Lunch Box Dream

Bobby and his family are visiting Civil War battlefields on the eve of the war's centenary, while inside their car, quiet battles rage. When an accident cuts their trip short, they return home on a bus and witness an incident that threatens to deny a black family seats. What they don't know is the reason for the family's desperation to be on that bus: a few towns away, their child is missing. Lunch-Box Dream presents Jim Crow, racism, and segregation from multiple perspectives. In this story of witnessing without understanding, a naïvely prejudiced boy, in brief flashes of insight, starts to identify and question his assumptions about race.

A little boy can’t wait to get his first lunch box. ‘He imagines what he could keep in a lunch box and even dreams a splendidly illustrated dream in which he has a different colored and shaped box for each day of the week. A straightforward story about a rite of passage." —K.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Sisters Grimm and NERDS comes a new action-packed middle-grade series with aliens, robots, and kids saving the world! Finn Foley has a lunchbox, and when he opens it, weird things come out . . . like a seven-foot-tall robot and a strange, blinking device that glues itself to his chest. The lunchbox also opens wormholes--shortcuts through space--that take Finn to the farthest corners of the galaxy. Sounds awesome, right? Not so much. Rocketing through the cosmos attracts the attention of the Plague, a race of gigantic bugs. The thing on Finn's chest belongs to them--it's the most dangerous weapon in the universe--and they want it back. To fight the Plague, Finn will need the lunchbox, as well as an unlikely squad: Lincoln, the bully; Julep, the coolest girl in school; Kate, Finn's unicorn-obsessed little sister; and Highbeam, a robot spy from another galaxy. If they can learn to work together, they just might have a chance, but the bugs are coming, and they'll stop at nothing to get their weapon--even if it means destroying the world.

An Asian American girl brings ethnic food to school and learns to proudly embrace her culture.

We are all being presented with a crucial choice on a daily basis—evolve or repeat. Remember when you were a kid, and your mom or dad or grandmother or aunt—whoever raised you—either did it for you or helped you pack your lunch box for school. Maybe you still do the same thing today when you are preparing to head out to work or school. Regardless, there is something that is so beautiful in that process that applies to everything that you will find in the pages of this book. Try and visualize the connection to such a simple activity and how it applies to the life that you are creating for yourself this very day. Like preparing your lunch box for the day ahead and the physical nutrition it will bring, you can and should do the same thing from a mental, emotional, and spiritual standpoint. If you want the absolute best day, then you need to prepare yourself for the thoughts you will allow into your mind, the emotions and behavior of others that you will allow into your heart, and the people and circumstances that you will allow access to your spirit. What’s it going to be? Do you want to evolve beyond your current situation and circumstances, or do you want to continue to repeat lessons you’re just so tired of seeing become a reality in your life? Today, and every day ahead, you get to decide. To be a legend in your own lunch box and in life involves dedication, practice, taking a very long look at yourself, and making the determined decision to change. It won’t always be an easy road, but here’s a truth that you can hold on to. Your life will improve exponentially! When you take the time and develop the strong habit of preparing your “lunch box,” you can accomplish extraordinary things, and the landscape that you can actively create for your life will drastically change. Try it. See how you evolve. I dare you!

All dreams do come true. If we take away the distance and time factor of the physical world, then our dream and physical reality runs parallel. Having recorded hundreds of dreams over many years I have found that most of my dreams did come true. Often I ask myself, is Patricia dreaming about Soul/Spirit or is Soul/Spirit dreaming about Patricia? Which is the true reality, the dream journey or the physical journey? Here is my story.

Simple solutions for your child’s midday meal from an award-winning food journalist! The Healthy Lunchbox is full of suggestions and ideas to help you provide your child with an appetizing and appealing meal each day. It covers: why many lunchboxes are unhealthy, and what a healthy lunch should consist of what size portions children (and adults) of different ages should have suggestions about seasonality, variety, and encouraging kids to experiment how to personalize a lunchbox and make it special—and get kids involved in making their own how to deal with overweight, underweight, and super-fussy eaters food safety and hygiene With fun facts included about what children from other countries take to school, the book also provides a plan for a week’s meals on the basis of one or two shopping expeditions, and a table with a month’s suggestions for lunch boxes.

When two sixth-grade friends magically enter classic literary books, their fun-filled adventures are “a treat for reluctant readers” (School Library Journal). They just didn’t want to read the books! Instead, through their school library’s magic security gates, sixth graders Devin and Frankie—short for Francine—are zapped into great works of literature and new worlds of adventure, including Dracula, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Around the World in Eighty Days, A Christmas Carol, Treasure Island, and Romeo and Juliet. “The message that reading is important and can be fun comes through loud and clear” (School Library Journal). Trapped in Transylvania: Transported into Bram Stoker’s vampire classic, the sarcastic sixth graders will need a few stakes, a lot of garlic, and a sharp sense of humor to defeat the bloodthirsty Count Dracula. Mississippi River Blues: These modern middle schoolers learn being a troublemaker is timeless, as they whitewash a fence, run away from home, solve a murder, become pirates, and search for hidden treasure along with Tom and Huck, the original slackers. What a Trip!: When you can travel into books, going around the world is easy. In the company of mad explorer Phileas Fogg, Devin and Frankie embark on a round-the-world journey by train, ship, and hot air balloon. Humbug Holiday: For two sixth graders who feel about school the way Scrooge feels about Christmas, an enchanted trip into Charles Dickens’s tale is just what their spirits need. X Marks the Spot: Devin and Frankie become marooned middle schoolers when they are swept away to Treasure Island and must match wits with legendary pirate Long John Silver. Crushing on a Capulet: Devin and Frankie try to save star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet when they find themselves in Shakespeare’s classic play.

Find out what's in the box with this board book that little ones will love to carry with them.

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