title: Yucky Worms: Read and Wonder
author:  Vivian French 
description: A compelling argument for re-evaluation of the night-crawling kind.<br />Bulletin of the Center of Children's Books<br /><br />Debunks myths about the creepy crawlies and instills . . . a better understanding and respect for the creatures and their importance for growing plants.<br />School Library Journal<br /><br />Vivian French tells both a gardening adventure and offers underground facts, including helpful hints on how to become a wormologist.<br />USA Today<br /><br />Kids will burrow right into this book about the industrious  and danger-filled  life of the delightfully yucky earthworm.<br />Etc. for Her<br /><br />This book will have you rooting for the gardens slimy underdogs.<br />Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<br /><br />Wonderful, friendly, illustrations are the perfect backdrop for this terrific story about earthworms that both informs and amuses.<br />Kendal Rautzhans Books to Borrow/Buy (syndicated)<br /><br />Wonderful, friendly illustrations are the perfect backdrop for this terrific story about earthworms that both informs and amuses.<br />The News-Times
zlib_text: **Varicose Worms**
  
  _**SCOTT BAKER**_
  
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   _The worms in this story drain the energy of their host and are the perfect
  representatives of their master. The story is also_ _about magic, shamanism,
  and poetic justice. And it’s a truly disgusting story, so don’t try it before
  a meal._
  
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  Eminescu Eliade’s great good luck had been his last name, that and the fact
  that not only had he been a cultured cosmopolitan and intelligent man when
  he’d arrived in Paris (named Eminescu after his country’s greatest nineteenth-
  century poet by parents who’d seen to it that he had a thorough classical
  education, he’d almost completed his studies as a veterinarian when he’d been
  forced to flee Romania as the result of an indiscretion with a rather highly
  placed local official’s daughter) but that he’d arrived in Paris hungry,
  practically penniless and desperate. So desperate that when he’d seen a copy
  of Mircea Eliade’s _Le Chamanisme et les_ _techniques archaiques de I’extase_
  in a boo