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We've selected the best tips for finding the cheapest hotels during the world's greatest sporting event.
Compare Prices
When starting to look for any hotel, it's always best to first compare prices. With room rates during the Olympics on the rise in London, using a comparison site is the best option to check competing rates in order to find the cheapest room. Sites which use wholesalers, for example, will automatically boost your chances of finding a cheaper room. A number of comparison sites also offer the option to filter by lowest price -- which is a great option for anyone looking to find the cheapest rates. Remember that it is also important to shop around and find a site which uses live prices. Some sites use cached prices instead, making it seem as though rooms are still available at discounted rates, when in reality the prices are outdated and no longer available.
Consider Hidden Costs
Although most all comparison sites present their prices very clearly, it is important to remember that the total cost is not always advertised. The easiest way to check is to click through to the booking partner and see if the price goes up. If it happens that taxes and extra fees are not included in the advertised price for one hotel, it is safe to assume that all advertised prices on the site exclude taxes and fees as well. Before setting your sights on one specific property, check to make sure you're booking it for the stated price.
Use Filters
Although not all hotel sites offer filters, having them will always help make finding the ideal hotel much quicker and easier. In the case of the Olympics, not all venues are located directly in the city center, so booking a city center hotel may not be the cheapest or best way to find the ideal option. Instead, use the filters to look for hotels closer to the desired venue. This year we at trivago are working to include a number of the Olympic venues within our filters to help visitors find the ideal hotel in the perfect location. As many city center hotels have skyrocketed in price, filtering by hotels close to the venue will help to both save money initially and on transportation costs later to and from the events.
Check for Wi-Fi
While most believe that savings happens during the booking process, it is important to also remember that finding the ideal hotel will help save you money during your stay. While internet is a common stable in many hotels, finding hotels which include free wifi will help save you money and optimize your Olympic experience. London2012.com will be providing live scores and updates online throughout the Olympics to help visitors stay up-to-date with news surrounding the events. Use the filter options to find a hotel which includes wifi and check to make sure it's free.
Read Reviews and Check Star Ratings
For those looking to travel to London for the Olympics, simply picking a hotel based on price or star rating could leave occupants both disappointed and without an option. In addition, star ratings are not always a reliable or a trustworthy indicator as to the quality of the hotel. Before booking a hotel, make sure to also read reviews from actual visitors. Reviews can help travelers find out more about the surrounding area and thus find a hotel which also fits into their schedule. While the cheapest hotel may seem the most appealing at first, sometimes spending just a little more time searching for a hotel which is located within walking distance to your points of interest, can actually help save you time and money -- and have a better experience in the end.
Extra Perks
While finding a cheap hotel during the Olympics may seem stressful and nerve wracking, don't forget that many hotels are preparing for the world's greatest sporting event by making the experience as enjoyable as possible. When picking a hotel, consider how it could help to enhance your experience. While some hotels may show the sporting events on a big screen in the hotel bar -- and include Olympic themed cocktails -- others will be planning shuttle services to and from the venues. If saving is important, choose a hotel which offers an option to help save you money and still provide an enjoyable atmosphere.
Consider Alternative Locations
As hotels in London are going fast and prices are becoming quickly inflated, travelers looking to save money and still experience the Olympic atmosphere may want to consider outside locations. Although it may be assumed that London will be home to all events, as they are hosting the Olympics, this is simply not true. Many events will be held outside of London city lines and span across the U.K. to neighboring cities such as Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff and more. A good rule to keep in mind is that not all metasearch sites work within the same radius. Make sure that when you're looking to be close to a venue, the hotel isn't 40 miles away.
Plan Accordingly
Whether you're planning to travel with friends, family, even pets or instead take on the Olympics alone, finding the ideal hotel is not always so easy. To save money, it's best to look at hotels which fit your group size as well as your wallet. This is where the using filters again come in handy, by helping to find a hotel which not only accommodates everyone in your party but also is exactly what you were hoping for.


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The profiles of the NK leaders (including Kim Il Sung, of course), beginning on page 90, are especially interesting. Like this fun tidbit:
Non-Communists who know KIM personally describe him as a roughneck, poorly-educated, poor at languages, with little administrative ability. He is, however, an able and ruthless guerrilla leader.

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Monday, February 6, 2017
Monday's Mail Memo - Snipped Tales & Fresh Grounded Faith
When Ruth ordered her own copy of Julie's new book, Snipped Tales, she'd ordered an extra to give away. Ruth added a lovely postcard and note to the top of the wrapped book before sending it on to me. I'm looking forward to dipping in and out of this book for INSPIRATION and will definitely have FUN using all the bits & pieces Julie so wonderfully included with it!
Thanks Ruth for hosting such a great giveaway and shipping this fantastic package all the way across the pond to me!!
In other news, this weekend I attended the Fresh Grounded Faith event with my friend Dawn (and we ran into our friend Amy at the event). We had a wonderful time listening to Jennifer Rothschild share about how we are unshakable women of the Lord. Karen Abercrombie, the actress that played Miss Clara in the War Room movie, was fantastic with her dramatic storytelling of the story of the Shunnamite woman and the story of Rahab. Michael O'Brien led inspiring worship and was quite the comedian as he shared his original songs and stories. Lysa TerKeurst spoke on keeping our desires in line with God's desires. During the roundtable discussion, they each shared their most embarrassing moment and we enjoyed lots of laughs. It was a great event!
Waving to all the Mondayers joining in with Sian this year as we share memos and a favorite piece of mail from the previous week.
10 comments:
- Karen said...
Can't beat happy mail like that! I'll be anxious to hear what you do with the bits and pieces.
- February 6, 2017 at 7:51 PM
- Ruth said...
Always good knowing that Happy Mail has arrived safely! Enjoy!
- February 7, 2017 at 5:54 AM
- Sian said...
It's so exciting to read about Julie's book reaching right across the world. Its cover is so lovely that I can't bear to slide it into a shelf. I have it out where I can see it!
Wishing you a good week ahead.
- February 7, 2017 at 7:06 AM
- Patio Postcards said...
Lucky you, that is very happy mail.
- February 7, 2017 at 7:40 AM
- alexa said...
So very nice to see Julie's book across the pond! I am sure you'll find things to enjoy in it ... I love mine, and am often dipping into it. Lovely to see you with such smiling happy faces!
- February 8, 2017 at 4:27 PM
- lilian said...
Good luck with your teaching, Busy looking desk,
Thank you for you visit ,
Lilian B #17
- February 9, 2017 at 12:21 AM
- Barbara Eads said...
I need to check out that book. It looks very interesting!
- February 9, 2017 at 6:58 AM
- Cheri said...
oooh - what a FUN bit of happy mail!
- February 9, 2017 at 8:54 AM
- Susanne said...
Fabulous happy mail. And that retreat sounds wonderful.
- February 14, 2017 at 2:20 PM
- debs14 said...
How lucky to win the book - I ordered one too so I know you're going to enjoy it! Happy mail is the best!
- February 20, 2017 at 2:37 AM


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Dylan & Levi
Easy-going but hard to tell apart – twins Dylan and Levi were born with a double dose of heart trouble. Just hours old, they came to Children's Hospital and Medical Center.
Complete Story
Hospitals across the country are working to make health care safety a priority, and everyone plays a role in this effort. As a parent, we invite you to be a part of our health care team. This means we want you to be involved in your child's care to the extent you are comfortable. At Children's Hospital & Medical Center, we believe that you know your child best. This philosophy is endorsed by the Joint Commission. Its "Speak Up" program urges parents to get involved in their child's care. This initiative provides simple advice on how you, as the parent, can help make your child's care a safe and positive experience.


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Susan Lucci will return with more stories of love gone wrong when "Deadly Affairs" comes back with new episodes in the summer of 2013.
"I have so enjoyed the real life stories of love triangles gone horribly wrong on 'Deadly Affairs' and can't wait for next summer when we'll pull the covers back on even more scandalous tales," Lucci said in a statement.
Lucci joined "Deadly Affairs" as the host after ABC pulled the plug on "All My Children." The show tells real-life stories of when love goes "terribly wrong." Each episode features stories spliced with expert commentary from experts to first-person accounts from friends and family of the victims.
"Our first foray into the nighttime soap genre with 'Deadly Affairs' brought the perfect combination of intriguing storytelling and guilty pleasure that enticed a passionate fan base," Henry Schleiff, president and general manager of Investigation Discovery, said in a statement. "We are thrilled to continue our affair with Susan Lucci and Sirens Media for the second season of 'Deadly Affairs' and further tempt our viewers with more stories that prove real life is often stranger than fiction."
Lucci will also star in Lifetime's "Devious Maids," a primetime soap the network rescued from ABC when the network passed on the pilot.


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Past "Battle" Titles
These books were used in the "Battle of the Books" middle school reading competitions from 1997-2018.
|Kehret, Peg
|Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted by Matt's biological father, Denny. (2011)
|Abracadabra Kid
|Fleischman, Sid
|The autobiography of the Newbery award-winning children's author who set out from childhood to be a magician. (2000)
|Absolutely Normal Chaos
|Sharon Creech
|Thirteen-year-old Mary Lou grows up considerably during the summer while learning about romance, homesickness, death, and her cousin's search for his biological father. (2001)
|The Alchemyst: the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
|Scott, Michael
|While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life. (2012)
|Al Capone Does My Shirts
|Gennifer Choldenko
|A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 where his father is a guard and electrician, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister, Natalie. Natalie is friends with Teresa Mattaman. (2007)
|Al Capone Shines My Shoes
|Gennifer Choldenko
|When twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan finds a note in one of his freshly laundered pillowcases, he knows exactly who it's from: Al Capone. Piper is the Warden's daughter, Jimmy keeps barrels of flies under the docks. (2011)
|Aliens On Vacation
|Clete Barrett Smith
|Unhappy at being sent to stay with his grandmother at the inn she operates, The Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast, Scrub discovers that each room is actually a portal to space and the inn's visitors are aliens who are vacationing on Earth. (2013)
|All American Girl
|Meg Cabot
|A sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son. (2005)
|Amazon Papers
|Beverly Keller
|Fifteen-year-old Iris gets into hilarious trouble when her mother goes on vacation and leaves her alone. (1998)
|Among the Hidden
|Margaret Peterson Haddix
|In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. (2000)
|Among the Imposters
|Margaret Peterson Haddix
|In a future where the law limits a family to only two children, third-born Luke has been in hiding for the entire twelve years of his life, until he enters boarding school under an assumed name and is forced to face his fears. (2003)
|The Apothecary
|Meloy, Maile
|Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war. (2014, 2015)
|Barry Lyga
|Twelve-year-old Kyle Camden develops greater mental agility and superpowers during a plasma storm that also brings Mighty Mike, an alien, to the town of Bouring, but while each does what he thinks is best, Kyle is labeled a villain and Mike a hero. (2013)
|Armageddon Summer
|Jane Yolen
|Fourteen-year-old Marina and sixteen-year-old Jed accompany their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the end of the world atop a remote mountain, where they try to decide what they themselves believe. (2000)
|Athletic Shorts
|Chris Crutcher
|A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier books by Chris Crutcher. Titles include: Brief moment in the life of Angus Bethune – Pin – Other Pin – Goin' Fishin' – Telephone Man – In the time I get. (1997)
|Art of Keeping Cool
|Janet Taylor Lisle
|In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy. (2003)
|Artemis Fowl
|Eoin Colfer
|When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll. (2005)
|Ballad of Lucy Whipple
|Karen Cushman
|In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town. (2001)
|Will Hobbs
|A troubled Indian boy goes to live with an elderly rancher whose caring ways help the boy become a man. (1997)
|Alex Flinn
|A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form. (2009)
|Belle Prater's Boy
|Ruth White
|When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses and fears in their lives. (1999)
|Belly Up
|Gibbs, Stuart
|Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered. (2015)
|Best Foot Forward
|Joan Bauer
|Between school and Al-Anon meetings, Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record. (2007, 2008)
|The Black Book of Secrets
|Higgins, F.E.
|When Ludlow Fitch runs away from his thieving parents in the City, he meets up with the mysterious Joe Zabbidou, who calls himself a secret pawnbroker, and who takes Ludlow as an apprentice to record the confessions of the townspeople of Pagus Parvus, where resentments are many and trust is scarce. (2012)
|Susan Cooper
|After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes. (1998)
|Book Scavenger
|Jennifer Bertman
|After twelve-year-old Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to figure out the secrets of an odd book they find before the men who attacked Emily's hero solve the mystery or come after the friends. (2017, 2018)
|Boy Who Saved Baseball
|John H. Ritter
|The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato. (2006)
|Brian's Winter
|Gary Paulsen
|Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet. (1999)
|Bud, Not Buddy
|Christopher Paul Curtis
|Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. (2002)
|Catherine, Called Birdy
|Karen Cushman
|The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off. (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000)
|Feinstein, John
|While covering baseball's World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Boston Red Sox, teenage sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol investigate a rookie pitcher whose evasive answers during an interview reveal more than a few contradictions in his life story. (2014)
|Chasing Vermeer
|Blue Balliett
|When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal. (2007)
|Chocolate War
|Robert Cormier
|A high-school freshman who refuses to participate in the annual fund-raising chocolate sale is forced to defend his convictions. (1997)
|The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites
|Brewer, Heather
|For thirteen years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept secret that he is half-vampire, but when his missing teacher is replaced by a sinister substitute, he learns that there is more to being a vampire, and to his parents' deaths, than he could have guessed. (2012)
|Carl Hiassen
|When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father. (2013, 2014)
|Circus Mirandus
|Cassie Beasley
|When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life. (2018)
|City of Ember
|Jeanne Duprau
|In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions. (2007)
|Close to Famous
|Bauer, Joan
|Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there. (2012)
|Code Orange
|Caroline B. Cooney
|While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City. (2008)
|Gaiman, Neil
|When Coraline steps through the locked door in her family's new flat, she finds a world which caters to her every whim. When she wants to leave, however, things rapidly change and she must fight a battle of good and evil to save herself. Buttons on eyes! (2006)
|Cottrell Boyce, Frank
|12-year old Liam looks like he's thirty. Sometimes it's not bad; for example on the first day of school the principal mistakes Liam for a teacher or when he convinces a car dealer to let him test drive a Porsche. So feeling like he's stuck between two worlds, Liam cons his way into being the adult chaperone on the first space ship to take civilians into space. But when the ship is stuck 230,000 miles from home, being mistaken for an adult is not good. (2012)
|Jerry Spinelli
|Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family. (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001)
|Crispin: the Cross of Lead
|Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. (2005)
|Danger Zone
|David Klass
|When he joins a predominantly black "Teen Dream Team" that will be representing the United States in an international basketball tournament in Rome, Jimmy Doyle makes some unexpected discoveries about prejudice, racism, and politics. (2005)
|David and Della
|Paul Zindel
|David Mahooley, a teenage playwrght suffering from writer's block, finds himself drawn into the passsionate world of a flamboyant, alcoholic young actress with a talent for lying. (1997)
|Dead End In Norvelt
|Gantos, Jack
|In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore (2014).
|Dealing with Dragons
|Patricia Wrede
|Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons' kingdom. (1997, 1998)
|The Detective's Assistant
|Kate Hannigan
|In 1859, Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, a female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, and helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln and the mystery of what happened to Nell's own father. (2018)
|Gary Paulsen
|A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself. (1997)
|Don't Scream
|Joan Lowery Nixon
|When two new guys come to her school, Jess thinks things are really looking up, but she doesn't know their real identities or if she can trust them. (2001)
|Down a Dark Hall
|Duncan, Lois
|Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected. (2004)
|Neal Shusterman
|When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures. (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
|Driver's Ed
|Caroline B. Cooney
|Three teenagers' lives are changed forever when they thoughtlessly steal a stop sign from a dangerous intersection and a young mother is killed in an automobile accident there. (2005)
|Ella Enchanted
|Gail Carson Levine
|In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her. (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002)
|Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library
|Grabenstein, Chris
|Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape. (2015, 2016)
|Esperanza Rising
|Pam Munoz Ryan
|Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. (2006)
|Face on the Milk Carton
|Caroline Cooney
|A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity. (1998, 2016)
|Far North
|Will Hobbs
|After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories. (2003)
|Fever 1793
|Laurie Halse Anderson
|In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. (2003)
|Flight #116 is Down
|Caroline B. Cooney
|Teenager Heidi Landseth helps rescue people from a plane crash on her family's property, and the experience changes her life forever. (2004)
|Carl Hiaasen
|With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home. (2008)
|James Ponti
|In Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret help thwart the biggest art heist in United States history. (2018)
|From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
|E.L. Konigsburg
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself. (2000, 2016)
|Fuzzy Mud
|Louis Sachar
|When two middle-grade children take a shortcut home from school, they discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world. (2018)
|Gathering Blue
|Lois Lowry
|Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians. (2003)
|Lois Lowry
|Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. (1999)
|Graveyard Book
|Neil Gaiman
|Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. (2011)
|Gregor the Overlander
|Suzanne Collins
|When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy. Sister is Boots. (2011, 2012)
|The Grimm Legacy
|Shulman, Polly
|After high school student Elizabeth, working as a page, gains access to the Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods. (2014)
|Harris and Me
|Gary Paulsen
|Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world. (1998)
|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
|J.K. Rowling
|When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school. (2001)
|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
|J.K. Rowling
|During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths. Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. (2002)
|Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
|J.K. Rowling
|Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches. (2000, 2016)
|Mike Lupica
|Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof. (2008)
|Heist Society
|Carter, Ally
|A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector. (2012)
|Hidden Talents
|David Lubar
|When thirteen-year-old Martin arrives at an alternative school for misfits and problem students, he falls in with a group of boys with psychic powers and discovers something surprising about himself. (2008, 2009)
|Hiding Out At The Pancake Palace
|Nan Marino
|When musical prodigy Elvis Ruby completely freezes up on television, he is forced to hide out in the Pinelands of New Jersey and try to find his way back to the music once again with the help of a new friend. (2015)
|Louis Sachar
|As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
|Homeless Bird
|Gloria Whelan
|When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it. (2004)
|Carl Hiaasen
|Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site. (2005)
|Hope was Here
|Joan Bauer
|When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor. (2003, 2016)
|The Hypnotists
|Gordon Korman
|Twelve-year-old Jackson Opus is descended from two powerful hypnotist bloodlines, but he has just begun to realize that he can control other peoples' actions with sometimes frightening results--especially when the head of the Sentia Institute plans to use Jackson for his own benefit. (2015)
|I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You
|Ally Carter
|As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission. (2011)
|The Iron Trial
|Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
|Warned away from magic all of his life, Callum endeavors to fail the trials that would admit him to the Magisterium only to be drawn into its ranks against his will and forced to confront dark elements from his past.
|Island of the Blue Dolphins
|Scott O'Dell
|Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind. (1997)
|Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
|Jack Gantos
|To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired. (2002)
|The Key to Extraordinary
|Natalie Lloyd
|Twelve-year old orphan, Emma Casey, lives by a haunted graveyard in her Tennessee town. She gives tours, and helps her brother and Granny Blue with the family bakery, and waits for the destiny dream of her ancestors -- but when it comes it shows her only a key. She finds that she must solve a ghostly mystery that has haunted her town for generations. (2018)
|Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark
|Ridley Pearson
|Finn Whitman and his fellow DHIs, teenagers chosen to serve as actors for a new technology, investigate strange occurrences at Disney theme park attractions, racing to uncover a supernatural force that could destroy the world. (2010)
|Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery
|John Feinstein
|After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game. (2009)
|The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch
|DeLaney, Joseph
|For years, Old Gregory has been the Spook for the county, ridding the local villages of evil. Now his time is coming to an end. But who will take over for him? Twenty-nine apprentices have tried- some floundered, some fled, some failed to stay alive. Only Thomas Ward is left. He's the last hope, the last apprentice. (2012, 2013)
|The Lightning Thief
|Rick Riordan
|After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. (2009, 2010)
|Lily's Crossing
|Patricia Reilly Giff
|During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently. (2000)
|The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
|C.S. Lewis
|Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter. (2004)
|Jude Watson
|When Alfie McQuinn, the notorious jewel thief, is killed on a job, his last words to his son, March, are to "find jewels," and this instruction leads the boy to Jules, the twin sister he never knew he had--and the perfect partner to carry on the family business. (2017)
|Love Among the Walnuts
|Jean Ferris
|Born and raised in isolation in a wealthy, eccentric family, Sandy is shocked when he, his parents, and their servants become victims of a vicious plot by his greedy uncles to incapacitate them and take their money. (2009)
|Man Who was Poe
|In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist. (2006)
|Maniac Magee
|Jerry Spinelli
|After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.(1999)
|Marley: a Dog Like No Other
|John Grogan
|Follows the life story of an exuberant Labrador retriever who gets into perpetual trouble and experiences a range of inspiring adventures. (2009)
|Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
|James Patterson
|After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose. (2008)
|Missing, Book One: Found
|Margaret Peterson Haddix
|Thirteen year old best friends Jonah and Chip, who know that they are both adopted, begin receiving threatening notes in the mail and as they investigate they uncover very complicated circumstances surrounding their adoptions. (2010)
|Mortal Engines
|Reeve, Philip
|Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City of London chases towns across the wastelands. In the attack, Tom Natsworthy, Apprentice Historian to the London Museum, is flung from its speeding superstructure into the barren wasteland of Out-Country. His only companion is Hester Shaw, a murderous, scar-faced girl who does not particularly want Tom's company. But if they are to make it back to London, before Stalkers or hungry cities get them first, they will need to help each other, and fast. (2014)
|No More Dead Dogs
|Gordon Korman
|Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well. (2005, 2006, 2007)
|Nothing but the Truth
|Ninth-grader Philip Malloy's suspension for humming "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story. (1999)
|Once Upon a Marigold
|Jean Ferris
|A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father. (2006)
|Out of the Dust
|Karen Hesse
|In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.(1999)
|Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
|E.L. Konigsburg
|Upon leaving an oppressive summer camp, twelve-year-old Margaret Rose Kane spearheads a campaign to preserve three unique towers her great-uncles have been building in their backyard for over forty years. (2007)
|Roland Smith
|A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest. (2010)
|Joan Bauer
|In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted. (2010)
|Penny From Heaven
|Jennifer Holm
|As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death. (2017)
|Point Blank
|Anthony Horowitz
|Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps. (2007)
|Popular Clone
|Castle, M.E.
|Twelve-year-old Fisher Bas, a science-loving bully magnet, clones himself, only to discover that his double is infinitely cooler than himself. (2014)
|Mike Lupica
|Jake Cullen, fourteen, lives in the shadows of his father and older brother until he becomes the starting quarterback for the high school football team and finally has his chance to shine. (2017)
|Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan
|John Flanagan
|When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and ends up protecting the kingdom from danger. (2010, 2011)
|The Real Boy
|Anne Ursu
|A shy boy named Oscar who works as the hand to a powerful magic worker becomes the only person who can save his village from an evil monster. (2018)
|Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour
|Michael Beil
|Catholic-schooled seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann help an elderly neighbor solve a puzzle her father left for her estranged daughter twenty years ago. (2011)
|The Red Pyramid
|Rick Riordan
|After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe -- a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs. (2013)
|The Rithmatist
|Brandon Sanderson
|As Wild Chalklings threaten the American Isles and Rithmatists are humanity's only defense, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice. (2015)
|Ruby Electric
|Theresa Nelson
|Twelve-year-old Ruby Miller, movie buff and aspiring screen writer, tries to resolve the mysteries surrounding her little brother's stuffed woolly mammoth and their father's five year absence.(2007)
|Rules of the Road
|Joan Bauer
|Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who wants her to retire. (2002)
|Running Out Of Time
|Margaret Peterson Haddix
|When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children. (2002)
|Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Moustache Mary
|Wendelin Van Draanen
|While celebrating the New Year with a friend, Sammy encounters a mystery involving an elderly neighbor, a pioneer cabin, and a century-old family feud. (2002)
|Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
|Wendelin Van Draanen
|Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother. (2004)
|Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man
|Wendelin Van Draanen
|On Halloween night, seventh grader Sammy stumbles onto a mystery involving a twenty-year-old family feud and some heirlooms stolen by a man in a skeleton costume. (2005)
|Gordon Korman
|After his hippie grandmother ends up in the hospital, Cap Anderson is forced to leave the commune where he is homeschooled and attend Claverage Middle School, where his odd looks and behavior make him the target of bullies. (2010, 2017)
|Secret of Platform 13
|Eve Ibbotson
|Odge Gribble, a young hag, joins an old wizard, a gentle fey, and a giant ogre on a journey from their magical island kingdom to London through a tunnel which opens every nine years for nine days, to try and rescue the young prince who had been stolen as an infant nine years before. (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
|Shakespeare's Scribe
|Gary Blackwood
|In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way. (2002)
|The Shakespeare Stealer
|Gary Blackwood
|A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty. Sequel to Shakespeare's Scribe. (2001)
|Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
|Ann Brashares
|During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences. (2004)
|Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
|David Lubar
|While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer. (2011)
|Snake Stone
|Berlie Doherty
|While searching for his birthmother, fifteen-year-old James, a championship diver, discovers who his real parents are and where his real home is. (2001)
|So B. It
|Sarah Weeks
|After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. (2006)
|So You Want to be a Wizard
|Diane Duane
|Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she will not fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension. (2006)
|Somewhere in the Darkness
|Walter Dean Myers
|A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be an, often painful, time of discovery for them both. (2004)
|S.O.S. Titanic
|Eve Bunting
|Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink. (1997, 1998)
|Space Case
|Stuart Gibbs
|Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors. (2016, 2017)
|Joan Bauer
|As a sixteen-year-old pursues her two goals--growing the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself--she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a young man with interests similar to her own. (2001)
|Star Girl
|Jerry Spinelli
|In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. (2003)
|Anthony Horowitz
|After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6. (2006, 2016)
|Eoin Colfer
|In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans. (2006, 2007)
|Surviving The Applewhites
|Stephanie Tolan
|Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had. (2013)
|Jan Hudson
|Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father. (1998)
|Swallowing Stones
|Joyce McDonald
|Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique Winchester rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school classmate Jenna Ward. (2004)
|Sweet Friday Island
|Theodore Taylor
|Vacationing on what they think is an uninhabited island, fifteen-year-old Peg and her father find their adventure turned into a fight for survival. (1997)
|Edward Bloor
|Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)
|Theodore Boone: Abduction
|John Grisham
|When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April. (2013)
|Megan Whalen Turner
|Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone. (2001, 2018)
|Things Not Seen
|Andrew Clements
|When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it. (2007)
|Three Black Swans
|Caroline B. Cooney
|When sixteen-year-old Missy Vianello decides to try to convince her classmates that her cousin Claire is really her long-lost identical twin, she has no idea that the results of her prank will be so life-changing. (2013)
|Three Times Lucky
|Sheila Turnage
|Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder. (2015)
|Travel Team
|Mike Lupica
|After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory. (2007)
|True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
|As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew. (1998)
|True Legend
|Mike Lupica
|Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA. (2015)
|Tuck Everlasting
|Natalie Babbitt
|The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older. (2000)
|Margaret Peterson Haddix
|Eighty-five years after participating in a flawed scientific experiment to reverse the aging process, Melly and Anny Beth face the fear of being unable to care for themselves as they continue to grow younger. (2009)
|Two Princesses of Bamarre
|Gail Carson Levine
|When her sister goes missing, shy Addie knows that she must muster all of her strength to take on a dangerous journey in order to find her, save her life, and save the future of their kingdom of Bamarre.(2008)
|Korman, Gordan
|Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special school for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school. (2014)
|View from Saturday
|E.L. Konigsburg
|Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition. (1999)
|Watsons Go to Birmingham
|Christopher Paul Curtis
|The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. (1999)
|Wednesday Wars
|Gary Schmidt
|During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in. (2010)
|Westing Game
|Ellen Raskin
|The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. (1998, 1999)
|What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World
|Henry Clark
|Finding a rare zucchini-colored crayon leads twelve-year-old River Monroe and his friends on an adventure with their eccentric neighbor to save Earth from invading interstellar storm troopers. (2016)
|When My Name was Keoko
|Linda Sue Park
|With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely. (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
|When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
|Kimberly Willis Holt
|During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world. (2002)
|Paul Fleischman
|While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he caused, sixteen-year-old Brent finds forgiveness and atonement. (2000)
|The White Giraffe
|Lauren St. Jean
|After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe.
|Tom Bodett
|In their father's absence, thirteen-year-old September and her younger brother Ivan disobey his orders by taking the boat out on their Alaska bay, where they are caught in a terrifying storm called a williwaw. (2003)
|Wolf Rider
|After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him. (2008)
|Wrinkle in Time
|Madeleine L'Engle
|Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. (2005, 2017)


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Techniques to Train a puppy
dog obedience training
Dog lovers like you are surely facing task to train a dog. When you go online or read books, you'll find a great deal of principles regarding how to train your pet dog, but you will find practices which might be considered universal. Remember that you're just about to train a dog that already recognizes his invest the house. So if you give it the correct training, you will turned into a leader in his eyes and he might be a jolly and obedient dog.
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dog obedience training
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Source: Boston Herald
Posted on 08 Jun 2011
According to a state tally, Western Massachusetts residents are seeking $90 million in insurance claims from the tornadoes that hit the Springfield area last week.
Almost all of the 5,000 claims filed so far are by homeowners whose property sustained varying degrees of wind damage, state consumer affairs chief Barbara Anthony said today.
"We do expect that to increase," she said. "We haven't heard yet from any homeowners who are not getting the value they want for their claims."
State finance czar Jay Gonzalez said the state is still in "the cleanup and assessment stage and expects to have its application for federal assistance ready for filing by the end of this week or early next week.
"This would be for assisting both private citizens who need help dealing with property damage or other assistance, as well as public infrastructure that's been damaged," Gonzalez said during a speech this morning to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
The damage to public infrastructure has to hit $8.3 million for the state to qualify for federal disaster relief, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.
The Patrick administration yesterday filed a supplemental state budget bill with $10 million for costs related to the tornados.
Anthony toured several state-run assistance centers in Springfield, Palmer and Southbridge as well as damaged neighborhoods this morning as part of the state's continuing response to the disaster.
Her agency, which also oversees business regulation, is cautioning homeowners to look out for contracting scams.
"We don't want people to be victimized again," she said. "We hear there's a lot of people hunting for business. There's nothing wrong with legitimate contractors looking for work but we're concerned about the fly-by-night folks."
Anthony said she heard reports of contractors canvassing damaged neighborhoods, posting ads and knocking on doors.
"We're urging consumers not to sign contracts on the spot," she said. "If the deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
State officials and witnesses reported on Wednesday evening that at least two confirmed tornadoes descended upon towns in western Massachusetts, leaving at least four dead and smashing homes and buildings across a 40-mile stretch.
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There are few things I dread more than a school project.
I believe the diorama is evil and an instrument of Satan. My children's science, history and invention fair entries have made me cry and I'm not talking tears of joy. In fact, the last place I ever want to be is frantically searching the aisles at a craft store on a Thursday night looking for chopsticks, wooden dowels or anything Martha Stewart-y to make a mobile. But there I was with my "It may be the last minute, but that doesn't make it late" child in a race to buy supplies for a project due in less than 12 hours.
As I was crouched down digging through a bin of reduced American Girl craft kits thinking about how I could use different parts to make a decent mobile, I see a mom I know. She had all the tell-tale signs of "School Project Overkill." Her hands were singed from excessive glue gun use, and there looked to be what I think was permanent marker on her face. I gave her the "don't you hate school projects" eye roll, and she responded with two words: Invention Fair. Well, actually three, but I'm being ladylike and not counting the F word. I got up and gave her a hug.
If you're on your high horse right now doing the sanctimonious two step as you self-righteously mutter, "But school projects are for the kids to do, not the parents," stay really still for a second so I can kick you. I'd have a better chance of seeing free-range unicorns grazing in the empty field near the 135th Street Target than a kid turning in a school project that didn't have his or her parent's DNA all over it.
If you want to check out different parenting styles, all you need to do is a 360-degree rubbernecking at projects lining the hallways during parent/teacher conferences next week. Feast your eyes on the fourth-grade Invention Fair entries that look like the design team at Apple was brought in for consultation. Do a double take at the fifth-grade science project that required welding because who among us doesn't keep a shielded metal arc welding kit (designer helmet optional) in our pantry and wouldn't be averse to letting a 10-year-old use it? Stare in wonder at a second-grader's diorama that would put an elite squad of Disney Imagineers to shame. Never mind that no 7-year-old on planet Earth has such advanced fine motor skills.
These projects represent the parenting style I like to call Hyper-Involved, or Get Out of My Way, Kid, I'm Taking Over This Project. (As your kids get older, rest assured these parents still find stuff to do, like write their teenagers' college application essays.) There's a certain degree of hubris with this parenting style, as defined by the total lack of concern that no one EVER is going to believe a child took part in any aspect of this school project. I saw one teacher, who I shall always cherish, tell a parent, "Nice work, Mom. You got an A." The mother in question didn't even have the good sense to be embarrassed. She just smiled and adjusted the sleeves on her North Face.
I always wonder what the Hyper-Involved Parent is trying to compensate for. Several years ago, one of my kids was assigned a project of making a mastodon tusk. One week later, I'm dropping my kids off at school on the day projects are due, so you see many children carrying in mastodon tusks. Then what to my wondering eyes should appear but a dad in a huge pickup truck with what seems to be a life-size tusk lying in the bed. He pulls in front of everyone, double parks, puts on his hazards — like that makes it OK he's causing a traffic tieup — hops out of his truck and, with the help of two students, proceeds to hoist what I'm guessing is a 6-foot-long papier-mache tusk out of his pickup.
The dad couldn't have looked prouder. I'm telling you, he had some serious swagger going on carrying that bad boy into the school. I watch all this, primarily because I'm blocked in by his vehicle, and just shake my head. I'm thinking that tusk has to be a metaphor for a lack of size in other areas of this dad's life. And maybe that's what drives Hyper-Involved Parents: a need to show off, to preen, to draw attention to themselves. Even if it's something as simple and innocent as a child's school project.Reach SHERRY KUEHL at snarkyinthe suburbs@ gmail.com


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Within the past decade an unusual decline of black walnut has been observed in several western states. Initial symptoms involve a yellowing and thinning of the upper crown, which progresses to include death of progressively larger branches. During the final stages large areas of foliage may rapidly wilt. Trees often are killed within three years after initial symptoms are noted. Tree mortality is the result of attack by the walnut twig beetle (Pityophthorus juglandis) and subsequent canker development around beetle galleries caused by a fungal associate (Geosmithia sp.) of the beetle. This disease complex has been named Thousand Cankers Disease (TCD).
USDA Forest Service Pest Alert
There are a number of insects and diseases that attack hardwood trees. Some are very specific to black walnut trees. A good source for problems specific to black walnut is the publication "How to Diagnose Black Walnut Damage," USDA Forest Service General Technical Report NC-57.
"How to Identify and Control Leaf Spot Diseases of Black Walnut" has information on anthracnose, bull's-eye leaf spot, and white mold.
The website www.forestpests.org tracks the latest information and has numerous publications.
The US Forest Service publishes pest alerts on a variety of pests.
A beetle from Asia, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), was identified in July 2002 as the cause of widespread ash (Fraxinus spp.) tree decline and mortality in southeastern Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Larval feeding in the tissue between the bark and sapwood disrupts transport of nutrients and water in a tree, eventually causing branches and the entire tree to die. Tens of millions of ash trees in forest, rural, and urban areas have already been killed or are heavily infested by this pest.
National Emerald Ash borer website
A phenomenon known as Sudden Oak Death was first reported in 1995 in central coastal California. Since then, tens of thousands of tanoaks, coast live oaks, and California black oaks have been killed by a newly identified fungus, Phytophthora ramorum. On these hosts, the fungus causes a bleeding canker on the stem. The pathogen also causes leaf spot and twig dieback on a variety of species of less importance than the oaks.
As of January 2002, the disease was known to occur only in California and southwestern Oregon; however, transporting infected hosts may spread the disease. The pathogen has the potential to infect oaks and other trees and shrubs elsewhere in the United States. Limited tests show that many oaks are susceptible to the fungus, including northern red oak and pin oak, which are highly susceptible.
The gypsy moth has been an important pest of hardwoods in the Northeastern United States since its introduction in 1869. Established populations exist in all or parts of 19 states from Maine to Wisconsin and south to Illinois and generally in a southeasterly line from Illinois to northeastern North Carolina. Oaks are the preferred host species for feeding caterpillars, but apple, sweetgum, basswood, gray and white birch, poplar, willow and many others serve as hosts.
The Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) has been discovered attacking trees in the United States. Tunneling by beetle larvae girdles tree stems and branches. Repeated attacks lead to dieback of the tree crown and, eventually, death of the tree. The beetle prefers maple species (Acer spp.), including boxelder, Norway, red, silver, and sugar maples. Other preferred hosts are birches, Ohio buckeye, elms, horsechestnut, and willows.
Butternut canker is caused by a fungus known as Sirococcus clavigignenti-juglandacearum which is killing butternut (Juglans cinerea) throughout its range in North America. Butternut is closely related to black walnut (Juglans nigra), which is not naturally susceptible to the disease.
DED is one of the most destructive shade tree diseases that affect elm trees. The disease kills individual branches and eventually the entire tree within one to several years. A fungus and an insect are responsible for DED development. The fungus was introduced to the United States on diseased logs from Europe in the 1930's.
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- Reporting and retrieving your child's immunizations
- Immunization Requirements for Schools and Child Care Centres
- School immunization clinic schedule 2018-2019
- Hepatitis B vaccine fact sheet
- Meningococcal disease vaccine fact sheet
- Human Papillomavirus (HPV) fact sheet
- Vaccine Consent Form for Hepatitis B, Meningococcal Disease, Human Papillomavirus (PDF)
- School Immunization Clinics - Questions and Answers for Parents and Guardians
School Immunization Clinic Information 2018/19:
- Nurses from Ottawa Public Health will hold clinics at your child's school two times this year (Fall and Spring).
- Please read the 3 vaccine fact sheets. (Human Papillomavirus, Hepatitis B, and Meningococcal)
- Sign the consent form for each vaccine you want your child to receive.
- Have your child take the signed consent form back to school on the school's clinic date. (the school will communicate these dates to parents, or see dates below).
Type of Vaccine
How Many Doses?
When is it given in school?
Who is eligible for the 2018-2019 School Year?
How long is my child eligible?
Fall or Spring
All grade 7 students(boys & girls)
Mandatory in grade 7, but students are eligible until the end of grade 12
or Engerix-B®)
Fall & Spring
All grade 7 students(boys & girls)
Until the end of grade 8
2 if given in grade 7
Fall & Spring
All grade 7 students (boys & girls)
Until the end of grade 12
2 if child is 14 years of age or younger when they receive the first dose
3 if child is 15 years of age or older when they receive the first dose
Fall & Spring
Girls who were in grade 7 or more in the 2016-2017 school year
Boys who were in grade 7 in the 2016-2017 school year
Until the end of grade 12
School Immunization Clinic Schedule for 2018-2019
|Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB)
|Ottawa Catholic School Board
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|Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario
|Ottawa Independent Schools
- Hepatitis B vaccine fact sheet
- Meningococcal disease vaccine fact sheet
- Human Papillomavirus (HPV) fact sheet
- Vaccine Consent Form for Hepatitis B, Meningococcal Disease, Human Papillomavirus (PDF)
- School Immunization Clinics - Questions and Answers for Parents and Guardians
If you are unsure whether your child has received one or more of these vaccines please call 613-580-6744 and speak to a nurse who can discuss which vaccines your child requires.
|What vaccines do my youth (12 to 18 years) need?
|Your youth's immunization record
Keep a record of your youth's immunization. Your youth's doctor will give you a record of all your youth's vaccinations. Update their little yellow book each time your youth gets a vaccination.
This record is important. Keep it in a safe place with other documents, like birth certificates and passports.
You may need your immunization record for:
Traveling to countries where the diseases are common
Going for emergency health care
Going to work
Living in residence at university or college
Starting university or college, especially in health care programs
Going to summer camp
Transferring to a new school in another area
Report all your youth's vaccinations to Ottawa Public Health. This includes those given by your healthcare provider. Ottawa Public Health keeps a record of your child's vaccinations to help protect public safety. This is important if there is ever a disease outbreak.
|Ontario's Publicly Funded Immunization Schedule
Ontario's Publicly Funded Immunization Schedule informs parents what vaccines your youth needs. It also lets parents know when their youth should get their vaccines. "Publicly funded" means that there is no cost for your youth to get these vaccines. They are funded to help protect public safety.
It is the law that all students need to either have a proof of vaccination or an exemption for the following diseases for school entry:
Your youth will meet this need if you follow the recommended schedule for immunization for Ontario. This is required by the Immunization of School Pupils Act.
|Helpful tips to reduce pain during vaccination
Getting a vaccine might be a scary for some youth. Try some of these helpful tips; they may be your best shot to help your youth overcome their fear.
Offer helpful distractions such as:
For older children and youth who are very fearful, think about medications that numb the skin:
Offering praise and a reward after vaccinations can help children and youth of all ages!
|Deciding not to immunize a child
You are encouraged to speak with a Public Health Nurse (PHN) to discuss how best to protect your child from vaccine preventable diseases. For any questions you may have related to vaccines or the exemption process, please call Ottawa Public Health (OPH) at 613-580-6744 to speak with a PHN. Consult the following pages for more information regarding immunization requirements for child care registration or school registration in Ottawa.
|Are vaccines safe?
Vaccines used in Canada are safe and effective. They are developed to meet the highest standards and are continually monitored for safety and effectiveness. Check out this video, created by Immunize Canada to learn more on vaccine safety.
Vaccines are an important part of healthy growth and development. Think of them the same way you would healthy eating, physical activity, or proper sleep.
Vaccines are a proven and safe way to prevent serious infections. Although we rarely see most of these diseases in Canada now, they still exist. If we stop vaccinating children, these diseases will return. Vaccines sometimes even prevent death.
Vaccines help your body to help itself. Your body will make antibodies when you get a vaccine. Antibodies help your immune system to identify and destroy a virus. This will protect your child and those around them.
Most vaccines are given by injection. Some are given orally (in the mouth). New types of vaccines, such as nasal sprays, make them less painful for some patients.
Stay in the know. Learn more about the diseases that you can prevent through vaccines. Vaccines for youth (12 to 18 years) protect against:
|Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B is a highly contagious virus that affects your liver. Your liver makes and stores energy for your body, cleans your blood, and helps to digest food.
Hepatitis B spreads from person to person, through contact with infected blood or body fluids such as:
From a mother to her baby at birth
During sex
Getting a human bite
Sharing dirty needles
The virus can stay alive on things like razors or toothbrushes for up to one week. Hepatitis B does NOT spread through coughing, hugs or using the same dishes as an infected person.
Hepatitis B can lead to:
Yellowing of the skin and whites of the eye.
Loss of appetite
Joint pain
Symptoms may take several months to appear. Many infected people may not have these symptoms. They may not know they are infected unless a blood test is taken.
There is no cure for hepatitis B. Most people are able to get rid of this virus, but some get sick and even die. 6 to 10% of infected people have it for life and can pass it on to others. It can cause life-long damage to the liver (cirrhosis) and liver cancer.
Prevent hepatitis B:
Get the Hepatitis B vaccine
Never touch another person's blood
Make sure sterile tools are used for tattooing or body piercing
Do not share razors, toothbrushes or other personal care items
Find out more about the Hepatitis B vaccine.
|Meningococcal Disease
Meningococcal disease (MD) is caused by bacteria called Neisseria meningitidis. About 10% of people carry the bacteria in the back of their throat or nose, although most people never get sick. MD makes the lining of the brain and spinal cord swollen (meningitis). It can also cause a bad infection of the blood.
MD spreads through direct contact with the spit or mucous of an infected person. This might happen when:
Sharing eating utensils
Sharing drinking glasses or water bottles
Sharing cigarettes
It is NOT spread by being in the same room or breathing the same air as someone who has MD.
Prevent MD:
Get the Meningococcal Disease vaccine
Do not share personal items such as eating utensils, drinking glasses or water bottles
Wash your hands often with soap and water
Find out more about the Meningococcal Disease vaccine.
|Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
HPV is a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Over 100 types of HPV can infect different parts of the body. Up to 75% of us come in contact with HPV during our life. It can go away within two years without treatment, but for some people, it can lead to:
Anal and genital warts
Cancers of the cervix, penis, and anus
Cancers of the head and neck
Genital warts look like small bumps in the genital area. They sometimes have a cauliflower-like appearance. They range in colour from pink, flesh-colour, white, brown, or grey. A health care provider can examine you for genital warts. Genital warts are not easy to get rid of. Treatment can be painful.
HPV spreads mostly through skin-to-skin contact with the genital areas of someone who has an HPV infection. This includes the penis, scrotum, vagina, vulva or anus. Kissing or touching the genital area can spread HPV. It is not necessary to have intercourse to get HPV. Many people with HPV don't know they have the virus and may go on to infect others.
Prevent HPV:
Practice abstinence
Get the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine
If you are sexually active, use a condom; you can still get HPV but it lowers the risk
Get tested! Although there is no routine diagnostic test for HPV, pap tests can detect pre-cancers of the cervix
Find out more about the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.
Tetanus is a serious disease. The germs make spores that live in soil and dust. You may get the disease if dirt with the tetanus germ gets into a cut in the skin. Tetanus germs are found everywhere, usually in soil, dust and manure. Tetanus does not spread from person to person.
Tetanus causes cramping of the muscles in the neck, arms, legs and stomach. It may also cause painful convulsions which may be severe enough to break bones. Even with early treatment, tetanus kills 2 out of every 10 people who get it.
Getting your tetanus vaccine is the only way to prevent the disease.
Learn more about the Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis (Tdap) vaccine.
Diphtheria is a serious disease of the nose, throat and skin.
Diphtheria can cause:
Complications include breathing problems, heart failure and nerve damage. Diphtheria kills about 1 of every 10 people who get the disease. It is most often passed to others through coughing and sneezing.
Prevent diphtheria by getting the vaccine.
Learn more about the Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis (Tdap) vaccine.
|Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
Pertussis is a common disease. The infection causes prolonged coughs in youth and adults. Pertussis is most serious for babies. This cough can cause a person to vomit or young babies may even stop breathing for a short period of time. The cough can last for weeks. It can be hard to eat, drink or even breathe.
Pertussis can cause other serious problems such as:
Pertussis spreads from an infected person to others through coughing or sneezing. Adults are the main source for pertussis infection in babies and young children. Infected adults and youth can pass on the disease to infants who have not yet had their immunization vaccines. These infants will not be fully protected. They are at greater risk of serious problems.
Prevent pertussis by getting the pertussis vaccine.
Learn more about the Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis (Tdap) vaccine.
Do you have more questions?
- Speak with a Public Health Nurse. Call the Ottawa Public Health Information Center (OPHIC) at 613-PARENTS [613-727-3687] (TTY: 613-580-9656) or email Ottawa Public Health at email@example.com
- Connect with a Public Health Nurse and other parents on the Parenting in Ottawa Facebook page
- There are a variety of services to make it easier for your child to grow up healthy in Ottawa
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Financially ailing PharmaKinetics Laboratories Inc. plans to file for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. The Baltimore-based company said yesterday it expected file today in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland.
"This step is being taken to ensure, as best possible, the conduct of business as usual in regards to our clients," said V. Brewster Jones, president and chief executive officer. He said -- the company intends to continue operations while it attempts to reorganize.
Last week, the company announced that plans to sell its key assets to a New Jersey company had fallen through. The deal would have brought the $4.8 million in cash and contingent payments of $2 million over a period of up to five years, and PharmaKinetics would have become a wholly owned subsidiary of Applied Bioscience International.


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Where The Locals Go
Photo by Cody York
Clevelanders can't keep secrets! It's the reason our supposedly "underground" indie theaters, blue-collar brewpubs, and cool art galleries are increasingly cult hangouts. Just follow the crowd and go where the locals go, discovering Clevelanders' un-secret side.
Tremont boasts first-rate dining and boutique shopping. This extremely walkable, historic neighborhood is fun for visitors to spend an entire day exploring!
216.575.0920 | tremontwest.org
University Rd. to Steelyard Dr.
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Cleveland, OH 44113
Prosperity Social Club
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216.937.1938 | prosperitysocialclub.com
1109 Starkweather Ave.
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1390 W. 65th St.
Cleveland, OH 44102
Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood
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216.651.2202 | sweetmosestreats.com
6800 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44102
Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood
Beachland Ballroom & Tavern
It's rock and roll nightly in this former Croatian hall with two music rooms. Named on of Esquire's Best 100 Bars for wide beer selection, locally-sourced menus and vintage vibe.
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15711 Waterloo Rd.
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Statement by APTA President and CEO Michael Melaniphy
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