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A First Job Leads to an Unexpected Discovery . . .Nine-year-old Dan knows how to hustle, and when he sees his friend Greg with a nifty new bike, he wants to know how he can earn enough money to get one, too. Greg tells him all about picking up night crawlers-or dew worms-for a local bait supplier. At the second house from the corner, the neighborhood kids drop off coffee cans full of worms and pick up their pay envelopes. It's dirty, messy, fun work, but one day Dan finds something he doesn't expect. Second House from the Corner is a delightful tale of childhood adventure and a tribute to the value of hard work

A First Job Leads to an Unexpected Discovery . . .Nine-year-old Dan knows how to hustle, and when he sees his friend Greg with a nifty new bike, he wants to know how he can earn enough money to get one, too. Greg tells him all about picking up night crawlers--or dew worms--for a local bait supplier. At the second house from the corner, the neighborhood kids drop off coffee cans full of worms and pick up their pay envelopes. It's dirty, messy, fun work, but one day Dan finds something he doesn't expect. Second House from the Corner is a delightful tale of childhood adventure and a tribute to the value of hard work

Two Kids and a Living Legend Make a Historical Discovery The people of Satartia are proud of their one claim to fame: Eli, the gigantic catfish who lives in the Yazoo River. Two kids, Timmy and Tori, had saved Eli from a fisherman by leading him downriver, but fish have an amazing ability to return home, and Eli returns a few months later. The kids are delighted to see Eli again and spend nearly every waking moment with him. When Eli disappears one day, Timmy and Tori find him wedged between some logs and free him. Little do they know, Eli has inadvertently solved a 300-year-old mystery and discovered a big piece of Mississippi's lost history. And when university researchers descend on the Yazoo River, Eli proves to be the hero the people of Satartia have always known him to be