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| Inventors Who Left Their Brands On America Author: Frank H. Olsen. Pages: 196. Price: $3.50. Publisher: Bantam. Inventors Who Left Their Brands on America is interesting and full
of uncommon information that is fun to read and neat to know. Frank H. Olsen tells the stories of famous "household-name"
inventors and entrepreneurs, such as Levi Strauss, Charles
Goodyear, Walt Disney, Will Keith Kel | |
| Wanted . . . Mud Blossom, written by Betsy Byars and published by
Bantam Books, tells the down-to-earth story of an average American
family. It is a book everyone in households can relate to _
brothers, sisters, moms and dads. Second-grader Junior Blossom has a big secret he's keeping from
his family. He's building a tunnel in the back yard near a cluster
of pine trees for his class's pet ham | |
| `They're from my life. All my ideas are from my life," said Gary
Paulsen, referring to where he gets the ideas for his books. Looking at the trials and antics in Paulsen's 54 years, it's
easy to understand why his novels are so popular, especially the
Newbery award-winning Hatchet and Dogsong. Children's Express interviewed Paulsen in April when he came to
Indianapolis on a book-signing tour a | |
| Those poor Baudelaire orphans never seem to get a break, and kids never seem to get enough of their awful adventures. In September, "The Grim Grotto" was released, finding the Baudelaires again in trouble, this time of a watery variety. As Lemony Snicket, aka Daniel Handler, wrote on Amazon.com, "Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone, or mildew, you probably prefer not to be damp. You might also pr | |
| Many people never get the chance to leave their mark on the world. Nineteen-year-old Ned Vizzini already has. While Vizzini was growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., he did not spend his spare time watching television. Instead, he wrote essays, which appeared in the New York Press, a free weekly, and now appear in his recent book, Teen Angst? Naaah . . . . Vizzini has loved to write ever since first grade | |
| The River
Author: Gary Paulsen.
Pages: 132.
Publisher: Delacorte Press.
Price: $15, hardcover; $3.99 paperback. You feel as if you're on a dull ride down a slow-moving river
without any twists and turns in it. You're tired and bored, about
to fall asleep. Guess what? You're reading the book The River by
Gary Paulsen. The River is a sequel to the book Hatchet, also by Paulsen. Hatchet tells | |
| Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Author: Chris Crutcher.
Publisher: Greenwillow Books.
Pages: 216.
Price: $14. How far would you go for your best friend? Would you risk your
life? This kind of unselfish friendship exists between Eric Calhoune
and Sarah Byrnes in Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, by Chris Crutcher. Eric, an 18-year-old high school distance swimmer, is kind,
caring and willing to do | |
| S ummer gives kids a chance to stay up late, play in the sun and catch up on their leisure reading -- or maybe not. A survey of Y-Press members found that some look at summer as a chance to read as much as they can, while others are just as happy not to crack a book at all. But for those who like to read, there are many worlds to explore, from the American South in the 1950s to the infinite univ | |
| Reading Sybil at Sixteen is like watching a soap opera. This
182-page drama is about how the Sebastian family is affected by
something that happened more than 20 years ago. Caught between the
present and the past, the Sebastian family must make a serious
decision. Although the plot is quite interesting, it is also confusing.
Too many things are thrown at the reader at once. It reaches a
poin | |
| Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
Author: Walter Dean Myers.
Price: $13.95.
Pages: 210.
Publisher: Scholastic. What happens when Malcolm X's exciting life and Walter Dean Myers'
writing ability are combined? A riveting story that's almost
impossible to put down. In his latest book for teens, the biography Malcolm X: By Any
Means Necessary, Myers takes you on an emotional ride through the
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