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  Neptune

  Seymour Simon

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  Welcome to Neptune: a turbulent world, from its mysterious clouds of methane-ice to its raging winds of up to seven hundred miles per hour and its Great Dark Spot, a huge hurricane big enough to swallow our entire planet Earth.

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  Abena's Big Dream

  Cynthia Addae

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  "It's possible. I can achieve my dreams if I work hard at it." Abena just wants to be like everyone else in class, but she knows she is different. She has a stutter that makes her classmates laugh at her every time she speaks or reads aloud. Then Abena tells her grandmother about her difficulties. With Grandma's help, Abena embarks on a journey to overcome her stutter and fulfill her dream of one day becoming a teacher. 
  Abena's Big Dream is a wonderful addition to elementary classrooms, childcare centers, preschools, and home libraries. Plus, its sweet themes about the importance of family relationships make it a great gift! Not only will children, teachers, and caregivers love Abena's story, but they'll take many other important lessons away as well. The book helps:teachers discuss bullying in schools and the effect it has on childrenpromote kindness by teaching children how to treat others with love and respectparents, teachers, and guardians learn ways to support children who stutterstudents develop essential social-emotional skillschildren learn to work hard to achieve their dreamsteach students the important concepts of perseverance, compassion, and self-confidence 
  Abena's Big Dream can also be used to help introduce other essential academic and social skills/concepts across multiple disciplines. FREE activities can be downloaded at www.abenasbigdream.com!

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  The Blonde From Barsoom

  Robert F. Young

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  The Blonde From Barsoom by Robert F. Young - The Tarks were attacking, the bosomy princess was clinging to him in terror, and Harold Smith realized he was at the end of his plot-line. What a dilemma! And what an opportunity!! 
  For the most part, all Harold Worthington Smith's Martian stories ever netted him were standard rejection slips, but every now and then one or another of the editors to whom he submitted them would pen him a brief note to the effect that his writing indicated an unusually vivid imagination. However, they invariably added, his dialogue was stilted, his heroines were dimensionally impossible, and his stories were wish-fulfillment reveries in a Burroughs vein—unredeemed, unfortunately, by Burroughs' high-flown puritanical idealism. 
  Harold agreed with them wholeheartedly on point no. 1. Thanks to his ability to achieve total identification with his protagonists, he did have an unusually vivid imagination. Take this very minute, for instance: His main character—Thon Carther the Earthman—was standing on the ocher moss of the Martian dead-sea bottom beside the big-breasted blond princess whom he had rescued from Tarkia some two thousand words ago, fearlessly awaiting the oncoming horde of Tarks. But it wasn't really Thon Carther who was standing there, it was Harold Worthington Smith—a tall, tanned and handsome Harold Worthington Smith, to be sure, but Harold Worthington Smith just the same. 
  On points no. 2 and 3, however—be it said forthwith—he did not agree. He had, moreover, written to the editors in question and said so. A Burroughs influence, he had said, was an essential ingredient in the makeup of any science-fiction writer, and he was reasonably certain that he didn't exhibit one any more than half a dozen other scribes he could name.

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  Leif's Gift

  Michael Wang

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  A boy’s green thumb grows wild in this playful debut about the merriment and mishaps of collecting houseplants. 
    
  Leif lives above his parents’ café, and his green thumb has turned his bedroom into a jungle. Begonias, ferns, ivy, peperomias—his plants twist and twine around the furniture and creep and crawl across the walls. Leif’s parents worry he’s gone overboard, but Leif knows he can never have too many houseplants. But then important things begin to go missing in the overgrowth, and Leif must find a way to make his plants a little less—and maybe share a little more. 
    
  Leif’s Gift is a whimsical and delightful celebration of a young boy’s passions that reminds us that the best gifts we give are the ones we grow.

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  Fox Gives Thanks

  Erin Rose Wage

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  Fox gathers food as the winter winds begin to howl. Will she make it back home with her nibbles? Burrow into this nutty tale and find out how an act of kindness can fill more than just Fox’s belly.

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  Historic Triangle of Virginia...

  Editors Charles River

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  Jamestown is fondly remembered today for being the first permanent English settlement in the colonies, but it was not fondly remembered by those who lived and died there. The English quickly learned it would be difficult to establish a permanent settlement because of the poor weather, the swampy terrain, the hostile natives living nearby, and the general inexperience and ineptitude of the English settlers. During their first winter, everyone nearly starved, and more than half of the settlers died. By the end of the winter of 1609-1610, known as the “starving time”, barely 10% of the settlers were still alive. Nevertheless, Jamestown is remembered today because the settlement did survive through the hardships and go on to serve as the capital of the English colony for much of the 17th century. At the same time, one of the biggest reasons for its survival and fame today can be attributed to the local Native Americans, particularly Pocahontas, who has added both a human and romanticized, mythological element to Jamestown.  
  	Along with Jamestown and Yorktown, Colonial Williamsburg is known today as part of the Historic Triangle of Virginia, but all three of these old Virginian sites are known for vastly different reasons. While Yorktown was the scene of the final climactic battle of the American Revolution and Jamestown is remembered for being the first English settlement to survive in Virginia, Colonial Williamsburg is now best known as a bridge to the past.  
   Williamsburg got its start as a fortified site, which was vitally necessary for English settlers to heavily outnumbered by nearby Native Americans, many of which were at times hostile. Known originally as Middle Plantation, the site served as the capital of the colony for much of the 18th century, and it bore witness to seminal events in the history of Revolutionary era America.

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