Yes, “The Great Thanksgiving Escape” is a kids’ book, but I absolutely loved the imaginations and the naughty glee that author-illustrator Mark Fearing gives his main characters.
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In the new book “I Am Jazz” by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, with pictures by Shelagh McNicholas, you’ll read about a girl who’s just like other girls … only different. That’s because Jazz has “a girl brain but a boy body.”
It was 1942, and the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor. America entered World War II soon after, which meant plenty of discrimination for Japanese-Americans like the Itanos. Tomi, Hiro and their older brother Roy had been born in America, but that didn’t seem to matter to many in their California town.
Don’t think that this book is only filled with gratuitous farts-are-funny pages. Yes, there’s that in here, but it also aims to inform. Kids who read this book will learn a thing or two about biology, and they’ll be delighted by the accompanying giggle-making illustrations.
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The Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix celebrated being 100 days out from race day by making $20,000 donations to five Southern Nevada charities.
A Dino’s Lounge bartender is happy to be alive after a Jeep driven by a suspected DUI driver plowed into the front of the bar near downtown Las Vegas.
One person died and a second was critically injured after an apparent dispute between the two resulted in a stabbing, police said.
A 34-year-old man was shot by an officer Aug. 8 after the man appeared to make an aggresive move toward police.
