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NEWS / 6 March 2013

What is The Word Herd? If you look at the World Book Day website, you'll hear about The Word Herd. It's like the school book club but you're also part of an online group of readers and reviewers. Get published online!

What is The Word Herd? If you look at the World Book Day website, you'll hear about The Word Herd. It's like the school book club but you're also part of an online group of readers and reviewers. You get to hear about new books and featured reads (see the PDF file below which is from the World Book Day website).

Right now one of the featured books choice is "Between Shades of Grey" by Ruta Sepetys! Go see it's review. The other featured books are "The Disappeared" by C.J. Harper, "City of Bones" by Cassandra Clare and "Wonder" by R.J. Palacio. Become one of our featured reviewers by sending your review of one of these books to info@worldbookday.com and become part of The Word Herd.
 

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