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  Dragons: The History of Dragon...

  Editors Charles River

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  For millennia, people considered dragons to be real, and the vivid lore of dragons has touched societies from Central America to Europe, and from Egypt to China. The popularity of dragons can easily be assessed by the number of motion pictures that include them as an integral part of their narrative, from the friendly dragons of children’s cartoons to the monsters being bred underground to unleash their horrors on humanity. Indeed, some of humanity’s deepest cultural myths have included dragons, from the Greek and Georgian tale of Jason and the Argonauts to the stories from ancient China that influence modern New Year’s festivities. 
  The English word “dragon” comes from the Greek word “drakon,” which means “snake,” and while people today may have a hard time imagining a dragon as a simple snake, some scientists think that the international nature of the myth is based on the presence of snakes on nearly every continent. Oxford professor of medieval European literature Carolyne Larrington explained, “The anthropologist David E. Jones has suggested that the dragon myth takes its origins from an innate fear of snakes, genetically encoded in humans from the time of our earliest differentiation from other primates. It is true, of course, that it makes evolutionary sense to avoid dangerous animals of every kind, but it is less clear why people should invent stories about imaginary oversized serpents in particular. Nevertheless, there is a clear benefit to tales that warn children against straying into perilous marshy areas where the serpent might seize them, or against scrambling up treacherous mountain sides in search of monsters and treasure hoards.”

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  Clear and Bright - A Ching Ming...

  Teresa Robeson

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  In this story about the Ching Ming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, a young girl and her Chinese-American family come together to share memories of the past over a delicious feast. 
    
  In the spring, Lily and her relatives gather for the Ching Ming Festival to honor their beloved ancestors. The day is full of joy and community, but also reverence and remembrance. As Lily zips between playing Chinese checkers with her cousin and helping her grandparents prepare a delicious meal for the family, a second narrative unfolds to reveal the sacrifices her great-great-grandpa had to make to settle in America.  
    
  Both a tale honoring the efforts of the first Chinese American immigrants and a story of a family coming together, Clear and Bright is a celebration of Chinese heritage, cultural tradition, and the ancestral love that spans generations.

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  The Farnsworth Chronicles - Book...

  William Staub

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  NJ Farnsworth is a thirteen-year-old in the seventh grade. He is the third of four children in his single-parent family—and he was born with spina bifida. Until this year, NJ hated school and merely endured every day in his wheelchair. But when his school gave him a laptop for his homework, he discovered an artificial intelligence game in which he could walk and run and play like other children. On each level of the game, he learns new principles, values, and skills to help him live better in his wheelchair. This time the game’s mission requires him to save the lives of three people before he can complete the level successfully and advance in the game. But who does he have to save? What must he save them from? How can he save anyone else when he is just thirteen years old? Will he even be able to save himself inside this level of Rhineheart’s Game? 
  William Staub has been writing fiction (novels, short stories, flash fiction stories) most of his adult life. He graduated from Brigham Young University in the field of Education and taught special needs students in Baltimore, Maryland for 13 years. He studied writing at the University of Maryland. However, he spent most of his adult life in the military, living in four different countries, eight different states of the US and traveling to many other places around the world. Married to his wife of 54+ years, they have four grown children, seven grandchildren, and at least four great-grandchildren (and growing). He is currently retired, writing in his spare time and living in Florida with his wife and their emeritus service dog, Ranger.

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  Writings to Young Women from...

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

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  In Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Life As a Pioneer Woman, Laura tells her readers what it was like to be a pioneer in the early 1900s. Her stories and insights show us how difficult even the simplest chores or tasks were for the early pioneers, yet through it all she continued to see each situation as an adventure--as if she was truly blazing the trail for future generations.

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  Space-Lane of No-Return

  George Whittington

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  Space-Lane of No-Return by George Whittington - You were bored—keeping the endless, dull space-lanes clear. You wanted excitement, danger, to see the weird planets of the System. You wanted—And then it happened, all the swift, blazing danger of the void—and you found yourself being blasted out of existence. 
  "Asteroid fishing" was no job for men who joined the Inter-Planetary Patrol with the lure of distant space frontiers in their heart, Nord Holber told himself bitterly. 
  Your two-man Patrol ship hung less than twenty degrees off the ecliptic, with sharp, hard starlight from the spangled jet mantle of space glinting against the top and sides of its maroon plastic hull. Below, the asteroids rushed through their mad orbits like the vengeful ghosts of shattered planets and satellites. 
  Smaller fragments danced through weird paths above the main body. They were the hazard that forced space liners to arc far above the impassable Belt on the run between Jupiter's moons and the inner planets: and, since you were a fledgeling Patrol Officer, fresh from Federation University, you wasted the energy that boiled in your blood hunting these fragments, yanking them out of space! 
  "It's fun," Mike Doren admitted, as though reading his partner's thought. "Like shark fishing. But it's not what I joined the Patrol to do." 
  Nord Holber's answering smile softened the strength a firm chin and thin, straight nose gave to his long oval face. "More like mine sweeping in ancient times, Mike," he said quietly—as though the dispassionate menace of the inanimate chunks of matter they hunted could answer the call for high adventure! "One of those things could make a wreck of this ship—as easily as it could a liner." 
  Against that possibility, they wore space suits, and, under his transparent helmet, Nord's grey eyes swept the side view screens for any fragments they'd missed on the way down.

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  Mr Kerplasses Has Lost His Glasses

  Albert Strasser, Majik Kids

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  A story about finding what we’re looking for right where we are! Follow the journey of Mr. Kerplasses as he searches far & wide for the one thing that will help him see clearly: his glasses! This silly story is bound to make you giggle.

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