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Read
It Forward
City
library urges kids to pass along gift book
The
St. Louis Public Library has picked an urban-life
"graphic novel" for its fall 2009 "Read It
Forward" book. The library will give out 250
hard-cover copies and then urge the kids to
pass them along so others can read it.
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Book
Reviews
This month's
book reviews
The books reviewed for November include (1)
a medieval girl who was a midwife's apprentice,
(2) a boy in a battle in the American Revolution,
(3) brothers growing up on a farm in northern
Minnesota, and (4) a boy who decides he doesn't
like being a bully |
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Kids'
football
"Super
Bowl" weekend for these kids is this month
For 3,000 metro-area youth football players
in the St. Louis Junior Football League (JFL),
their "Super Bowl" weekend will be this month.
And there will be more than a dozen championships
decided on Nov. 20-22.
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Media
literacy
Is that
story you're reading accurate and true?
St. Louis area kids are bombarded with media
messages 24/7 these days. You can "Google" the
internet and have tons of information available
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Shaw
Nature
Kids study
the native prairies on overnight trip
Eight-year-olds
Eliza Hurwitz and Maddie Goldberg and their
classmates last month got to study prairies
close up. Their overnight stay included sleeping
in a log cabin.
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Young
Achiever
Young Achiever
had lemonade stand for charity
Fourteen-year-old
Jack Harris has had lots of success in school,
sports and extra-curricular activities. But,
setting up a lemonade stand was one of the
experiences he remembers most.
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