By Sue Macy Illustrated by Stacy Innerst The Book Rescuer by Sue Macy is a Junior Biography, beautifully illustrated by New York Times award winning artist, Stacy Innerst. The content is about preserving Jewish literature written in Yiddish. This multiple award winning book is appropriate for young readers and listeners as well as adults. Imagine […]

English:    autographFrench:  autographeSpanish: autógrafoGerman:  Autogramm (German capitalizes nouns)Italian: autografoChinese: Qiānmíng  签名

Autograph A person’s handwritten name. Also called their signature.Auto means self, and graph means to write.Some fans collect the autographs of famous people by asking them to sign things such as photographs or posters or even napkins!

Sammy Davis Jr. (pronounced junior, but usually written as Jr.) was a singer, dancer, and actor. He was also a comedian, a film producer, and a television director.If you heard him sing or watched him dance, you would think he didn’t have any problems. And for the first 18 years of his life, he didn’t […]

Stuffed Acorn squash Serves 4 What’s better than a bowl? A squash, stuffed with yummy goodness! Ingredients: 2 small acorn squash 1/2 tsp canola or vegetable oil 1/2 tsp salt, divided 1/2 tsp ground black pepper, divided 1 cup brown rice 1/2 cup lentils 2 cups low sodium vegetable or chicken stock 1/3 cup dried […]

English:    mathematics French:  mathématiques Spanish: matemáticas German:  Mathematik (German capitalizes nouns) Italian: matematica Arabic: alriyadiaat الرياضيات  

mathematics Mathematics is the study of numbers, how they relate to each other, and how they relate to the real world. The short way of saying it is math. In English there are two ways that people pronounce it: with three syllables (MATH-MAT-ics) or with four syllables: (MA-the-MAT-ics). Either way is correct.  

Dorothy Johnson Vaughan worked as a human computer, doing advanced math to help engineers design airplanes and rockets. She worked for NASA, supervising an office of other human computers. In the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, before there were electronic computers, people who were good at mathematics were called computers, because that’s what they did, computed […]