Max and Min team up with new friends for a project to show people how art and friendship can change the world.

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In this decodable book written for middle school audiences and beyond, readers will spend time practicing the r-controlled vowels ar, er, ir, or, and ur. This book is one of many in development by Storyshares, the goal of which is to create a new shelf in the global library designed to reach even the most left-behind readers in middle school and beyond. It combines key science of reading principles with characters, topics, themes, and imagery built around young adult interests.

Cat Jenkins lives in the Pacific Northwest where the weather is often conducive to long hours before a keyboard. Her stories in humor, fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror have been published both online and in print. Her first novel, Sara When She Chooses, was published by Bedazzled Ink Publishing in May 2018. Cat’s blog can be found at: catjenkinsdotcom.wordpress.com.

Ginger Tull is a writer from the hot, dusty, dry Four Corners area of New Mexico. She is a film actor, screenplay writer, and aspiring fiction author. Ginger is a terrible cook but a decent baker. Except for snakes, she enjoys the liveliness of the outdoors and spends way too much time hiking, mountain biking and skiing with her family. She also tends to nine boisterous chickens, three colorful bee hives and keeps her 100-pound dog, Renzo The Magnificent, happy by taking him on long hikes through the sagebrush and sand near her desert home.

Manju Bal Krishna is a writer from India who does content reviewing and content development for school students in English language and literature, value education, and social sciences. She also writes stories, plays, and poems for her students and herself. Many of these have been well-appreciated in literary journals. Other interests are gardening, cooking, and keeping her home beautiful and clean.