All the Colors of the Dark
Marked Man
A Blood Red Morning
Reunion Beach
Septimus Heap. Book One, Magyk
School Library Journal Review: Gr 4-8?A wide cast of characters battle the forces of Darke Magyk in a well-realized world of fantasy. At birth, Septimus Heap is carried away for dead, and his father, Silas Heap, is entrusted with a baby girl. When the villainous Supreme Custodian tries to assassinate the now 10-year-old Jenna, who, […]
Flyte
School Library Journal Review: Gr 4-8?Septimus Heap, Apprentice to the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, is back in this sequel to Magyk (HarperCollins, 2005). The defeated, but not destroyed, DomDaniel is still bent on ruling the Castle as ExtraOrdinary Wizard by removing Jenna, the rightful heir to the throne. This time it's Simon Heap who, as the necromancer's […]
Physik
When Septimus Heap's father unseals a forgotten room in the palace, he releases the ghost of a queen that lived 500 years earlier who is as awful in death as she was in life. It's up to Septimus to stop her in this third installment of the heart-stopping series.
The Neddiad : How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. In Pinkwater's (The Hoboken Chicken Emergency) wonderfully silly book set in the late 1940s, young Neddie Wentworthstein mentions to his father that he wants to eat in the famous restaurant shaped like a hat. Never mind that the Brown Derby is in Los Angeles and the family lives in Chicago?Neddie's […]
William Clark and the Shaping of the West
Library Journal Review: For most of us, William Clark (1770?1838) is forever linked to Meriwether Lewis and their 1804?06 Corps of Discovery expedition across the North American continent. Jones (The Essential Lewis and Clark) capably describes this voyage while filling in the other details of Clark's life. In 1789 Clark joined the Kentucky militia and […]
Arctic Thaw : the People of the Whale In a Changing Climate
School Library Journal Review: Gr 5-8?A somewhat sobering, yet upbeat examination of the probable effects of global warming on the culture of the I?upiaq whale hunters of Alaska's North Slope. Lourie, in company with atmospheric chemist Dr. Paul Shepson and three of his students, made three journeys to investigate the problems presented by climatic change […]