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This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, and I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com.

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This is an announcement of what I'm reading next. It's going to be released with a post, which is called MJ's Next Read, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt.

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And as you can probably guess it, I'm reading Tuck Everlasting next. So let me give you some information about the book.

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Here it is from Newberry Honor and E.B. White Award-winning author Natalie Babbitt. Tuck Everlasting is a spellbinding modern-day masterpiece about immortality, friendship, and growing up that's sure to be an all-time favorite for every generation.

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Here's the blurb. Is eternal life a blessing or a curse?

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That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family's property whose waters grant immortality.

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Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their experiences watching life go by and never growing older.

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But when Winnie must decide whether or not to keep the Tucks secret and whether or not to join them on their never-ending journey.

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Oh, sorry. But then she must, not but when.

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So this book has gained the following awards. American Library Association Notable Children's Books.

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Hmm. Interesting. A Polish National Award. It's a the Januz Korczak, Korczak Medal.

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The Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List and Ohio Choose to Read Program.

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I'm going to be reading this book via or listening to this, the audio book version of this on a cloud library.

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You can also purchase an audio version of it from the publisher's website as well as a physical copy of the book, which is linked in the show notes in the post for this episode.

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And if you'd like to read this book as well and join in the conversation about it, leave me comments, leave me your thoughts on the book.

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You can do that. I will be taking submissions for that up until February 6th, 2024, which is not a long time away, but it's also not a very long book.

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Especially if you listen to the audio book and you can do it while you're doing something else.

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And then I will be publishing my thoughts and any that come in within the allotted time on as a story over everything episode.

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I'm starting a subsection, a sub series within story over everything where I document my journey as a writer.

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And as I'm moving into writing more middle grade fiction, I'm going to be documenting my thoughts, feelings, reactions on a bunch of middle grade books.

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And this is the first of them. This is from modern day middle book middle grade books.

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And it's from nineteen seventy five, which that information was not included here for some reason.

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It was originally published in seventy five. I'll have to include that in my episode.

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But yes, it's modern, even though it's from nineteen seventies, which is, I don't know what, fifty years before now.

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And I have a broad categorization of classic versus modern middle grade books.

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So that's that's what I'm going to be reading through over the course this year and commenting on and talking about.

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As well as writing my own books. So anyway, you can subscribe to the story over everything podcast anywhere, but you can find links to it over at MGMunions.com.

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And there will be a post here again, show notes if you're already in a podcast feeder or feed mechanism, you'll have links back to the show notes.

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You can check out everything else I have going on.

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And other than that, I ask that you look forward to hearing my thoughts on this story and I invite you to share your thoughts on it as well.

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So I hope that you are all well until next time. This is MJ signing out. I hope you enjoyed that.

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Go to MJMunoz.com to leave any questions, comments or other feedback you might have.

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There you can find all of my analysis, art and fiction. I cover books, tokusatsu, comic books, anime and more.

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Look around. You're sure to find something else that you'll enjoy as well.

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This has been a story over everything production.