April 2020 - Page 3 of 14 - Anastasia Suen

48 Hours: The Medusa Curse
by Gabrielle Lord (Author)

Booktalk: Thieves smash a cursed Medusa statue and steal the supercomputer Sapphire in a terrifying museum raid. First on the scene, Jazz and Phoenix soon find themselves in the midst of a dangerous mystery. Their friend, museum owner Dr. Zhang, is the prime suspect, but where is he? Determined to prove him innocent and find Sapphire, Jazz and Phoenix have just 48 HOURS to follow the trail of evidence before it goes cold. Will the amateur investigators discover that a centuries-old curse has struck again, or is something even more sinister going on? The clock is ticking…

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The Children’s Novel Workshop 2020 cohort will begin in August.
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Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery
by Meeg Pincus (Author) and Yas Imamura (Illustrator)

Booktalk: For decades, as the monarch butterflies swooped through every year like clockwork, people from Canada to the United States to Mexico wondered, “Where do they go?” In 1976 the world learned the answer: after migrating thousands of miles, the monarchs roost by the millions in an oyamel grove in Central Mexico’s mountains. But who solved this mystery? Was it the scientist or the American adventurer? The citizen scientists or the teacher or his students? Winged Wonders shows that the mystery could only be solved when they all worked as a team–and reminds readers that there’s another monarch mystery today, one that we all must work together to solve.

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

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