Tepary Jones goes to Picture House, an Anasazi ruin, to watch the lunar eclipse. His vigil is interrupted by pothunters desecrating a medicine man’s grave. Tepary scares them away with burning tumbleweed and finds the eagle-bone flute they dropped during their escape. Tep plays the flute while a bushy-tailed woodrat watches him. Later, at home,…
On the playground, Lerner Chanse listens with dread as Reba Silo, queen of MPOOE (Most Powerful One On Earth) gives Lerner the dare that will raise her from SLUG (Sorry Loser Under Ground) status to MPOOE. Lerner has to steal Mr. Droan’s grade book and change Bobby Nitz’s grade from a “D” to an “A.” …
In Tom Angleberger’s series, Origami Yoda, the force arrives at McQuarrie Middle School and begins the battle against the dark side of social ineptitude and mandated state testing. If you can’t believe that paper folded into famous Star Wars characters can start a resistance movement against middle school injustices, think again. Read the series and…
Did either of William Meriwether Miller’s parents ask him if he wanted to travel across the United States with his somewhat estranged father instead of playing in the All-Star baseball game? Of course not. They just assumed that he would jump at the chance to travel in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark’s Corps of…
