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Here are some hard to find independent authors that are writing some cutting edge literature for the 21st century child. A lot of these are hard to find or in independant bookstores. Most are carried on Amazon.com.
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402 books · 526 voters · list created January 30th, 2009 by Tiffany (votes) .
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Tiffany 644 books
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Todd Fonseca 576 books
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Theresa 12 books
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Eric 54 books
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Dee 280 books
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Kevis 1712 books
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Pumpkin 745 books
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Slayermel 11444 books
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message 1: by Antoine (last edited Nov 13, 2009 06:23PM) (new)

Antoine I love Pippi as much as the next person, but how can a book continuously in print since 1945 be considered "cutting edge literature for the 21st century child"? I hope the book remains popular, but I have disqualified it from this list. I hope that isn't a problem.


message 2: by Jeff (new)

Jeff Has anyone else read FingerTip Island? My school's using it for our imagination series project. It's so good! I couldn't stop laughing at Gus.


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