “The Tail of Emily Windsnap” is one of those books. Twelve-year-old Emily is desperate to take swimming lessons. Unbeknownst to her, there is a reason the water calls to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review •  Book Review ~ Enticing Short Stories by Gyanchand Rayman &#8211; An anthology of Caribbean short stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2016 05:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gyanchand Rayman was born in Guyana, has lived in many Caribbean islands and currently resides in Saint Lucia. According to the short biographical write-up at the end of the book, Rayman has worked with young people over time through different avenues. He is also seasoned in various forms of literature and theatrics. This collection is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Launch at The bookYard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2016 05:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Friday 24th June The bookYard at Star Publishing was the venue for another book launch: Against The Odds &#8211; Inspiration for Parenting Children with Special Needs by Delia D. Samuel, Ph.D. Dr. Samuel is Lucian-born, a mathematics professor and a single mother of her two beautiful sons who both have special needs, having been [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review •  Book Review ~ The Paper Magician &#8211; Charlie N. Holmberg</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Claudia Eleibox Mc Dowell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2016 05:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Charlie N. Holmberg’s The Paper Magician is the perfect summer read. Set in the late 1800s in England, the story centres on Ceony Twill, a young lady who is about to begin her apprenticeship with Magician Emery Thane. Ceony graduated at the top of her class at the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book review   •  Book review   ~ Absolutely True Lies by Rachel Stuhler</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Claudia Eleibox Mc Dowell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2016 05:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After guiltily judging the book by its cover and hesitating to read it, I finally learnt that Absolutely True Lies wasn’t a romance novel at all. I read almost half of the book close-minded, annoyed at how superficial it seemed, until a revealing conversation between two of the main characters in chapter 10, and I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book review   •  Book review ~ The Book Thief – Markus Zusak</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Claudia Eleibox Mc Dowell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2016 05:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I picked up this book knowing nothing except that I had heard only formidable remarks about it. Therefore, I was in no way prepared for the number of heartbreaks I would experience while reading it. First of all, you need to know that this book is narrated by Death. Not a skeletal, hooded creature, although [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book review   •  Book review  ~ The Invention of Wings  – Sue Monk Kidd</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Claudia Eleibox Mc Dowell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2016 05:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sarah and Angelina Grimke were the first white and female abolitionists from their homeland in Charleston, South Carolina. According to historical accounts, the sisters were steadfastly rebellious and fought not only for abolition of slavery, but racial and gender equality. In Sue Monk Kidd’s book she creates the characters she imagines these two women to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Honouring Virginia Alexander,  4 Decades of Dance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2016 05:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Sunday 1st May, many people who appreciate art and culture gathered at the National Cultural Centre. There, the Cultural Development Foundation produced and hosted the second volume in the Cultural Icons series. This year’s production was a tribute to Virginia Alexander and four decades of dance in Saint Lucia. Virginia Alexander, or “Aunty Virgie”, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Fault in Our Stars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2016 18:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Paper Towns</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Book Yard Book Shelf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night—dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows her. Margo’s always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she’s always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q . . . until [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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