When I was a kid, I would look forward to three school events every year. One of which was the Scholastic Bookfair. The giant truck full of books would come in March of every year and I would get to pick up a huge haul of books, posters, toys, and even little trinkets. One series that I made my mom buy year after year was the Puppy Place series written by Ellen Miles. It would cover a story about an orphan dog who gets fostered by two siblings named Charles and Lizzie Peterson and eventually adopted to its fur-ever home at the end of the story. I bought these books (probably like 15 of the total 64 books) because I loved (still do) dogs and the book would come with some kind of toy or piece of jewelry. I had a bunch of necklaces, earrings (which I never wore), charm bracelets, and keychains which I almost never wore. I just kind of collected them. One year, I had gotten the latest book and the new bracelet that came with it when my mom told me she had to throw the bracelet and the trinket from last year away because they had cadmium in them. There had been a recall on these little pieces of jewelry because the factories in China that had been making them were found to have been putting cadmium in the jewelry pieces to keep costs down. I had never heard of cadmium until then (I was 8 or 9) and to this day I still remember it as the poisonous reason why my mom threw my little lockets away. So when I was researching this piece and found out that cadmium was a toxic metal, you should know I immediately screamed at my computer going, “Cadmium! I remember this!”