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Eggs from Red Hen Farm: Farm to Table with Mazes and Maps
by Monica Wellington (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Maps and mazes show children where their food comes from as Ruby and Ned gather eggs from their hens and ride their red truck to deliver the eggs–to the farmer’s market, the restaurant, the school, the grocery story, and the bakery. The baker uses the eggs in her yummiest cookies–and gives them to Ruby and Ned!

Snippet: “I’m good at counting money,” says Ned.
“You take care of business here,” says Ruby. “I’ll make the deliveries.”

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

The Weeping Tide (Wilderlore #2)
by Amanda Foody (Author)
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Booktalk: Something is wrong at the Sea. The weeping tide, a carnivorous algae bloom, is eating up all the fish. Beasts are terrorizing the nearby Elsewheres. And Lochmordra, the Legendary Beast, is rising at random and swallowing ships whole.

Barclay’s teacher, the famous Guardian Keeper Runa Rasgar, has been summoned to investigate, and as her apprentice, Barclay gets to join too. But Runa’s nemesis has also been called to the Sea, and he’s brought apprentices of his own. When the not-so friendly competition between them grows fierce, it’s Barclay–the only one from the Elsewheres–who can’t seem to keep up.

The key to stopping Lochmordra lies in his mythical home, but as the flood of the weeping tide encroaches, time is running out to find it. If the rival groups can’t cast aside old grudges and learn to work together, soon the Sea will be destroyed completely. And all the while Barclay must ask himself: is there truly a place for him in the Wilderlands?

Snippet: “Why are they collecting …dirt?” asked Shazi.

“Bog peat makes good fuel for fires,” Cyril answered, and Barclay realized this explained why the hearth in the Guild House always smelled so earthy. He quickly jotted that down in his notes. “But that isn’t why I brought you here today. The bogs are home to all sorts of Beasts, and I thought we could study them. In particular, the bogs are famous for preserving the bodies and fossils of long extinct species that roamed the world thousands of years ago. Wouldn’t it be fascinating if we were to discover one?”

“Discover an old body? Like bones?” Hasu asked, horrified.