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	<title>Sandi Greene</title>
	<link>http://www.sandigreene.net</link>
	<description>Teacher and Author</description>
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		<title>Student Essay &#8211; &#8220;My Angel Madison&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tami Huston
Yavapai College
&#8220;My Angel Madison&#8221;
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After trying for three years and seeing doctor after doctor, I was finally pregnant! I had no idea how my life would be changed forever. I was carrying an angel, and I didn’t even know it.
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The day my whole world stopped, was October 5, 2005. I was eight months pregnant with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandigreene.net/2010/07/13/student-essay-my-angel-madison/</link>
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		<title>Student essay &#8211; In honor of the Fourth of July</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now I Remember 
By Rudy Kleeman
Grand Canyon University
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Upon check-in to my new unit at Camp Pendleton, I was informed not to get too comfortable, because in two weeks our unit would be boarding a ship and heading for the gulf region as a part of a conflict which would later be named Operation Desert Storm. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandigreene.net/2010/06/29/student-essay-in-honor-of-the-fourth-of-july/</link>
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		<title>Student Essay &#8211; &#8220;The Lesson&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have quite a few student essays that I want to share in the coming weeks. This is a beautifully written piece about losing someone you love.
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The Lesson 
by Angie Cloutier
Yavapai College
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It was early in the morning on a fairly warm Saturday, for December in Prescott. I don’t know why I woke up so early. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandigreene.net/2010/06/25/student-essay-the-lesson/</link>
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		<title>Student essay &#8211; &#8220;Now I Remember&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an essay by a student of mine about the loss of her son. Sometimes they write really great things, and I just have to share them.
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Now I Remember
By Shimeka Brown
Grand Canyon University
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The pain was something I had never felt before.
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Being pregnant was different, but today was way out of the ordinary.  I awoke at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandigreene.net/2010/06/21/student-essay/</link>
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		<title>This One’s for The Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know it’s probably really bad that I hardly blog on here. Honestly, I never set out to be a consistent blogger. It’s in the dreams of my “to do” list for the future, but for now, I’m busy teaching and writing. Once in awhile, though, a thought hits me that I have to share.
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This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandigreene.net/2010/06/16/this-one%e2%80%99s-for-the-students/</link>
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		<title>Great PW Article and Book Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you write CBA YA fiction or read it (or just want to know more about the market), there was an excellent Publisher’s Weekly article this week on YA in the CBA market, and how it’s growing and changing (http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/451714-Fiction_Publishers_Exploit_Digital_Media_for_New_Growth.php)
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And while we’re discussing CBA YA, I have to put a plug in for a book. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandigreene.net/2010/03/12/great-pw-article-and-book-review/</link>
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		<title>Join YALitChat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Visit YALITCHAT

I feel my blogging (and lack thereof) is like my journal writing. About once every six months I pick up my journal and know I need to write in it more . But that doesn’t happen. I’ve come to terms that I’m an occasional blogger for now. Maybe someday I’ll get better at it.
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I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandigreene.net/2010/03/07/join-yalitchat/</link>
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		<title>My teen article on Love and God in Susie Mag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day Week! I had an article on God and love in the SUSIE magazine this month. You can check it out here. Just a little note that my bio line on the bottom is wrong&#8230;I don&#8217;t enjoy restoring doll houses (if you know anything about me you know I&#8217;m not the crafty type!). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandigreene.net/2010/02/10/my-teen-article-on-love-and-god-in-susie-mag/</link>
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		<title>Books and Thoughts on Form Letters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Couple of Recommendations
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I apologize for the font on this page. I only recently realized it’s gray and a little small. So I’m working on getting it fixed.
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Books first.
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I am reading a ton of YA right now because I’m judging a contest. I can’t say which one, but it’s keeping me busy. So all my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sandigreene.net/2010/02/08/books-and-thoughts-on-form-letters/</link>
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		<title>YA Contests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few contests going on:
Amazon Breakthrough Novel now has a YA category: http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Novel-Award-Books/b?ie=UTF8&#38;node=332264011
KidLit blog (sorry, this one ends today, but she often has contests going on): http://kidlit.com/kidlit-contest/
Sourcebooks contest: http://teenfire.ning.com/
And, associated with that is a really cool YA ning community where they talk all YA happenings and they&#8217;ll help you with your ms&#8217;s: http://yalitchat.ning.com/
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		<link>http://www.sandigreene.net/2010/01/31/ya-contests/</link>
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