A Family of Poems : My Favorite Poetry For Children

Mary Quattlebaum – Children's Literature When the cold winds howl, cozy up with your kids and A Family of Poems. Editor Caroline Kennedy clearly understands children's delight in image and sound and doesn't shy away from challenging poems that can be savored by readers of all ages. The result is a rich compendium, with verse […]

Birds

Added to the Lisbon Public Library in celebration of the birth of Evan Edward Becker.

Fade

School Library Journal: Gr 9 Up : This intriguing, if not quite stand-alone, sequel to Wake (S & S, 2008) follows undercover investigators and high school seniors Janie Hannagan and her partner/boyfriend Cabel as they attempt to unmask and trap a sexual predator teaching at Fieldridge High. Janie is a dream catcher-she has the ability […]

Bite Me : a Love Story

Publishers Weekly A vampire cat is stalking San Francisco in Moore?s serviceable latest comic horror adventure (after You Suck), and the only humans who can take him down are goth girl Abby Normal and her brainiac boyfriend, Stephen ?Foo Dog? Wong. They, in turn, call upon Abby?s masters, vampiric lovers Jody and Tommy, who were […]

Think Twice

Library Journal Scottoline (Look Again) takes us back to Bennie Rosato's all-female law firm and the warm, witty women who work there. Bennie's twin sister, Alice, shows up, and if we weren't sure she was evil before, now we know: Alice drugs Bennie, buries her alive, then impersonates her sister in a scheme to steal […]