The Penderwicks :a Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Gr 4-6 ?This enjoyable tale of four sisters, a new friend, and his snooty mother is rollicking fun. The girls' father is a gentle, widowed botany professor who gives his daughters free reign but is always there to support or comfort them. Rosalind, 12, has become the mother figure. […]
Arthur & George
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. As all Sherlockians know, in 1906 Arthur Conan Doyle took on the case of George Edalji, a reserved young lawyer, half Scottish and half Indian, who was wrongly accused of mutilating animals?and in the process helped set up Britain's Court of Appeals. Perhaps it is not so surprising that the […]
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
"Memories of My Melancholy Whores is Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first work of fiction in ten years, written at the height of his powers, the Spanish edition of which Ilan Stavans called, "Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is disturbing" ("Los Angeles Times). On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, our unnamed protagonist-an undistinguished journalist and […]
The Scarecrow and His Servant
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Gr 4-6?Old Mr. Pandolfo, feeling that life is getting too difficult?what with troublesome weather, troublesome soldiers, and very troublesome cousins?decides the time has come to create a scarecrow. At least a scarecrow would take care of the birds. Mr. Pandolfo creates a fine scarecrow, indeed, with a large turnip […]
Sammy Keyes And the Dead Giveaway
FROM THE PUBLISHER: The bad news: Sammy's made a deadly mistake. The good news: No one knows she did it. The delicious dilemma: Everyone thinks her archenemy Heather is to blame. Now Heather's in a major jam, and in some ways it's only fair–Heather's pinned more than a few crimes on Sammy. Besides, there are […]
1491 : New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. In a riveting and fast-paced history, massing archeological, anthropological, scientific and literary evidence, Mann debunks much of what we thought we knew about pre-Columbian America. Reviewing the latest, not widely reported research in Indian demography, origins and ecology, Mann zestfully demonstrates that long before any European explorers set foot in […]
No Country for Old Men
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Seven years after Cities of the Plain brought his acclaimed Border Trilogy to a close, McCarthy returns with a mesmerizing modern-day western. In 1980 southwest Texas, Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles across several dead men, a bunch of heroin and $2.4 million in cash. The bulk […]
Eldest
FROM THE PUBLISHER Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on […]