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"The Funny Kid" is a third grade story about a boy named Rupert
Rainbow who lives with his strange grandmother and is a bit
different himself. He is teased and bullied by some of his
classmates and irritates his teacher, Mrs. Blister with his funny
questions and answers. Eventually, Rupert wins over his teachers
and gives his classmates a lesson in tolerance.
"Rooftops" is a third grade chapter book about a boy named Tyler,
who has to move from his uncle's farm in Kansas to an apartment
building in the city. He longs to go back to the farm and remains
unhappy until he makes a good friend, Trisha, who helps him
discovers that city life can be fun.
This is a book of poems of nature and life as seen through the eyes
of the author, with her interpretation of the beautiful natural
world created by God. Her sign is the dragonfly, a mystical insect
that has been on earth for millions of years and has more eye
facets than any other living creature. The dragonfly is revered by
the Abenaki, New England's native Americans as a sign of magic and
rebirth. The author writes of the swamps and bogs, lakes and ponds,
brooks and rivers she has loved in New England, and the wonderful
animals she has encountered there, and in her own back yard. She
writes of turtles, snakes, hummingbirds and turkeys. She sings of
cows and deer and butterflies. She is inspired by the flowers in
her garden; pansies, lupine, foxgloves, and even the weeds like
lady's thumb. She finds joy in all of the New England seasons and
the hills and rocks and forests. Nature has a million tales to
tell, and herein are offered a few. The discovery of nature's
stories offers us a clue to the discovery of the mystical within
ourselves. To learn to see as the dragonfly sees, with its myriad
points of vision, is to awaken to life, to self, and to spirit.
Jan Whitlock, the young investigative reporter in "The Mystery at
Seymour Lake Lodge" continues to search for an answer to the
gnawing hunger inside her soul. She returns to the area of Vermont
where she grew up, and there in Shady Rill, in the shadow of Hunger
Mountain, she is challenged in ways she never expected. With
threats to her business success, her most important relationships,
and even her life, Jan must discover and believe in her inherent
inner strength and wisdom. Her passion for discovery and her need
for connection with writers, artists and musicians drive her to
build and sustain a life where creativity can flourish and where
she can be fully herself yet still have room for a romantic
partner. The author tempts you to escape into the back woods of
Central Vermont in the Worcester Mountain Range, where beavers and
rattlesnakes are protected from poachers, and where serendipity
awaits at every turn of the trail.
This second book of dragonfly poems comes from the heart more than
the eyes of the dragonfly. They tell how she feels about the things
she sees in the world, and what she observes about the actions and
nature of human beings.
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Paperback
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R383
R310
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