Insanity
VOYA, February 2014 (Vol. 36, No. 6) – Natalie Simonian While Vaught uses vivid descriptions throughout her novel, the same basic storyline is repeated not once, not twice, but three times. The author never clearly explains the structure of her supernatural world. The reader views the world through the first-person perspective of three characters who […]
Vanishing Acts : a Maggie Brooklyn Mystery
When a movie starring tween heartthrob Seth Ryan starts filming in Park Slope, everyone gets movie mania-including Maggie Brooklyn Sinclair. Though her plans to become a movie extra don't quite work out, Maggie manages to capture Seth's attention and he seeks her out at the Pizza Den to talk. But just when Maggie's life is […]
A Question of Magic
Children's Literature – Jeanna Sciarrotta When Serafina receives a letter from her great-aunt Sylanna, whom she has never met, she has no idea just how much her life is about to change. Sylanna writes about an inheritance that she wants to leave Serafina that requires the girl to visit. Upon arrival at her great-aunt's cottage, […]
Secrets At the Chocolate Mansion : a Maggie Brooklyn Mystery
"Take your cookies elsewhere." That's what the note said in neat, block-like print, attached to a box of Girl Scout Cookies. Someone is out to sabotage the new sweet shop in the neighborhood, and Maggie Brooklyn is on the case. If only she weren't so freaked out herself lately. Maggie's new dogsitting gig has her […]
History of the Rain
"You can smell the peat burning and feel the ever-present mist in acclaimed Irish novelist Williams’ luscious paean to all who lose themselves in books. Williams captures the awe and all of Ireland—its myths and mysteries, miseries and magic—through the pitch-perfect voice of a saucily defiant young woman who has witnessed too much tragedy but […]
Throne of Glass
This book was received as part of a grant from the Children's Literacy Foundation (clif).
The Bone Season
Publishers Weekly Shannon offers up a richly imagined debut, opening a projected seven-book series about clairvoyants used as catspaws in the year 2059, two centuries after mysterious events changed the world. Paige Mahoney possesses the illegal and extremely rare power of dreamwalking, using it to serve a criminal syndicate in a London controlled by the […]
How Do You Burp In Space?
School Library Journal Gr 4–6—Aimed at readers who will be part of the first generation of true space tourists, this breezy guide offers general advice about how to prepare for the trip, what to pack, what food and accommodations are going to be like, and suitable recreations both in Earth's orbit and on the Moon. […]
Wednesdays In the Tower
A castle that is constantly rearranging itself, and a young royal family sworn to protect it… Celie, Rolf, and their beloved Castle Glower are back in this exciting sequel. When her brother Rolf dares her to catch magical Castle Glower creating a new room, Princess Celie takes the challenge! No one knows the Castle better […]
Flora : a Novel
"Godwin, celebrated for her literary finesse, presents a classic southern tale galvanic with decorous yet stabbing sarcasm and jolting tragedy…. Godwin’s under-your-skin characters are perfectly realized, and the held-breath plot is consummately choreographed. But the wonder of this incisive novel of the endless repercussions of loss and remorse at the dawn of the atomic age […]