Fuel A Spark

There's a Hole in my Sidewalk: The Romance of Self-Discovery By:  Portia Nelson There are so many people who will spend hours trying to read a book about self-discovery...trying to learn more about themselves and how to take control of their life. There are so many times the world will love to see you crash and burn and never rise up again. It is still unknown why the world does this but we humans learn to adapt and try and rise from the ashes like a phoenix and try to be stronger than before. But we need help, we need guidance and where do people turn to for that? Books. Books have always held the true knowledge one person needs to make it through this crummy hateful world. So they come into a library and check out every book about improving oneself and sometimes these books will go on for days talking about nothing, then something, then back to nothing at all. Most of the time you have no idea what you just read and feel even more down for you think you are too du...

"Dr. Seuss long ago passed from the scene but old manuscripts by the beloved children's author keep turning up. Random House Children's Books said Wednesday it will publish a recently discovered manuscript with Dr. Seuss sketches, called What Pet Should I Get?, on July 28. The publisher plans at least two more books based on materials found in 2013 by his widow, Audrey Geisel, and his secretary in the author's home in the ritzy seaside neighborhood of La Jolla in San Diego. The author, whose real name was Theodor "Ted" Seuss Geisel, died in 1991 at the age of 87. According to Random House, when Audrey Geisel was remodeling her home after his death, she found a box filled with pages of text and sketches and set it aside with some of her husband's other materials. It was rediscovered 22 years later, in the fall of 2013, by Audrey Geisel and Claudia Prescott — Ted Geisel's longtime secretary and friend — when they were cleaning out his offic...

The Boxcar Children By: Gertrude Chandler Warner 4 young children look in the windows of a bakery shop, hungry for bread. They would do anything for a piece of bread except to steal. They are hard working kids that value what they have. The store owner and his wife seems to take them in but late at night when the children overhear how the bakery owner and his wife were going to split them up and give the younger two away, the children leave....together. For they also value family. Family comes first and they will stay together forever. These are the Alden children. Even though they don't have a father nor a mother they learned that family is more important than anything. So when they decide to go off on their own to stay together they find a Boxcar stranded in the middle of the woods. As they turn that Boxcar into a nice home for themselves, the oldest finds work near by that will help pay for food. What he doesn't realize is that it will get them closer to the min...