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COMMUNITY BULLETIN: Girls Inc. to join the Family Education Girls Inc. of Racine Racine, a program that served 436 girls last year, joins the Education Family of Racine. Family Literacy is in the process of application to the Girls Inc. national headquarters to be a provisional member. If all goes as planned in July Girls Inc. 1510 will move to Villa Santa, where is family literacy. Girls Inc. of Racine will work over the next two years to complete …
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LeapFrog Peek-A-Shoe Octopus $22.40 Ball-drop play with peek-a-boo shoe surprises. Drop in a ball and look for it under the brightly-colored/coloured, numbered shoes. Explore counting, colors/colours and learn about different sea animals. Press his collar to add music to the mix. Parents can connect to the online LeapFrog Learning Path for customized learning insights and ideas to expand the learning. Appropriate for children ages 9…

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals $7.18 A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us–whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed–he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is…

How to Get Your Kid to Eat: But Not Too Much $5.15 Answering a multitude of questions—such as What should a parent do with a child who wants to snack continuously? How should parents deal with a young teen who has declared herself a vegetarian and refuses to eat any type of meat? Or What can parents do with a child who claims he doesn’t like what’s been prepared, only to turn around and eat it at his friend’s house?—this guide explores t…

The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick – And What We Can Do About It $16.25 Robyn O’Brien is not the most likely candidate for an antiestablishment crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family, this MBA and married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to misguided government agencies and chemicals in our food—until the day her youngest daughter had a violent allergic reaction to eggs, and everything changed. The Unhealthy Truth is both th…