There's a Hole In the Log On the Bottom of the Lake
A cumulative text featuring repetition and tongue-twisters combine with gorgeous illustrations from New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long for a book kids will clamor for at storytime. Endpapers include sheet music and lyrics for kids and parents to have their own singalong!
Tournament At Gorlan
Donated by Little City Thrift Store. School Library Journal 09/01/2015 Gr 5 Up—Before becoming a full-fledged Ranger, Halt O'Carrick teams up with Crowley, a fellow protégé of master teacher, Pritchard. They hear that a dozen Rangers across Gorlan have been dismissed from their posts on trumped-up charges of disloyalty to King Oswald. It is a […]
Slaves of Socorro
Booklist Review In the fourth book of the Brotherband Chronicles, Hal and his crew sail the Heron across the sea to Araluen, where their first mission is to rescue 12 villagers abducted by a rogue band of Skandians. Breaking into the notorious slave market at Socorro is challenging, but can they can free the Araluens […]
Scorpion Mountain
Hal, his Brotherband crew, and the Ranger Gilan have freed the twelve Araluens sold into slavery. Returning to Araluen, Gilan is given a new mission by King Duncan: protect his daughter’s life. Princess Cassandra has survived one attempt on her life already, and now whispers of a second attempt have reached the kingdom. A deadly […]
Stuck
The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
School Library Journal Gr 5-8 It is March, 1889, in London, and Enola is still lodging in the East End and evading her brothers, Mycroft and Sherlock, so as to avoid boarding school. For six months, she has been using the alias Ivy Meshle and pursuing her "life's calling" as a Perditorian ("finder of the […]
The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan
School Library Journal Gr 5-8 Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes's 14-year-old sister takes on a new case, this one involving Lady Cecily Alistair, the champion of the poor and working classes of London. The Holmes brothers continue to be concerned about Enola's lack of a "proper" upbringing and she continues to evade them by disguising herself […]
The Case of the Left-handed Lady : an Enola Holmes Mystery
Children's Literature – Jean Boreen This second book of the Enola Holmes mystery series picks up with the lead character's new life in London. Using a variety of aliases—Ivy Meshle, Mrs. Ragostin (wife of the learned Dr. Ragostin), and the Silent Sister of the Streets—Enola is able to craft an independent life away from that […]
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline
School Library Journal Gr 5-9–From the riveting prologue to the satisfying conclusion, readers are hurled headlong into Enola Holmes’s latest case. Still eluding her brothers, Sherlock and Mycroft, who will, she fears, place her in a finishing school, Enola is horrified one day to find that her beloved landlady, Mrs. Tupper, has been kidnapped. Using […]
The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye
School Library Journal – School Library Journal Gr 5–9—In this fifth book in the series, Enola, younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, discovers that the royal Duque del Campo's wife, Duquessa Lady Blanchefleur, has gone missing. Through an array of pseudonyms and disguises, the 14-year-old sets out for the grimy underside of Baker Street's […]