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Hello!

November is flying by and it will soon be Thanksgiving! That's always been one of my favorite holidays because I love getting together with all my nieces and nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins... The Worm family is a large one. Thanksgiving also reminds me of the Pilgrims and all the wonderful stories about the people who came to America to start a new life. The wormkids just love reading about what life was like in 1776, or 1865, or 1920.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave your home and sail across the ocean to a new country? Or live in a sod house on the prairie? Or a plantation in the South? This month all the wormkids at Kidsreads.com are taking a special look at some of the wonderful fictional stories that describe what life would have been like for young people in times past.  Check out the Dear America feature and the other great book reviews this week! And keep your eyes open for even more historical fiction series in the weeks to come!

Coming soon to a theater near you --- Harry Potter! Are you as excited as we are? The wormkids can hardly wait till November 16th! They've read every Harry Potter adventure and are anxious to see Harry and his friends in the movie, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." If you haven't read the book yet, you might want to read it first.  In fact, the wormkids are reading ALL the Harry books again!

And now for a look at all the features for this week...

--Booker T. Worm

Question of the Week
Here's this week's Question of the Week:
If you could write a book report about any book you wanted, which book would it be?

Send your answer to YouSaid@kidsreads.com. Write "Question" in the subject line. We'll post your answers online!

COOL NEW BOOKS!
Take a look at our round-up of the coolest new books for November. When the weather gets too cold to stay outside, why not hang out in the house and read HALF HUMAN by Bruce Coville, AFTER THE RAIN by Mary Pope Osborne or any of the other great books from our new list!

DEAR AMERICA Series
What's the most fun way to learn about American History? The DEAR AMERICA books, of course! Fact and fiction join together to give a unique perspective on the important moments in America's past in this exciting series!

BOOK REVIEWS:

THE JOURNAL OF DOUGLAS DEEDS:
Learn the fascinating story of the tragic and doomed "Donner Party" as seen through the eyes of a 15-year-old orphan boy.

JOSHUA'S SONG:
Life is very hard for Joshua, what with losing his father to the influenza epidemic and having to quit school and the choir to support his family. Will Joshua find the strength to endure this terrible crisis?     

CLEM'S CHANCES:
Oh, the adventures Clem has throughout his cross-country trip to find his father, who left years earlier to seek his fortune in the California gold mines! After all that has happened, will Clem finally get the chance to see his father?

We Asked, You Said
To see everyone's answers to the last Question of the Week: "What's your favorite spooky book?" Check out the responses at We Asked, You Said.

Quote of the Week

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.  ----- Lionel Trilling


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Mail from fellow Bookworms

Note from Booker: Is there a great read that you'd like to tell others about? If so, drop me a note about it at BookerTWorm@aol.com and maybe you'll see it posted in the next newsletter!

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I LOVE BOOKS. MY FAVORITE AUTHOR IS JUDY BLUME

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I absolutely love Brian Jaques thrilling Redwall Series! It is so magical! I love them all! I can't say I have a favorite for they are all so good! I still have three more to read: Lord Brocktree, Taggerung, and lastly A Redwall Winters Tale

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I LOVE HARRY POTTER I HAVE READ ALL THE BOOKS AND I AM SOON GO TO SEE THE MOVIE!

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I just think your sight is great and you should keep adding more and more authors. I have one particular Author that I really enjoy reading his books. His name is Lemony Snicket. He writes the Series of Unfortunate Events.

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I can't find a thing on Animorphs, so I was wondering If you could tell me if I just didn't look hard enough. I love this series but ''the net doesn't have a thing on it!!''
You've come to the right place!   K.A. Applegate's Animorph and Remnants series

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Where can i find nightmar hour? it looks relly cool!
Here ya go:  Nightmare Hour by R. L. Stine

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I would like to know when the fifth Harry potter novel is coming out.
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