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From this week's
show, Intuition...
Like the kids and
young adults they're created for, books for young people work best at the intuitive
level. That place somewhere between your pituitary and your gizzard where you
know things you've never been taught and see things your eyes can't find. Intuition
is that thing you should have listened to on your first date with that guy you
divorced five years later. It's the thing that made you stop and ask the elderly
lady on the bus bench if she was okay, and it turned out she wasn't. Its instincts,
heart, and common sense all rolled up together. And most of us can't hear it
over the noise of our busy heads as we go about thinking our way into one grown
up mess after another.
Featured titles
include:
Heaven
Eyes
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Erin
Law and her friends are Damaged Children. At least that is the label given
to them by Maureen, the woman who runs the orphanage that they live in.
Damaged, Beyond Repair because they have no parents to take care of them.
But Erin knows that if they care for each other they can put up with the
psychologists, the social workers, the therapists - at least most of the
time. Sometimes there is nothing left but to run away, to run for freedom.
And that is what Erin and two friends do, run away one night downriver
on a raft. What they find on their journey is stranger than you can imagine,
maybe, and you might not think it's true. But Erin will tell you it is
all true. And the proof is a girl named Heaven Eyes, who sees through
all the darkness in the world to the joy that lies beneath.
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Accidents
May Happen: 50 Inventions Discovered by Mistake
by Charlotte
Foltz Jones, illustrated by John
O'Brien
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Describes
how a wide variety of things such as nursery rhymes, the national anthem,
anesthesia, cellophane, raisins, and dynamite came into being.
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The
Great Brain
by John
D. Fitzgerald, illustrated by Mercer
Mayer
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| The Great
Brain is Tom D. Fitzgerald, aged ten. The story is told by J.D., a sometimes
confounded but always admiring younger brother. Such people as Mr. Standish,
the mean schoolmaster, regret the day they came up against The Great Brain.
But others, like the Jensen kids lost in Skeleton Cave, Basil, the Greek
kid, or Andy, who has lost his leg and his friends, know that Tom's great
brain never fails to find a way home.
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Tom
by Tomie
dePaola
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In a story
based on his own childhood, Tomie dePaola tells about little Tommy's regular
Sunday visits with his grandfather, Tom.
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