The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate School
School Library Journal Review: Gr 1-3?A nameless girl needs an idea for her science project. Her solution is to go on the Internet, where she comes across Professor Swami's Super Slime?a mutant yeast with just a piece of dragon DNA. Of course, she orders it and doesn't follow the directions on the box: do not […]
Race : a History Beyond Black and White
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Gr 9 Up?In his introduction, Aronson supplies a definition of the word "race" based on four assumptions, or "pillars," and then examines how each of them came into being historically. Then he literally begins at the beginning, starting with prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribes and works his way forward to modern […]
Emi and the Rhino Scientist
School Library Journal Review: Gr 5?8?Through lively prose and stunning full-color photographs, readers learn how Terri Roth, an expert in endangered-species reproduction at the Cincinnati Zoo, helped Emi to give birth to the first Sumatran rhino born in captivity in more than 100 years. One of five rhino species, the Sumatran rhino is relatively tiny […]
Blood Dreams
Publisher Weekly Review: In the plodding first of a new psychic crime fighter trilogy from bestseller Hooper (Sleeping with Fear), Noah Bishop of the FBI's Special Crimes Unit is now supervising an all-female team of civilian contractors known as Haven. Together, they track a serial killer who has moved his maniacal atrocities from Boston to […]
The Arrival
School Library Journal: Starred Review. Grade 7 Up?Tan captures the displacement and awe with which immigrants respond to their new surroundings in this wordless graphic novel. It depicts the journey of one man, threatened by dark shapes that cast shadows on his family's life, to a new country. The only writing is in an invented […]
The Shooters
Publishers Weekly: When DEA Special Agent Byron J. Timmons is kidnapped in Asunci?n, Paraguay, at the start of bestseller Griffin's rousing fourth presidential agent novel (after The Hunters), Timmons's grandfather asks his friend, the mayor of Chicago, for help. The mayor passes the request on to the U.S. president, who assigns his personal in-house expert, […]
The Venetian Betrayal
Jeff Ayers – Library Journal: Bookseller/former intelligence officer Cotton Malone can't stay out of trouble in his third adventure (after The Alexandria Linkand The Templar Legacy) that blends contemporary thrills with the historical past. Cotton receives a summons to a museum to meet the mysterious woman he reluctantly worked with in The Alexandria Link. Arriving […]
Last Night At the Lobster
The Washington Post – Ron Charles: The scope and emotional range of this poignant story are surprisingly narrow, as though O'Nan locked himself in a narrative box, tied one hand behind his back and then dared himself to make it engaging. The fact that he pulls it off is a testament to his precision and […]
Dark River
From the Publisher: The three children of Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw, grandchildren of the great leader Firestar, have thrived in their apprenticeships: Lionpaw's strength and energy serve him well as a warrior in training, Hollypaw hones her understanding of the warrior code, and Jaypaw explores his mysterious powers and connection to StarClan as the medicine cat […]
Bleeding Kansas
Publishers Weekly: Bestseller Paretsky, who has tackled weighty issues in her V.I. Warshawski detective series (e.g., the Holocaust in Total Recall), weaves a gripping contemporary novel around three farm families-the Grelliers, Fremantles and Schapens-that can trace their Kaw Valley, Kans., roots back to the 1850s, a time of violent clashes between antislavery and proslavery forces […]