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Glory is a typical 11-soon-to-be-12-year-old girl in Hanging Moss, Mississippi.
But there's nothing typical about Hanging Moss in 1964. This summer's all about change, and Glory gets caught right in the middle of it.
In Glory Be, a middle-grade novel by Augusta Scattergood, Glory is looking forward to her 4th of July birthday celebration at the Community pool. Only the pool is closed, supposedly for needed repairs.
The real reason? The Freedom Workers from up north have been disturbing the sleepy town, trying to remove the "Coloreds Only" water fountain, opening a clinic for colored people, and even wanting them to use the pool. The people in charge in Hanging Moss don't like it one bit.
Glory doesn't see what all the fuss is about, until she finds out through her best friend's family how ugly and close to home racism can get.
Through Emma, the colored maid for Glory's family, and a forward-thinking librarian, Miss Bloom, Glory learns that change--especially change happening fast--can be scary, but good.
As Glory says, "Being twelve is turning out okay after all." For ages 9 to 12.
Chicago. 1968. Summer. A time of upheaval and change.
This is the explosive time and place author Kekla Magoon explores in her upper middle-grade novel, Fire in the Streets, a companion to her award-winning The Rock and the River.
Fourteen-year-old Maxie desperately wants to be a full member of the Black Panthers. But everyone thinks she's too young.
Everyone but Maxie. She's seen a lot on the streets already, and her rocky home life has prepared her for a lot. She works hard in the Panther office, even bringing along her best friends, Emmalee and Patrice, but the adults in charge keep giving her trivial chores.
No one takes Maxie seriously. Not the adults. Not her former boyfriend, Sam. Everything's been shaky between them since his brother was killed. Not even her brother Raheem takes her seriously, and they share everything.
Or do they? When a traitor infiltrates the Panther office, everyone is a suspect, even those closest to Maxie. Will she discover who the traitor is? What will she do if she does?
Kekla Magoon's writing brings the 1960s to life. The words on the page are tense and taut, but also tender and poetic. For ages 10 to 14.
I love the word "iridescence." And I love birds.
So what a great combination I found in the picture book bio, The Iridescence of Birds by Patricia MacLachlan, illustrated by Hadley Hooper.
This book, filled with color and light, tells the story of artist Henri Matisse--how he went from a boy in a gray, northern French town to an artist known for his use of bold color.
As a child, Henri was lucky to have a mother who loved color. She used vivid colors in their home, and Henri was paying attention. When he grew older, he translated those childhood experiences of color into his artwork.
Picture book bios are known for their consolidated, often poetic text, and this one beautifully sums up Henri's childhood in two sentences!
The Iridescence of Birds is both fun to say and to read. The artwork by Hadley Hooper makes a summer day even more summery. Just look at that open door on the cover, inviting us in. For all ages.
For most of us, the start of a war, and evacuation away from our families, would be traumatic.
But not for Ada. Her mother abuses her because she's a "cripple" with a clubfoot, and Ada can't wait to escape her nightmare of a life.
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's middle-grade novel, The War That Saved My Life, explores the start of World War II in 1939 London. When Ada's brother, Jamie, is evacuated to an English village along with other London children, Ada is determined to go with him. Even though her mother has never allowed her to walk.
Ada and Jamie land at the house of a curmudgeonly villager, Susan Smith, who's none too happy to be saddled with two children. Jamie longs to return home, but Ada finds things to love about her new life--a pair of crutches that allow her to walk, plenty to eat, an end to abuse, and a pony named Butter who gives Ada her first taste of movement and freedom.
But then the war, which had seemed so distant and unreal, comes to the village at last, and Ada finds herself performing tasks that would have been impossible before. For the first time, she feels a sense of worth.
Her abusive mother seems distant, too--until the day she isn't. It looks as if Ada has to return to the nightmare of her life before the war. Can or will Susan save her? Can Ada save herself and her brother?
The War That Saved My Life was a Newbery Honor Book this year, a well-deserved award for a story that made me feel hopeful and inspired. For ages 10 to 14.
Two girls form an unlikely friendship in Kristin Levine's provocative middle-grade novel, The Lions of Little Rock.
It's 1958, Little Rock, Arkansas. Negroes and whites go to different schools. That's just the way it is, and 12-year-old Marlee doesn't question things. She's a good, obedient daughter.
Besides, Marlee has other things on her mind, like having to talk out loud to people. She struggles with talking to strangers, even classmates. She counts prime numbers in her head to avoid navigating the complicated social world around her.
When a new girl, Liz, starts at West Side Junior High, Marlee likes her immediately. Liz takes Marlee out of her shell, and slowly Marlee broadens the circle of people she can talk to.
Then one day Liz doesn't show up at school, and rumors buzz. Liz is a Negro, with skin light enough to allow her to "pass" as white.
Marlee's devastated that Liz has disappeared from her life. Liz's new identity as a Negro forces Marlee to question everything--her family, herself, and all her values.
When the school integration issue heats up in Little Rock, being quiet is no longer an option. Families and friends are divided, and Marlee must make tough choices.
Marlee's voice in The Lions of Little Rock is quiet, just like her, but it drew me in. Marlee may not talk much, but she pulls the reader inside her world.
There's no fairy-tale ending, but I kept picturing Liz and Marlee a few years into the future, looking back at an era when something as simple as a girls' friendship was forbidden and dangerous. For ages 10-14.
If you need a great business idea, look no further than Cleo Edison Oliver, CEO.
Cleo is the heroine of Sundee T. Frazier's new middle-grade novel, Cleo Edison Oliver: Playground Millionaire.
Fifth-grader Cleo's not a millionaire--yet. But only because the world doesn't totally appreciate the new businesses she's constantly starting. Like selling avocados from the trees in their yard. It's not her fault their dog, Barkley, gobbles them all up.
Cleo has her own heroine: Fortune A. Davies, the TV star with her Persuasion Power (trademarked) and other steps to success. Cleo longs to meet Fortune, and even wonders if she could be Cleo's birth mother.
In the meantime, Cleo shares her business ideas with her best friend, Caylee. But one day Caylee tries to share something with Cleo--her sadness about her dad leaving the family--and Cleo's too busy talking business plans to really listen.
This novel is about friendship, family, adoption, and steps to success that lead to more important things than money. For young entrepreneurs ages 8 to 12.
I picked up Ally Condie's middle-grade novel, Summerlost, because it takes place at a Shakespeare Festival. (I am a huge Shakespeare fan!) The novel does revolve around the festival, but it's also about so much more.
One year before the story opens, Cedar�s dad and brother were killed in a car accident. Now, 12-year-old Cedar, her mom, and her younger brother, Miles, are still grieving when Mom moves them to her hometown in Utah for the summer.
One day, Cedar follows a boy on a bike�a boy dressed in a strange costume. Turns out he works the concession stand at the nearby Shakespeare Festival. Soon Cedar�s working there too, as well as volunteering in the costume department.
Cedar and Leo become friends, and find they have more in common than seemed obvious at first. They become involved in a mystery about an actress who died young, while Cedar works through her memories of her dad and brother. Leo, who�s different from everyone in his family, has his own obsession--to raise money for a trip to England to see Hamlet.
Together, Cedar and Leo navigate the summer. I was drawn in by Cedar's quiet voice, by her family's raw feelings, and by her friendship with a boy who isn't a boyfriend, but who understands her better than anyone.
This tender novel is about life's truths, and death's truths, too. It's about being different, and how that's okay. And then there's the Shakespeare Festival, like icing on the cake. For readers 10 and up.
Twelve-year-old Peter�s mom has died, and he finds solace in his pet fox, Pax. He's raised Pax since the fox was an abandoned kit, and the two are inseparable.
Sara Pennypacker's powerful middle-grade novel, Pax, is told from the point of view of the boy and the fox in alternating chapters, set in a near future world at war over water.
One day Peter�s dad must leave for the war. Peter will live with his grandfather 300 miles away, with no room for a fox. Peter�s dad forces his son to leave the pet fox in the woods, arguing that Pax is a wild animal and will be able to survive.
When Peter gets to his grand-father�s, he realizes he's made a huge mistake in abandoning Pax, and determines to go back to find his fox. His journey on foot takes him to a remote cabin owned by a wise woman, Vola, who may be able to help Peter, but who needs help herself.
Together, Peter and Vola negotiate their way through the maze of hurt and grief, in a world that seems to care more about winning than it does taking care of living creatures.
Pax, with illustrations by Jon Klassen, is a novel that brings up different ways of viewing life. Through Pax's point of view, we learn about fox habits and lore.
Following Peter's journey, and learning what happens between him and Pax, kept me reading late into the night. I also want to find out much more about foxes. Recommended for ages 10 and up.
It's November, 1939 in Krakow, Poland, and seven-year-old Anna finds herself alone after her father, a linguistics professor, doesn't return from a meeting.
That's the startling premise of Gavriel Savit's debut young adult novel, Anna and the Swallow Man.
What is Anna to do? She's too young to know that her father is part of an intellectual purge by the Nazis. All she knows is that no one is willing to care for her.
As she stands on the street, she meets a strange, tall person she comes to call the Swallow Man. Like Anna and her father, he knows several languages, and he also has the ability to talk to birds.
Anna and the Swallow Man embark on a walking journey that will take several years and hundreds of miles through war-torn Poland. They struggle to skirt danger, the war on the eastern front, and, most importantly, discovery of the Swallow Man's identity.
Who is the Swallow Man? He is a mystery, but Anna knows she must stay with him in order to stay alive.
When they meet a fellow traveler, Anna learns some hard lessons about friendship and about war.
Written in an allegorical style with hints of magical realism, coupled with the brutal reality of their daily lives, Anna and the Swallow Man is a novel that begs to be discussed with other readers.
Despite Anna's dark wartime journey, the end hints at hope and a new life. Recommended for high school students and older.
Roz isn't your typical robot. When she lands on the shores of a wild island, she sets out to discover who and where she is. Only we, the "insider" reader, know that Roz fell off a cargo ship during a hurricane.
Thanks to Peter Brown's debut middle-grade novel, The Wild Robot, we get to join Roz for the ride--or the walk, as the case may be.
At first, the animals on the island are afraid of Roz (full name ROZZUM unit 7134) and call her a monster. Can you blame them? They've never seen a creature who is both alive and isn't, who doesn't have to eat, whose feet fall off, and who emits strange sounds.
But over time, Dart the weasel, Digdown the groundhog, Swooper the owl, Fink the fox, and other wonderfully named animals come to see that Roz may not be so different. When Brightbill the gosling becomes orphaned, Roz is determined to learn how to be a mother--with the help of her computer brain, of course.
When harsh winter blows onto the island, will everyone survive? When Roz encounters real danger, will her new friends come to the rescue?
This gentle novel, with short episodic chapters and art from Caldecott Honor Award-illustrator Peter Brown, is about community, love, and different kinds of families. In the end we learn that differences can actually bring people (or robots) together.
This is a great read-aloud novel, or if you prefer to discover books quietly by yourself, for ages 8 and up.
Imagine that your grandfather has died, leaving you with a falling-down Greenwich Village townhouse, chickens in the backyard, a mom who's out of touch with reality, and $463. Oh, and mysterious last dying words.
That's the dilemma facing 13-year-old Theodora Tenpenny in Laura Marx Fitzgerald's intriguing middle-grade novel, Under the Egg.
Theo has more problems than she can count (and all those eggs to gather), but she also has determination. With his last words, her grandfather, Jack, told Theo to "look under the egg" to find a treasure.
Theo knows this has nothing to do with chickens. It has to do with a painting. You see, Jack was an artist and a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
When Theo discovers a rare Renaissance masterpiece, possibly by Raphael, her search for its owner (is there an owner?) leads her to a new friend, Bodhi.
Together the girls enlist the help of several quirky adults around the city. But the deeper Theo goes into the mystery, the more she wonders, Who was Jack? It's not a spoiler to reveal that Theo does find a treasure, but it's not the kind she expects.
For fans of E.L. Konigsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, this mystery abounds with clues to paintings and to life. Recommended for ages 9 and up.
In Teresa E. Harris's debut middle-grade novel, The Perfect Place, we learn that twelve-year-old Treasure has moved around. A lot.
That�s because Treasure's restless dad can�t settle down. This time it's different, though. This time he leaves without them, and it seems to be for good.
When Mom decides to go looking for him, she drops off Treasure and her seven-year-old sister, Tiffany, with their Great-Aunt Grace (GAG for short), in Black Lake, Virginia.
Eccentric GAG smokes, she makes the girls do chores, and her ancient house is packed with piles of stuff�and a big furry cat�setting off Treasure�s allergies. Dad has always promised that someday they�ll move to �the perfect place,� and that promise keeps Treasure going.
She follows her rules of not making new friends and not getting attached to anyone�including GAG. But when Mom has no luck finding Dad, and Treasure meets an interesting boy who seems determined to be friends, the rules fall apart. She takes matters into her own hands.
Treasure learns a troubling truth about Dad and finds herself reassessing Black Lake and Great Aunt-Grace. Maybe the perfect place is closer than she realizes.
With the heat and humidity of Black Lake, Virginia as a backdrop, The Perfect Place is a great read for summer. But don't wait till then. Immerse yourself in a beautifully written story about a girl's search for that special place--perfect or not. For ages 9 to 12.
I was excited to see that a graphic novel, Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson, was chosen as a Newbery Honor Book this year. I loved this book.
Roller Girl is about being a best friend, learning how to skate, dying your hair blue, putting on your war face, falling down and getting up again, and mostly, about navigating the changes before junior high.
Astrid and Nicole have been best friends since fifth grade. They do everything together. When Astrid's mom takes them to a roller derby competition, Astrid is hooked. She signs up for roller derby camp and assumes Nicole will, too.
But Nicole takes ballet camp instead with their archenemy, Rachel. In the words of the book's jacket flap, "and so begins the toughest summer of Astrid�s life.� It turns out she�s horrible at skating, but that�s not the painful part. That would be Astrid's growing distance with Nicole. Can this friendship be saved?
Over the summer, Astrid learns more than skating and roller derby moves�she learns what being a friend is really about. As I cheered for and cried with Astrid, I was in awe of the author/illustrator for capturing perfectly a twelve-year-old girl's heart.
Sometimes things change and you can do something about it. But sometimes you can't. Roller Girl explores one girl's way of coping with both. For ages 10 and up.
The teen novel All American Boys is unique for two reasons.
First, it's written by two authors: Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely. Second, it's told in a back-and-forth narration by two boys, Rashad and Quinn.
Sadly, the situation the novel explores is not unique: Rashad, who is black, is beaten by a white cop. And not just any cop--he's Paul, Quinn's best friend's brother, a man who took care of him after Quinn's dad was killed in Afghanistan.
The beating takes place at the start of the novel, when Rashad is involved in an innocent mishap in the grocery store. But Paul assumes Rashad is guilty of stealing.
The bulk of All American Boys deals with the aftermath of the beating, when Rashad lands in the hospital and Quinn, who witnessed what actually happened, struggles with whether he should speak up. How can he be disloyal to Paul and his best friend?
It's impossible not to take sides after students at their school plan a protest. Quinn is forced to confront his deepest feelings about race. Rashad is forced to see his family, especially his father, a former cop, in a new light.
With Jason Reynolds writing Rashad's character, and Brendan Kiely writing Quinn's, this is tight, authentic writing. The voices of both characters are spot on. The novel will make you ask, What would I do if faced with police brutality?
For ages 12 and up.
Gordon Parks is one of my heroes and inspirations.
Born in 1912, he was a multi-talented photographer, film director, musician, and writer, one of the most influential artists in the 20th century. (He died in 2006.)
Carole Boston Weatherford presents his amazing life in her picture book biography, Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America, with illustrations by Jamey Christoph.
Beginning with Parks's birth in Kansas, the youngest of 15 children, Weatherford shows how the times Parks lived in shaped who he became.
His white teacher told her all-black class, "You'll all wind up porters and waiters." There were few opportunities for young black men, but Parks was a groundbreaker, fighting stereotypes and vowing to "lay bare racism with his lens." With his camera, Parks became a witness to the inequality and segregation all around him.
Also inspiring, Parks expanded his talents to other arts, refusing to be pigeon-holed.
"About Gordon Parks" at the end of the book fills in more detail, with samples of his powerful photographs. This award-winning biography is for anyone, of any age, who wants to learn more about this American master.
In my quest to read all the Newbery Award books, I went back to one of the earliest, the 1924 winner.
The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes is a swashbuckling pirate adventure set in 1600s England during the reign of King Charles.
I admit, the language was a bit challenging at times. But only at first. Hawes uses authentic 17th-century speech and accurate ship terms to lend the story realism, and once I got into the rhythm, the story held me to the end.
The hero is 19-year-old Philip Marsham, an orphan, who must flee London after a skirmish that's not his fault. Philip is the son of a seafaring man from a good family. But now, with no family or friends on land, Philip must make his own way in the world.
On the road he meets up with a dubious companion and signs up as crew on the Rose of Devon, a merchant ship bound for Newfoundland. That is, until the ship is taken over by the "Old One," a complicated "gentleman of fortune" who murders the ship's captain and commandeers the vessel.
Philip faces submission to his new pirate captain, or death. He chooses to stay on board, but makes his escape only to land in even worse trouble.
With details of life on the ocean and in the new world of America, The Dark Frigate offers a good read for those willing to immerse themselves in the language and times. You'll meet a fascinating and colorful cast of characters.
In the introduction, Lloyd Alexander, himself a Newbery Award winner, writes, "What emerges from these lights and shadows, from [the author's] view of the world as a rather hard place to live in, is an impression of surprising, almost startling, modernity."
I agree. The novel is modern in its portrait of life and adventures with all their complexities. Ages 12 and up.
This year's Newbery Medal went to a picture book, only the second time in the award's history that has happened.
Last Stop on Market Street, written by Matt de la Pena and illustrated by Christian Robinson, is a story close to my heart. When I was growing up, my mom and I took the bus everywhere. I still love taking the bus. This picture book depicts a bus ride that opens a young boy's eyes, ears, and heart.
One Sunday, as CJ and his nana wait for the bus, he complains that his friends' families have cars. His nana points out things his friends are missing, like trees that drink through straws, a bus that breathes fire, a bus driver who always has a trick, a passenger with a guitar and a song, and an old lady with butterflies in a jar. When CJ closes his eyes, he "sees" the wonders of the world through his ears.
They get off the bus and CJ asks why it�s always so dirty. His nana points to the sky and replies, �Sometimes when you�re surrounded by dirt, CJ, you�re a better witness for what�s beautiful.� CJ begins to see beautiful things too, like a perfect rainbow, "broken streetlamps still lit up bright," and "stray-cat shadows moving across the wall."
They arrive at their destination, where CJ sees familiar faces and tells his nana he�s glad they came. Her response is picture-book perfect.
I love the message in this brightly illustrated picture book. The story is truly for all ages, and shows how a simple bus ride can become a magical trip.
The setting is Greenland. The year is 1900, when Robert Peary is exploring the Arctic.
The young adult novel Between Two Worlds by Katherine Kirkpatrick is narrated by a 16-year-old Inuit, or Polar Eskimo girl, Eqariusaq, known as Billy Bah to the American explorers.
Eqariusaq has been married for three years, common for her people. They live in the village of Itta. As the story opens, Peary�s wife and daughter, Josephine and Marie, have arrived in a supply ship for Peary, only to discover that he�s not in Itta. Eqariusaq, her husband, and other Inuit go to Ellesmere (Musk Ox Land) to hunt and to help the Americans search for Perry.
When the harbor becomes encased in ice, forcing the ship to stay for eight months, Eqariusaq acts as a translator. (She learned English during the year she spent in the United States as a child with the Peary family.)
During that time she also falls in love with Duncan, an American sailor, and must decide whether to stay with her husband or go back to America with Duncan when the ship is freed from the harbor ice.
Kirkpatrick conveys Eqariusaq's dilemma and emotions well. The young married woman feels tied to her land, but she also loves the American who has been kind to her. Details from the Inuit culture over 100 years ago give this novel authenticity.
Wear a sweater while you read Between Two Worlds. The bitter temperatures of snowy Green-land come through like a blast of Arctic wind. Recommended for ages 12 and up.
I always eagerly await a new novel by Gary D. Schmidt. His latest, Orbiting Jupiter, is as beautiful as the winter landscape it depicts. It's also a departure, a novel for teens instead of Gary Schmidt's middle-grade audience.
Twelve-year-old Jack tells the story of his older foster brother, Joseph. Joseph arrives at their Maine farm damaged by an abusive father and by his stay at a detention center. Joseph, an eighth-grader, is also a father.
Joseph longs to see his baby daughter, Jupiter, but he's thwarted by the authorities. When his abusive father makes an appearance, the plot spins forward to its sharp and dramatic conclusion.
I could feel the cold, snow, and ice of a Maine winter seeping through the pages of Orbiting Jupiter. Set against that, the warmth of the cows in the family's barn help bring Joseph out of his painful past.
This spare novel packs a wallop. It's one of my favorite books this year. For readers 12 and up.
"Be who you are," states the back jacket of George. That's the theme of this middle-grade novel by Alex Gino.
To the outside world, fourth-grader George is a boy. George is sure she�s a girl. She thinks of herself as "she" and longs to reveal who she really is--a girl stuck inside a boy's body.
George decides to audition for the role of Charlotte in the school play of �Charlotte�s Web." She's convinced that when Mom sees her in a female role, she'll finally understand that George is transgender.
Things don't go as planned until George's best friend, Kelly, comes up with an ingenious idea to help George. (We all need a best friend like Kelly, who is a quirky character worthy of her own novel.)
Alex Gino (who is transgender) doesn't shy away from showing George's pain--teased by her brother, punched by the school bully, and misunderstood by her mom. Fourth grade can be traumatic enough without worrying that someone will discover your secret--at the same time wanting to tell your secret.
George is an important book. It stands up for those who want to be who they are. For ages 9 and up.
Along with her parents and brother Nick, seven-year-old Holly goes to Padgett Lake to visit Gram and Gramp as usual�only Mom and Dad aren't staying, which isn't usual. Holly�s parents need time alone to work out their problems, which worries Holly. What if they get a divorce?
Mary Atkinson's lovely middle-grade novel, Owl Girl, perfectly captures Holly's worries. Gram is bossy, and Gramp does more things with Nick because he's older. Their dog Bonk is sick, too.
One night Holly hears an owl in the woods. She knows it's lonely, just like her. She knows she shouldn't disobey Gram, but she just has to find the owl. Through following her own heart, Holly learns about nature and herself. She grows up just a bit this summer.
Beautiful, poetic writing pulls us right into the story, like this description of a Maine rainstorm:
All that dark night, the rain came down in torrents. It splattered and pinged and bounced off the screens in Holly's windows. It coursed down her skylight like a raging river. It drummed against the metal roof like thousands of galloping horses. Between the booming thunder and crackling lightning, the rain was everywhere and all the time.
Owl Girl is for anyone who wants to hear the call of the owl.
Sara Nickerson's new middle-grade novel, The Secrets of Blueberries, Brothers, Moose & Me, will make your mouth water--not only from the delectable descriptions of fresh, plump blueberries, but from the beautiful sentences throughout.
Twelve-year-old Missy is having a summer of changes. Her two best friends are off to camp, her dad's remarrying, her mom's painting the living room bright yellow, and her teenaged brother, Patrick, is turning into a person she barely knows.
When Missy gets the chance to earn money--and independence--by picking blueberries, it turns into more than a money-making scheme.
At first the blueberry fields make Missy's life even more confusing. Mom told Missy and Patrick to stick together, so why does Patrick keep hanging around the girl in the bikini top? Why did the brothers who own the blueberry fields have a blood feud? And why does Missy feel so weird about everything this summer?
Slowly, the blueberry fields give Missy a new view of life. Picking blueberries connects her to nature and the source of food--a revelation. She comes to love the silence as she goes down the rows. In that silence, she learns more about herself.
The Secrets of Blueberries is a perfect book for summer. I highly recommend it for readers who want to lose themselves in a story about life's big and small changes. For ages 9 and up.
In Jack and the Wild Life by Lisa Doan, the sequel to the hilarious Jack the Castaway (see below), Jack�s parents have learned their lesson. Or so they say.
Richard and Claire Berenson have a plan�surprise!�for a new moneymaking scheme that�s sure to be a success. They�ve even followed the Family Decision-Making Rules, as established by seventh-grader Jack.
So what could go wrong with their plan to open a rustic (to say the least) tourist camp in Kenya, where you can live like the Maasi, build your own hut, and milk a cow named Princess?
Plenty, as Jack finds out. He gets chased up a tree, fights off honey badgers (who aren�t as sweet as they sound), and runs from an angry bull elephant. Worst of all, his parents have lost him again! Surviving on Chips Ahoy and oranges may be fun for an hour, but try several days.
Jack needs all his ingenuity and every piece of duct tape in his backpack to get through this one. Oh, and did I mention the stuffed monkey his (maybe) girlfriend Diana makes him take along? He�s not only lost, he�s the laughingstock of Africa.
Jack and the Wild One is a wild ride, with zany illustrations by Ivica Stevanovic. Bring along your own Chips Ahoy, and hope you survive for the third promised book in the Berenson Schemes series. Ages 9 to 12.


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Auditioning clips to try multiple editing options
Auditioning clips to try multiple editing options
In this movie, I want to take a look at how to audition clips. Auditioning is a way to try multiple shots in your sequence without actually committing to one until you see how it works in the context of the surrounding shots. Let's take a look. All right, I'm going to go into 7.3, and I have my Castles sequence, and I think everything is looking good, but I'm kind of curious how a couple of lines might be delivered differently in another take. I don't necessarily want to edit them in, because I might not like it as well, and then I'd just have to remove it and edit the first shot back in if it doesn't work out.
So this is where we can audition to make things a little easier. All right, so the first idea I had was the first line, "So, how's the coffee?" I'm just going to zoom in here, Command+Plus, and let's go ahead and just take a listen to this line here. (male speaker: So, how's the coffee?) So we have Joseph's boss this in the long shot. L...
Auditioning clips to try multiple editing options provides you with in-depth training on Video. Taught by Ashley Kennedy as part of the Final Cut Pro X 10.0.9 Essential Training
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Formscan By Eamonn Murphy - The dams of Speckled Wood and second reserve, Penny Opera, aren't long about grabbing the attention, that pair being the top racemares, Like-A-Butterfly and Opera Hat. You can keep an eye on the likes of those with the future in mind, but with regards to this assignment WINGTIPS is probably the obvious way to go. With a rating of 138 a maiden win for this grey should be a mere formality. It would have happened for him last time at Fairyhouse if he'd not encountered traffic difficulties and the Grade 1 placed son of High Chaparral should erase memories of that now. Winner of a bumper over the course and distance, Another Challenge is a nice type but he falls down on the score of experience. Patriots Vision made a pleasing start to his racing life at Galway last month and he could challenge for minor honours here. Given his connections, it would be foolish to dismiss Sizing Sahara but he needs to show a lot more on his hurdling bow. Goodoldhonkytonk is surely better than she showed last time and Henry de Bromhead said of her in an Irish Field stable tour: "She is a lovely mare and was just chinned in a Roscommon bumper first time out. She will go for a four-year-old fillies' bumper at Cork in November (finished 11th the same day as the Cork National) and hopefully she'll pick up a bumper before she goes over hurdles. She could be really nice." Goodoldhonkytonk will need to be really nice to take this but she's one to monitor nonetheless.
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A hurdle race for four yrs old only, maidens at starting
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Allowances - 11st 7lb; Fillies allowed 7lb
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Probable SP 1/3 Wingtips, 13/2 Another Challenge, 8/1 Sizing Sahara, 16/1 Hangar Five, Patriots Vision, Goodoldhonkytonk, Mala Beach, 25/1 Speckled Wood, Monahans Girl, Back Off Mate, Madeira Classic, 33/1 Twotwentyyards, Courageous Cry, 50/1 Massabini, Kinneagh Cross, Dinos Gold, Theboss On Thehill, 66/1 Others.
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2011 Turban 4 11-2 R Walsh 9/2 (W P Mullins)
2010 Tadhg 4 11-2 Andrew J McNamara 25/1 (E J O'Grady)
2009 Abandoned
2008 Alpine Eagle 4 11-7 B J Geraghty 11/10Fav (Mrs John Harrington)
2007 Maca Rince 3 10-2 I J McCarthy 5/1 (Jarlath P Fahey)
2006 Celtic Warrior 3 11-0 D F O'Regan 8/1 (Liam Roche)


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RUSTON, La. – First-place Louisiana Tech overpowered Rice University men's basketball in an 85-46 setback for the Owls on Saturday night at the Thomas Assembly Center.
With a three-pointer early in the second half, Austin Ramljak moved past Shawn Tyndell for sole possession of second place for longest streak of consecutive games with a trey in program history. Adam Peakes holds the record at 39-straight games. Ramljak finished with team highs of nine points and six rebounds.
The Owls (7-17, 2-9 C-USA) turned the ball over a season-high 23 times against heavy pressure from the Bulldogs (21-5, 9-2), which translated to 25 points for LA Tech. Rice shot 38.3 percent from the field compared to 48.3 for the home team and suffered from a 41-24 deficit on the glass.
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Editor's Note: While this columnist is no longer writing for dLife.com and we have ceased to update the information contained herein, there is much to be read here that is still applicable to the lives of people with diabetes. If you wish to act on anything you learn here, be sure to consult your doctor first. Please enjoy the column!
May 2009 — We just attended the annual fundraiser for our local chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). It always overwhelms me to see a huge room full of people, all from our local area, directly affected by diabetes. Knowing that this is just the small group of people who could afford to attend the dinner, or who had been invited, or who had a strong enough tie to JDRF to know about the event makes it even more powerful. It speaks to how far-reaching this disease is and how many people are truly impacted directly by it. Then to see the number of children in the room who have type 1 diabetes, children who are local to our area, is so powerful and sad.
Even to parents who live with the reality of diabetes every day, seeing a room full of children living with the disease is overwhelming. As much as it creates a sense of community and support among those who live with it, it also creates great sadness. Knowing how many children are growing up too quickly because they aren't allowed to simply be a child because of the enormous responsibility they face creates such intense sadness for the parents of these children. Their innocence has been stolen. The awareness has been created that terrible things CAN and DO happen to them. They are no longer untouched by something that is truly dangerous and unfair. Seeing the numbness and needle-sized holes in their fingers is heartbreaking and makes you wish they could be unscarred physically and emotionally by type 1 diabetes. Children saying their biggest dream is a cure for diabetes makes you long for a time when this shouldn't be a concern of theirs at all. And seeing the tears in the eyes of every parent in the room makes me wish we didn't have quite so much in common. The only reason most of us know each other at all is because with type 1 diabetes, children – our children - suffer in such similar ways.
I think that as parents we all share a similar belief and fear. The belief that one day there will be a cure for diabetes, but the fear being that it may not come soon enough for our children to see it. And as much as we feel for all of the other parents in the room and want the cure for their children as well as our own, we really want our own child to benefit from that cure. And we want it to come before the end of our own child's childhood. And if I am honest, I have to admit that I become a little bit more resentful each year that I attend the JDRF event. Because I have watched my son's childhood exist within the context of diabetes. Because my child turned 13 this year and he is now officially a teenager. His childhood is over. A cure didn't come in time for him to have any part of childhood without diabetes. I will still raise money for a cure, still hope that my son sees it in his lifetime, maybe even before he goes to college or gets married. But the time when it could have given him more of a childhood without diabetes has past and that intense sadness has grown for me because of it.
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Like millions of girls before her, Brittlan Wall can't remember when she fell in love with horses. If you force her to answer the question, she will tell you she was born loving them.
But unlike many girls who left horses behind for other pursuits, Wall never did. As a result, in a month, the now 22-year-old young woman will embark on a chance of a lifetime as part of the newest class of the Darley Flying Start program.
The racing industry has a reputation for being hard to break into. If you love it, you better hope you were born into it. However, 10 years ago Sheikh Mohammed founded Darley Flying Start to help young, motivated thoroughbred enthusiasts get a jump start on a career in the industry.
The management training program lasts for two years, and each class is made up of only 12 students. The students accepted into the scholarship program spend time in Ireland, England, the United States, Australia, and Dubai while learning about all facets of racing at its highest levels. And they do it on Sheikh Mohammed's dime.
As you might imagine, getting into the program is not easy. Everyone who is accepted brings something a little different to the table, but they clearly must have the mark of a future leader.
For Wall, who was one of three Americans accepted into the newest class, applying seemed like a natural fit as she started to contemplate what she would do upon graduation from college. However, fear of rejection also caused her to hesitate.
"The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to do it, but for some ridiculous reason I just kept telling myself there's no way I'd get in, so I tried to suppress the desire to apply," she said. "About two weeks before the application deadline, I woke up and literally said out loud to myself 'the worst they can say is no,' and immediately started making a list of all the things I needed for the application. The entire process was pretty nerve-wracking."
Taking chances is nothing new for Wall. She was not raised in the thoroughbred industry but has watched the Triple Crown races since 2001 and during her junior year at the University of Georgia decided to make racing part of her life.
While on breaks from school, Wall took jobs in Lexington, Ky., as a training barn and broodmare groom for Vinery and as a marketing communications intern for Three Chimneys Farm. She currently is an assistant producer of the Jockey World Radio Show and an exercise rider for Blackwood Stables.
"I was blessed to get in contact with some very helpful and knowledgeable industry professionals who pointed me in the right direction from the start," Wall said. "For everywhere except Blackwood, it stemmed from me sending an email explaining what my ambitions were, what opportunities I was looking for, and whether or not their organization had any opportunities matching mine that I could apply for. It really was all just putting myself out there and seeing what came of it."
Although working for Blackwood is the first job she has had riding racehorses, Wall's talent on horseback has been years in the making. She began riding when she was 9, and her abilities earned her a riding scholarship to UGA. She rode for the Bulldogs' NCAA Division I varsity hunt seat team all four years, winning a team national championship her freshman year.
Wall has also picked up odd jobs as a way to learn as much as she can about the industry. For example, she attended the Kentucky Derby for the first time this year and did so as a photographer's assistant.
"It was an experience of a lifetime," said Wall. "Everyone talks about their first Derby and what it was like, but you never really understand just how amazing it is until you go. It might have been a dreadful day weather-wise, but seeing the field come thundering down the stretch while I was right on the finish line was surreal. I definitely got choked up when they sang 'My Old Kentucky Home.' Everything about the Derby was even better than I had heard."
The month of May was certainly a good one for Wall. Her professors worked with her so she would be able to take all of her finals as well as attend the Kentucky Derby. It was while she was driving to Louisville that she learned she had been accepted into the Darley Flying Start program. The next week, she graduated from UGA with a degree in sports management.
"I felt so many things when I got the call from Darley mostly a mixture of shock, excitement, and relief," she said. "I spent about half of the drive up to Louisville calling a good number of people to let them know I had gotten in. In my book of unforgettable moments, I'd say this ranks with the best of them."
Wall is almost certain to experience many unforgettable moments as a member of Darley Flying Start, and she will embark on her journey in Ireland at Kildangan Stud on August 19. She is interested in both the marketing side of the game as well as the hands-on aspect of training. No matter what she decides to do, the success of past Darley graduates has to be comforting.
Graduates are currently employed in the United States as well as Australia, Dubai, Japan, Brazil, France, UK and Ireland, and they have careers in areas including media, racing, breeding, bloodstock, sales, consultancy, veterinary medicine and marketing.
All graduates have received a Darley Flying Start diploma, but for the first time students will also be offered the Graduate Certificate in Management (Thoroughbred Industry) accredited by the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.
"I am so thankful and humbled to have been given this opportunity by Sheikh Mohammed and the Darley operation," said Wall. "Pursuing my passion in the thoroughbred industry at the highest level is truly a dream come true. I love this industry, and I can't wait to see what the next two years have in store. I'm pretty excited about all the incredible live racing we will get to experience all around the world."
While racing may have a reputation for being hard to break into, the truth is there are countless people willing to help those who truly have a passion for the game. The Darley Flying Start program might be the largest example of that generosity, but it is far from the only example. In fact, it is likely Wall made it into the program due to what she learned while working for other operations.
For any horse crazy girl -- or boy -- out there who dreams of working in the racing industry, Wall has the following piece of advice:
"Don't be afraid to put yourself out there, and don't let the fear of rejection get in the way of your passion. Be humble, take opportunities, and learn all you can."
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Alleged cannibal/possible zombie Carl Jacquneaux
Cannibalism is all the rage right now, and the latest sign of the zombie apocalypse is brought to you by the great state of Louisiana, where a man is accused of gnawing his neighbors face, apparently while under the influence of "some kind of drug."
This is now the seventh cannibalism story to make headlines in the last two weeks, and the hype of the ongoing zombie apocalypse has become so widespread that the Centers for Disease Control even issued a statement last week saying that the "CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms)."
The latest flesh-chewer is 43-year-old Carl Jacquneaux, of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, who is accused of biting off a chunk of his neighbor's face.
According to various local media reports, Jacquneaux went to the home of victim Todd Credeur over the weekend and started fighting with him about a "domestic issue."
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During the struggle, Jacquneaux bit off "a chunk" of Credeur's face.
Lucky for him, Credeur managed to fight Jacquneaux off -- he then disabled him by spraying him in the face with wasp spray.
Following the spraying, Jacquneaux scampered off and went to the home of a friend -- whom he held at knife-point after stealing the man's gun.
Police tracked Jacquneaux to the friend's home and took him into custody.
Like Miami "zombie" Rudy Eugene, authorities suspect Jacquneaux was under the influence of drugs at the time of the attack. A female friend of one of the victims told a local TV station she thinks Jacquneaux had taken bath salts, which is what police suspect Eugene had taken prior to eating a man's face.
In all, Jacquneaux was booked on one count each of aggravated burglary, simple battery of the infirm, violation of probation, aggravated second degree battery, and violation of protective orders. He was booked into the Lafayette Parish Jail on a $312,500 bond.
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We now have all the accessory details for our anniversary bikes. all these products can be specially ordered for your bikes.
70th Anniversary Chrome Magnetic logo
kit includes 1 ChromexSticker + 1 Magn ..
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New 70th Anniversary vespa
Soon to arrive, now taking deposits!
The 70th Anniversary Vespa GTS 300 & 125cc. The PX 125 & 150cc. And the Primavera 125cc models.
Moonraker's Vespa Ltd edition 70th Anniversary prices.
These are all on the road prices, T ..
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Three wheeler licence changes
If you passed your full car test before January 2013,and/or have a full or A2 bike licence, you can ride the The Piaggio MP3 LT range,Gilera Fuco and the Quadro 3 and the new Quadro 4. ..
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Moonraker-New Year
New Year, New look!
We are now back after the holidays and back to business as normal. We are currently in the middle of extending the showroom space, to allow for a new dedicated helmet room, clothing walls and new space for Moonrakers lates ..
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2015 Christmas Opening Times
MONDAY 21st 8.30am to 5.30pm
TUESDAY 22nd 8.30am to 5.30pm
WEDNESDAY 23rd 8.30am to 12.00pm
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