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            Today's Snack: Here's a snack that's a lot like nuts, and you'll go nuts over how much nutrition is in these little beans. They're baby soybeans, called "edamames." That's a Japanese word for "beans on twigs." When they harvest these little pods at the height of ripening, they flash-freeze them to keep them fresh. So you'll find them in the freezer section of a big supermarket or a health-food store. You wil have to boil the pods a little in salted water; follow package directions. Let cool a little, and have fun eating them: you just strip out the beans from the pods with your teeth! Edamames are high-protein, fiber-rich, relatively low-calorie, and have ots of minerals and omega-3 fatty acids. Today's After School Treat is talking about 50 books. Well, you can have 50 edamames, and you'll be refreshed enough to read a whole stack of books!

 

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Print out this list of the 50 children's books that got people hooked on reading. The list comes from a survey done by the website www.firstbook.org They challenged people from all over the country to go to their website and vote for the book that they remembered best from childhood. The state whose citizens turned in the most votes won 50,000 free books for disadvantaged kids in their state. The winner: Kentucky.

 

            Here's the nationwide list. You can print this out, keep this list, and make a goal of reading all 50 books before you graduate:

 

1.  The Nancy Drew series

2.  Green Eggs & Ham

3.  Little House on the Prairie series

4.  Charlotte's Web

5.  Cat in the Hat

6.  Little Women

7.  The Boxcar Children

8.  The Bobbsey Twins

9.  Black Beauty

10.        The Dick & Jane series

11.        Go Dog Go!

12.        To Kill a Mockingbird

13.        Goodnight Moon

14.        Gone With the Wind

15.        Heidi

16.        Anne of Green Gables

17.        Curious George

18.        Black Stallion

19.        Harry Potter series

20.        The Secret Garden

21.        The Bible

22.        The Pokey Little Puppy

23.        The Giving Tree

24.        A Wrinkle in Time

25.        The Little Engine That Could

26.        The Hobbit

27.        The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

28.        The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

29.        The Hardy Boys series

30.        Hop on Pop

31.        Where the Sidewalk Ends

32.        The Velveteen Rabbit

33.        Are You There God? It's me Margaret.

34.        The Babysitters Club series

35.        Pippi Longstocking

36.        Amelia Bedelia

37.        The Hatchet

38.        Superfudge

39.        Ramona Quimby books

40.        Cinderella

41.        Island of the Blue Dolphins

42.        The Wizard of Oz

43.        The Outsiders

44.        Winnie the Pooh

45.        Treasure Island

46.        Horton Hears a Who

47.        Love You Forever

48.        Old Yeller

49.        Call of the Wild

50.        Twilight