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Contact: Linda Radke, Five Star Publications, Inc. |
Phone: (480) 940-8182 - Fax: (480) 940-8787 |
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WITTY CHILDREN'S BOOK WINS ONEBOOKAZ FOR KIDS
"Addie Slaughter" Finalist For ONEBOOKAZ For Kids
 CHANDLER, AZ (December, 2011) ? In a competitive program, where a large list of children's books was dwindled down to 13 titles by the ONEBOOKAZ for Kids committee and then voted on by Arizona librarians, teachers, school administrators, students and others, Addie Slaughter: The Girl Who Met Geronimo was one of only four finalists.
"It's like being nominated for an Academy Award," says Linda F. Radke, president of Five Star Publications, Inc., who published the book. "I'm very proud of my authors' accomplishments."
Written by Susan L. Krueger, Ed.D. with Reba Wells Grandrud, Ph.D., Addie Slaughter: The Girl Who Met Geronimo, an Arizona Centennial Legacy Project, tells the adventurous, sometimes heartbreaking story of Addie Slaughter, daughter of the famous John Horton Slaughter, a well-respected Cochise County Sheriff and an early settler of the San Bernardino Valley. Through first-person narrative, readers learn about the young girl's travels across the wild West from Texas to Arizona to Oregon, and how she came to settle on the Slaughter Ranch near the Arizona-Mexico border. Along the way, Addie's mother dies, her family narrowly escapes a stagecoach robbery, their adobe ranch buildings collapse in a terrible earthquake, her father's earlobe is shot off, and she meets Geronimo.
Krueger?s book is based on actual stories told to Adeline Greene Parks by her mother, Addie Slaughter, and acquired through in-depth interviews with Grandrud, a 2010 Arizona Culture Keeper and John H. Slaughter Ranch historian. Most of the book's photographs come from Slaughter family albums and the collection of Dr. Grandrud.
Another Five Star Publications' title, Arizona Way Out West & Witty: Library Edition, a humorous children's activity book that is also an Arizona Centennial Legacy Project, won the 2012 ONEBOOKAZ for Kids title. Access www.AZWOWW.com or www.onebookaz.org for information.
Addie Slaughter: The Girl Who Met Geronimo, (ISBN: 978-1-58985-197-9, $15.95) is distributed by Ingram, Baker & Taylor and Pacific Four Sales, and is available through BarnesandNoble.com, Amazon.com, indiebound.org and FiveStarPublications.com. For more details, visit www.AddieSlaughterBook.com or www.onebookaz.org/kids/voting/addie.aspx. To book the authors for school or event presentations, contact Five Star Publications at 480-940-8182 or info@FiveStarPublications.com . To learn about Five Star Publications, Inc., which is in its 26th year of doing business in Chandler, Ariz., log onto www.FiveStarPublications.com.
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