I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat

I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780547225708

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A richly illustrated introduction to some of history's more unusual folk remedies explores such whimsical examples as swallowing frog slime to treat a sore throat and sticking a wounded foot into a bull's mouth.


I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat

I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat

Author: Carlyn Beccia

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2010-10-25

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 0547529244

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It wasn’t too long ago that people tried all sorts of things to help sick people feel better. They tried wild things like drinking a glass full of millipedes or putting some mustard on one's head. Some of the cures worked, and some of them…well, let’s just say that millipedes, living or dead, are not meant to be ingested. Carlyn Beccia takes readers on a colorful and funny medical mystery tour to discover that while times may have changed, many of today’s most reliable cure-alls have their roots in some very peculiar practices, and so relevant connections can be drawn from what they did then to what we do now.


Picturing the World

Picturing the World

Author: Kathleen T. Isaacs

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0838911269

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This annotated resource by veteran children's book reviewer Isaacs surveys the best 250 nonfiction/informational titles for ages 3 through 10, helping librarians make informed collection development and purchasing decisions.


Ick! Yuck! Eew!

Ick! Yuck! Eew!

Author: Lois Miner Huey

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2017-01-01

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1512457612

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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Kids study US history, but do they know what life long ago was really like? The past was full of yuckiness. The sounds, smells, filth, bugs, rats, poor hygiene, lack of dental and medical care, and bad food are not portrayed at today's historic sites, in movies, or in most books about US history. Yet this kind of stuff appeals greatly to kids. The purpose of this book is to de-sanitize the past, present it as it actually was, and help kids come to an understanding of how people put up with it—or didn't even notice.


10 at 10

10 at 10

Author: Carlyn Beccia

Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®

Published: 2022-04-05

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1728432499

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Audrey Hepburn, Roberto Clemente, Albert Einstein—kids know the names, but do they know what some of history's most famous figures were like at the age of ten? Carlyn Beccia presents ten brief and beautifully illustrated biographies to give young readers a fresh look at the lives of people they may only know through history books. Colorful timelines provide context and add additional details about these extraordinary lives.


The Good, the Bad, and the Backstory

The Good, the Bad, and the Backstory

Author: Melissa Minery

Publisher: Boys Town Press

Published: 2022-02-10

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1545755019

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Welcome to a day in the life of five middle school students – Ashley, Kenishia, Taara, Ryan and Andrew. Their day begins in the early morning hours when each of them is roused from slumber. Some awaken to the sound of an annoying alarm. Others are scared out of bed by Mom or Dad. Then there’s Ryan, who oversleeps – again. He forgot to set his alarm clock and no one’s ever at home to wake him. Ryan gets to school late. Melanie arrives excited and energetic. Tara comes anxious and distracted. Andrew shows up ready to bully someone, and Ashley enters sad and sulking because of unkind gossip she heard on the bus. As they walk the hallways, attend class and navigate the dreaded lunchroom, they experience all of the messiness of middle school – the fragile friendships, the peer pressure, the fickle social hierarchy and the relationship drama. Issues at home and interactions at school influence how they relate to one another, their classmates and their teachers throughout the day. Author Melissa Minery gives the reader a birdseye view of a middle school day as it unfolds for each character, offering an unflinching look at how a child’s backstory – family life, values, beliefs, triumphs and tragedies – influences his or her actions. Written for middle schoolers, it’s a truetolife story with a valuable message about courage, forgiveness, empathy and understanding.


A Little Frog’s Heart: The Stellar Waltz of Life

A Little Frog’s Heart: The Stellar Waltz of Life

Author: George Virtosu

Publisher: Elefant Online

Published: 2016-03-17

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 6067420570

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The well-known questions such as What, How and, above all, Why are given some unexpected and enchanted answers in the volume III of the book A Little Frog’s Heart. These answers are delivered by the original characters we got used to celebrating along the story. The relationship between a grandfather and his grandson is being brought in a warm light destined to open up our hearts for the harmonies of this volume, The Stellar Waltz of Life. In the glittering bunch of the stories which interweave and overflow from each one to the others, as a modern version of the series On Thousand and One Nights, one could discern two mythological episodes, somehow a remnant of a popular Christianity magnificently adapted for a contemporaneous audience, of a genuine originality, which sheds their light as if they were some big rounded regal grapes, even if they are in a way ‘removed’ from the bunch and ‘spread’ all over the volume.


Letting Go of Leo

Letting Go of Leo

Author: Simi Botic

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1504393287

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People think you have it all together. What these people don’t understand is how exhausting it feels to make it look that way. The pressure to keep it all going is intense. You feel unfulfilled and don’t believe you measure up to others. You’re constantly searching for the secret to experience confidence in your own skin. Despite your have-it-all-together life, you can’t figure out how to accept or perfect yourself. You’ve tried diets, intense exercise, shopping, and stuffing brownies in your face. Yet nothing fills the hole deep inside, and you worry, Will I ever be enough? You’ve come to the right place. In Letting Go of Leo, Simi Botic gets personal about what she’s experienced and learned. She shares stories about eating a jar of peanut butter without choking to death. Stories about her thighs rubbing together. Stories of living a fantasy where she would marry Leo DiCaprio and win an Oscar. Stories of realizing that real life can be better than any fantasy, that she could show up for the good stuff and the hard stuff and, most importantly, for herself. Simi used to freak out about food, her body, and not being perfect enough. She freaks out a lot less now. In Letting Go of Leo, she shares how she broke up with perfection—and how you can too.