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Autumn has arrived, and at Granite City Elementary School everyone is gearing up for the biggest and best event of the year, the Harvest Festival. The whole school is excited about the games, the contests, the food, and, most of all, the costumes! Everyone except Lucy. She doesn't like dressing up, and has no desire to be a fairy princess or rock star, even for one day. But Lucy is excited about the new science unit Miss Flippo has started: the states of matter. Lucy and her friends understand solids and liquids. They're easy. But gasses are more difficult to grasp. When the class goes on a field trip to an orchard and Stewart Swinefest eats too many apples, and gets a serious stomachache, Lucy suddenly understands that even if you can't see gasses they can fill space and expand, and even make you move.
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Michelle Houts believes we all navigate the world in which we live through stories. The stories we hear, the stories we tell, the stories we read, and the ones we make up in our own lives. A lover of artifacts, Michelle writes in a restored one-room schoolhouse in rural Ohio. She's an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction for readers age 4 -14, sparking the imaginations of young readers and writers everywhere with lively and engaging school and library presentations. With Lucy's Lab, her STEM-based chapter book series for science-minded kids, Michelle ties science and literature together for the early elementary crowd in a fun, exciting manner!Learn about Michelle, her books, her work on the 52 Letters Challenge and the Mark Boney Promise, and speaking schedule, at www.michellehouts.com.
