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Many of us take drinking water for granted, and sometimes we hurt our water supply by polluting it. You can help Fayetteville PWC and Willy Water Drop protect our precious water supply by learning more about watershed protection and conser vation. Whatʻs a Watershed? A watershed is a region where all water flows to and collects in a common body of water, like a lake or river. It can be as small as your backyard or as big as the ocean! Things we do on land can greatly affect the quality of water. So when we throw trash on the ground instead of in a garbage can, we may be damaging our drinking water supply. Local Watersheds Types of Litter Often Cape Fear River Bonnie Doone Lake What Can You Do? found in Watersheds Start with your own backyard! Paper Kornbow Lake Mintz Pond Pick up any trash littering your backyard before Cardboard Glenville Lake its swept away to our rivers and streams. Plastic Big Cross Creek Organize a cleanup in your neighborhood. Me t a l Remember to ask a grownup to help! Glass Visit PWCʻs website to learn more about water- Old clothes sheds and how to protect our drinking water! For more conser vation tips, visit us on the web at www.faypwc.com or call the Communications & Community Relations Office at 223-4009 2 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland November, 2019

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Most people think Christopher Columbus discovered North November, 2019 America, but there were many people who made it to the area before him. The very first people to come to North America were the Native Americans, arriving around 35,000 years ago by walking from Siberia to Alaska on a land bridge that used to exist across the Bering Strait. The first Europeans to make it to North America may have been the Vikings. • Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to North America in 1492. • Leif Eriksson was a famous Viking explorer. • His father, known as Erik the Red, started a settlement on Greenland in A.D. 985. • Two Viking ballads have lyrics that say that Eriksson sailed to North America in A.D. 1000, which is almost 500 years before Columbus. • The ballad “Saga of Erik the Red” claims that Eriksson accidentally found the continent after his boat navigated off course. • The ballad “Saga of the Greenlanders” asserts that Eriksson sailed to North America on purpose after he heard rumors of a strange land past Greenland from another Viking. • Eriksson would have landed in what is now Canada near Baffin Island. He names the area Helluland, which means “Stone Slab Land.” • There is evidence that the Vikings also discovered Newfoundland and Labrador, naming the combined area the term Vinland because the wild grapes made excellent wine. https://www.britannica.com/story/did-the-vikings-discover-america https://www.history.com/news/the-viking-explorer-who-beat-columbus-to-america 4 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland

Vikings are people from Scandinavia • Longships were best for long travel Days to that existed from A.D. 800-1000. and raids. remember in Many Vikings made their riches by November raiding European towns along the coast • Longships did not have roofs, so they because of this activity they became known did not offer much protection. Vikings NOV. 3, 1957 - Soviet as great warriors, but they were also traders would sail along the coast and pull their Russia launched the and settlers. The unique attribute that ties ships onto the land to make camp for the world’s first inhabited all of these activities together is that the night. space capsule, Sputnik Vikings were masters of sailing. The Vikings II, which carried a dog knew how to build strong ships and how to • Spring was the season for most named Laika. navigate across vast distances of ocean. voyages. NOV. 10, 1775 - The U.S. Marine Corps was • Vikings came from areas that are now • Vikings also built small fishing boats, founded as part of the known as Norway, Denmark, Finland and cargo boats for long voyages carrying lots U.S. Navy. It became a Sweden. of goods, and ferries that carried people separate unit on July 11, short distances. 1789. • They built many types of ships based NOV. 26, 1789 - The on how they wanted to use them. They • Often the fronts of longships were first American holiday are most famous for longships. decorated with carved animal heads. occurred, proclaimed by President George • These ships had oak plank • Vikings raided lands along the Irish, Washington to be construction, fastened with nails. Wool or Scottish and English coasts. Thanksgiving Day, moss drenched in tar sealed the spaces a day of prayer and between the planks. • Ship makers used broad showing of gratitude axes to break down large for the successful oak trees into planks and establishment of the used iron nails to fasten the new American republic. planks together. https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/vikings • https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/viking-ships/ http://sciencenordic.com/how-vikings-navigated-world • https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/vikings-history GEE THANKS! to our partners for sponsoring our Kidsville News! in literacy initiative UP & COMING WEEKLY November, 2019 To be a corporate educational sponsor, call: 910.484.6200 5 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland

Every year for Thanksgiving, lives on a peaceful farm. millions of American • President Nixon was the families gather to share first president to send a a turkey dinner. The very first pardoned bird to a farm. Thanksgiving dinner occurred • President John F. in 1621, but it wasn’t a national Kennedy started the trend holiday until 1862. President of pardoning a turkey in Abraham Lincoln made 1963, but it was not an Thanksgiving a federal holiday official event. after being convinced to do • The first official turkey so by Sarah Josepha Hale, an pardon happened in 1989 influential writer and editor in with President George H. Directly above: Lincoln’s time. W. Bush. Former President • Abraham Lincoln also • Presidents pardon two Richard Nixon. unofficially started turkeys every year. Right: former another tradition President George associated with There is a long history of celebrating harvests in the H.W. Bush, pardoning turkeys. Thanksgiving: The fall, but Thanksgiving in the Left and below: Former President presidential turkey United States has very specific Ronald Reagan is startled by the pardon. traditions. Today, the traditional bird’s justified excitement. • A turkey that was given Thanksgiving dinner includes to the president as a gift turkey, mashed potatoes, became his son’s pet. The stuffing and pumpkin pie. president ordered the bird The first Thanksgiving dinner spared. in 1621 was much different. • Lincoln’s son was named Early settlers didn’t hunt wild Tad. The turkey’s name turkeys; instead, they probably was Jack. had venison, which is deer. • Jack was originally The tradition of eating turkey intended to be for started before Thanksgiving Christmas dinner. was a set national holiday. Right: • Every year since the Before 1862, the president Former president has held a would declare a celebration, President ceremony to pardon two and a turkey was part of the Barack turkeys. feast. Alexander Hamilton Obama • Usually, these turkeys will even enjoyed turkey during extends live out the rest of their Thanksgiving. a warm gesture of pardon. https://www.whitehousehistory.org/pardoning-the-thanksgiving-turkey http://mentalfloss.com/article/20218/why-we-eat-what-we-eat-thanksgiving https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-real-story-behind-the-presidential-turkey-pardon https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/11/20/presidents-didnt-always-pardon-turkeys-some-became-dinner/?utm_term=.d00833c22894 6 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland November, 2019

HOW DO YOU PREDICT THE WEATHER? Predicting the weather show cold fronts in blue and warm air that is flowing very quickly. The is a difficult job, but fronts in red. Often, these fronts jet stream is what moves large meteorologists have studied connect to low-pressure systems. weather systems across the United for a long time to learn how to do Low-pressure systems can mean States, usually from east to west. it. Predicting the weather is like rain, storms or even winter snow detective work! The atmosphere are on their way. That’s right - air So how do we find the jet leaves us clues, and meteorologists pressure is important too! If we stream and figure out how fast have to figure out where the clues look for observations of low or it is moving? We launch weather are and what they mean. high air pressure, we can find low- balloons! The National Weather pressure systems, which brings Service launches over 100 weather A good example of this is when stormy weather, and high-pressure balloons twice each day all over meteorologists are trying to predict systems, which is pleasant, dry the country to find out what the jet where a cold front will be. Cold weather. stream is doing and what direction fronts can bring lots of storms and how fast it is moving weather ahead of them, so predicting But where are the cold fronts and systems. If we know all these them is important. A cold front warm fronts and weather systems things, we can figure out where will usually have a cooler, drier going? Weather is always changing, weather systems are going to go air behind it, and warm, moist so who might get thunderstorms and use that knowledge to predict air ahead of it. Observations of tomorrow? For that, we need to the weather! temperature, humidity, and wind look up in the atmosphere, about speed and direction tell us where as high as these different types of air are. planes fly. Once we find where the cool, dry Up there we and warm, moist air meets, we’ve find the jet usually found the cold front! That stream - it’s a means we also know where storms current of air could form because they often that moves form ahead of cold fronts. faster than the rest of the Meteorologists then make weather air around it, maps to show where the cold kind of like a fronts and warm fronts are. Maps river made of November, 2019 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland 7

V ikings ships were amazing feats of engineering, but they wouldn’t have been able to sail safely for such long distances without the navigational skills of sailors. Viking sailors didn’t use maps. Instead, they used the position of the sun and stars to know where they were. They memorized coastlines and used the colors of the sea and sky to tell how close they were to land. They also used sundials to figure out the direction of the sun. There is also a legend about a Viking tool called a sunstone. • The legend of the sunstone • For years many historians its transparent crystal comes from the story of the believed that the stone was properties polarize light. Norse hero Sigurd from the just a legend. • Polarizing light means 12th century. • Recently, a French that the light that passes • Sometimes while sailing, researcher found Icelandic through the stone aligns in the ocean would be covered spar in the cargo of a a single direction. Normally in thick clouds and fog. 16th-century ship. light comes in from all • The weather would • Icelandic spar is a type of directions. When the light block the sun and make it calcite. The stone is unique passes through the stone, impossible for the sailors to because it does allow people it appears brighter than if navigate. to locate the sun’s direction seen with just the naked • The legend says that in low light and after sunset. eye. Vikings had a stone that • Icelandic spar serves • These stones may have showed them where the sun as a tool for finding the been used even after was, no matter the weather. direction of the sun because the Vikings. Magnetic compasses trace back to the year 1300 in Europe. Since iron stored onboard the ships could distort magnetic readings, the sunstone was useful as it would not have been affected by iron. Calcite or Icelandic spar serves as a tool for finding the direction of the sun, even after sunset! https://www.historyonthenet.com/viking-navigation-sailing-the-open-seas November, 2019 https://www.history.com/news/evidence-of-fabled-viking-navigational-tool-found 8 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland

?? ? ? ?? ? ?? ? ?? ?? What’s it Like to Be? ? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? A Professional Huntsman | Lincoln Sadler Please share with our readers a face straw trailer and carried on. right around 70 foxhounds and little about yourself and some I still remember the huntsman’s often take up to 50 hounds out. details about your occupation. words carrying back to the field Following the hunt, the hounds are I am a professional huntsman. It is as we passed our trailer parked on fed, the kennels are cleaned and the my job to care for and hunt a pack the edge of the road, “Now there’s hounds are checked thoroughly for of foxhounds. I feed, train, breed, someone who really wants to go any needed veterinary care. and tend to their wounds and listen hunting!” After my retirement to their daily troubles. The hounds with the North Carolina Wildlife What are some of your favorite hunt starting in October, so I begin Resources Commission, I took up things about your job? exercising them in late August and the horn as the huntsman of the I actually enjoy almost every facet through September so they will Moore County Hounds. of my job. I thought that the hound be fit when the hunting season shows we participate in seasonly starts. We do all our hunting from What criteria are needed for would be a challenge for me, but I horseback, without the use of guns. working in your occupation? enjoy the competitive nature and Being on a horse allows us to quietly A huntsman must be a good comradery with other huntsmen. follow and stay with the hounds. We horseman and have a clear, strong hunt through most types of weather voice. He must have a quick eye to What are some facts you wish only avoiding the heaviest of rains see which of the hounds are on the everyone knew about hunting due to slippery conditions in the scent and an excellent ear to hear and foxhunting in particular? woods. Our hounds are only allowed the hounds. A huntsman must also Foxhunting takes a lot of country to hunt red and gray fox, bobcat be active, bold and enterprising, to hunt over. We are great land and coyote. We now predominantly patient and good-tempered. conservators. Foxhunters have hunt coyote. been instrumental in placing What special training or skills do conservation easements on much When did you know you wanted you have? of the land used in hunting to to be a professional huntsman I have a degree in wildlife biology. ensure that the sport can exist and work with horses and I feel that my prior career spent forever. Hunters are the greatest hounds? working outdoors in the observation conservators of wildlife. No I grew up riding and fox hunting and care of ecosystems and wildlife organization pays for the pleasure with my family. When I graduated helps me every day as a huntsman. of their sport like hunters. I wish from high school, I went in the folks were aware of that. I also military, and upon completion, Please tell our readers a little wish that folks could experience entered college. It was then my about your usual workday in and the quiet of the woods, the gentle mother and I both purchased out of the hunting season. creak of the saddle, the sight horses and reentered the fox My day begins early as I plan the of the hounds working through hunting community. Not having a hunt. Arriving at the kennels around the woods and then the sudden horse trailer, we loaded our horses 6:45 a.m., I start selecting hounds opening roar of the pack when up onto an old handmade open who will hunt that day. We keep they jump their quarry fresh. November, 2019 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland 9

Character Bear says: “Integrity means to have the courage to do the right thing.” ACTIVITY 1. List 5 Ways I Can Show Integrity: INTEGRITY ACTIVITY 2. Thinking about the definition of Integrity, \"What Would You Do If ...\" ... you saw your best friend stealing from the teacher's desk? ... you noticed that your grandmother dropped a $20 bill the same day you wanted to buy a new shirt? ... you saw the last piece of candy in the pantry, but knew your sister was hoping to eat it? ... you jokingly said something at recess and later heard it repeated as a rumor? ... you saw a classmate being bullied in the hallway at school? ACTIVITY 3. Think of someone who you know who has shown a lack of integrity. Write a letter to this person describing what you think they have done and how they could do it differently next time. Character Education is supported by the Cumberland County Schools’ Counseling Department and the Safe and Drug Free Schools Grant. To link to the CCS Counseling Department, visit ccs.k12.nc.us. 10 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland November, 2019

MATHTIME If all clothes with and all clothes with buttons were here zippers were here Andrew is twice as old as his sister Hannah. Hannah’s age is 1/6 the age of her father. Their father, Leroy is 30. How old are Andrew and Hannah? what would go in the Andrew Hannah middle? (Hannah is 5 and Andrew is10) This is a two-step problem but has easy computation. Students need to find a number that is already known – the father’s age. Hannah Clothes with buttons and zippers. Identifying attributes can be a powerful tool to help is 1/6 of 30 or 5 years old. It is easy then to figure that Andrew is twice as old as students make logical distinctions between and among ideas and concepts in mathematics. Hannah--10 years old. Students need to be able to divide 30 into 6 equal parts to String circles, yarn circles or hula hoops make it easy for children to see and manipulate figure 1/6 if they do not know how to divide mentally. objects during sorting activities. Send it!* Hey, Kids! Teachers,gyorAeuraretsryteousudoeluonrotcskeiantbogotfueotarwcahater Meet my new BFF the Duck from Duck Donuts! We want to remind you to send us your photos, pollution? original artwork, letters, poems and stories, The City of Fayetteville We would really love hearing from you. We may even print them in a later issue or include SodstfteofuemrdrmesonwnFtsRsattrEoeaEnrtioDshntiavosnirstmdihosawn-toaentdeur caantde them on our cool website. water pollution. www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland Name: Age: Address: Grade: City: State: Zip: Phone: Name of your School or location where you picked up a copy of Kidsville News!: Parent, Teacher, Guardian Signature (Permission): Email: (Receive a “Free” online subscription of Kidsville News!) *If your submission appears in Kidsville News! STORMWATER you will be entitled to a FREE Duck Donut just by To request a presentation for your picking up your FREE Duck Donut Card at classroom, Call 910-433-1071 www.fayettevillenc.gov/stormwater 208 Rowan Street, Fayetteville NC 28301. 910-484-6200. Each month, one lucky student chosen from ALL the submissions will win Duck Donuts for their entire class! Send to: 208 Rowan Street Fayetteville, NC 28301 • 910-484-6200 November, 2019 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland 11

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2020 Air Quality Poster Contest “Protect the Earth” Earth is our home and we should take care of it by doing something daily to help protect it. With so many ways to achieve this, create an artistic masterpiece showing how YOU can protect the Earth. The 2020 Air Quality Awareness Poster Contest is sponsored by the Fayetteville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (FAMPO) in partnership with Sustainable Sandhills and is open to any elementary school student in Cumberland County, Fort Bragg or in the FAMPO Planning Area. For a complete list of eligible schools, please visit www.FAMPO.org/airquality.html. Contest Rules (please read carefully): • Must be a student in grades K-5 at an eligible elementary school in Cumberland County or in the FAMPO Planning Area. • Artwork must be original with no help from others. No kits, traced, or copied artwork will be accepted. • Non-color pencil drawings are not recommended. • Posters should be at minimum 8.5 x 11 inches and at maximum 11 x 17 inches. • Please keep the theme “Protect the Earth” in mind while creating your artwork. • All artwork will be judged on subject matter, originality, creativity, and artistic execution. • Clearly print the following information on the back of the drawing: Your name, school, grade, and parent’s contact phone or email address. (This information is confidential. It will be used for notification purposes only and will not be shared.) • All entries must be received by 4:00 PM on Friday, March 27, 2020. A top winner and runner-up will be chosen for each grade level K-5. Prizes will be as follows: Top Winner - $75 gift and Runner-Up - $50 gift. The school with the highest student participation will receive an award for the “Most Air Aware School” and a $100 gift. All winners will be notified by April 21st. Please send or bring entries to: FAMPO Cumberland County Historic Courthouse 130 Gillespie Street, 2nd floor, Room 203 or 205 Fayetteville, NC 28301 For more information, please contact Deloma Graham at (910) 678-7628 or send email to [email protected]. Be sure to visit our air quality page at FAMPO.org and our Sustainable Sandhills partners at sustainablesandhills.org 16 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland November, 2019

Anticipating having be the case with Greek- 1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs extra turkey after inspired gyros. The fillings 1 egg Thanksgiving is can vary depending on 1 teaspoon garlic powder over? If you have made the ingredients available the traditional turkey in the house. For Turkey 1/2 teaspoon salt sandwiches, turkey soup meatball gyros from the or turkey casserole with Taste of Home: Healthy 1/4 teaspoon pepper your leftovers in the Cooking Cookbook (RDA 1 pound lean ground turkey past, note that serving Enthusiast Brands) by the the same foods served editors of Taste of Home, 3/4 cup (6 ounces) reduced-fat plain yogurt time and again can get the meatballs can be 1/2 cup finely chopped peeled cucumber boring. Offering up new made the night before or 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion options doesn’t have in big batches and frozen to be complicated, and to be used as needed. 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice parents may discover an The yogurt sauce in this 8 whole-wheat pita pocket halves array of foods that their recipe is reminiscent of 2 cups shredded lettuce children will enjoy and ask traditional Greek tzatziki, 1 cup chopped tomatoes for in the future.Such can which is fresh and flavorful. In a large bowl, combine the bread cooking spray in a shallow baking onions and lemon juice. Line pitas with lettuce and tomatoes; add crumbs, egg and seasonings. pan. Bake uncovered at 400 F for the meatballs and drizzle with the yogurt sauce. Crumble turkey over mixture and 15 to 20 minutes, or until no longer 17 mix well. Shape into 16 balls. Place pink. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, meatballs on a rack coated with combine the yogurt, cucumber, November, 2019 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland

By Ivey H., KIDS FIRST! leader of the destroying their Photos © SND Films Film Critic, Age 13 group. He is homes, too. Igor has a a penguin crab that serves as an addresses the unlikely https://youtu.be/5WneuUQLBFQ that was alarm clock when he friendships between raised by a bangs the crab’s claws different jungle species “The Jungle tigress. He together to make a who work and stick Bunch” is a cute struggles tick-tock sound. This together as a team film about a group with being scene is a really funny during hard times, of animals, called part of the movie. helping their community the Jungle Bunch the leader save their homes. that protect and and trying My favorite part is watch out for the to live up when they play the I give this DVD 5 out of jungle. They put to the standards song “Eye of the 5 stars and recommend out forest fires, of his mother. The Tiger” when Maurice it for ages 3 to 15 as well fight bad guys, save characters are well is feeling down. This as adults. It is available on animals and help developed and funny. helps raise Maurice’s DVD now, so look for it. the community. I They make a lot of spirit to become enjoyed the bright contraptions and confident and put his colors and scenes inventions to help save “tiger stripes” back on. from the jungle. the jungle, including It is really cute when a cream for a bird’s the fish and penguins The jungle bunch bottom, which cracked want to be tigers, and includes a penguin me up. they paint themselves named Maurice, The villain in the story with stripes. a gorilla named is the koala Igor. He Miguel, Gilbert the wants to destroy the Philippe Bozo is the Tarsier, a bat named jungle because he feels voice of Maurice. I like Batricia and a few excluded from the his voice and attitude. other odd creatures. bunch. He wants to It’s perfect! Pascal In this story, Maurice take over and become Casanova is the voice is the hero and the leader. The Jungle of the gorilla, who also Bunch thinks he is too portrays his character controlling, so he plans quite well. In fact, I’m to use mushrooms quite fond of all the as explosives to blow voice-over work in this up the jungle for film. I give director revenge and payback. David Alaux credit for The Jungle Bunch putting together such must stop him from a terrific cast. The moral of the story 18 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland November, 2019

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This article is distributed by NASA Night Sky Network. The Night Sky Network program supports astronomy clubs FIND STRANGE across the USA dedicated to astronomy outreach. Visit nightsky.jpl.nasa.org to find local clubs, events, and more! URANUS IN ARIES By David Prosper Most of the planets in our When viewing with a telescope, the first planet discovered solar system are bright zoom in as much as possible in the modern era! William and easily spotted in our once you find Uranus; 100x Herschel discovered Uranus via night skies. The exceptions are magnification and greater will telescope in 1781, and Johan the ice giant planets: Uranus and reveal its small greenish disc, Bode confirmed its status as a Neptune. These worlds are so while background stars will planet two years later. NASA’s distant and dim that binoculars remain points. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft or telescopes are almost always Try this observing trick to visit this strange world, with needed to see them. The planet from a dark sky location. Find a brief flyby in 1986. It revealed a was up almost the entire night Uranus with your telescope or strange, severely tilted planetary and at its brightest for the year binoculars, then look with your system possessing faint dark Oct. 28 during its opposition, if unaided eyes at the patch of sky rings, dozens of moons and you were lucky enough to see it. where you aim your equipment. eerily featureless cloud tops. You can always search for Do you see a faint star where Subsequent observations of Uranus in the space beneath Uranus should be? That’s not Uranus from powerful telescopes the stars of Aries the Ram and a star; you actually see Uranus like Hubble and Keck showed above Cetus the Whale. These with your naked eye! The ice its blank face was temporary, as constellations are west of more giant was just bright enough powerful storms were spotted, prominent Taurus the Bull and near opposition - magnitude 5.7 caused by dramatic seasonal Pleiades star cluster. You can - to be visible to observers under changes during its 84-year orbit. also use the moon as a guide! clear dark skies. It’s easier to see Uranus’s wildly variable seasons Uranus was just a few degrees this ghostly planet unaided after result from a massive collision north of the moon the night of first using an instrument to spot billions of years ago that tipped Oct. 14, close enough to fit both it, sort of like “training wheels” the planet to its side. objects into the same binocular for your eyes. Try this technique seycDxsuitprserclmoeornvaatetnariodnmndbooefrufyettouhanrebedodmauisttitsanNsnaioAtsnSassoA.glo’aosfrv field of view. However, it would with other objects as you have been much easier to see observe, and you’ll be amazed at dim Uranus by moving the what your eyes can pick out. bright moon just out of sight. By the way, you’ve spotted 20 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland November, 2019

Did You KNOW? When donating to charity, many donors choose to contribute to child sponsorship organizations that assist needy children at home or abroad. Such organizations provide invaluable services, though donors may be confused about just how their donations are allocated. The charity watchdog organization www.give.org, which is part of the Better Business Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance, notes that donations to child sponsorship organizations are often pooled and used to support projects that are intended to benefit the community where the child lives. That might not be the impression formed by donors, who may think their donations are being conveyed exclusively to a specific child. The practice of allocating donations to cash grants given to a specific child’s family does occur, though the website notes that it is far less common than pooling donations. Donors considering contributing to child sponsorship programs should not allow the donations allocations deter them, as oftentimes pooled donations are used to build schools, and/or provide medical care, clean water and even food to underprivileged children. November, 2019 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland 21

BEGINNER READS Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Lousy Rotten Stinkin’ Grapes Types By Margie Palatini By Sharon Werner and Sarah Forss For ages 4-8 For ages 2 and Up Unable to reach the bunch of purple You've never seen an alphabet book grapes high in a tree, Fox, who considers like this before. A is for alligator, but himself sly, clever, and smart, makes a the accompanying picture is composed plan to get them. \"Hop. Skip. Jump. of hundreds of uppercase and lower- Flying leap. And . . . No grapes.\" Which is case black A's. Each page contains an when he turns to Bear for help. Fox animal — bat, camel, dog, elephant — climbs atop Bear's head, but he's still not rendered entirely in its initial letters. high enough, which is why he enlists the help of Beaver, Porcupine and Possum. PAGETURNERS Drama Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s By Raina Telgemeier Library For ages 9 and Up By Chris Grabenstein For ages 8 and Up Callie is the set designer for her middle school play. She wants it to go off with Kyle Keeley isn’t much of a reader. He’s a bang — literally — and is building a more into games. Especially the brilliant cannon that really “fires” for the show. world of Luigi Lemoncello’s Imagination If only she could add some spark to her Factory. So when the town of Alexan- love life. Callie’s first experiences with driaville announces it will be opening its romance are fizzling — and confusing. first public library in twelve years, Kyle But nothing keeps infectiously-enthusi- isn’t very excited. But then Mr. Lemon- astic Callie down for long, especially cello arrives at the school to judge the when she’s got set design and her stage essays; if he is behind the new library, crew to keep her distracted. then who knows what might be inside! Anya’s Ghost ADVANCED READS By Vera Brosgol For ages 12-18 Scat By Carl Hiaasen One day, her mind filled with all her prob- For ages 10 and Up lems, Anya walks right into a hole in the ground and falls into an abandoned well, Today is the class field trip to the Black where she finds a skeleton. This skeleton Vine Swamp. Nick's hoping to sight a has a ghost, a teenage girl who helps get panther, which is unlikely since there Anya rescued and then follows Anya home. are fewer than a hundred of the big cats She says her name is Emily Reilly, and she left in Florida. Nick has a lot on his was murdered ninety years before. Before mind; his dad, a captain in the Army long, Emily starts helping Anya pass her Reserve in Iraq, hasn't e-mailed home exams, dress more fashionably and stalk for three days. In the swamp, they hear her secret crush, school basketball a piercing cry, and Nick records on his star Sean. video camera a large, tannish blur, running through the cypress trees. 22 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland November, 2019

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