The Paper Day Series
BIO
Award winning writer, B. J. O’Malley, author of The Paper Day Series and soon to be released series, The Sagas of Snaky Marco, retired from the newspaper publishing industry in 2018 and now lives in North Georgia near family. Soon after retirement, she says, it was evident that taking the girl out of publishing does not take the love of stories out of the girl, so writing and illustrating her own children’s books have become passionate endeavors from which she plans never to retire.
The Paper Day Series: Books 1 and 2, are now on sale at Amazon,
so come along with Emi and have a perfect paper day!
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Book 1
making friends
If she could, Emi would spend every day with her paper friends, but there is always the danger that they could get wet from rain filled thunderclouds, tipped over water bottles, or even the tears of a tender-hearted paper ape. Can her folded friends survive to play another day. Find out in Making Friends, Book 1 in The Paper Day Series
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book 2
unruly
Emi is making a paper farm with fluffy white sheep, a black and white cow and a pink pig, so when the paper rooster crows, Emi borrows a tractor from Farmer Joe. But will Joe’s trouble making goat ruin all the fun Emi planned to have in her paper barnyard? Find out in Book 2 of The Paper Day Series, Unruly.
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The Paper Day Book 3: Emi runs away to become a circus clown.
The Paper Day Book 4: Emi has a very important job to tell her paper friends when it’s safe to fly.
The Paper Day Book 5: There are scary sounds at night when you are camping out, but Emi assures her friends that they are safe in her tent.
The Paper Day Book 6: Emi goes on Safari but there’s a hunter looking for wild animals and Emi is determined to save them.
we think b.j. omalley is snaky marco’s grandma disguised as a writer but we haven’t been able to prove it yet.
Hello everyone. This is B.J. and as to the speculation on my true identity, you’ll get no confession from me. Grandma Marco is much too adventurous, after all. You are more likely to find me in my chair (the one that stays put), listening to a YouTube playlist and drawing portraits of Snaky’s friends.
Grandma Marco, does occasionally call me on the phone and recount her last adventure (in great detail, of course) and that, I do admit, is how most of the stories get started. So, hold on tight to the arms of your chair and let the Sagas begin!
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Take a Look
PARENTS/TEACHERS:
The Sagas of Snaky Marco are books in an ongoing series about an ordinary boy who gets swept into an extraordinary world of adventure and imagination. With every new story, your middle school readers will not only be laughing, but learning, as the author has sprinkled in topics to usher in discussions on geography, history, science and social studies so come on along.
GEOGRAPHY: Sagas 1-5-9-13
history: sagas 2-6-10-14
science: 3-7-11-15
social studies: 4-8-12-16
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The Sagas of Snaky Marco: Set 1 Sagas 1-4
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The Sagas of Snaky Marco: Set 2 Sagas 5-8
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The Sagas of Snaky Marco: Set 3 Sagas 9-12
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The Sagas of Snaky Marco: Set 4 Sagas 13-16
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OCEAN CORONATION
Open this book. It’s your invitation to an Ocean Coronation, but bring along a diver’s suit because, you’re about to be submerged to the bottom of the sea with our hero, Snaky Marco, his Grandma, and a pompous electric Eel waiting to be crowned King. So hold on tight to the arms of your chair and let Saga 1 begin!
Follow with a US GEOGRAPHY lesson.
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II
Tale of the comet
It’s hard to believe, but you can. You can! Lincoln (you know, the man with the tall black hat), has slipped out of his time only to land in Granny Marco’s chair. Now, the only hope for history is if Snaky can skate back to Gettysburg-1863, That is a long way back, Snaky! But first we have to find the tall guy a really big pair of skates.
Follow with a US HISTORY lesson: mid west states, KY, OH, TN
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III
Tunnel Trouble
“The trouble with bubbles,” Grandma said with a frown, “is once they go up, they don’t like to come down. Then there’ the problem of how long they stay. This one it seems just won’t go away. I’ve tried to burst it with my thumb and my shoe, but nothing has worked so I’m counting on you.”
Can Snaky free his shrunken Grandma from a bubble without sending her crashing to the floor? Find out in Saga 3.
Follow with an ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE lesson about beneficial insects.
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witch switch
When Snaky found out that little Luci McBain was a real witch and not just a girl dressed like one for Halloween, Luci let him know how things really are in her delightfully spooooky world.
“Eye of newt and wing of bat? That’s so 90's,” she said. “We now get our spells off the internet!”
Follow with a SOCIAL STUDIES lesson about holidays and how not everyone celebrates all of them but we can learn about them from others.
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tea time
tally ho
Tally Ho! It’s off for a day of shopping in London, we go. But Queen C (the real one) can only have her shopping day away from her duties if Queen B (the pretend one) can disguise herself as the real queen and get past the Royal Guard with the help of Snaky and a fashionable girl named Paisley Pardue. We have to go incognito now, but we’ll be back to tell you how Saga 5 ends for the rouge Queen and her double.
Follow with a GEOGRAPHY lesson: Great Britain and the Royal Family
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note to meself
Fiddler, the cat just has to get back to Texas and if anybody can take him there, Calico Connie can. But Fiddler is something of a fugitive and he is being pursued by some musicians who are pretty determined to bring Fiddler to justice for the musical note he stole from them (it was a C minor, I believe). So there could be big trouble on the dusty trail for a cat and his cowgirl bestie. Follow Fiddler and Connie to Texas in Saga 6.
Follow with a MUSICAL HISTORY lesson: It’s a musical history tour.
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vii
zontini the great
When Snaky found out that little Luci McBain was a real witch and not just a girl dressed like one for Halloween, Luci let him know how things really are in her delightfully spooooky world. “Eye of newt and wing of bat? That’s so 90's,” she said. “We now get our spells off the internet!”
Follow with a SCIENCE lesson on weather and meteorology.
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circus life
When Snaky found out that little Luci McBain was a real witch and not just a girl dressed like one for Halloween, Luci let him know how things really are in her delightfully spooooky world. “Eye of newt and wing of bat? That’s so 90's,” she said. “We now get our spells off the internet!”
Follow with a discussion to help students understand friends, relatives and classmates with autism and social anxiety.
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magic tablet ride
If a genie came out of an electrical outlet at your Grandma’s house, what would you do? Well duh! You’d make a wish. But there aren’t any magic carpet rides with this genie. He prefers modern technology and thinks, with a couple floor pillows, your tablet will work just fine. That’s right. He’s going to take you on a magic tablet ride, so be very careful what you wish for, then hold on tight and don’t look down!
Follow with a GEOGRAPHY lesson { US, Africa, Syria)
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blue no. 2
If a genie came out of an electrical outlet at your Grandma’s house, what would you do? Well duh! You’d make a wish. But there aren’t any magic carpet rides with this genie.
He prefers modern technology and thinks your tablet will work just fine. That’s right. He’s going to take you on a magic tablet ride, so hold on tight and don’t look down!
Follow with a HISTORY lesson on notable African American scientists and inventors like John Lee Love.
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xi
my dog bytes
Tara Byte is a digital girl in a digital world and she is trying to tell a sleepy Snaky Marco that if this is his dog he had better come after him because real dogs can’t eat digital dog food. Can Tara and Snaky rescue Ben from the video game he has jumped into before Snaky’s Mom wakes up? Find out in Saga 11.
Follow with a computer SCIENCE lesson.
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talkin’ trouble
Jamar is Snaky’s BFF for sure. They can stay up all night playing video games or will Snaky’s Grandma start talkin’ “boomer” on the phone to her BFF and change the boys plans in a most unexpected way. Don’t open Saga 12 unless you are good and ready to go straight to hog heaven.
Follow with a SOCIAL STUDIES lesson on how language changes and evolves.
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superhero sandwich
With three ticking stripe aprons for capes, Granny Marco takes Snaky on a trip around the world to find the perfect ingredients for a superhero sandwich, but what Snaky actually
discovers are the ingredient that make superheros, like kindness, patience and courage.
Better learn how to use that GPS before you go, Granny.
Follow with a GEOGRAPHY lesson: Africa, India, and Japan.
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finster’s fenders
“Mister Finster,” Grandma said, “is a very busy man. He’s already used one-thousand two-hundred and forty-four cans!”
Snaky gets an original Howard Finster painted fender, but not before he and his Granny Marco take a truckload of scrap metal to Georgia. What in the world is the Folk Artist of Summerville going to do with the rest of those bicycle parts? Find out in Saga 14.
Follow with an ART HISTORY lesson.
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XV
CAT MOUNTAIN
All the cats in town, just went missing one Saturday night and the Mayor declared a state of emergency while assuring the panicked townspeople that he would find their beloved pets. Naturally, Cocoa Beenie volunteered to head up an aerial search, since she could fly up high over the mountain tops. Can Beenie find the missing cats or will the people be forever waiting for their fur babies to return home? Find out in Saga 15.
Follow with an ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE lesson.
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sea salty
Chuu, the Clam just wants to be happy but Ami and Emi, his best friends, the mermaid twins, are always fighting about things like their hair ribbons, who is next to swim up top to the beach and who left the cap off the shampoo so it just floated out of the bottle and made everybody bump into each other because they couldn’t see for all the bubbles. Will Ami and Emi learn to be nice so Chuu can come out of his shell? Find out in Saga 16.
Follow with a SOCIAL STUDIES / RELATIONSHIPS discussion on how students can maintain
confidence in themselves during difficult
personal or family crisis situations.
...happily ever after, it surely will be,
with a fine stack of books and a warm cup of tea.
-Come Back Soon-
BJ
