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Welcome to Sherman's World!
It's the Season for
Ghost Stories!!
"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 humorous training program to become a real firefighter and when spring arrives, his firefighting skills are tested not once but twice!
On one rainy weekend, Sherman discovers that he is the only one who can rescue a smelly, wet cat stranded in a tree. Will he do it? How? And if he succeeds, will he live to tell the story?
Later, 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 his plan work in time?
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 hike to Sherman's pine woods. After they encounter and escape a bully mouse named Rufus, the two friends find a new home near a meadow where they find an old, abandoned house. The house is inhabited by descendants of mice that came over from France at the time of the American Revolution and a ghost bully that is bigger and scarier than Rufus -- he throws fireballs for effect!
Sherman and Gus learn that the ghost is a French soldier who had an accident that prevented him from rejoining his family in France, and he's angry because he wants to go home. Not wanting to be alone, he has placed a hex on the house to keep the French mice inside.
In a deal where he would lift the hex on the house, the two friends come up with a plan to get him to France. Will it work? Will the ghost keep his promise to them and remove the hex to free the French mice?
Humor, historical references, and action in short chapters. Readers 8-10 (140 pages)
