Jean Hornsby''s ''Tree-Riffic!''..." is set on ''Shawnee Mountain'' in Pennsylvania in 1947. The Ned and Nora Hammermill family is made up of Jean, Susie, Johnny, Carol and baby, Janice. Jean, at 10, is the oldest and the wisest and central to our story, while the rest of the kids play equally important supporting roles, as ''Johnny'' plays pirate in his treehouse and Susie makes hot steaming biscuits with her mother and Carol looks for her kittens, while Janice steals everyone''s attention as ''the apple in everyone''s eye.'' There is ''Lucky,'' the smartest German shepherd since ''Rin-Tin-Tin.'' And, "Gunner," the retired military horse, who now pulls Ned''s plow. Together, this group of interesting characters take us down the road to a past more innocent and fun, than anything we''ve seen since "The Waltons," made television history. ....Jean loves her black stallion, "Buck," who stumbles and breaks his leg. Johnny plays his trombone to the light of the full moon. Jean sees a beautiful ghost in her mother''s rock garden, where angels also visit and offer their blessings. Ned survives the tornadoes that strike the mountain. This "novel for children," with beautiful color illustrations by John E. Ayers. is told through the eyes of "Mr. Oak" and "Miss Maple," two leaves Jean enters into a 4-H contest in hopes of "winning first prize

The book leads the reader through the past to the present and here leaves him amid active and progressive men who are advancing, along with him, toward the future. Including, as it does, lives of men now living, it constitutes a connecting link between what has gone before and what is to come after. It is therefore fitting that it should be dedicated to a prominent man of our day in preference to one of former times. The matter presented, in the nature of things, is largely biographical. There can be no foundation for history without biography. History is a generalization of particulars. It presents wide extended views. To use a paradox, history gives us but a part of history. That other part which it does not give us, the part which introduces us to the thoughts, aspirations and daily life of a people, is supplied by biography. The men whose deeds are recorded in this book were or are deeply identified with Texas, and the preservation in this volume in enduring form of some remembrance of them—their names, who and what they were—has been a pleasant task to one who feels a deep interest and pride in Texas—its past history, its heroes and future destiny.

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A young slime scientist's efforts to make a Valentine's Day friend for her slime explode in Valenslime, a clever and funny picture book companion to Joy Keller and Ashley Belote’s Frankenslime. Victoria Franken, slime scientist, loved her slime. And her slime loved her back. Ever since the dark and stormy night when Victoria Franken brought her slime to life, she and Goop have been great friends, but when Valentine's Day rolls around, Victoria comes to the horrifying realization that while she had many friends, Goop only had her. The only solution is for her to make him a new friend. But when Victoria gets bored waiting for lightning to strike twice, things get a bit out of control!

Sarah is growing up fast. She swings on swings, slides down slides, and climbs trees. Whenever she falls, her mother sweeps her up in her arms and soothes away the hurt. Her mother is always there for her-on her first day of school, when she falls in love for the first time, and finally when she leaves home and starts a family of her own. It is then that Sarah realizes what a wonderful gift her mother has given her. As she watches over a daughter of her own, Sarah passes on that gift, helping her child through the trials of growing up with a gentle strength and enduring love. This beautiful testament to the powerful bond between mothers and daughters will move and inspire mothers while reassuring their daughters that they have a special safety net that will never let them down. Anna Strauss was only sixteen-years-old when she was inspired to write this story as a gift for her mother. Now her enchanting story makes a perfect gift to celebrate the special mother/daughter bond on Mother's Day, Graduation Day, and all year round.

Victoria and her assistant, her dog Igor, set out to make amazing slime, but one night their creation unexpectedly comes to life.