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What Are You Doing, Benny?
by Cary Fagan (Author) and Kady MacDonald Denton (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Benny’s little brother is really good at a lot of things — making potions and paper airplanes, building forts, putting on puppet shows, even petting the neighbor’s cat (he has a special way of scratching her just behind the ears). But whenever he tries to join in Benny’s activities, all Benny ever says is “No.” Maybe his little brother can watch him do cool stuff, if he’s lucky. What is a little fox to do, except give Benny a taste of his own medicine? This picture book is illustrated with panels of many sizes like a comic.

Snippet: Benny!

Hey, Benny!

What are you doing, Benny? Making a paper airplane?

I’m a genius at making paper airplanes. I have a special way of bending the wings up at the tips.

It makes them soar and swoop and then land perfectly.

So can I help, Benny?

No, said Benny.

Haphaven
by Norm Harper (Author) and Louie Joyce (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Ever-superstitious Alex Mills will do anything to avoid a jinx. Picking up pennies, knocking on wood, collecting rabbit’s feet . . . you name it. That is until she steps on a crack and it actually does break her mother’s back. To save her mom, Alex must follow Hubbub Caskside, a trusty leprechaun, on a journey through the end of a rainbow to Haphaven, the world where all of Earth’s superstitions draw their power. All she needs is a rabbit’s foot to save her mom, but she soon discovers the lucky article won’t be so easy to retrieve. Not only is the rabbit’s foot guarded by Haphaven’s most formidable creature, the Jinx, there’s also a forest full of trees that knock back if you don’t knock on wood, people named Penny who do not like to be picked up, and a particularly vindictive black cat who will not be crossed.

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