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“Uptown Dreams” by Kelli London, tells the tale of four students at Harlem’s Academy of Creative and Performing Arts.
“On the Come Up” by Travis Hunter is a young adult book that doesn’t include profanity, blood and guts, sappy romance or magic and is totally without vampires.
Have you ever wondered why you wear underwear? In the new kids’ book “50 Underwear Questions: A Bare-All History” by Tanya Lloyd Kyi, illustrated by Ross Kinnaird, you’ll find out.
“Barn Boot Blues,” an teen angst-free novel about a city girl’s relocation to a farm, is a real kick.
The first time you saw somebody working with lions and tigers, you knew that was what you wanted to do.
Chanti Evans is used to flying under the radar. Her mother is a vice cop, and in the Denver ‘hood where they live, cops are not cool. Blowing Lana’s cover is not cool, either, so Chanti keeps all that quiet. Not even her BFF since third grade, Tasha, knows the truth.
Loaded with hundreds of full-color pictures and thousands of cool factlets, “Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Strikingly True” is one of those books you can rest assured kids will love to read because of the subject matter inside it.
What they’ll find in here will satisfy their curiosity and appeal to their sense of odd. Because this book is so browseable, it fits any attention span and several reading levels (although — beware — some of what’s in here might be too scary for smaller kids). And because it’s the same Ripley’s you grew up with, this is one of those books you can get caught reading, too.
To everybody else, the sky is blue.
It’s been how many years since you started doing this?
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New York City’s mayor said that a Las Vegas man who drove across the country to carry out a shooting that left four people dead was targeting the NFL headquarters. However, he reportedly took the wrong elevator.
Anabel Sarabia and Alberto Sarabia described how their three daughters had been gathered around the dining table before gunfire shattered their evening.
The large blaze destroyed several businesses at the University Gardens Shopping Center.
A gunman opened fire outside the largest casino in Reno, killing three people before police shot the suspect and arrested him, officials said.
