Amazon.comA special reading edition
This issue of Young Saint Louis.com provides a special reading resource for our readers. In addition to our regular four reviews of popular kids books, YSL.com includes an article which highlights the Mark Twain and Harry Truman book nominees in Missouri. Also, included is an article giving the Caudill book award nominees in Illinois. Read and enjoy.
YSL.com Ball Kids
Two boys, two girls named YSL.com ball kids for meets
Two boys and two girls have been named Young Saint Louis.com ball kids for the Missouri Valley Conference basketball tourneys this month.
COMP music
Some kids use technology when composing music
Some entrants in a Missouri state competition for young composers turned to computer technology when they ran into snags while working on their original musical scores.
Books

MO books
Balloting for Twain, Truman kids' book awards
Missouri elementary and middle school kids are voting to select the winning authors of the 2009-2010 Mark Twain and Harry Truman book award competition. Balloting ends March 10.

IL books
Voting for 2010 Caudill Young Readers' book award
Illinois elementary and middle school kids voted last month to select the author to receive the 2010 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award.

Book Reviews
This month's book reviews

Books reviewed for March include (1) a boy is involved in the battle between the Monitor and Merrimac, (2) a town flood brings unusual results, (3) a hobo in Paris becomes an adopted grandfather, and (4) a dog is too much of an escape artist

Heifer project
Kids donate to unique international food program
Kids from a West County Methodist church raised thousands of dollars for Heifer International to buy farm animals to help poor people raise their standards of living.
Arthritis
Teen plays competitive sports, enjoys "tubing"
Seventeen-year-old Kayla Killoren was diagnosed with arthritis four years ago after she developed a painful cyst on her hand and her finger tendons stiffen up.
Archeology
Kids can learn about ancient civilizations locally
Whole Indian civilizations prospered in our metro area thousands of years ago. And present-day kids can get involved now in archeological studies of those long-ago times.

Fun with Math
An adaptation of a "pick up sticks" game
"Fun with Math" author George Yu decided to adapt the old "pick up sticks" game to make the math puzzlers for March.

Twelve kids get all answers correct
There were 12 kids who got all the "Fun with Math" questions correct in the February competition.

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