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If you are a current Missouri Writers' Guild member, and would like to list your book, please send an electronic version of the cover along with your members' book information in the same format as Mary-Lane Kamberg's listing to: Barri Bumgarner at barribum@aol.com

Available at traditional and online bookstores
ISBN: 978-0-3857354-4-5

Nine US submarine veterans of World War II share their experiences aboard a submarine as teenagers on their first adventure away from home. They entered an unknown world below the sea with little or no training. To purchase go to submarinestories.blogspot.com.

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The only girl wearing a feedsack dress defends herself and classmates from the mean queen and becomes the reluctant leader of a class revolt. To read the first chapter, visit www.FeedsackKids.typepad.com. This middle reader is available from some bookstores, www.cavehollowpress.com, and online booksellers for $7.95.

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Katie Speck's first book, a chapter book called Maybelle in the Soup (Henry Holt, Sept.), was recently included on the Teachers' Fresh Picks list of Scholastic's Instructor magazine. It is one of the six "best books for early readers" Her little cockroach is keeping good company---new books by Judy Blume and Kate DiCamillo were among the other titles! Click here to learn more http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3747844

According to her dad, Erin can’t do anything right. But when he moves out, Erin gets Kat and the chance to be the winner her dad always wanted. Erin wants the other kids at the stable to like her, but know-it-all Lizzy makes her feel just like her dad does. Afraid of confrontations, Erin lies and avoids the others to keep up appearances rather than facing reality, like always. Kat has to be taken care of, though, and Erin will have a miserable summer if she can’t fit in. Ages 9-14

$7.95  Available at http://www.cavehollowpress.com/

In 1919 Clara Massie, 14, an Ozark farm-girl, works as a Harvey Girl (waitress) in restaurants along the AT&SF Railway and at the Grand Canyon. In a time when there were limited career choices for women, becoming a Harvey Girl offered rare independence for young ladies.

Available at: http://www.ttup.ttu.edu/BookPages/0896725707.html 
ISBN 0-89672-570-7

Family Fun and Games: A Hundred Year Tradition
by Carolyn Gray Thornton and Ellen Gray Massey
illustrated by LaShelle Oursbourn.
Skyward Publishing, 2002

These sisters have collected over 100 games that have been played by their family members over the past century. These inter-generational games can be played in various settings without need of electronics, electricity or purchased supplies. Family lore and information is woven in with the game directions.

In 1990, Daiane, a brave young girl from the jungles of Brazil, stepped off the edge of her world and crossed the sky to begin life all over again with a new family in Kansas. Rain Forest Girl is her story. This creative nonfiction book, told from the heart and mind of then nine-year-old Daiane, lets readers of all ages step into this experience that annually happens for more than 15,000 school age children who join American families by adoption.

For an autographed copy from the author, email: chalisewrites@cox.net

Small One's Adventure
By Doris L. Mueller
All About Kids, 2003 

Small One--the youngest elephant in the herd--is eager to grow up and be "big." One day at the watering hole, she decides to assert her independence, but she soon discovers that she still needs her family's help. She realizes that someday she'll be grown-up, but for now, it's nice just being who she is.

Available at WaldenBooks/Barnes and Noble.

Chrissiah: The Wizard
by Steve Cross
PublishAmerica, 2004

Christo, at best a reluctant wizard, is supposed to save civilization by leading a group of people into a new world. If he fails, creation will fall into darkness and evil, even worse than the “great burning” that has left the land and the people scarred. Maddened by the gifts of magic, including an imperfect control of prophecy that leaves much unseen, he sees his friends and followers, and even whole cities, destroyed by the followers of the dragon. The ultimate evil arises in a city of women warriors, and Christo must destroy it. Several factors make this the most difficult challenge Christo has ever faced. The ultimate evil is his nephew, son of his sister, Azeela, and his best friend, Lucan. The boy, more beast than man, wants to rule all creation and all the forces of magic, and he will do it if he can destroy Christo.

Also available at http://www.publishamerica.com/orderinginfo.htm

A Mom Like No Other
By Christine Taylor-Butler
Scholastic, Inc. 2004

Sometimes the best friend in the world is right in front of you. Can two opposites be best friends if they are also mother and daughter? (Level 2 - Grade 1).

Children of all ages will enjoy the humor and beauty in this delightful collection of poems, each written to illustrate poetic tools, terms or techniques described in the accompanying sidebar. As they read ballads about butterflies, jingles about jellybeans and quatrains about quilts, readers will also learn about poetry from A-Z.

“Twenty-six sidebar lessons on poetry, each linked to both a poem and a cheeky colorful illustration…This rich compendium would also work well in the classroom.” (Kirkus Review, starred)
Available at bookstores nationwide.
Personalized, autographed copies are available at www.judyyoungpoetry.com

The World of Jacky Blue and Other Cats
By Cynthia Hitschler

Celstumo
2004

In this, the first in The Jacky Blue series, classy illustrations and smart dialogue introduce us to Jacky—a cat with attitude and no apologies. He takes us for a ride and comes out smelling like a rose!

“…the precision and humor with which Hitschler penetrates the feline world [in The Jacky Blue Series©] is akin to Marianne Moore’s powers of poetic observation, making the commonplace startling and new.”  --Florence Shinkle, special report to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Available at retail and online bookstores, including Borders, Barnes & Noble, Waldenbooks, Wal-Mart, Target, Abebooks, Walgreens and Celstumo.  http://www.celstumo.com/;  http://www.celstumo.com/catalog/catalog3.htm

Dregs
By Barri L. Bumgarner
Tigress Press, 2007

To read more, visit http://www.barrilbumgarner.com/. Dregs is available in bookstores everywhere or in e-book from fictionwise.com for $14.95.