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A star-studded night with Jeff Kinney

The scene inside of Belmont University’s Curb Event Center (in Nashville) was a little out of the ordinary on Friday, November 12. For one thing, this bus was parked outside: Inside, hundreds of kids and parents eagerly waited in the … Continue reading

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More on the summer slide

A few weeks ago I blogged about the “summer slide”—the learning loss that sometimes occurs in children during summer break—because a professor at the University of Tennessee has found that giving low income kids access to books during the summer … Continue reading

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More details on Wimpy Kid #5

Diary of a Wimpy Kid #5 (coming out on November 9) will be titled . . . The Ugly Truth: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams, announced the book’s title and released its cover today. The book’s first printing will … Continue reading

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