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Hi Everyone,
Spring has definitely sprung! What is your favorite spring activity? Baseball? Gardening? Biking? Just enjoying the nice weather? Make sure to save some time for reading.
> > >May RIDDLE: Why did the music teacher go up the ladder during music class?
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Worst-Case Scenario Ultimate Adventures: Mars
Welcome to the Red Planet where your choices determine your fate. Will you successfully become the youngest astronaut to explore Mars and return home to Earth safely? Or will you be forced to turn back early...or worse? There are twenty-two possible endings, but only ONE leads to success. Luckily, this choose your own adventure book has helpful advice to get you through safely...like how to survive a Martian dust storm ("run for it!").
204 pages author: Hena Khan genre: fiction
Thanks to Sue at Ridgedale Library for sharing with us!
The Luck of the Buttons
It is the summer of 1929 in Goodhue, Iowa. Twelve-year old "Tugs" Button, who's accustomed to being called names like "Rapscallion" and "Know-it-all," is about to have her luck changed. Tugs and her family never win anything, until Aggie Millhouse, a wealthy girl in town, asks Tugs to her birthday party. Aggie asks Tugs to be her partner in the three-legged race at the Fourth of July picnic and they win! After that Tugs wins the patriotic essay contest and a Brownie Kodak camera in a raffle contest. Tugs declares, "I'm going to go on being lucky." When a dapper man who comes to town to start a newspaper, things get really interesting. Tugs uncovers a plot that threatens her whole town.
224 pages author: Anne Ylvisaker
genre: fiction
Thanks to Lucy at Oxboro Library for sharing with us!
Did you know that the ship the Titanic sank 100 years ago? Lots of kids--and adults--are fascinated by the history of the Titanic. You can learn all kinds of cool facts to amaze your friends and teachers at Titanic's 100 Years: Then & Now from Here There Everywhere Kids News. Find even more info in these exciting books about the Titanic.
Can dogs read? Of course not, but you can read to them at Paws to Read programs. And you can read all about dogs in these funny, surprising, and sweet dog books.
See you next month.
-Amy 
Amy, KidLinks Librarian
Hennepin County Library KidLinks
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Hennepin County Library
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