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Welcome to Sherman's World!
"Sherman’s World - Finding Courage"
This story follows Sherman, a young mouse, as he makes a winter home in a firehouse. There, he meets Gus, a brash, downstate grasshopper, and they become unlikely friends. Sherman starts a training program to become a real firefighter and when spring arrives, his firefighting skills are tested not once but twice!
First, Sherman discovers that he is the only one who can rescue a smelly, wet cat stranded in a tree. Will he do it? And will he succeed and live to tell the story?
Next, Sherman is in the wrong place at the right time when an injured firefighter needs help and other firefighters cannot find him. Will Sherman stay with the firefighter and devise a rescue plan for both of them? What will he do? Will it work?
Humor, action and friendship move this story along in short chapters. Readers 8-10 (120 pages).
"Sherman's World - Finding Ghosts"
It's spring and time for Sherman and Gus to leave the firehouse and return to Sherman's pine woods. After dealing with a bully named Rufus, the two friends hike to a meadow and find an old, abandoned house. Inside the house, they find descendants of mice that came over from France at the time of our Revolution. They also find a ghost who is a bigger and scarier bully than Rufus and has placed a hex on the house so the French mice can never leave.
When they learn that the ghost simply wants to go home to find his family, Sherman and Gus make a deal to help him if he will lift the hex. Will the two friends sort it out and help the ghost find his way to France? And will he keep his promise to them and remove the hex to free their new friends?
Humor, historical references, and action in short chapters. Readers 8-10 (140 pages)
