One of our favorite, almost local (he’s in San Antonio, BookPeople is in Austin) authors has a new book releasing today. That’s right, Rick Riordanof Percy Jackson & the Olympians fame debuts the first book in a new multi-author series today.
Actually, the whole concept is pretty cool. Rick wrote the first book and the overall [...]
Archive for September 9th, 2008
39 Clues Releases Today
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Banned Book — Picture Book
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And Tango Makes Three
by Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell
The most challenged book in 2006 and 2007 because of objections to “Anti-Ethnic, Sexism, Homosexuality, Anti-Family, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group”
And Tango Makes Three is the true story of two male penguins at the Central Park Zoo who worked together to hatch an extra egg and [...]