<p>Chance Murphy, a 13-year-old living in Morganville, Indiana during the mid 1980s, is full of contradictions. He wants to be a man, but he has the needs of a child; he loves his mentally handicapped sister, but he also resents her and wishes she weren’t such an easy target for the other kids; he is witty, but he embarrasses easily, especially when it comes to dealing with his emerging sexual feelings. Though Chance has a big heart, he has a dark side that surfaces in dreams of nuclear obliteration and manifests into paranoia and an "enemies list"—at the top of which is his archenemy, Otto Manheim, the neighborhood kid. While the tension between the two creates many comical moments, the conflict escalates and finally reaches a boiling point at the bloody battle of Morganville. </p>

Chance Murphy and the Battle of Morganville

McClary, Josh P.

Literature & Fiction

Kedzie Press

<p>Developed for those who would like to teach their children about green living, this guide offers parents hints for things they can do for and with their kids to lead more environmentally friendly lives. From how to save energy to how to reuse and recycle everything, this resource offers advice for getting children involved in ecology as well as products and services that can help parents raise more environmentally conscious children. Through a series of fun activities—how to start a “light patrol," make a waste-free school lunch, and build a green bird house—parents and kids will learn ways to make the biggest impact, save the most money, and discover how making even the smallest of changes can make a big difference.</p>

The Green Parent: A Kid-Friendly Guide to Environmentally-Friendly Living

Parenting & Relationships

Savedge, Jenn

Parenting

Scags at 7

It is 1958, Skokie, IL.  Seven-year old Claudia Harper Morgenstern, or  Scags  her proud name of choice begins the summer between second and third grade full of excitement and dread. Two months of no school is  keen-o,  but her best friend, Julia, will be at summer camp for weeks.  Scags makes a new friend in Julia s absence, Davy, a hard talking nine-year old who tries his best to teach young Scags everything he knows, especially the things she shouldn t.   But Scags soon has other things to distract her from missing Julia: something is wrong with Pops.  He doesn t let her walk on the ceiling and drive the car anymore and he s taken up bowling his empty beer bottles into the fireplace.  Mama tries to hold him together, while struggling to continue her life as a suburban lady of leisure, with help from Odessa, the maid who comes in from the South Side of Chicago. Everyone attempts to keep things in order, but what becomes clear to all is that Pops may not make it through the heat of the summer in one piece.

Deborah Emin

Literary

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