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Aaseng, Nathan: MEAT-EATING
PLANTS.
About a hundred years ago, a doctor reported a hideous event that he had seen in
the island of Madagascar. He
described a tribe sacrificing a girl to a flesh-eating tree. The deadly plant stood ten feet high.
Its twelve-foot-long leaves bristled with sharp spikes. According to the doctor, the plant snared the girl in its long, snakelike
tendrils. Then
the murderous leaves closed in on her and finished her off.
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Finkelstein, Norman: THE WAY THINGS NEVER WERE--The truth about the “Good Old Days.”
“Like all parents,” Mr. Finkelstein says, “I enjoyed telling my children
how much better life was when I was their age. The idea for this book emerged when they began challenging my heroic
tales of walking fifteen miles to school in waist-deep snow.” Through stories, advertisements, facts, and photographs, this book
invites you to decide for yourself whether the 1950’s and 60’s were the
golden years—or not!
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Montgomery, Sy: THE SNAKE SCIENTIST.
You hear them before you see them. On a quiet day, as you approach one of the dens at the
Narcisse Wildlife Area in Manitoba, Canada, you can hear a rustling like wind in
dry leaves. It’s the sound of
slithering snakes—the world’s largest concentration of snakes. Here’s the close-up view of scientist Dr. Bob Mason as he
observes, measures, marks, and tests these amazing and mysterious creatures.
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Nolan, Peggy: THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE SEA.
The plot thickens when a hard-to-believe boy, new in town, starts spreading
spy-talk at the height of World War II. This
novel has it all: lots of action
and intrigue, a strong main character who is heroic and overcomes without having
to be rescued by stodgy adults, a beach recluse known as Weird Wanda, coded
messages, sabotage, and German spies!
· Sleator, William: REWIND. Page One, Chapter One: “At my funeral, everybody said it was such a shame I had to die that way. Mrs. Hazelton, who ran over me, was too upset to come. Mom and Dad, who were subdued but not crying, told her husband that this wife wasn’t to blame. I died instantly. All I was aware of was the shriek of the tires and the brief, heavy impact. Right away, I was floating upward, being pulled into the great white light. And then the voice come, like a deep bell ringing inside my head.Watch carefully, Peter, said the voice. There might be something important here for later.”