Rookie Coach and The General Baseball Doubleday Book Features
New juvenile sports books spotlight the boys and girls who try out for teams. Rookie Coach by Reed Fulton follows a young coach as he battles win driven towns and inspires sportsmanship, with Bill Taylor as the hopeful star. The General Baseball Doubleday by Robert Holzman recounts the soldier credited with inventing baseball and explains how the game’s rules emerged. The Winner by Robert rounds out the trio with a championship angle.
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Reed Fulton
Bill Taylor
Robert 5
Holzman
Robert
Reading Treats for Sport Fans Carse is for You
A roster of sports stories and athletic tales targets fans of tennis, football, rugby, skiing, and basketball. Profiles include Jarvis Meekly’s tennis ambitions and Rocky McCune’s coaching comeback, with multiple titles and characters from West Point to Koulee.
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Carse
Jarvis
West Point
Red Reeder
Wilfred McCormick
Rocky McCune
Koulee
Scotland
Test Your Water Safety Knowledge for Small Boats
A reader quiz on safe boating in skiffs and canoes asks true or false questions. It covers capsizing, rescue, staying with the boat, visibility, and proper boarding to improve survival chances.
Create Beauty From discarded candlesticks and dish
Hunt a pair of discarded candlesticks and find an old dish that complements their shape. Decide where the set will be used and consider the recipient’s favorite colors. Paint with lacquers, possibly color the dish underside differently, add doilies, a glass frog for real flowers, or artificial flowers stuck into modeling clay.
Scientists Dye Trees to Create Colorful Lumber
Scientists at the University of Maine have developed a dyeing method to color living trees in diverse shades. The process uses a dye injected via a bucket and tube, producing blue, lavender, pink, and other colors in beech, birch, and flowering trees. Lumber from dyed trees could lower costs and lead to rainbow homes in the future.
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The
University
Maine
Dear Captain Hal Pen Pal Requests From Young Teens
A jumble of letters from youths 9 to 14 seeking pen pals ages 11 to 15 across multiple locations including Roslyn Ellison in Alabama and Alberta Pickering in Medway Massachusetts. The notes express hobbies like puzzles swimming soccer and dancing and mention siblings and a desire for friendships worldwide.
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Hal
Roslyn ‘Ellison
Boxé "Bynum
Alberta Pickering
Awl Street
Medway
Mass
Cave Treasure Found by Backyard Explorers
The four children discover a hidden cave behind a lake shore on their grandparents old farm. Nancy and Dick find a concealed slab in the cave revealing old pewter mugs a pitcher and candlesticks. Grandmother declares them true American treasures from an earlier era.
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Nancy
Tom
Pete
W&s
Grandmother
Mildred Evans Roberto
Mark Twain’s Vienna Interview Quip About Bednote
An American reporter sought an interview with Mark Twain in Vienna while he was in bed writing. His wife answered the door and asked if the scene would be embarrassing. Twain replied that if it bothered them they could move the interview to the other bed.
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Mark Twain
Vienna
Mark
Finger Puppets Craft from an Old Magazine
Instructions to make finger puppets by cutting a head from a magazine image, coloring if needed, taping to a 3 inch plate with gift ribbon, and securing with tape. Attach image to a paper band for a short lasting wearable on the middle finger. overlap ribbon ends and tape.
Simon Bolivar Fathered Five South American Nations
Simon Bolivar led liberations across Bolivia Peru Ecuador Colombia and Venezuela shaping early South American independence. His campaigns forged national identities and altered regional power dynamics amid post colonial upheaval.
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Simon Bolivar
Bolivia
Peru
Ecudor
Colombia
Venezuela
Hidden ships in Puzzle Pete style rebus clues
Puzzle text hides four famous ships and matching explorers. Solve by rearranging lines to reveal ship names like Pinta and Clermont and pair with discoverers such as Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton. A second rebus yields watercraft types and pronouns plus deck terms.
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Henry Hudson
Christopher Cokambut
Captain Bugh
Robert Fulton
Pete
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Clem Phibrook
Jackson Scholz
C.P
O. B. Jackson
Ron
Don Wilcox
William MacKellar
Enay
Ateps
Tommy Foster
South Myers Ave
Sharon, Pa
Captain Hal
Tamiz
Carolyn A. Clarkson
P.O
Refugio
Texas
Azil
Cindy
Dudy
Carter
Arthur- Dr
Anaheim
Calif
Nancy and
Hitle
Mother
Egan
Dimenan
Rod Dole bin
MATOR
Pinta
Clermont
Half Moon
Celles
Pussie
Sea
Army
Rome
Cress Edge
Puszle Pete
Vvvonvs
Svadi
LM Ol
Aloag
Hola
SapisOly
PIO
Greys
Thomssoud
Apex
Sneaw
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