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holestory
The Hole Story of the Doughnut
by Pat Miller (Author) and Vincent X. Kirsch (Illustrator)

Booktalk: In 1843, fourteen-year-old Hanson Gregory left his family home in Rockport, Maine, and set sail as a cabin boy on the schooner Achorn, looking for high-stakes adventure on the high seas. Little did he know that a boatload of hungry sailors, coupled with his knack for creative problem-solving, would yield one of the world’s most prized and beloved pastries.

Snippet: Their raw centers, heavy with grease, made them drop like cannonballs in the stomach. Sailors called them SINKERS.

As Hanson shaped another batch, he was struck by an idea. He took the round lid off a pepper can and cut perfect holes in the center of each sinker.

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She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
by Loki Mulholland (Author), Angela Fairwell (Author), and Charlotta Janssen (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was a white teenager in the South during Segregation who put herself on the front lines of the Civil Rights struggle. She attended demonstrations and sit-ins and was one of the Freedom Riders in 1961 who was arrested and put on death row for months at the notorious Parchman Penitentiary. She was the first white person to join in the 1963 Woolworth s lunch counter sit-ins in Jackson, Mississippi, and that same year participated in the March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King and the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965 which contributed to the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act.

Snippet: “Anyone can make a difference. It doesn’t matter how old or young you are. Find a problem, get some friends together, and go fix it. Remember, you don’t have to change the world . . . just change your world.”