Around Madison: Pilot club sponsors child safety check day Sep 16, 2009
" A trial fit for a dog The Georgia Stock Dog Association will be hosting a sheep herding competition at Patterson Farm in Hull on Sept. 25-27. The trials will be held each day from 8 a.m. until completed. Patterson Farm, owned by Tom and Carol Patterson, has been hosting this competition annually for five years. The event is open to viewing at no cost. The Novice and Pro-Novice events will be held Sept. 25, and the Open Sheep and Open Ranch events are the next two days. Most of the dogs in the... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Around Madison: Revival time at Union Sep 2, 2009
On Sept. 23, the Young Adult Book Discussion group will talk about "Ransom," by Lois Duncan. This group meets the fourth Wednesday of each month at 4:30 p.m.. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Are you there, God? It's me, childhood Jul 28, 2009
That last category might explain why I chose ESP and other supernatural subjects for my school science fair projects in grades 4, 5 and 6: too much time poring over Lois Duncan books like "A Gift of Magic" or "Stranger With My Face." Or perhaps it was the wonderful Meg Murry of "A Wrinkle in Time," the first of Madeleine L'Engle's protagonists to "flit across the boundaries of space and time, as Skurnick puts it, "even more flummoxed by adolescence than they are by being whipsawed across the... (Salon)
Youthful tips on how to go green Jul 4, 2009
The best part is that these short pieces of advice, most just two pages long, are written by some authors you know and love, such as Andrew Clements ( Frindle ) and Lois Duncan ( Hotel for Dogs ). They are all fun to read. (Missoulian, MT)
