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During a hunting trip, JJ rescues a young spider monkey. They play, and JJ thought their fun would never end. One day, a family of spider monkeys appears in the canopy. JJ wonders, Should I let Spidy go or keep him to be my friend? Then, in his heart, he knows what he must do.

After a fright, Gracie wishes she could be like other frogs in the canopy. JJ, her friend, consoles her and Gracie realizes she is happy to be Gracie, whom she was meant to be.

JJ and Maria were walking along the river when JJ saw the harpy eagle looking at prey on the path. They shouted and ran to protect Grandmother Sloth because she's so slow. Grandmother looked up with a pleasant expression and told JJ and Maria a story about an ancient time when sloths were fast and had no smile.

Thomas, a true patriot like his father, had little knowledge of the south and slavery. As the war continued and the 68th marched deeper and deeper into the south, the conflict and all its horrors brought not only disillusionment, but also a changed attitude toward the south. Thomas Kellogg' wrote nearly 80 letters to family and friends back home. Well written, the letters provide descriptions of battles, battlefields, crops, homes, terrain, and conversations with prisoners, local residents, and deserters. Near Oxford, Mississippi, Kellogg found the locals "so short of provisions that we had to give them rations to live on. One place we left a half barrel of molasses." At Vicksburg, Kellogg wrote his father back on the farm in Woodville, "I tell you that there is some very large plantations on the Mississippi. The negroes are coming in by the hundreds and as soon as they come, they are put right to work digging." [canal to Lake Providence]. Kellogg wrote that he "no longer opposed the arming" of the slaves, and that the "rebs thought they could gobble up what negro soldiers we had." Instead, "the secesh found the 'black Yankees' as they call them," credible fighters. Kellogg fought with his regiment at the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Hatchie's Bridge, Port Gibson, Raymond, Champion's Hill, and Vicksburg. Following the Union victory at the 4th of July 1863, Thomas escorted hundreds of prisoners to Clinton, Mississippi. He discovered that "nearly all of them seamed tired of the war." ... and some of them "declared they were done fighting and ready to take the oath."

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Peter the poison dart frog was taking one of his tadpoles to a place where it can grow. But things were not what they seemed to be. A stick that walks, a leaf that jumps, and bark that flies put Peter and his tadpole at peril. Visit www.storiesfromtherainforest.com to order autographed copies of the other books in the Stories of the Rainforest series.

Plain Language Summary: In regions that depend primarily on snow to support life, water availability is becoming an increasingly important topic. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) is a new platform for estimating the amount of water stored in mountain snowpacks. Since 2013, the ASO has combined detailed measurements of snow depth from an aircraft with snowpack density estimates from a physics‐based snow model to provide predictions of total snow water equivalent stored in the Tuolumne River Basin in the California Sierra Nevada. This work describes the process of updating the snow model using the measured ASO snow depths through a direct insertion process. When the distribution of all the snow in the basin is known more accurately, the model results are improved.