Duck and Cover
Added to the library in honor of the birth of Meredith Ivy Barnes. School Library Journal: PreS-Gr 2: Irene, the patient host to a menagerie of quirky animals, finds a new visitor at her door in this follow-up to Duck at the Door (2007) and Duck Soup (2008, both HarperCollins). Her visitor is Harold, an […]
Long Time No See
In Her Defense
The Graveyard Book
Children's Literature: Gaiman, famous for his creepy and often scary tales, Coraline and The Wolves in the Wall, has created in his new novel something that is neither creepy nor scary, despite its chilling first chapter and spectral cast of characters. This is a story about the power of family?whatever form it takes?and the potential […]
Circle of Three
The Saving Graces
The Masters Butchers Singing Club
Long Shadows
From the Publisher: The Clans are in turmoil. ShadowClan has turned its back on StarClan and pledged to follow the dark predictions of Sol, the strange cat who foretold the solar eclipse. But not all the cats have lost faith in their warrior ancestors. . . . Jaypaw is convinced that StarClan still holds an […]
William Shakespeare & the Globe
The Book Stops Here
Kirkus Reviews: A vegetarian Jewish bookmobile driver transplanted from London gets homesick. Now settled in Tumdrum, Northern Ireland (The Case of the Missing Books, 2007, etc.), Israel Armstrong misses everything he left behind: Grodzinski's cheesecake and espresso, his mates at The Bargain Bookstore, reading Booker prizewinners and, maybe most of all, his girlfriend Gloria. So […]