Weeping Willows On the Lake

 1. Dead End in Norvelt A. BIBLIOGRAPHY Gantos, Jack. 2011. Dead End in Norvelt . New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-37993-3 B. PLOT SUMMARY The book is an autobiographical affair that, like the other Jack books, draws on Jack Gantos’s unique ability to get himself into outlandish situations. Jack is grounded for the summer after shooting at a drive-in movie theater (unknowingly as he did not load the gun beforehand) and is only let out of the house to assist his neighbor Miss Volker with her job as a medical examiner. Throughout the course of the experience Jack discovers that the elderly women of Norvelt are dying suddenly and the source can be traced to poison. There are multiple suspects including Miss Volker (who recently purchased rat poison) and Jack’s own mother who made casseroles for each of the murder victims, making the food a possible vector for the poison. Eventually Miss Volker is placed under house arrest by the police when baited traps are discovered

1. What to Do About Alice? A. BIBLIOGRAPHY Kerley, Barbara . 2009 . What to Do about Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! . by Fotheringham , Edwin . New York : S cholastic Press . ISBN 0439922313 B. PLOT SUMMARY What to Do About Alice? is a picture book biography of Alice Roosevelt, the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. It opens describing some of her father's more famous adventures, such as his time spent herding cattle in the Badlands, to familiarize the reader with one of the most important figures in the book. This becomes the introduction to Alice as it shows that she is a much bigger sink of time and attention for Teddie Roosevelt than any of his famous exploits. Her story picks up as a young girl right after her mother's death and details her energetic activities through out her childhood, including the time that she and her siblings rode trays down the stairs of the White House. The book show