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Date Oct 3, 2018
Ages 7+

Funny story about Hubie and his excitement for April Fool's Day. He goes through all the set up in the days leading up to the big day. The excitement of the pranks, who he will prank, who might prank him, what the pranks could be.  Will you get pranked?

Teaching point: Always check your calendar, around April Fools Day, because someone may prank you earlyt

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The Little League Team from The Black Lagoon

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The Little League Team from The Black Lagoon

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Oct 3, 2018
Ages 7+

Hubie and his friends get ready for baseball season. He buys a glove, names it grabber and plans to improve on last season. The team is made, they are coached by Derek's dad, and they even come up with team name Bobcats. The ultimate goal for this team is to win a game. The friends all know there places, question is will the team improve.

Teaching Point: As we age we get older, wiser, and even can get better.

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Back-to-School Fright from The Black Lagoon

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Back-to-School Fright from The Black Lagoon

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Oct 3, 2018
Ages 7+

The day all students fear, summer coming to and end, weather getting cooler, means  the start of school.  Hubie goes gets new clothes, school supplies and has fears of what may happen.  He goes to the dentist and gets already for his new school year.

Teaching point: Is not always as bad as you think it maybe, might actually be able to have some fun.

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Oct 3, 2018
Age 7+

Wimpflex, if you are holding the phone you have muscles and are not a wimp. This is fun book.  Hubie prepares for field day by changing his diet and working out. The day of the event comes and Hubies team name is ready to compete. The two teams go back and forth through out the days events  coming down to the final one.  Who will win?

Teaching Point: If its seen on TV and seems to good to be true it probably is

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The School Carnival from the Black Lagoon

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The School Carnival from the Black Lagoon

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Oct 3, 2018
Ages 7+

Hubie and his classmates are given the task of coming up with a booth at the schools fair.  Hubie comes up with the idea for a dunking booth and wins the classes support. Only problem who gets dunked, you got it Hubie.  He's terrified of going in the water because he does not know how to swim due to a fear of water.  What happens next is hilarity and lots of fun.

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Date - Sept 28, 2018
Ages - 5+

This a story of boy and his horse.  The funny thing is the horse is not even his.  The boy is travels the Old West taking outlaw members of his own family.  Itys really a funny tale reading the language the boy uses and how he speaks to the adults in the story.  When he breaks his dad out of one jail just to put him in another for the bounty on his head is a pretty funny thing.

Teaching Point: Respect everyone even young children

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Date - Sept 15, 2018
Age 8+

Modern day version of the original Superman story.  He has hid his powers from everyone but someone is looking for him.  Tyrell an alien from another planet is here to destroy earth, unless he reveals himself. Thus starting the battle to safe the planet and find himself.  Graphically the book was great, I have read better story lines but it told the true tale.

Teaching point: We all have secrets, but sometimes we need to share them to help a bigger cause.

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Date - Sept 28, 2018
Age 8+

This is the story of The Happy Prince, the statue of the town. Its a tale of a swallow and a statue trying to bring good to a town of misery and poverty. The statue surrendered his ruby, his sapphires to help those in need. The bird developed a friendship as the messenger for the statue.  The at the end, the town no longer embraces the statue but god loved what the it and the bird represented.

Teaching point: Be kind to others, do for others, in doing so good will be done for you.

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Date - Sept 16,2018
Age 3-5

Story of a friend leaving another.  In life we move and this is that story told through a child's eyes.  Its a simple book.

Teaching point: Cherish the time you have with someone, you never know when they will be gone.

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Date - Sept 16, 2018
Age 5-8

A very interesting take on a new baby coming into the family.   How a child could see it put in the eyes of the business world.  Its really a tale that is seen in homes everyday, the first child having to accept the new child stealing his/her thunder.

Teaching point: Change happens daily, its the perspective of how you put the change in that matters more than the change itself.

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Date - Sept 16, 2018
Age 5-8

This is a book neat book about A dog, Dinosaurs, Ice Cram and Sharing.  It was a silly story of a dog loving his ice cream at the same time sharing it with others who wanted it.  The ending is extremely silly but its an overall silly book even if the message is good.

Teaching point:  Sharing is caring is probably the best thing pulled from this book.

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Date - Sept 21, 2018
Age 12+

In this book a captain of a ship finds a stone, on an island when his ship runs aground. The stone mesmerizes the crew into becoming useless and unproductive.  Eventually the captain rids the boat of the stone and the crew goes back to normal.  The stone can symbolize many things in society.

Teaching point: What takes time from you, and makes you become useless?

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Date - Oct 1, 2018
Age 4+

A magical story of Christmas, and a boys journey in believing in what is and is not real.  The trip takes a young boy on a train ride to the north pole where he finds the real meaning of the season.  Its not in seeing  its in believing.  Love this story.

Teaching point: You do not always have to see to something to believe its true or real.

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Date - Sept 16, 2018
Age 5-12
***Newberry Award Winner***

Story of a boy and his grandma being separated by a great distance but love at heart and in mind.  We all live, sleep, work and play under the same moon.  This story tells of  others under that same moon.  No matter where you are we all look up and sleep under the same moon.

Teaching point: Distance does not eliminate love. It may make us miss someone, but if love is there it will always be there.

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Date - Sept 14, 2018
Age 5-12
***New York Time Best Selling Author***

Story of a boy given courage by a part in a play.  That courage enable him to not only confront his monster but also find out the truth about him also.  This was a fantastic book, written well and easy to read.

Teaching point: Just because you think you know something, until you experience it or get to know it you actually may not know it.

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Date - Sept 16, 2018
Age 4-9
***New York Times Best Selling Author***

A story of friendship and loss.  This book can resonate really with anyone.  It reminded me of the dogs, things, parts of life I have lost.  Evan the main character in the book, was in a rough patch just like all of us fall into, and it took something unexpected to get him going again.  Great Book, Sad, bur Great.

Teaching point: Things will always bring us down, it is allowing those things to keep us down that truly hurts us in the long run.

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Date - Sept 14, 2018
Age 4-9
***Best Selling and Award Winning Author***

Its about a boy and his fear of catching a ball. Its mostly pictures, but it shows all the challenges and fears that could come with catching the ball. The ball can really symbolize anything in life, but until you try you never know what you can actually do.

Teaching point: All the thoughts that run through our head preventing us from trying or doing something can actually be worse than us actually doing it.

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Date Sept 19, 2018
Ages 5-8

The story of how sometimes we try to be helpful only to cause more trouble than good.  This also the where someone else steps in and helps us solve the issue.  This story has a clever twist and is very fun read.

Teaching point: Two heads are better than one, have you ever had a time where you kept trying to do something and needed someones help.

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Date Sept 21, 2018
Age 4-12
***Award Winning Author, Keystone Reading Book Award***

This is the story troublesome and imaginative Siamese cat. Skippy jon Jones, thinks of himself as anything besides what he actually is. In this story he battles with a band of chihuahuas, while being locked in his room by his mother. Its a great fun rhyming story that was enjoyed by my students.

Teaching point: An imagination is a terrible thing to waste but sometimes it is better to listen to our mothers.

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Date - Sept 16, 2018
Age 3-6

Story of some creatures enjoying the rain until a thunderstorm drives them inside a cave. Its mostly a picture book, with a lot of the same words, but definitely can see it being enjoyable for younger children.

Teaching moment: When it rains it pours, so sometimes its better to get home than stay out in the rain.

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Date Sept 21, 2018
Age 12+

This is a book of imagination and creativity.  Its a book of pictures and you make the story off a header line.  It allows creativity to flow as you look thru each picture trying to decide what happens next.

Teaching point: You do not always need to see the words to know the story. Sometimes you are the story.

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Date - Sept 21, 2018
Age 7-12

This is the story of a boy and a Dragon Fighter on their  challenge to fight a mighty dragon.  Together they travel through many places, scary and challenging hoping to find their dragon.  They see many things on the voyage only to reach the end and not find the dragon, or did they?

Teaching point: Keep moving forward no great the fear or challenge the end reward could totally be worth it.

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Date - Sept 9, 2018
Age 5-12

Educational book about the Mountain that is not only the tallest on earth but all that goes on around it and on it.  The pictures are great, I love these types of books, where you learn about and see it all graphically.

Teaching point:  Teaching about the tallest mountain on Earth, is always an interesting topic.  It has lots going on there spanning two countries, the people and animals living on it, and who and why people go there.

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Thomas Edison Inventor, Scientist, and Genius

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Thomas Edison Inventor, Scientist, and Genius

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Date - Sept 9, 2018
Age  5-12
This is a great beginning book in to one of the American Fathers of Invention. I am originally from New Jersey and have always been fascinated by Edison.  This book tells of his story as a young boy through adulthood and his quest to invent things, make things better, and make things safer.  It tells of him burning down his parents barn and how it always affected him.  This ties to making a better, safer, more practical light bulb.

Teaching point:  The life of Edison is a fascinating tale and lots can be learned from it and him.  The best thing about Edison is that for all the times he failed he never gave up trying and learning.

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Date - Sept 9, 2018
Age 8-15

This is a book about the life of Frank Sinatra.  I grew listening to him, because he was from New Jersey and my parents loved him.  This story tells of how he was always singing from the time of little boy.  He was drawn to singing, he was raised differently by his mom also causing him to develop his suit and tie style at a very young age.    His favorite singer was Bing Crosby and he emulated him in all things he did.  As he grew older Frank went to New York to work on his craft and become one of the greatest singers of all time.

Teaching Point: This story tells of both hard work and dedication but also listening to oneself in finding a passion. Easily could ask kids what is your passion, what do you love?

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Date - Sept 9, 2018
Ages 5-12

This is a told by a boy but is all about New York City. How the city has grown over the years, and the things in and around the city. Fun fact from the book at the time it was written over 1,600 places serve pizza in the city. It tells of Central Park, the tall buildings, the subway, the Museum of Natural History, the Intrepid Museum. Its a very basic but very descriptive book about an amazing city, the city that never sleeps.

Teaching Point: There are lots of facts in the book about all the places and things to do in the city. It can make students think about New York City or maybe have them appreciate their own city where they live more.

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Date Sept 9, 2018
Age 5-12

This a parody of the the Night Before Christmas, but in pirates speak.  It rhymes and tells the story of a mean looking driver of a sleigh being pulled by eight giant seahorses.  It follows the story but in all pirate lore, it was fun to read and so much more.  The terms are taught through out the book, look at me rhyming now it cant be shook.

Teaching lesson: The pirates vocabulary is very descriptive in this book, but it really shows how you can take a story and make something your own.

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Date - Sept 9, 2018
Age 3-8

A very simple book about different types of babies mainly animals, and the things they do or get into.  The end of the book tells the different name for baby animals like a deer is called a fawn, a rabbit is a kitten, a leopard is a cub.  In the end the main thing told by the story is no matter what or where the baby is getting into is mama knows where always knows where they are.

Teaching point:  The main thing taught in this book is that baby animals are playful, but they are also called something different than their adult counterpart.

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Date - Sept 9, 2018
Age 5-12

This book is all about different animals and how or what they teach their young. It talks of otters learning to swim, prairie dogs learning to shout, and even penguins giving singing lessons. The art in the book was very colorful and well drawn, also learning a little more about animals that I technically was not aware of, terminology mainly was cool.

Teaching point:  Teaching students about animals and what they do in nature is always a good thing.  Showing them animals as parents, just like they have parents also helps them possibly draw the conclusion that everyone and everything needs some guidance.

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Date - Sept 9, 2018
Age 5-12

This is neat and educational book talking about different types of birds and the sounds they make.  At the same time you learn why the nesting bird does not make noise, since she is guarding her eggs.  The art of this book was very cool and colorful, helped bring birds to life without using real pics.

Teaching point:  This book teaches about bird, what they look like, how they are a little different by the sounds they make. Easily can show how even though they are all birds, they are all different kind of like people.

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Date - Sept 9, 2018
Age 5 - 12

This is an educational but simple book about gravity and its affect on things.  I tells how things fall to the earth because of gravity. It also tells of gravity preventing from drifting away because the pull gravity actually has.   There is a section in the back explaining that gravity is attractive, and how to use and measure it on a simple scale.

Teaching Point:  This is book lets kids know why things fall and at the same time stay in the same place.  Easy thing to teach would be showing what goes up must come down.

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Date - Sept 9, 2018
Age 5 - 17

This was a very cool book.  I love astronomy, and this book showed how the stars in the sky at night make different astrological signs/shapes.  My oldest daughter and I actually spent a good hour looking for the different ones we could find.  The story of the children looking for the different signs is simple but does give the reader something to read.
We looked for Taurus, Unicorn, and the fish known as Pisces

Teaching point:  It teaches what those stars are thought to be when shaped together.

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Out of School and Into Nature, The Anna Comstock Story

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Out of School and Into Nature, The Anna Comstock Story

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Date - Sept 9, 2018
Age 5-12

This is the story of Anna Comstock and how she became known as "the Mother Nature of Education."  It was a neat book, and finding out about someone I never knew of.  Mrs. Comstock changed how teachers taught using outdoor activities, art, and investigation.  Learning of someones love for something is always great .

Teaching point:  This book gives great detail about nature through one persons eyes, you can ask the students to try looking a nature differently through their eyes.

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Date - Sept 9, 2018
Age 5-12

This was a neat and interesting book.. I saw it on the shelf and was instantly drawn to the old rhyme I said a bunch of times as child. I quickly found out I never knew the correct line for it is to Grandfather's house not Grandmother's house as I always use to say. It is written in old English and difficult to read, but slow and steady works.

Teaching point:  The best thing for this book would be showing how the language has changed over time, with this poem coming from 1844

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Date - Sept 9, 2018
Age 4-7

This is a book about leaves.  It talks of all the different types of things a leaf can be used for in nature and in life.  Its a neat story, good pictures, and extremely creative.

Teaching Point: Allowing kids to think of all the different things a can and can't be. This book easily cover many types of lessons.

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Date - Sept 9, 2018
Age 4-7

This is a neat rhyming book about that water cycle.  Its goes through all the stages of water and where it comes from. The rhyming of the book make it fun for the reader , but it is also educational.

Teaching Point: This book breaks down how transforms, where it goes, what it turns into and how it cycles. This book could be used for science or reading

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Date - Sept 9, 2018
Age 2-5

This is a nice and simple book getting across the point that, there are common sayings that help children and adults communicate with one another.  Its a good book, easy to read, with a very important but simple message.

Teaching Point: Saying Please, Thank you, Excuse Me among other saying will help children learn how to communicate with Adults better.

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Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban

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Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban

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Date - Sept 14, 2018
Age 12+

Story of a old women who comes across a dis-guarded witched broom.  The broom still had some magic left in it, and made the lady very happy. In the story though not everyone was happy about the ladies new found item, and she outsmarts them in the end.

Teaching point: One person trash could be another person treasure.

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Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets 

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Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets 

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Aug 18, 2018
Age 12+

Its year two at Hogwarts for Harry and his crew of wizardly friends. This year he has a new friends a Dobby an elf, who creates all kinds of mischief for Harry to also deal.  Harry finds out he can speak snake language which scares many due to it not being common, and typically done by evil wizards.  Harry struggles with his nemesis Malfoy, wins a quidditch match, and becomes suspected of cause harm.  Harry meets Tom Riddle who ends up later being found out as Voldermort.  He battles a large snake or basilisk that has been causing all the trouble around Hogwarts killing it buy stabbing it with a sword sent by Professor Dumbledore.  Harry saves the day again but more trouble is coming.

Teaching point: Practice makes perfect is the saying, but truthfully it takes time and effort for improvement

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Aug 15, 2018
Age 10+

Harry is a young boy with a great past he knows nothing about. His parents were wizards and helped defeat Lord Voldermort. It is now time for Harry to take after his true calling and to also learn to become a wizard. Harry ventures to Hiogwarts the school for wizards and starts to study the craft. He has usual issue with bullies and class struggles with professors but he takes it all in stride making friends along the way. In the end you find out that something maybe coming for young Harry, but we will have to wait and see.

Teaching point: It doesn't matter how many friends you have , as long as those you call friends you can trust

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Date - Sept 4, 2018
Age 15+

Rudy Baylor graduates law school and jumps in head first with a huge lawsuit against a large insurance company. At the same time he starts his own law practice when the firm he was hired for comes under investigation. The insurance company doing all in its power to not pay on a leukemia claim, even though all premiums paid and everything was in good standing on the Dot Blacks end, the mother of the leukemia sufferer.

Teaching point: Hard work pays off, but even though you may win you may not get the reward you were hoping for

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Sept 1, 2018
Age 15+

Deep on the ocean floor a spacecraft is found. Researchers are sent in to explore and find out more about the craft. They end up finding a sphere, with no clear way to enter it. The as one of the crew enters the sphere, you eventually start to see a change in him mentally. The sphere also starts interacting with the crew and it is not nice at all. Strange occurrences happen to the crew members and to the craft itself.  In the end only one thing can happen to save the day as everyone has all but died and the sphere turning everyone against one another.

Teaching point: Working together in a group can be a great thing but you need to trust and stay true to the group.

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Date - Sept 24, 2018
Age 13+

Set in the future people are broken up into 5 factions based on a character assessment. Each person picks the group they want to join on their 16th birthday, and this Tris(Beatrice) journey through her choice of the faction known as Dauntless.  The thing is she is actually assessed divergent a group the in not accepted by the 5 other factions. The world works in this order for awhile until one of the factions Erudite decides it wants to be in total control and over throw Abnegation the current government leaders.

Teaching point: We make our own future, even when people are pulling us in different directions

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Date - Aug 29, 2018
Age - 15+

4 friends in over their heads in law school, deep in debt and no future in front of them. When one takes his life it leaves the other 3 wondering whats next, what should we do. They end up practicing law illegally for cash setting up a fake law firm and handling small cases like DUI's.  As people begin to suspect their false firm, they get deeper and deeper into trouble.  When they take on a personal injury case that's when the firm starts to fall apart due to lack of knowledge to the legal system.  There are twist and turns as three try to work there way out of a seriously deep hole.

Teaching point:  You can only fake it to people who know nothing about what you are faking.

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Date Sept 20, 2018
Age 15+

Melvin Mars a former college football superstar is on death row. The day he is top be executed another man in another prison confesses to the crime he was in for. Amos Decker another former college football player but now a member FBI task force, is now investigating the case. Twist and turns happen throughout the book, while Decker and Mars actually start to become friends. A large conspiracy is uncovered ruining through local and state government officials.

Teaching Point : Never give up, if you are innocent fight to prove it

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Date Oct 6, 2018
Age 12+

Set in post apocalyptic times, the country is divided into 12 different areas. Every year they bring 1 teenage male and female from each area to compete is the Hunger Games. Katniss Everdeen, takes the place of her younger sister by volunteering to compete when Prims name is called.
This starts her journey to try and become the winner, the male name from her area is Peta.  They eventually work together to help one another advance throughout the early stages of the games.
Peta eventually tells of his love for Katniss, and the two form an alliance though after the games there should be only one survivor. As the games go on the combatants kill of one another in many different fantastic ways, all the while the government is making sure that the Games progress and are successful.

Teaching Point: Advice can come from anyone, good or bad but its what you do with the advice that matters the most.