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Apollo 11 Quick Tips column

Artwork © Thomas Gonzalez, Countdown: 2979 Days to the Moon

My new Focus on STEM column: Apollo 11 is in the June Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

Booktalk: Use the approaching fiftieth anniversary of the lunar landing to inspire school- and library-friendly activities.

Snippet: July 20 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first successful lunar landing. Round up these new Apollo 11 books–along with the ones already in your collection–for a book display/activity table in your library.

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

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Haphaven

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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