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Mr. McGinty’s Monarchs
by Linda Vander Heyden (Author) and Eileen Ryan Ewen (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Mr. McGinty and his dog Sophie love checking in on the monarch caterpillars and butterflies on their summer walks. But one day Mr. McGinty is shocked to find that all the milkweed in town has been mowed down! And monarch caterpillars, he explains, can’t survive without milkweed. Can Mr. McGinty come up with a plan to save the monarchs?

Snippet: Hurrying home, Mr. McGinty loaded an old wagon with jars. Its rusted wheels squeaked as he pulled it from the shed.

“Hurry, Sophie!” he called. “We’re going on a monarch mission.”

whatabeautifulmorning

What a Beautiful Morning
by Arthur Levine (Author) and Katie Kath (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Every morning is beautiful when Noah visits his Grandparents. When Grandpa and Noah wake up, they take off singing and hardly stop: walking the dog, splashing through puddles, and eating French toast with cinnamon.

But one summer Grandpa seems to have forgotten how to do the things they love. Does he even know who Noah is?

Grandma steps in energetically, filling in as best she can. But it is Noah who finds the way back to something he can share with Grandpa. Something musical. Something that makes the morning beautiful again.

Snippet: Noah banged out the screen door and stood in the middle of the lawn, breathing hard, a painful lump in his throat.

Grandma came outside after him and kneeled down so she could look in his eyes.

She touched Noah’s cheek, sighed and said, “Grandpa knows you. He just gets confused, that’s all. So we have to appreciate what he still has, not focus on what he’s lost.

Noah thought that was like trying to feel good about the toys you still had, when your favorite one got left behind at the beach.

So he went ahead . . .

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