The purpose of this manual is to provide clear and helpful information for maintaining gravel roads. Very little technical help is available to small agencies that are responsible for managing these roads. Gravel road maintenance has traditionally been "more of an art than a science" and very few formal standards exist. This manual contains guidelines to help answer the questions that arise concerning gravel road maintenance such as: What is enough surface crown? What is too much? What causes corrugation? The information is as nontechnical as possible without sacrificing clear guidelines and instructions on how to do the job right.

FOUR STARRED REVIEWS! Twelve-year old Lawrence is new to chess--can he figure out how to get on the board, even though the odds are stacked against him? Introducing a powerful novel about figuring out who you are when you don’t make the rules—just right for middle-grade fans of Nic Stone and Jason Reynolds. "Endearing, timely, needed.”—Alicia D. Williams, Newbery-Honor winning author of Genesis Begins Again Lawrence is ready for a win. . . . Nothing’s gone right for Lawrence since he had to move from Charlotte to Larenville, North Carolina, to live with his granny. When Lawrence ends up in one too many fights at his new school, he gets expelled. The fight wasn’t his fault, but since his pop’s been gone, it feels like no one listens to what Lawrence has to say. Instead of going to school, Lawrence starts spending his days at the rec center, helping out a neighbor who runs a chess program. Some of the kids in the program will be picked to compete in the Charlotte Classic chess tournament. Could this be Lawrence's chance to go home? Lawrence doesn’t know anything about chess, but something about the center—and the kids there—feels right. Lawrence thought the game was over . . . but does he have more moves left than he thought?

Rampant social and racial discrimination in the American Southwest during the 1940s offered little opportunity for a community of Yaqui miners from Sonora, Mexico. The choice was clear: labor in the dangerous copper mines like previous generations and dream of someday making it big on the baseball diamond. One group of men and women, however, had the courage to challenge the status quo and forge a new way of life.