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Date	Venue	Location
Jan. 17, 2013	SLJ Webcast On Common Core: Making the Text Connection 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET/12:00 - 1:00 PM PT How do we build on students’ knowledge and skills across grade levels? In this session we’ll explore questions related to text complexity, gathering evidence, the research process, and designing assignments with real-world connections.   For more information and to register visit the SLJ website.	Internet
Jan 28, 2013	YALSA Nonfiction Award Reception 10:30am-12 noon Room 606, Washington State Convention Center http://www.ala.org/yalsa/nonfiction-award	Seattle, Washington
Feb. 21, 2013	Release Date KNIT YOUR BIT, A STORY OF WORLD WAR I, Illus by Steven Guaranaccia A Junior Library Guild Selection
April 19, 2013	Truman State University Children’s Literature Festival	Kirksville, Missouri
October 8, 2013	Release Date (hardcover and Listening Library audiobook) THE GREAT TROUBLE, A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel