Parent Magazine Flagler March 2020 | Page 18

Welcome to the Book Nook! Grades K-2 Rot, the Cutest in the World! by Ben Clanton For a mutant potato. Rot has so much self-confidence that he enters “The Cutest in the World Contest.” Then he meets the entrepreneur? Is Bondi a con man? Or a hard worker? And is Wilf a thief? Or filled with adventure? These three children race around Chicago trying to solve their clues first. But there is much more than meets the eye. This scavenger hunt, and all of the people associated with it, are more than meets the eye. Bob by Wendy Mass & Rebecca Stead other contestants who are all It’s been five years since Livy adorable. When Rot decides he last opened the door to the should just be himself, his inner bedroom closet, but Bob, a beauty shines…but is it enough small green being wearing a for the judges? chicken suit, has been patiently waiting for her to return and The Very Impatient Caterpillar by Ross Burach help him figure out his identity and where he belongs. After all, With a nod to a certain classic a promise is a promise. picture book, the magical process of metamorphosis is explored from the point-of- view of a hilariously clueless Grades 6-8 24 Hours in Nowhere by Dusti Bowling caterpillar who literally just can’t wait to be a butterfly! Gus hopes in just a short twenty-four hours, he can Grades 3-5 The Ambrose Deception by Emily Ecton Three students are chosen seemingly at random to participate in a scavenger hunt with a ten thousand dollar prize. Is Melissa a forger? Or an 16 | F L A G L E R parent M A G A Z I N E explore and escape the abandoned mine in his home of Nowhere, Arizona. He just has to find the rumored gold, win back a dirt bike from a thirteen- year-old bully, and try not to die from dehydration, cave-ins, and wild animal attacks. But man can’t survive on Twinkies alone. A life-threatening adventure such as this requires the companionship of the dirt bike-riding new girl in town and Gus’s two