Wolves
Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Jeffrey Scott Rogers. Synopsis: What do wolves really like to eat? It isn't little girls in red hoods. Rabbits shouldn't believe what they read in fairy tales,but this book has the facts.
The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate School
School Library Journal Review: Gr 1-3?A nameless girl needs an idea for her science project. Her solution is to go on the Internet, where she comes across Professor Swami's Super Slime?a mutant yeast with just a piece of dragon DNA. Of course, she orders it and doesn't follow the directions on the box: do not […]
Found
Children's Literature: Margaret Peterson Haddix is good with children in peril. She is also good with slightly futuristic scenarios. She melded the two in her popular "Shadow Children" series and seems set for another success in her brand new series offering, "The Missing." Book 1 sets up the premise and major characters. A planeload of […]
Homefront
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Gr 6-8?To Margaret Ann Motley and her family, World War II seems very far away from Wight County, VA, until Aunt Mary Lee and her daughter are forced to flee England. Margaret Ann and her cousin Courtney, both 12, don't hit it off, and, to make matters worse, Courtney […]
Naughts & Crosses
School Library Journal Review: Gr 8-10?Excited by the idea that her best friend, Callum McGregor, will be going to her school, 13-year-old Persephone Hadley, daughter of a racist politician, is too young and too privileged to realize that friendships between naughts, like Callum, the son of her mother\’s former maid, and Crosses, like herself, are […]