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The Acadia Files: Book One, Summer Science
by Katie Coppens (Author) and Holly Hatam (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Acadia Greene wants answers. Who keeps stealing her blueberries just as they ripen on the bushes? Why is her hair curly? Why does the sun wake her up so early in the summer? Why does the tide submerge her sandcastles? Acadia doesn’t mean to do science, but she has questions and her parents refuse to simply give her the answers. “Conduct an experiment,” they tell her. “Use the scientific method.” So Acadia makes hypotheses, designs experiments, analyzes data, and draws conclusions. Acadia does science.

Snippet: “My blueberries are gone! Yesterday I had so many blueberries, and now there are no good ones left. There are only these little ones that are nowhere near ready to be picked.” Acadia crawls on her hands and knees, searching for any sign of dark blue on the ground beneath the bushes.

Magic on the Map #1: Let’s Mooove!
by Courtney Sheinmel (Author) and Bianca Turetsky (Author)

Booktalk: Travel around the United States of America with twins Finn and Molly in this new chapter book series that highlights a different state in each book!

We must be dreaming! That’s what twins Finn and Molly Parker think when they discover a camper in their driveway–and it talks! When the RV transports them to a cattle ranch in Colorado, the twins know something magical has happened. Then the camper disappears, leaving Finn and Molly to wonder . . . how are we going to get home?

Snippet: “What should we do? Finn asked.

“I guess we go outside and figure out what our work is,” Molly said.

They walked down the camper steps and onto the dewey ground. Molly could feel her boots sinking into the wet earth.

Wait a second. Boots?!

When she’d left the house to check out the camper, she’d been wearing her fuzzy bunny slippers.