Book Review
Practical Tips for Parenting
Heartwarming tips on how to express parental love encourage building constructive parenting skills. As if being one of fourteen children wasn’t enough of a lesson in familial relations, author Inez V. Harrison has also dealt with...
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The Math Problem
"The Math Problem" brings excitement to otherwise dry concepts, with a multiplication rap and a sword for division. Multiplication tables, fractions, and division are the bane of many elementary school students, but Jake has a pretty...
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The Four Lost Chicks
This charming story of rhythms and sounds teaches children about animals to foster reverence for nature. "The Four Lost Chicks", a cheerful picture book by school principal and grandmother Yvonne Angelastro, uses a short tale about a hen...
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The Shameless Full Moon, Travels in Africa
Miller’s language becomes rapt, even poetic, when recounting compelling scenes of the African plains. In "The Shameless Full Moon, Travels in Africa", former journalist and longtime traveler Carol Miller describes the continent as a...
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Prince Iggy and the Tower of Decisions
This delightful, adventurous story shows even royal princes feel self-doubt sometimes. The second in a juvenile fiction series by author Aldo Fynn and illustrator Richie Vicencio, "Prince Iggy and the Tower of Decisions" follows the...
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Prince Iggy and the Kingdom of Naysayer
Goofy minor characters add depth to hero Iggy, helping him grow as a person throughout his journey. Anyone who has suffered bullying will relish "Prince Iggy and the Kingdom of Naysayer", in which a boy finds out he is royalty after...
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Helicopter Love Mail
For US soldiers in Vietnam, the whoosh of a helicopter propeller was at times one of the best sounds in the world. The copter carried news from back home—letters filled with everything from important updates to the comforting mundane...
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Housewives of America...The Real Story
Stacie M. Coleman’s mother got Stacie high on marijuana as early as grammar school. Despite this, Stacie grew up to be a teenager who could still put others before herself, and who ultimately quit high school to keep her niece from...