A CHARMING STORY OF FRIENDSHIP, CAREFREE SUMMERS, AND WISHES COMING TRUE Do lightning bugs eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and flash messages in Morse Code when they light up? RAY'S VIOLET is a wonderful book for young, first time chapter book readers. It is page turner with a bit of mystery. Violet is a mischievous purple lightning bug with magic powers and loving intentions. Fourth and fifth graders love reading it themselves, and younger children love listening to Violet's shenanigans. This is a great book for classroom reading. Teacher materials are available for free at www.sharonwalrondharris.com. Visit the site also for a video about Morse Code and to play a children's memory game with pictures from Ray's Violet. Ray's summer is ruined before it begins when he comes home from the last day of fourth grade to find a FOR SALE sign in his yard! Will he have to move from the only home he has ever known and leave his school and his best friend? When the realtor brings families to see the house and strange things start to happen, Ray wonders if his imagination is going wild...or is something magical truly happening? Could his new pet lightning bug, who communicates with him by Morse Code, have something to do with the magic? Or is his mother right when she says he has a good imagination? In either case, something strange is going on!