Author: Anastasia Suen

Roto and Roy: Helicopter Heroes
by Sherri Duskey Rinker (Author) and Don Tate (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: When a dangerous forest fire burns out of control, helicopter Roto and pilot Roy are ready to fly to the rescue! They’re braver than brave, tougher than tough, and nothing will stop this firefighting crew from completing their mission.

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

The illustrator, Don Tate, is one of my former students.
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Marie Curious, Girl Genius Saves the World
by Chris Edison (Author)

Booktalk: Young inventor Marie can’t believe her luck when she earns a place at a high-tech summer camp in California owned by tech guru and multi-millionaire Sterling Vance. It’s nothing short of a dream come true. She and the other super-clever campers get to build robots, do supercool science experiments and test out awesome gadgets. But not everyone is a happy camper . . . Someone is sabotaging their robots, so Marie and her new friends team up to catch the culprit. Can Marie outsmart an evil engineer intent on causing a global disaster?

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

Copyright © 2022 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.

Penguin Journey
by Angela Burke Kunkel (Author) and Catherine Odell (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: A rhyming picture book about the incredible lengths to which emperor penguins go for their young ones.

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

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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)

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Luna’s Yum Yum Dim Sum (Storytelling Math)
by Natasha Yim (Author) and Violet Kim (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: On Luna’s birthday, the whole family goes out for dim sum–but Luna and her brothers can’t agree on how to share their pork buns fairly. How can three people divide up five buns? Should some siblings get more than others? Or should they cut the buns into smaller and smaller pieces so everyone gets the same amount?

Luna and the author both have Year of the Tiger birthdays – and the next Year of the Tiger begins on February 1, 2022!

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

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