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Children's Books for September 2008

Books for September Events, Fall

By Elizabeth Kennedy, About.com

Cover art of The Librarian of Basra: A True Story of Iraq

The Librarian of Basra: A True Story of Iraq

Harcourt

Starting School / Changing Schools

It's Library Card Sign-up Month

Birthday of Author and Poet Paul Fleischman, September 5, 1952

National Grandparents' Day, September 7

Birthday of Poet Jack Prelutsky, September 8, 1940

Patriot Day: Remembering September 11, 2001

Roald Dahl Birth Anniversary, September 13

Robert McCloskey Birth Anniversary, September 15

Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 - October 15

Birthday Author and Illustrator Tomie DePaola, September 15, 1934

H.A. Rey Birth Anniversary, September 16

Citizenship Day, September 17 and Constitution Week, September 17-23

Release Date for Brisingr - Book Three in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, September 20

Start of Autumn / Fall, September 22

Release Date for 10th Anniversary Edition of First Harry Potter Book, September 23

National Punctuation Day, September 24

Birthday of Author Andrea Davis Pinkney, September 25, 1963

Banned Books Week - Celebrating the Freedom to Read, September 27 - October 4

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