Closed For the Season : a Mystery Story
VOYA Hahn creates a wonderful, fast-paced tale for adventure and mystery fans, in which Logan Forbes finds himself moving into a run down house in Bealesville, a new town outside of Richmond, Virginia. Before he even enters his new home, he learns from the boy next door that it is known as the "murder house." […]
Our Library
Added to the library in honor of the birth of Emma Jane Norton. School Library Journal: K-Gr 2: When Miss Goose informs the children that the library will have to close because it is in need of repair, Raccoon and his friends spring into action. The first thing they do is check out books (How […]
I'll Pass For Your Comrade : Women Soldiers In the Civil War
VOYA: Silvey, author of Children's Books and Their Creators (Houghton Mifflin, 1995), offers a fascinating account of women who fought in the Civil War as she describes the primary reasons why women chose to disguise themselves and fight alongside their husbands and brothers. She provides more than a dozen examples of women who fought in […]
The Aquarium Book
Alone In the World : Orphans and Orphanages In America
Uluru, Australia's Aboriginal Heart
Carolyn Mott Ford – Children's Literature: Uluru is a tremendous rock rising more than one thousand feet high in the Petermann Aboriginal Reserve in the continent of Australia. The sandstone formation is a sacred site to the native Anangu people. The first chapter tells the story of the rock which is now a favorite tourist […]
When Is a Planet Not a Planet? : the Story of Pluto
Children's Literature: Unless you have not been reading the papers, you know that there has been a major controversy about whether Pluto should be considered a full-fledged planet or reclassified as a dwarf-planet. In this book Scott recaps a lot of the history of astronomy, including some of the great names and their discoveries?Ptolemy, Copernicus, […]
Who Was First? : Discovering the Americas
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Gr 5?9?With characteristic polish, documentation, and readability, Freedman examines the evidence for determining who first discovered the Americas. Despite traditional historical emphasis on European discoveries, "tens of millions" of Native Americans were living here when these renowned explorers arrived. The author devotes separate chapters to Columbus's New World voyages, […]
E.E. Cummings
Kirkus Reviews A cogent biography weaves life and poetry together for an appreciative look at the unconventional and exacting artist. Reef takes readers from the happy childhood that nurtured his flair for theatrics, as well as his ear for language and rhythm, through his career at Harvard, where he encountered the avant-garde, to his rather […]
Flotsam
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. K-Gr 4?A wave deposits an old-fashioned contraption at the feet of an inquisitive young beachcomber. It???s a ??Melville underwater camera,?? and the excited boy quickly develops the film he finds inside. The photos are amazing: a windup fish, with intricate gears and screwed-on panels, appears in a school with […]