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Adventure Heroes

Real Heroes

Brave Hero

Enroll at any HCLS branch or at hclibrary.org

Who was Nikola Tesla?

Imagine accidentally inheriting several wondrous inventions such as;

• a tape recorder that plays back a person's thoughts

• a camera that sees 24 hours into the future

• a battery that brings bugs back to life

Now imagine there's a secret society willing to kill for them.

Shy, artistic Will Everett

• narrowly escapes an avalanche

• stumbles onto a murder

• escapes onto a 900-car steam train

• joins a circus

• encounters Big Foot

How does he survive?

To disprove the Red Madness, or pellgra, was contagious or germ related the brave doctor, his wife, and associates . . .

ingested feces, mucus, urine, and the scaly bits from those affected.

Follow the trail through

Now that's brave.

Photographs of actual cases

Mary Goldberger

Dr. Joseph Goldberger

Journal entries by the physicians and public health officials

News articles

Glove

Research notes

Butterfly

First-hand narratives from the affected

Enroll

Solve the medical mystery!

Boot

Necklace

Read One Hour

CLAYMATION CAMP -- ELEMENTAL SUPERHERO

Jun 29 - Jul 2

Attend an HCLS Class

Fantastic Heroes

Creative Heroes

Survivors

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Illustrate a Book Jacket

Complete a Survey

Sep 2015

Heroes of Olympus Camps

Jul 14 - 15

Callum wants no part of being a magician.

Comic Con Rise of the Heroes!

Jun 6

Fire wants to burn.

So he plans to fail his Magisterium test.

10 year-old Abbas Kazerooni

Water wants to flow.

He fails every one.

Air wants to rise.

Unfortunately, he fails so fabulously, he not only gets accepted to the school, he wins a top slot.

Strange Heroes

Earth wants to bind.

Now everyone resents him.

His lack of elemental control is embarrassing.

Chaos wants to devour.

At least he's not a Chaos.

Or is he?

Disclaimer: HCLS endorses neither:

• literary terrorism

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• gorilla book promotions

Beneficial bugs have built empires. Bad bugs have toppled them. Which are which?

• or the deliberate misplacing of library books

Unlike the characters in I Killed the Mockingbird.

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Humorous Heroes

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Beneficial bugs have built empires.

Harmful bugs have destroyed them.

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This bug is the reason few people settled in forested regions of the Canadian north.

The black fly

Which are which?

The black plague, which devastated the European population and changed feudal society and social order, is credited to what insect?

How to get students to read To Kill a Mockingbird:

Oriental rat flea

Step 1: Hide copies of book in all local

libraries and bookstores.

Step 2: Replace books with Ransom Notes

The ransom note.

Some colonial Americans acquired a natural resistance to malaria, while others took quinine during the Revolutionary War. The British did not trust quinine and many died of malaria. Their deaths affected several battles.

Malaria is caused by which insect?

Step 3: Create website, Facebook

Instagram, and Twitter accounts

to track activity

By the time life-sized Santa dressed as an ax murderer enters, it's out of control.

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Step 4: Conspiracy goes viral

The mosquito

Humble Heroes

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