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The Case of the Missing Cookies (Mini Math Mysteries)
by Thomas K. and Heather Adamson (Authors) with Charlie Alder (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Who took the cookies? Be a math detective along with the kids at Lincoln Elementary in this pick-your-own-path mystery. Use your addition, subtraction, and skip counting skills to solve the case.

Snippet: Hurray! Mr. Jeb’s class won this month’s reading prize. The class gets two boxes of cookies from Mrs. Bonn’s bakery. Each box has 12 cookies.

Gina knows there are 19 kids in her class. She wonders, are there enough cookies for the whole class?

If there were enough cookies, turn to page 6.

If there are not enough cookies, turn to page 8.

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

Skywatcher
by Jamie Hogan (Author / Illustrator)
@ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

Booktalk: Tamen longs to see the stars, but none are visible in the light-polluted sky above the fire escape of his urban apartment building. Even in the neighborhood park, the stars are hidden by city lights. Then on a Friday afternoon, Tamen’s mom, a nightshift nurse, finds a way to take him camping. For one magical night on the shore of a wilderness pond, the Milky Way in all its glory belongs to them.

Snippet: Tamen devoured his new comic book. vowing that someday he would travel the galaxy just like Skywatcher. He looked for the stars from his bedroom window, but only the city lights gleamed back at him.