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Children's Book Week #storylines: Holly Goldberg Sloan

Here’s a quote on the feel-good power of literature, from Holly Goldberg Sloan’s Counting by 7s (Dial Books/Penguin Young Readers Group, 2013):

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Quote #1: Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
Quote #2: Cece Bell, El Deafo
Quote #3: Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Quote #4: Sharon Draper, Out of My Mind
Quote #5: A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Quote #6: Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers
Quote #7: John Green, Paper Towns

Quote #8: Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala
Quote #9: Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Quote #10: E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
Quote #9: Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Quote #10: E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
Quote #11: E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

Quote #12: Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty
Quote #13: David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
Quote #14: Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

Quote #15: Gene Luen Yang, The Shadow Hero
Quote #16: Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses
Quote #17: Ned Vizzini, The Other Normals
Quote #18: Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing
Quote #19: Andrea Beaty, Rosie Revere, Engineer
Quote #20: Walter Dean Myers, Carmen

About Children’s Book Week

Established in 1919, Children’s Book Week is the annual celebration of books for young people and the joy of reading, and the longest-running nationwide literacy initiative in the country. Learn more at bookweekonline.com.

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