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==This semester= A Fine White Dust ,written by Cynthia Rylant and is a fictional young adult novel published by Aladdin Paperbacks in 1986. It won a John Newbery honour award in 1987 and according to "Goodreads" the book was also a Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's book award Nominee along with two others that are Caldecott Honor Books. Cynthia Rylant is the author of over 100+ children books including fictional and nun fiction.

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"A Fine White Dust" is about a little 13 year old boy named Pete. Pete grow up in a nun-religious home with parents who could not understand his deep connection to religion. Pete himself could not understand how he is so religious but his parents were not. Conflicted with his thoughts and emotions about who he was as an individual Pete felt as though he had a deeper person and wanted someone to understand who he was and what he stood for. Pete did not know how much he had to give up to find a deeper meaning to who he was and his purpose in life.

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When Pete laid eyes on one of the preachers that was in town for a visit to his church, he thought he had meet a monster. Until later he would come to realize that same "monster" would be the one to change his life and make him question everything he thought he knew about life. Pete called the visitor "The Preacher Man." Pete and "The Preacher Man" got into a questionable relationship which cause his parents and best friend Rufus to worry.Pete thought he had meet someone who understood and deeply cared for him. When "The Preacher man" asked Pete to run off with him he would then realize that the  decisions he makes will change his life and make him question everything he thought he knew about life and religion.

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Last semester
MR Rabbit and the Lovely Present, written by Charlotte Zolotow and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, is a 1962 picture book published by HarperCollins. A MR Rabbit and the Lovely Present was a Caldecott Medal Honor Book for 1963 and was one of Sendak's Caldecott Honor Medal of a total of seven during his career. Sendak won the Caldecott Medal in 1964 for Where the Wild Things Are, which he both authored and Illustrated.[1] MR Rabbit and the Lovely Present was re-issued by HarperCollins in 1999 in hardcover format as part of a project to re-issue 22 Sendak works including several authored by Charlotte Zolotow.

Description[edit] The story, written by Zolotow, is told in present tense from the little girl's point of view (a first-person narrative). and takes the form of a rhymed poem of 62 lines opening with "dee dee dee oh-h-h" and ending with "dee dee dee oh / doh doh doh-h-h-h" and has several lines with words that repeat three times such as "chairs chairs chairs" and "ooie ooie ooie". Nonsense words and phrases and phonetic misspellings of words (or mispronunciations) are scattered throughout the poem. The illustrations by Sendak, which also precede and follow the text, include occasional supplementary words and phrases.

Synopsis[edit] An unnamed little girl meets a rabbit and ask for his help in finding her mother a birthday present. (The cover art shows the girl asking the Rabbit for help as he sits on a rock) He then imagines all the special things that make up the house including a special bed, special shelf, special chairs, a special door, special walls, and a special table. He brings to the special house a turtle, a rabbit, a giant, a dead mouse (in a box, according to the illustration), monkeys, and "some skunkeys and a very old lion". The lion proceeds to eat all the stuffing from the "chairs chairs chairs." The boy plays with the creatures "making secrets" and laughing and running and pretending to be chickens and singing until the play becomes frantic and tumultuous and "nobody says stop stop stop". The boy describes how his house is not really anywhere but "root in the moodle of my head head head": a statement which is complemented with images of the boy apparently asleep in a bed equipped with springs under it, his bouncing off the bed, and, on the following blank pages, him somersaulting through space. The illustrations conclude with an image,at the right bottom of the verso of a pair of blank pages, of the little boy looking mischievously over his shoulder.