This is not an ordinary book: it's a BookCrossing book! BookCrossing books are world travelers - they like to have adventures and make new friends...and with your help, they can even write home to say what they've been doing! (You may remain anonymous if you wish.)

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Part of a $5 bag from the Washington Middle School rummage sale; zoomable photo here.

Nonfiction for kids: based on the true story of Iowa teenager Kate Shelley, who became nationally famous after she risked her life to save train passengers during severe flooding in 1881.

Text by Margaret K. Wetterer with illustrations by Karen Ritz and cover art by Peter Catalanotto.

I'll count this as my Iowa read (13/51) for the 2020 version of NancyNova's US States reading challenge.

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Themes for the second quarter re-do of Secretariat's 2020 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge

Week 14: rain
Week 20: grass
Week 22: double letters in title

Monday, June 29, 2020: mailed to Pennsylvania!

Released for Secretariat's 2020 NJABBIC challenge (week 26: 2nd quarter re-do).

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I'm so glad you've found this book! Won't you make a journal entry so the previous readers know that it's safe with you?

How and where did you find the book? What did you think of it? What are you going to do with it next?

This is now your book, for you to do with as you please: keep it as long as you wish, pass it to a friend, or maybe even leave it where someone else can find it!

If you've ever wondered where your books go after they leave your hands, join BookCrossing and you may find out: you'll be able to follow your books as new readers make journal entries - sometimes from surprisingly far-flung locations.

BookCrossing: making the whole world a library!

checked in and marked for Iowa. Thanks!

rabck from hyphen8; YA book based on fact. Kate did stop get to the station house upstream in the storm & flooding to warn the stationmaster to stop the train because the bridge was washed out.

To be released on the Halloween table