Lemon Drop Cookies
(A Wang Favorite)
Preheat oven to 375
Ingredient:
1/3 cp. Milk 2/3
cp. sugar
4 eggs 2
tsp. vanilla
4 tsp. baking powder ½
cp. shortening (lightly melted butter)
Add enough flour to the above ingredients to make into a
soft dough. Drop tablespoon sized portions onto a greased cookie sheet. When
done, ice with confectioners sugar mixed with a little milk and lemon extract.
Walking Through Walls
– Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat and Think With Your
Taste Buds
"Twelve-year-old Wang longed to be an Eternal. He craved
wealth…and power. Spending his time learning about these mystics took his
thoughts away from the certain fate of slaving in the wheat fields all his
life, like his father. The wheat fields might be good for some, but not
for Wang. He had higher goals."
Everyone should have high goals and work to
reach them, as long as those goals don’t hurt others. Wang’s highest goal
was to find where the Eternals lived and learn magic so he could have
everything he wanted. He would use the magic he learned to take from the rich. After
all, they can afford to share so it wouldn’t be like stealing, would it? He watched his father
work in the wheat fields all his life and had even worked there himself, but he was
determined to not make the fields his life too.
Following Wang as he struggled to acquire the magical powers he always dreamed of
made me think about all of the people in the world today who are just like Wang, who strive for riches. Walking Through Walls is a book they should read; maybe it would help them see that riches, power and greed aren’t really
that important. What counts is what you do with the powers within you as
you use them to create good, not evil.
This is a great book that offers subtle morals for children as well as adults.
Publisher: 4RV Publishing, 2011
ISBN# 978-0-9826594-7-2
Genre: Middle-grade/YA fantasy adventure
Page count: 62
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