Author Biographies

Noah Alexander is a Freshman at Innovation Academy that works hard throughout his projects. This is one of his many projects that can be found online, while others consist of vlogs or presentations sent to competitions. Noah usually spends his days with his friends and family whenever he isn’t busy with his school work. Noah was born in Plano, Texas and currently abides in a humble abode in Palestine, Texas.

He has previously made it to state competition for Mathematics in P.S.I.A, Private School Interscholastic Association, and placed 3rd place out of over 25 districts, sending two of their best to the competition held at Texas Christian University. He wanted to write this book so that younger children could have an insight into Antigone without the grueling details of her father Oedipus.

Autumn Baublet is a freshman attending Innovation Academy. Ms. Baublet strives for greatness in all that she does from academics to her morals. She normally spends her days with her family on the road or at local baseball fields, to play her favorite sport. Baublet lives in Palestine, TX and plans on graduating from Innovation Academy and attending law school for her future.

Autumn decided to participate in the making of this book because she finds making complex readings for young adults interesting when they can be correlated to cartoon characters so that young children can understand in a less dense fashion.

  Hannah Thornton is a freshman at Innovation Academy who tries her best in school. Hannah usually spends her days outside with her family. She wrote this book to help kids understand that concepts presented in ancient Greek literature can be easily grasped. Hannah is now attending online Music Appreciation college classes through UT Tyler.

Once upon a time, there were hippos, sloths, and war. The West Side of the hippo exhibit at the Caldwell Zoo had a leader named Mr. Juicy. He was very angry that the East Side Hippos got all the scrumptious grapes and all the bright green lettuce while Mr. Juicy and the rest of the West Side got the brown lettuce and leftover squashed grapes at the bottom of the bucket.

The West Side hippo's started discussing how they're tired of the inequality that was taking place in the hippo exhibit. Mr.Juicy started to discuss planning a battle between the two sides by storing up all their brown nasty lettuce and squashed grapes to throw at the East Side hippos to show how dissatisfied they were. Mr.Juicy told the hippos that they will seek victory even if it meant upsetting them.

The giraffes of the South were eavesdropping and started to gossip about the war as they watched the hippos gather supplies. While they chat one giraffe expresses his worry that the war will do damage towards all of the zoo.

3 days passed and the lettuce and mushy grapes built up. The hippos discuss their game plan for taking the east side hippos food. Mr. Juicy takes the lead and gathers all his friends for the battle.

That night, the North sloths talked to the South giraffes about how perilous this war would be and how they would schedule a safety meeting for tomorrow. They agreed that they must discuss how imperative it is to stay safe in their homes and to not let their leadership skills takeover.

Morning came and the hippos of the West began to prepare for battle.