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Hartselle Enquirer

Books of the Week Feb. 22 – 26

TitleThe Oregon Trail – The Wagon Train Trek 

Author: Jesse Wiley 

Age:  8-12yearolds 

This “choose your own trail” book has more than 20 possible endings. It is based on the 1970s Oregon Trail Game.   

The reader is leading a wagon train to Oregon in 1855 and must make decisions about illnesses, forging riversfacing wild animals, overcoming the weather, providing food and other dangers.   

How much do you trust your instincts? Can you keep the wagon train together?   

There are eight books in this series, and they are fun to read.    

Hope to see you soon at the library! 

TitleSulwe 

Author: Lupita Nyong 

Illustrator: Vashti Harrison 

Reviewer: Sarah Laughmiller 

Sulwe’s skin is darker than anyone in her family and anyone in her school. All she wants is to be lighter and brighter, like her mama and her sister.  

Sulwe does everything she can to try and make her skin lighter – until one night when she goes on an adventure in the night sky and everything changes.  

Sulwe learns there is something special and important and beautiful in being dark. She learns she is gorgeous, and her dark beauty has purpose. 

The images in this book are magnificent and breathtaking. The message resonates with young girls tremendously: It is OK to be different.  

Our differences give us meaning and purpose. We all have our own unique gifts and looks that make us all special, and that is what makes each young lady beautiful.  

Sulwe embraces how dark she is when she sees how special that makes her.       

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Cerrowire expansion named finalist in Business Alabama Awards  

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Work begins on repairing two bridges over I-65 in Morgan County in coming weeks

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Tickets for Morgan County Sports Hall of Fame banquet available

Falkville

Morgan County volunteers celebrated at annual fire department banquet 

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Man jailed for stealing car from jail after earlier release 

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Police: Hartselle man encouraged children to have sex inside his apartment

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Hartselle High Medical Academy students practice on new EKG simulator  

Falkville

Falkville man arrested on murder, drug charges  

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Four Morgan roads getting reduced speed limits 

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Hartselle native serves with U.S. Navy

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Hartselle police: Husband beats wife after finding male contacts in her phone 

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Season passes now available for Hartselle Aquatic Center

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Morgan County Spring Clean-Up 2024 kicks off next month

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Morgan County High School Class of 1974 set to reunite after 50 years

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ALEA’s 2024 Spring Boating Basics and License courses underway 

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Hands on the wheel: Alabama law focuses on distracted driving

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Woman killed in interstate crash in Falkville

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Stisher, Frost in runoff for Morgan District 3 commissioner, Abercrombie reelected

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Halbrooks defeats Dobbs in Morgan County school board race 

Hartselle

Crafting dreams: A woodworker’s journey from hobby to artistry 

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Stisher, Frost in runoff; Abercrombie wins seat in Morgan commission races

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Incumbent Dobbs loses to Halbrooks in race for Morgan BOE seat

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Sheriff’s Academy open for registration  

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Hartselle woman models at New York Fashion Week 

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