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March 2, 2001

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From Booker T. Worm
(T stands for Text)
Booker T. Worm is the cyber authority for great books, fun facts, and good times.

A NOTE FROM BOOKER

Hello!

I received a nice letter from a fellow Bookworm who said:

I choose my books by the way the cover looks and by reading the back of the book. How do you find books that are interesting and how do you know?

I thought this was a great question to ask all of you! What makes you want to read a book? I hope that you get some of your suggestions from our reviews right here on Kidsreads.com. Drop me some e-mail at BookerTWorm@aol.com and let me know what it takes for you to pick up a book and start turning the pages.

Now, on to more news for this week... Remember, click on the blue underlined words in this newsletter to jump to more information on Kidsreads.com!

---Booker T. Worm

Harry Potter Movie Preview
Harry Potter fans, are you ready for your first view of the Harry Potter movie coming this fall? Visit our Harry Potter area for a link to a preview of the movie, just posted online today!

My mailbox has been overflowing this week from all the e-mails about Harry Potter and J. K. Rowling . To answer the most popular questions asked this week, book 5 of the series is rumored to be named HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. It is due to be available sometime in 2002.

Trivia and Word Scrambles
Thanks for all your e-mail about how much you love the trivia! Keep checking back for more because we'll be updating it again soon. Have you tried the Indian in the Cupboard word scramble yet? You might want to, since the movie is airing on HBO this month!

Author Biographies
Learn about the lives of many wonderful authors who have given us the pleasure of reading their books. If an author you like isn't listed, keep checking back here for more additions to our author area.

Quote of the Week
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
-- H. Jackson Browne

Mailbag

Poems from fellow Bookworms

Hi sir, you want a hat sir?
Would you like a leather hat or would you like fur?
Does any itch or both are fine?
And will you be my valentine?

Hi ma'am, how do you do ma'am?
Would you like chicken or would you like ham?
Are you allergic to one or both are fine?
And will they taste good combined?

Hi kid, what's up kid?
Have you climbed a mountain or had you slid?
If you slid, are you fine?
Did you heal, even on the spine?

I asked them these inquiries and more
Until I was tired and started to snore
When I woke they were gone
They all had went to Kazakhstan

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Young
Odd
Useful
Ready
Sweet
Eager
Lively
Fabulous

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I went to the book store to buy a book that was on sale.
It's about a cat that lost its tail.
When I got home I checked for mail
to see if I won in a contest.
But there was nothing in it
So I went inside to sit
Thinking if I won or not
Thinking about my dog Spot
who's in the vet
Wondering about my pet
10:00
Time for bed
OUCH! I hit my head.
Morning comes
Check for mail
Envelope - for ME
I won, I won! YIPPEE!

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IF THE SKY IS BLUE
IF THE OCEAN IS BLUE
WHO IS WHO?
IF STARS ARE WHITE
IF THE CLOUDS ARE WHITE
WHICH GIVES LIGHT?>
IF THE DIRT IS BROWN
AND THE GRASS IS GREEN
BUT THEY BOTH ARE DOWN
WHO'S REALLY THE GROUND?

Mail from fellow Bookworms

Note from Booker: Do you have 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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A good book that I read was When the Road Ends. It is about 3 orphans who get sent to live with this couple. The man loves the children but his wife hates them. Then the man's sister gets in an accident and loses her husband and she gets a concussion and can't see or remember things well. So the wife sends them all to live in a cabin. Out in the cabin many adventures happen to them. On a scale of 1-10 I would rate it a 10+.

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I love you Booker! Since you created this cool website (or at least put this cool section on it) all the geeky kids (like me) can enjoy their own website. Thanks Booker!

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At the middle school that I go to, I had checked out a book called Ender's Shadow, the sequel to Ender's Game. It was such an excellent book.

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In black history month i checked out the BOOK REVIEWS ON YOUR SITE I LOVE THEM! i SENDED A EMAIL ABOUT A BOOK I CHECKED OUT SAYING PLEASE PUT IT IN THERE IT WAS CALLED WITH OPEN HANDS IT's a book about a slave named biddy mason Note from Booker: I'm glad you liked our Black History Month feature!

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Your Harry Potter Trivia game was fun. It made me think hard about what I've read in the series. Now I know that I have to think harder and focus about what I am reading. You should come up with other trivias for different books. Cause some kids read different things. Some might not like it.
-- Note from Booker: We are going to be adding more and more trivia to Kidsreads.com. If there is a book or a series that you'd like to see a trivia game about, write me an e-mail at BookerTWorm@aol.com and tell me!

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I'm just here to tell you how much I LOVE reading. Did ya know Ann M. Martin has quit writing the Babysitters Club books??? Well, she has. Reading is like my trademark, ya know? Well, your site has given me tons of great books to look for and enjoy. I just wanted to say that I appreciated that and have enjoyed going to your site, k?

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I READ THE BOOK THE LION THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE IN SCHOOL OUT LOUD WITH MY CLASS. IT WAZ SO INTERESTING! MR. C.S. LEWIS IS A WONDERFUL WRITER. MY FAVORITE PART WAZ WHEN THE CHILDREN FIRST MEET ASLAN, THE LION. I TOOK THE QUIZ AND GOT ALL THE QUESTIONS RIGHT. HURRAY!
--Note from Booker: Congratulations on getting all the trivia questions right! Here's a link to the trivia for other Bookworms who want to try it: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Trivia Game

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Thank you so much for making a website that promotes reading sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who reads appropriate books for my age thank you for encouraging reading

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I have been reading since i was big enough to pick up a book and I just want kids at school to know you and can be popular and still read. I graduated from high school and was voted most popular and i just want everyone to know it is a very cool thing to do! Also my little buddies were going to an academic competition and they were reading To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee and I think that that book is a wonderful book and I agree with them that that is the best book we have ever read! Also I would like them to know that the book shows that growing up in a small town (like they currently are) that it is best to be as wonderful a person as you can be, because some day if Mrs. Lee travels to our town to write about it, they will be the ones who will get the admirable mockingbird roles, and they will be the ones longing to be Scout, Jem and Atticus. And I want to remind them that even Dolphus Raymond can be looked back on as a man of outstanding courage I would also like you to know that I am ever so proud of my little buddies and I wish that they will be smart enough to live in small towns because you can find the most colorful wonderful people and I mean it!

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I really like the series The Three Investigators. Could you put something in
here about them.

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I read a book called Cold Sassy Tree By Olive Ann Burns. I liked it a lot and I recommend it for 6th-8th graders.

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my top 5 favorite book series
1.Harry Potter(of course)
2.eight cousins
3.animorphs
4.ramona
5.goosebomps

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It is a very cool site because its specially for kids

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I'm reading a very good book called "Teacher's Pet." Have you read that book? If you haven't it's about a girl named Cricket in school and there is a new girl in her class named Zoe. Cricket always used to be the teacher's pet, but now Zoe is teacher's pet.

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I am like totally addicted to the Dear America series. #1:Thanks to my teacher and librarian #2: Thanks to my cousin's best friend. Here's the story...... One day my teacher took my class down to the library to read a book in which the setting is an important part of the story. I decided, "Well, OK. I'll just look around." I picked up a book called King Of Dragons and after reading the first page, decided it was not for me. Then I picked up the book Dear America: When Will This Cruel War Be Over? I sat down and began to read it. It was WONDERFUL!! That was only the beginning.... A few days later, my family and I visited my dad's close cousin in Brooklyn,
NY. (I live in Nassau County on Long Island.) While we were there, Adrienne's (my dad's cuz) friend came over with her baby boy. As it all turned out, SHE is the designer for the Dear America
books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She said that she would send me more Dear America books that she has lying around in her office.

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i've been reading your Dear America books. I have The diary of Remember Patience Whipple and The diary of an Irish Mill girl. I'm reading The Journey To The new World! So far it's great! I love you Dear America books.

--Note from Booker: Every week I get mail about how great the Dear America series is. There seem to be an awful lot of Dear America fans out there! If you're a Bookworm who hasn't tried these books yet, what are you waiting for?

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Hi Booker! I love reading fairy tale books. I finished all the color fairy tale books by Andrew Lang and I loved them. I'm reading the blue fairy tale book over again write now. One of my favorite books is Ella Enchanted and I just read it a third time. It's really great.

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Hey! Have you ever read The Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce? I think everybody should read it (especially girls!)! A girl becomes a knight and does many great deeds, including kill the evil sorcerer Duke Roger twice!

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I just want to say I think it's great that you have a website for young
people or children to have fun about reading. It encourages children to read and want to read. By having little quizzes or games you are telling kids it's okay to read and reading is fun! I am 11 and I love it! Studies have shown that if you read a lot when you are young it increases their brainpower, and writing skills! And by having a website of games and activities for children you are acting as a guide for children to help learn. So thank you so much!

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YOU SHOULD PUT LAURA INGALLS WILDER ON YOUR WEBSITE

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I'm 9 and I like to read. I'm reading "The Hobbit." I really like this book a lot. It has a lot of adventure in it with hobbits, dwarves, elves, goblins, trolls, dragons, wargs and more. I highly recommend this book. When I'm done this book I will read the rest of the books in this series by J.R.R. Tolkien.

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Dear Bookertworm,
I A_B_S_O_L_U_T_LY! lllloooovveee to read! I read Wayside School Gets a little STRANGER in 2 days! Most people think that's good, but i don't. In fact, that's HORRIBLE! Why? you may ask? It's because I got in trouble 4 times for reading in math class.

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I am passing in a report on the awesome book Maniac Magee. Have you ever read it?

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I absolutely love to read! I am in 4th grade, and have already read Dracula, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and many other books like them, all of which took me only a few days. I love it that there are newsletters for people like me who love to read. I thought they only had newsletters for Pokemon and stuff!!

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I love the Roald Dahl books!!!! I am reading now CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. My whole class just finished reading the BFG (big friendly giant)

Remember to be safe online. NEVER tell anyone personal information --- which includes your real name, age, address, phone number or school. Hey, pretend you are undercover when you go online and protect yourself!

Thanks for all your e-mail recommending great books to read.
Keep reading! Until next week...

Booker T. Worm and Friends