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WRIGHT ON TIME – ARIZONA
Wright on Time Books an Imprint of Do Life Right, Inc.
By Lisa M. Cottrell-Bentley
Illustrated by Tanja Bauerle
ISBN 978-0-9824829-0-2
The Wright Family makes the first stop of their RV trip around the United States in Arizona where they will explore a private cave. Aidan and Nadia are homeschooled and every adventure provides a learning experience. Aidan is hopeful that he will see bats in the cave. Nadia wants to look for gems and minerals.
All set with food, water and the equipment needed to safely explore the cave Aidan, Nadia and their parents set off with instructions from Bob, the cave’s owner, to be out of the cave by dusk or they will be locked in. What will they find? Will they make it out in time? I would recommend you read to book to find out.
This is a delightful story of cave exploration, with descriptions of stalagmites, stalactites, gems, minerals, and much more. In addition to learning about what is in a cave there is suspense and adventure as they split into pairs and go in different directions. This first book of a new series is a wonderful resource for anyone learning about Arizona.
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By: Rebecca,
on 8/30/2007
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Throughout the novel Huckleberry Finn tells a series of lies about his family. For example, he tells the woman who feeds him in Chapter 11 that his name is “Sarah Williams” and that his/her “mother’s down sick, and out of money and everything…” (52).
Later, in Chapter 16 Huck leads two men in a skiff on the river to believe that he is traveling with his family and that they are sick with small-pox. “…because it’s pap that’s there, and maybe you’d help me tow the raft ashore where the light is. He’s sick–and so is mam and Mary Ann” (83).
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In chapter 24 of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim complains to the duke that “it got mighty heavy and tiresome to him when he had to lay all day in the wigwam tied with the rope” (143) pretending to be a runaway slave. So the duke comes up with a clever solution, “He dressed Jim up in King Lear’s outfit…and then he took his theatre-paint and painted Jim’s face and hands and ears and neck all over a dead dull solid blue, like a man that’s been drownded[sic] nine days…Then the duke took and wrote a sign on a shingle…Sick Arab-but harmless when not out of his head.”
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Exciting news at OUP! James McPherson has won the The Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. The award recognizes and honors the lifetime contributions of a living author for a body of work dedicated to enriching the understanding of American military history including military affairs.
Echoing all of our feelings Niko Pfund, Vice President and Publisher, Oxford University Press said, “Oxford University Press warmly congratulates Jim McPherson on his receipt of the first Pritzker Military Library Lifetime Achievement in Military Literature Award. Few scholars more consistently combine first-rate scholarship with accessible historical writing, and few authors are more of a pleasure to publish. We are delighted that so richly deserving a writer and thinker has been chosen to inaugurate this prestigious award.”
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Great story idea! I love caves because of the exposure I had to them as a kid. This sounds like a nice book to interest a new generation of cavers!