Sal's Fiction Addiction

"As everyone had snacks and waited for the big  announcement, Cornbread took this time to show Poppy some of his favorite things about the museum. The Toothbrushes Through Time! "Um ... t...

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  "NOHKOM MOSAHKINAM.    NOHKOM PICKS. NIMOSAHKINENAN.   WE PICK." This third book in the Nohkom series begins in sunshine at the edge of a lake. The family has arrived and are wait...

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  "Who is the real giant in this wordless story inspired by Jack and the Beanstalk?" Following up on the first two books in this color series, Red (2018) and Gold (2022), Jed Alexander us...

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  "... It is an elite hotshot handcrew. It plans and prepares for fire. Crew members are called hotshots because they work on the hottest part of a fire.  They do not slide down poles or...

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"Thirteen-year-old Viola loved watching  other bands on stage, especially the drummers.  After each show, she introduced herself and  asked for musical advice.  "How do you make your ha...

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  "When he grew older, David went to a  university to learn more about the wild  places and the things that lived there.  Understanding how the natural world  worked was more important ...

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  "We can find a balance.  The Earth whispers the way to hearts that listen.  To move the date, we need to  reduce our global footprint. We need to use fewer resources, leaving more fo...

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"GREAT! WHEN I COUNT TO THREE,  GO AND GET  SOMETHING THAT BEGINS WITH THE LETTER                        F! ONE ... TWO ... THREE!  ZIP! ZAP! ZOOM! Back already? Th...

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  "Etsi says we're on a new path.  One that leads us to our ancestors' land and to our people.  I'm ready."  The young Indigenous narrator is quick to share her feelings about living i...

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  "MAYBE 50 DOGS.  How would you train  50 dogs?  SIT!  STAY!  COME!" The story starts with a huge ask: "I want 100 dogs." Her parents grimace while asking to see where all tho...

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  "He runs to the pond and calls out,  "What's new?"  "Winter is over!" Blackbird says,  landing on the cattails.  The cattails answer too. "We're  sending our seeds off in the wind....

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"CAN YOU EVER REALLY KNOW THE WIND?  Lift your face to the breeze -  let it bathe your cheeks sift through your hair  tease your fingertips.                        Listen...

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  "The Other Bear walked on.  BEAR DECIDED TO FOLLOW.  Two bears wandered along at different paces,  thinking different thoughts, and looking in  different directions, when they met ...

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"Huh, I guess not everyone  shows how they feel in the same way, Narwhal. Maybe you just don't  frown when you're down?  But then, what do you do? I'm not  sure ... " If you have a fan ...

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"The biggest threat to our family would be  Grandmother's death. I don't know what  we would do.  If we lost her, it would be as if we lost  ourselves.  I worry about what could happen...

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  "She grabbed a thick vine growing from a crack  in the waterfall rocks and swung out to drop into  the pool below. It was deep and deliciously perfect,  warm and swirly, because the wa...

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  "Each day the owlets grow louder. Today,  Smallest Owlet squawks, demanding to be  fed, and the other two owlets join in.  Father Owl delivers the body of a plump ground squirrel. Mo...

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"His friend Joe told him that thunder was  the sound of the thunderbirds beating their giant wings in the sky.  Benjamin thought it sounded exactly  like the drum his grandfather played.  ...

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  "With oodles of things that had to be done,  the rabbit whispered to himself.  "One thing at a time, Rabbit. One thing at  a time." He mowed the lawn and weeded and raked and watered...

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  "My friend Avery has been taken by the  shadows. And it's probably my fault.  I need to find them.  I'll give whatever you want. Just please help us.  Ugh. Friendship. More  trou...

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  "Inside a lady met us with a dog in her arms.  A not too big, not too small dog.  A just right dog.  "This is Millie," the lady said. "Would you  like to pet her?" I was nervous, but ...

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"While some walls were built to keep people out,  others were erected with the sole purpose of  keeping people inside. Those walls acted like  giant prisons, trapping the unwilling inside ...

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  "When they went back to the beach the next day, the shell was gone.  "Halmoni," Sora said, "someone took our shell!" "It wasn't ours. It was a gift," Halmoni said.  Sora didn't agree, b...

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"Within a few years, Rosalind was ready to  get on with becoming a scientist. Even though  there were very few women in science, this  didn't stop her. She set her sights on the  Universit...

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"When wild animals like gorillas find fruit or plants that are not  yet ready to be eaten, they can  use their spatial memory to return to them later, when the fruit or  plants are ripe and...

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