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Willy Water Drop 2020 Resolutions Wally Watt Watcher Happy New Year! Willy Water Drop and Wally Watt Watcher are so excited for 2019! One of their favorite traditions when celebrating New Year’s is to make resolutions, a promise to do something new or better than you have done in the past. Willy and Wally have decided this year’s resolutions are to continue conserving water and electricity, and to do more to help the environment. How many of these will you promise to do in 2019? Save Electricity! vs Turn off lights when I leave a room. Turn off electronic items when I’m done using them. Use natural sunlight when I can instead of turning on lights. Ask my parents to use LED bulbs. They are more energy efficient than incandescent bulbs. Be safe and never unplug something by the cord. Pull it out by the plug instead. Don’t touch anything electronic when I am wet. Never put anything in an electrical outlet, except for plugs. Play safely outside and never play on transformers (the green box in the yard) or fly kites around power lines. If I see a power line down, I will stay away from it and tell an adult. Save Water! Turn faucets all the way off when I’m done using them, especially while brushing my teeth. Tell an adult when I see a leaky faucet or leaky toilet. Take shorter showers or don’t fill the tub all the way when taking a bath. Keep a pitcher of water in the refrigerator for drinking. Ask my parents to wash full loads of laundry and dishes. Use a broom instead of a hose to clean sidewalks and driveways. Remind my parents not to pour grease or oil down drains. Save the Planet! Learn more about how I can help take care of the earth. Buy things that are reusable or made from recycled materials. Ask my parents to bring reusable bags when we go shopping. Recycle everything that I can. Carry a reusable water bottle instead of a disposable one. Walk, ride my bike, carpool, or take a bus to use less gas. Encourage my family to buy locally grown vegetables and fruits. Happy 2020 and remember to share what you’ve learned about conservation and helping the earth with friends and family! www.faypwc.com Various vectors from © freepik.com or call the Communications & Community Relations O ce at 223-4009 2 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland January, 2020

THE FUN FAMILY NEWSPAPER Hi, Kids! of Cumberland and Hoke Counties YweopVohpyshnoveuvReteclUyfiahriAsasaisscfengciiTwdunoonioaevnontlasrandnnegiiclrealssftn.Hte”nswulttsnhaeuee.ahaPenceodeohaaVlyapxuefrrluaiaiatttnnppdiolfitptsnnemcmiypeeyeepamlndio,aoomllNeerosiodmsdpteeo,gnetramwrlndrfttieeewatlcoserrtahhsaimaykhrewptta,Yomkitahrotan?beoietirrtranwgaa-popaRhymmtlgiidiruenannekai!goamitaeiaimeinrInnnrrmtksdteio’dwphgssmeegta?f,arhenrol2wtaooasvabTit0rnasvvifsli,loahrt2desimd2whtmhsnuee0u,0iavdthodaso!taoe/sihnz2isVFirlhantlsioie0aohRrtnogcathenotrheondgvilaaiseenmmenv’“.osvl,eteciLuoectrao““aoeoreyamAtfCfyga-sonsavtrpo.gctnelrbrehosHenoasnlotilaeued“”runaifaoesrkannetvbreusnafboidsredseec“gsdleeoeWstase,teyld!uinetmthsooyoTdhitiss“elenuerhgdiipeeetflsysainWihfvsbtesit”eefgsieaerieVlm.riaorl”fhrsroeeeseRrsrytantft.nlc”.diudttcT.s”elheee. www.KidsvilleNews.com/Cumberland PUBLISHER Bill Bowman [email protected] ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Stephanie Crider [email protected] EDITOR Crissy Neville [email protected] OPERATIONS MANAGER Paulette Naylor accounting @upandcomingweekly.com ART DIRECTOR/GRAPHIC ARTIST Elizabeth Baker [email protected] SALES & MARKETING Linda McAlister [email protected] Jim Shaffer [email protected] DISTRIBUTION DIRECTOR/SALES ADMINISTRATOR Laurel Handforth [email protected] IILLUSTRATOR Cover & Truman • Dan Nelson EDITORIAL INTERN Dianna M. Hughes Copyright © 2019 by Merrigold Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this issue may be reproduced in whole or in part in any form without permission of the publisher or copyright holder. Neither participating advertisers nor the publishers will be responsible or liable for misinformation, misprints or typographical errors. The publishers reserve the right to edit any submitted material. Merrigold Publishing, Inc. is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts, artwork, or other material. Children’s submissions should include name, address, telephone number, and permission to publish signed by a parent or guardian. Various pictures and vectors © freepik & Vecteezy. FTCC Children’s CENTER 7CeAnMter i-s6opPeMn Monday - Friday and Follows the FTCC Calendar for Holiday & Other Closings. Child Care (6 weeks through 5 years ol1ds)t-tAhfrtoeur-gShchRoisoilnCga7rteh(PGrrea-dKetrhs)rough Age 12) - Summer Camps (Rising TOUR OUR CFAACLILLTITOYS-CMHOENDDUALEY A- NFRAIDPAPYOI9N-1T0M:3EN0TA!M & 3-4 PM Call/email for details and to enroll your child today! 910-678-8560 2201 Hull Road, Fayetteville, NC [email protected] Education for Life License ID 26001112 www.faytechcc.edu/childrens-center 3 January, 2020 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland

Do you wear glasses to help you see? Making them isn’t as simple as you might think! The parts of glasses that help people see are called lenses. When you get a new pair of glasses, you visit an eye doctor who helps you develop a unique vision profile. Once the doctor has figured out what kind of lenses will be best for you, it’s time to make the glasses. People have been wearing glasses for hundreds of years, but the way we make them has changed over time. Most eyeglass lenses today are made with machines. • Lenses can be made from plastic or glass. • Lenses are either made in bulk or custom-made for the person who will be wearing them. • A lens starts half-finished. It then gets covered in a protective coating in a process called “blocking.” After blocking, the lens is reshaped to fit the needs of the person who will be wearing it. • Lenses need to be polished and carefully cleaned after they have been shaped so that a lens coating can be applied. • For plastic lenses, it is important to coat them after making them. Coating lenses makes them stronger and harder to scratch. A coated lens helps keep your vision clear no matter what. • Finished lenses are inspected to make sure they are ready to wear. After inspection, they’re carefully fitted into frames for the perfect pair of glasses. https://www.zeiss.com/vision-care/us/better-vision/understanding-vision/how-are-eyeglass-lenses-manufactured.html 4 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland January, 2020

Have you ever dreamed about riding on the back of a has become popular in the last few years, but Days to dinosaur? Or flying above the clouds like a superhero? the possibilities are endless. Virtuality reality remember These things used to seem impossible, but through contributes to engineering, education, military in January the invention of virtual reality technology, these and even medical purposes. adventures — and many more — are more doable than • Virtual reality systems can help people who are Jan. 1, 1776 During the ever. Virtual reality is used by people all over the world learning to do their jobs, like pilots, astronauts and American Revolution, for many different purposes, including education, work surgeons. George Washington and play. • Virtual reality allows people to “travel” all around unveiled the Grand Union the world. By putting on a virtual reality headset, Flag, the first national flag Virtual reality uses computer technology to create you can feel like you’re exploring any place in the in America. a 3-D world that feels real to its user. There are lots of world, from the peaks of Machu Picchu to the Jan. 3, 1959 Alaska was systems that use virtual reality. You’ve probably seen plains of Africa, without ever getting on a plane. admitted as the 49th U.S. virtual reality headsets, but there are also devices like • It is impossible to know exactly how long virtual state with a land mass special treadmills and gloves that stimulate our senses reality has been around, but the first multimedia almost one-fifth the size to create the illusion of reality. device that offered a virtual reality experience of the lower 48 states was invented in the 1950s by Morton Heilig. together. • Virtual reality allows you to experience things that Heilig created the “Sensorama,” which combined Jan. 4, 1809 The birthday are difficult or even impossible in real life. visuals on a screen, fans, speakers and smells for a of Louis Braille in France. unique experience. Blinded as a boy, he • Virtual reality engages various combinations of a • The term “virtual reality” was coined in 1987 by later invented a reading user’s five key senses — sight, smell, sound, taste Jaron Lanier. system for the blind using and touch. Sight and sound are the two most punch marks in paper. important elements in a virtual reality experience. Jan. 24, 1848 The California gold rush • The use of virtual reality for entertainment began with the accidental discovery https://www.vrs.org.uk/virtual-reality-applications/ of the precious metal https://www.vrs.org.uk/virtual-reality/what-is-virtual-reality.html near Coloma during https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/other-gadgets/virtual-reality.htm construction of a Sutter’s sawmill. https://www.youvisit.com/learning-center/blog/12-surprising-vr-facts/ Jan. 25, 1961 President John F. Kennedy conducted the first live televised presidential news conference, five days after taking office. GEE THANKS! to our partners for sponsoring our Kidsville News! in literacy initiative UP & COMING WEEKLY January, 2020 To be a corporate educational sponsor, call: 910.484.6200 5 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland

Imagine being able to see clearly your favorite singer’s face on stage, even if the tickets you bought put you in seats at the back of the stadium. Imagine standing atop the Empire State Building and being able to see what color nail polish a woman on the street below is wearing on her nails. That’s what your vision might be like if you had the eyesight of one of the natural world’s top predators, an eagle. Eagle’s can see about four • There are over 60 species of eagle. • Unlike humans, eagles see to five times better than humans, which comes in • One of the most impressive ultraviolet light. very handy since they have to catch their meals using wildlife comeback stories is that of • Along with great vision, eagles are nothing but their beaks and talons. Not only can the bald eagle. Excessive pesticide also able to hear well. eagles see more clearly than humans from greater use once landed bald eagles on • Eagles are carnivores, which distances, they are also able to see a wider, more the endangered species list, but means they only eat meat. Some vivid range of colors, which makes it easier to see the after decades of protection, they of their favorite foods are fish and tiny, camouflaged prey they hunt. Now you know what are thriving in the wild again. small mammals, like squirrels and it means if someone says you have an “eagle-eye!” • Eagles aren’t just symbols in rabbits. America. Eagle imagery is also • The average lifespan of a wild used prominently in Mexico, eagle is 20 to 30 years, but some Poland, Germany and Austria. have lived to be as old as 50 in • Eagles’ eyes are on the sides of captivity. their heads, which allows them • A group of eagles is called a to see almost all the way around “convocation.” their heads. https://www.nationaleaglecenter.org/eagle-diet-feeding/ https://wildbirdsonline.com/blogs/news/bird-names-by-groups https://journeynorth.org/tm/eagle/AdaptationsBeak.html https://abcbirds.org/bald-eagle-the-ultimate-endangered-species-act-success-story/ https://www.livescience.com/18658-humans-eagle-vision.html https://ccbbirds.org/what-we-do/research/species-of-concern/virginia-eagles/facts-about-eagles/ http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/eagle.html 6 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland January, 2020

Amazing Acts of Character for November 2019 Gray’s Creek Middle School Student Goes Above and Beyond Expected Behavior DENAIRA WILLIAMS Each month through Cumberland County that DeNaira “saw a friend in need and took Schools’ Amazing Acts of Character it upon herself to collect clothing items and recognition program, schools are asked to shoes for the student.” According to Smart, nominate students who display character when DeNaira delivered the gifts, they were “above and beyond” expected behavior. A carefully gift wrapped and placed in the care student recently selected from individual of a teacher. school nominations for displaying an amazing act of character from Gray’s Creek Middle “DeNaira deserves to be recognized for her school was eighth grader DeNaira Williams. caring nature, selfless act, friendship and upstanding character,” said Smart. According to GCMS social worker Tina Smart, the 14-year-old Williams deserves to The Amazing Acts of Character be recognized for the level of empathy and Committee selects winners based on compassion she showed a peer. Recently, school nominations. The winners are then DeNaira witnessed her schoolmates sneering recognized at the regular monthly meeting at and gossiping about another schoolmate’s of the Board of Education, where they are clothing and appearance. Instead of being presented a special trophy and certificate. a part of this negative behavior, Smart said Congratulations, DeNaira! January, 2020 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland 7

Photo attributed to JimMoulton.org Photo attributed to Scott McMurren, flickr Photo attributed to frostnip907 Alaska is rich in breathtaking landscapes, but it’s • The Aleuts get most of their food, like fish and also rich in culture. Alaska has the widest range seals, from the sea and are known for their of native cultures in the United States. Alaskan native seamless maritime adaptation to these chilly island and American Indian populations make up about 15% environments. of Alaska’s total population. Many native tribes still live traditional hunting and fishing lifestyles in villages spread • Southern Eskimos, also known as Yuit, included along Alaskan rivers the sea in every part of their lives, from food and and coastlines. clothing to boats and fuel. Lots of today’s native groups share a connection with Alaska’s first natives, who traveled to Alaska on a land • Alaskan natives use sea creatures for a wide range bridge that connected Alaska to Siberia, which used to of activities. Bones and tusks can be used to make connect Russia and Alaska. Over time, tectonic plate anything from artwork to weapons. Skins also movements caused the earth’s continents to shift, have a variety of uses. They traditionally also made causing Alaska — and the rest of the world as we know it weapons and other supplies from the bones and — to form. skins of sea creatures. • Alaskan natives belong to five key groups: Aleuts, • Alaska has one of America’s harshest environments, Northern Eskimos (Iñupiat), Southern Eskimos (Yuit), and Athabascan natives are known for their clever Interior Indians (Athabascans) and Southeast Coastal survival skills to help them face the bitter climate. Indians (Tlingit and Haida). Athabascans also have a reputation for having some of the world’s finest beadwork. • The Aleuts live on the Aleutian Islands and Alaskan Peninsula. • The Tlingit and Haida tribes are recognized for their unique artwork, which features intricate carvings. https://www.pbs.org/harriman/1899/native.html January, 2020 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/AK/RHI325218#RHI325218 https://www.travelalaska.com/Media-Center/Featured-Copy/Alaskan-Native-Culture.aspx 8 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland

?? ? ? ?? ? ?? ? ?? ?? What’s it Like to Be? ? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? An optometrist DR. TIMOTHY BASS Please tell our readers a little about An optometrist takes care of patients incredibly rewarding to help meet each patient’s visual needs so that he or she yourself, including your name and of all ages and gets to see patients can enjoy the gift of sight. occupation. year after year. This allows for better What is the most challenging thing about the work you do? relationship-building with patients and The most challenging part of my job My name is Dr. Timothy Bass, and I the ability to make a broader impact on is when there is no current medical treatment for an eye disease, so there am an optometrist. An optometrist is the community. is nothing I can do to help restore a patient’s vision. an eye doctor that examines people’s What do you wish everyone knew eyes to check for vision or health What kind of education or training do about optometry? issues. During an eye exam, I will check optometrists have? Optometrists do more than prescribe glasses and contact lenses to help someone’s vision and then prescribe people see. An optometrist is typically the first person to detect, diagnose glasses and contact lenses if needed to First, a student completes four years of and manage most eye diseases. We frequently write medicine prescriptions help my patients see clearly. After that, college to get a bachelor’s degree. Then, and treat eye diseases such as glaucoma and pink eye. We also coordinate I will examine the front and back of a optometry school comes next for four care with primary doctors by making sure other diseases, such as diabetes person’s eye with a microscope to look more years. When complete, the student or thyroid problems that can change a patient’s vision, are under control. for any diseases that may be affecting has a doctorate in optometry. Next, Also, if a patient needs eye surgery, an optometrist may provide care before someone’s vision now or in the future. passing a series of national and state and after the surgery to ensure proper healing of the eyes. If any health issues are detected, I examinations to get a license is required 9 determine a treatment plan to make to see patients. However, education sure the patient’s eyes stay as healthy never stops as optometrists must take as possible. classes each year to stay up to date with the ever-changing technology and When did you know that you wanted medicine used to treat patients. to be an optometrist? What is your favorite thing about being I realized I wanted to be an optometrist an eye doctor? while I was in college. I job-shadowed several different doctors in different I thoroughly enjoy being able to help specialties. I found it fascinating the way people. I like prescribing a child his or the eyes and brain work together to give her first pair of glasses so that he or she us the important sense of sight. I chose is successful in school. Likewise, It is also optometry over ophthalmology, which rewarding to manage a patient’s ocular involves eye surgery, for a few reasons. disease to prevent blindness. I find it January, 2020 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland

Self-discipline “Self-discipline is to exercise positive self-control” Using the circles below, think about the things in your life that you CAN control and the things that you CAN’T. Thing’s I can’t control Things I CAN control 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 January, 2020

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Did you know that snow Most of these are flat and plastic, hit the snow board and read how measurements and though any flat, board-like surface deep the snow is on the ruler to ice measurements are will do. It’s also important to lay the nearest tenth of an inch. That’s something your local National your snow board out where you your snow depth measurement! Weather Service office and other want to measure before the snow You then scrape off the board meteorologists need during starts. Try to find an open area and place it back where you put it winter weather? While weather away from trees, homes and other originally. It’s important to take the radar is good at estimating how tall objects. This will help you get measurement as soon as the snow much liquid rain has fallen, it isn’t the best possible measurement. stops so that blowing, melting, so good at estimating snowfall One last important thing to do compacting or drifting don’t affect totals. Knowing how much snow before the snow starts is to put your reading. It’s also important to has fallen during a storm can help something tall that will stick up measure snow on the board and meteorologists better predict out of the snow, like a small flag, not stick your ruler in grass or dirt, future snowstorms, and it helps on top of or next to the snow as it might sink into the wet dirt keep roads safer because crews board. This will help you find the and give you a wrong total. know where and how much snow board, even if there’s heavy snow. they will need to plow. That’s why This will help you find the board, The last thing to do is tell the meteorologists need people like even if there’s heavy snow. National Weather Service. You can you to take measurements of snow do this by calling your local office that has fallen. Once the snow has stopped, it’s or using social media to tell them Making a snow measurement time to take a measurement to how much snow you got. Make is pretty easy, but not quite as see how much snow accumulated sure to tell them how long the simple as sticking a ruler into on the board. This is done with snow was falling and the time you snow-covered ground and reading a ruler or yardstick. Without took the measurement, as well as the number. First, you need to compacting the snow around it, your location. Well done! You’re get what we call a snow board. you need to stick the ruler into now a citizen scientist! the accumulated snow until you 16 January, 2020 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland

1 pound bacon, cut into julienne strips 1 cup diced yellow onions 1 cup diced carrots 1 cup green lentils 2 quarts chicken stock or broth, divided Salt Freshly ground black pepper 1⁄2 cup chopped scallions Cook three-quarters of the bacon in a large saucepan over medium heat until the fat is rendered, about 5 minutes. Add the onions and carrots and cook, stirring frequently, until the onions are translucent, 4 to 5 minutes. Drain any excess fat and add the lentils and 1 quart of the stock. Simmer over low heat until the lentils are tender, 40 to 50 minutes. Add the remaining 1 quart stock and season to taste with salt and pepper. Cook the soup over medium heat until hot, about 10 minutes. Cook the remaining bacon in a hot sauté pan over medium-high heat until crispy, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove the bacon from the pan and drain on paper towels. Ladle some of the soup into each bowl and sprinkle with the crispy bacon and the scallions. January, 2020 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland 17

notably Chris Cooper, who plays Lloyd’s dad, Jerry Vogel. Christine Lahti, as Lloyd’s editor, Ellen, pushes him to work on the hero piece and adds a touching element to the movie as well. The film is directed by Marielle Heller and written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster. Music plays an important role in this movie and is by Nate “A Beautiful Day in the Heller. The scenes of Mr. Neighborhood” is based on Rogers playing the piano a true-life story about the along with the behind-the- relationship that develops scenes of the television By Selene W., KIDS between Fred Rogers and a show during filming of “Mr. FIRST! Film Critic, age 11 cynical reporter who is loath Rogers’ Neighborhood” are https://youtu.be/TGgju765nXQ to interview him for a piece particularly moving. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood on American heroes. In the It’s definitely “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” movie, the reporter is Lloyd The message of this film when Tom Hanks portrays the iconic Mister Rogers. Vogel (Matthew Rhys) who is that anyone can change The message is timely and needed now more than gives an amazing performance. the world with words. It’s ever. This movie is not what I expected. You learn Through his interactions with a powerful message that about Mr. Rogers through his relationship with a Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks), we often forget. Listen and man who didn’t want to be his friend or neighbor. Vogel begins to understand think before you speak, It’s a message that we all need to hear. that part of him is broken. as your words impact The healing process begins as others. Fred Rogers finds a their friendship develops, and positive way to help others you see Fred Rogers teaching express their feelings, him to understand, accept and which is not an easy thing voice his emotions and feelings. to do, although he makes It is beautiful. Tom Hanks it look easy. Forgiveness is masterful in this role at and redemption are other bringing out the transformation themes in this film. of his friend. I rate this film 4.5 out of 5 In addition to Tom Hanks and stars and recommend it for Matthew Rhys, the cast has ages 4 to 18. Adults will love Photos © TriStar Pictures other powerful performances, it as well. 18 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland January, 2020

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This article is distributed by NASA Night Sky Network. The Night Sky Network program supports astronomy clubs Caption: This image from NASA’s Spitzer missions shows Orion in a different light – quite literally! Note across the USA dedicated to astronomy outreach. Visit nightsky.jpl.nasa.org to find local clubs, events, and more! the small outline of the Orion Nebula region in the visible light image on the left, versus the massive amount of activity shown in the infrared image of the same region on the right. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ IRAS /H. McCallon. From bit.ly/SpitzerOrion Winter began in whirling gas clouds. These gas at these young stars. The rest of December for clouds also hide “protostars” the complex remains hidden to observers in from view: objects in the process human eyes, but not to advanced the Northern of becoming stars, but that have space-based telescopes. Hemisphere, bringing cold nights not yet achieved fusion at their We put telescopes in orbit to and the return of one of the most core. The clouds hide these well. get above the interference of famous constellations to our our atmosphere, which absorbs early evening skies: Orion the The Orion Nebula is a small many wavelengths of light. Hunter and his famous belt. window into a vastly larger Infrared space telescopes, such area of star formation centered as Spitzer and the upcoming Orion is a striking pattern around the constellation of James Webb Space Telescope, of stars and is one of the few Orion itself. NASA’s Great detect longer wavelengths of constellations whose pattern Observatories, space telescopes light that allow them to see is repeated almost unchanged like Hubble, Spitzer, Compton through the dust clouds in Orion, in the star stories of cultures and Chandra, studied this area in revealing hidden stars and cloud around the world. Below the wavelengths we can’t see with structures. It’s similar to the three bright stars of Orion’s Belt our earthbound eyes, revealing infrared goggles firefighters lies his sword, where you can the entire constellation alight wear to see through smoke from find the famous Orion Nebula, with star birth, not just the burning buildings and wildfires. also known as M42. The nebula comparatively tiny area of the Learn more about how is visible to our unaided eyes in nebula. Why then can we only astronomers combine even moderately light-polluted see the nebula? M42 contains observations made at different skies as a fuzzy “star” in the hot young stars whose stellar wavelengths with the Night Sky middle of Orion’s Sword. M42 winds blew away their cocoons Network activity, ‘The Universe in is about 20 light years across, of gas after their “birth,” the a Different Light,” downloadable which helps with its visibility moment when they begin to from bit.ly/different-light-nsn. since it’s roughly 1,344 light years fuse hydrogen into helium. Those You can find more stunning away. Baby stars, including the gas clouds, which block visible science and images from NASA’s famous “Trapezium” cluster, light, were cleared away just Great Observatories at nasa.gov. are found inside the nebula’s enough to give us a peek inside 20 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland January, 2020

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Make it your New Year's resolution to make reading a priority in 2020. In honor of the New Year, ReadKiddoRead also has a new look. Check it out at ReadKiddoRead.com! BEGINNER READS I Am Invited to a Party! Granite Baby By Mo Willems By Lynne Bertrand For ages 2-6 Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes For ages 5-9 When Piggie gets a cool invitation to Five giant sisters from the Granite State ,, go to her first party, she invites her of New Hampshire each have a special best friend Elephant to go with her. talent: Jade can twist a river in her hands, Em whittles wood, Golda is handy \"Party! Party! Party! Party!\" the two with string, Ruby is as strong as a bear and Beryl is the finest stonecutter. After chant joyously. Elephant declares, \"I Beryl carves a whole new town out of a mountain, she takes a bit of pink granite know parties,\" and that, as it turns and carves a real live baby. The sisters name him Lil Fella, and he fits on the end out, is very true. Not knowing what of Beryl's finger. kind of party it will be - a fancy Diary of a Wimpy Kid By Jeff Kinney party, a pool party, or a costume For ages 9 and up party - the two resourceful friends This easy-to-read first person expose' of middle school life told by sixth-grader Greg prepare for all three. Heffley through cartoons and hand-written journal entries has sold millions of copies. ..... .....PAGETURNERS Flush It's throw-yourself-on-the-floor-and-rol1- ,..,,. � By Carl Hiaasen around-howling hilarious, and boys, For ages 10 and up especially, are inhaling this book series. All those 97-pound weaklings out there can Noah's idealistic dad is spending really identify with a kid who figures he's Father's Day in a holding cell in their somewhere around 52nd or 53rd most little Florida Keys town. Dad admits he popular at school. Reluctant readers? went a little overboard this time, though Not anymore. he's not at all sorry he sank Dusty Muleman's boat, the Coral Queen. He knows Dusty has been dumping his boat's holding tank in the middle of the night, which is totally illegal, but so far, no one else has caught him in the act. Noah and his feisty little sister Abbey set out to help their dad nail Dusty. ADVANCED READS Okay for Now \" Daughters of Smoke and Bone By Laini Taylor By Gary D. Schmidt For ages 11 and up For ages 12 and up \"Terrific.\" That is 14-year-old Doug Seraphim and chimera, love and war, Sweiteck's sardonic response to pretty much everything, about Maryville, a tiny humans and beasts come together in this upstate New York town where his family has abruptly moved from Long Island in brilliantly written fantasy. Setting the scene for the romance and other action is the epic the late summer of 1968. Drifting aimlessly through his new town, Doug war raging between the seraphim and the happens upon the town library. A girl chimera. The rich history of the conflict between the chimera and seraphim is named Lil notices, and before long, Doug fantasy at its best, pulling the reader ever has a very good friend, a job delivering deeper into the complexity of the relationships among the characters. The for her grocery-storeowner father and is beginning to connect to people in richness of their emotions, loyalties and the town. desires makes the characters believable. Kidsville News, Truman and James Patterson's READKIDDOREAD.COM are pleased to pARENTOWN partner on this page to help you discover books that the kids you love are sure to love. 22 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland January, 2020

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