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  Francesco and Francesca

  Bettina Ehrlich

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  Francesco is a poor little Italian boy who has no shoes. One day, while gazing into to the window of the smartest shoe shop in town, he sees a beautiful young girl smiling back at him. This is Francesca and he cannot forget her.  
  Winter comes and with it, the Grand Carnival in Milan.  Francesco dresses as a brigand with hand me down shoes that are too big for him. But in a bid to impress Francesca, he swaps costumes with a red velvet prince with matching red leather shoes. 
  Mayhem follows and it seems Francesco will miss the Carnival fun altogether.  Will he also lose his beloved Francesca?

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  Pretty Ugly

  David Sedaris, Ian Falconer

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  Meet Anna Von Ogre, a delightful monstrosity. When Anna’s attempt to gross out the family backfires, she finds herself stuck with a face of such beauty that even the neighbors are repulsed. How the sickeningly adorable, rosy-cheeked little girl finds her inner ugly again is the subject of a hilarious fable for the ages.Performed and expanded by the author

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  Peter Pays the Price

  Mary Morberg

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  Peter did everything to make friends but look out the window.

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  Halloween Vegetable Horror (UK...

  Mr. Nate Gunter

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  Halloween Vegetable Horror children’s book creates a dynamically comical reading experience that addresses history and health of Halloween. Address a widely common issue of how to teach kids about Halloween. 
  What is Halloween? Who came up with this annual tradition? Should we participate? What to do with candy and costumes? What to do with fear and fun? Rethink Halloween with a children’s book that references historical themes along with laughter and love. Trick kids into the treat of learning. Bring kids to learn how parents try to navigate this global tradition and participate in healthy living. Utilize the book’s themes and content as a parenting or teaching moment with funny illustrations, story, and ending. End with reading questions, discussion, and laughter.Pages: 40Series number: 10Series type: Children’s Books on Life and BehaviorSeries category: Halloween, annual traditions, cultureSeries genre: FictionChildren reading ages: Average age 8-10 yearsChildren reading grade level: Average 3rd-5th gradeChildren illustration ages: Average 4-12 yearsReading crowd: Children to adultReading length: Average 15 minutesReading style: Comical narration storyline to end in climatic event and laughter.Story tellers: Adults (parents, guardians, grandparents, teachers, pastors)Historical setting: Celtic/Irish myth, Protestant Reformation (Martin Luther, 1500’s)Religion: ChristianityPurpose: Educational and entertainmentContextual Use: Family, home, school, church, neighborhoods, outreach, kid’s club, teachingStory time suggestion: Halloween event, reading club, church, Sunday school, kid’s classroom, summer readingHoliday/annual event: Halloween

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  Village of Scoundrels

  Margi Preus

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  Newbery Honor recipient Margi Preus tells the incredible true story of a group of French teenagers who helped save refugees in WWII Based on the true story of the French villagers in WWII who saved thousands of Jews, this novel tells how a group of young teenagers stood up for what is right. Among them is a young Jewish boy who learns to forge documents to save his mother and later goes on to save hundreds of lives with his forgery skills. There is also a girl who overcomes her fear to carry messages for the Resistance. And a boy who smuggles people into Switzerland. But there is always the threat that they will be caught: A policeman is sent to keep an eye on them, German soldiers reside in a local hotel, and eventually the Gestapo arrives, armed with guns and a list of names. As the knot tightens, the young people must race against time to bring their friends to safety.

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  Fermi Paradox The: The History...

  Charles River Editors

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  Naturally, as technological advances and the creation of flying aircraft became realities, the sighting of UFOs increased, as did the interest in potential contact with aliens. While incidents like the one at Roswell led to conspiracies and a craze among those who insisted the government was hiding proof of extraterrestrials’ existence, governments across the world were actually secretly studying UFO sightings by the mid-20th century.  
  	Given all of that, it would hardly be groundbreaking for scientists in the 20th century to have a lunchtime discussion in which the search for extraterrestrial life arises, and the question of where it might reside is innocuous enough. However, a furor was created somewhat innocently when physicist Enrico Fermi voiced his “casual lunchtime remark” in the presence of colleagues in 1950. The august company included Edward Teller, a Hungarian physicist, Herbert York, am American nuclear physicist whose lineage included Mohawk heritage, and Emil Konopinski, a nuclear physicist of Polish origin. Fermi himself, an Italian-American born in Rome, was renowned for developing a statistical base for subatomic phenomena, work on nuclear alterations caused by neutrons, and for leading the first controlled chain reaction from nuclear fission. A gifted theoretician, he advanced the field of statistical mechanics, and won the Nobel Prize over a decade before he asked his important question. The four men represented a fair percentage of the research core during the Manhattan Project that developed and produced the atomic bomb. 
  Despite the sophisticated conversation that appears to have followed, Fermi’s oft-asked question soon became elevated within the scientific community as the Fermi Paradox. The subsequent musings on our search for extraterrestrial life have grown to such proportions that extensive lists of solutions to the inquiry proliferate with each passing year.

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