The Bean Trees

Newberry Award Winners: DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie. Candlewick Press, 2000. Summary: Because of Winn-Dixie is a story of a young girl, Opal, who moved from one small town in Florida to another with her father who was a preacher. Her mother left them when Opal was very young and she struggles with this throughout the book. While in the supermarket, Winn-Dixie, Opal found a dog that was tearing apart the store. She claimed the dog as hers and she and her father took the dog home. She…

For three years, Father had refused the idea of leaving North Carolina. But my brother, Ben, sent us another letter, addressed as he always did to John Benjamin Wilks and Katie. In the letter Ben was praising his new farm, the richness of the land and how many more acres he was clearing. He told of the bountiful crops of corn and wheat that he would be reaping in a few weeks, more corn and wheat per acre than Father had ever gotten from our old worn out farm in North Carolina. He told of the…

Contents Acknowledgment 2 Dedication 3 “Fiva Day’s Rainbow Crew” 4 “Nothing rhymes with me!” 9 “Wilf Learns to Float” 13 “Charlie Carb’s Challenge” 17 “Gracie Grape Finds Herself” 22 “Caspar Carrot—‘I Like Being Me’” 26 Acknowledgment ‘Nothing Rhymes with Me!’, ‘Wilf Learns to Float’, ‘Gracie Grape finds Herself’, and ‘Caspar Carrot – I like Being Me’ - illustrated by Wendy Brooks. ‘Fiva Day’s Rainbow Crew’ and ‘Charlie Carb’s Challenge’ – illustrated by Vicki Norman…

(Pic COVER) MOUSE AND DRAGON By IAN T. WALKER (pic TITLE PAGE) These fourteen children’s stories first appeared in “Lilly and Ian, Mouse and Dragon” which was published by Partridge, Singapore in 2015. That book was inspired by the author’s love of a Chinese woman called Lilly. Of this collection the author writes, “I showed other stories I had written to a publisher in China and he said they did…

Tie 8u.tte ft, rfu.tte8, Sharon Gulley Copyright © 2015 by Sharon Gulley. ISBN: Softcover 978-1-5035-8088-6 eBook 978-1-5035-8087-9 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. Any people depicted in stock imagery…

two brands of chili—Razorback and Longhorn—from several ingredients, including chili beans and ground beef. The number of 100-gallon batches of Razorback chili (x1) and Longhorn chili (x2) that can be produced daily is constrained by the availability of chili beans and ground beef, as shown in the following linear programming model: maximize Z = 200x1 + 300x2 (profit, $) subject to 10x1 + 50x2 … 500 (chili beans, lb.) 34x1 + 20x2 … 800 (ground beef, lb.) x1, x2 Ú 0 The final optimal simplex…

Designing the perfect showcase bedroom comes easily when you choose brown and white as your color palate. The French country style has maintained its popularity over the years, and the colors brown and white put a modern twist on this ever so famous decorating style. Casual elegance can be created in a French country bedroom by carefully choosing furniture and accessories that stay true to the theme yet add a bit on contemporary appeal. French Country Builds on the Strength of White Typical…

Parrots come in a variety of shapes, colors and personalities. There are more than a hundreds of Parrot species both in the wild and in captivity. Finding the right Parrot is very important because as responsible owners we must make sure that we can take good care of them for the years to come. Raising a parrot requires vast attention and work; they also need a lot of love in order to be happy. If you are one of those people who want to have a Parrot as a pet then there are things that you must…

Got any cooking oil in a spray can hanging around? Then what you have there, Gus, is aerosol gold. The sheer number of things that you can call upon cooking spray to do for you is staggering. Not all of the following means of getting the most from you cooking spray are going to be appropriate for everybody, but your odds of being able to use at least a few of the following tips are significantly better than the putting all your hopes on the Detroit Lions winning a Super Bowl in the next decade.…

"Well, use your head, son," he said, smiling. Which really meant, "That's all I'm going to tell you," or "I don't know the answer, so don't embarrass me." A Partnership Is Formed The next morning, I told my best friend, Mike, what my dad had said. As best I could tell, Mike and I were the only poor kids in this school. Mike was like me in that he was in this school by a twist of fate. Someone had drawn a jog in the line for the school district, and we wound up in school with the rich kids. We…