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." […]
The Bat Scientists
School Library Journal Gr 5 8—This series entry takes readers along with Merlin Tuttle and a crew of BCI (Bat Conservation International) into bat caves and bridges, trees and houses to study these agile flitterers. Carson's readable, informative text dispels the ugly myths that have haunted these nocturnal hunter/gatherers, detailing bats' usefulness to humankind from […]
The Chiru of High Tibet : a True Story
Children's Literature Chiru are unique animals whose wool, called shahtoosh, "the king of wools," is "the warmest and the finest in the world." They live in Chang Tang, a bitterly cold area of Tibet. Every summer the females migrate to a secret place to give birth. When George B. Schaller learned about the chiru, he […]
The Hunt For the Seventh
VOYA When Jim, Sal, and their father move into chilly old Minerva Hall, Jim instantly is repelled by its unpleasant owner, Lord Minerva, and by the terrifying feeling that ghostly children are just out of sight. The death of Jim's mother has completely devastated his father, who badly needs the job as head gardener for […]
Happenstance Found
Children's Literature When Happenstance is found in the cave by Lord Umber, Oates, and Sophie, he does not remember who he is, where he is, or how he got there. But the strange man Umber has a note with information about him and wants to take him away. The foursome manages to flee the giant […]
Dying to Meet You
Children's Literature Ignatius B. Grumply is the author of a children's fiction series about ghosts. Although Mr. Grumply's publisher has advanced him $100,000 for his next book, he seems unable to get started. In fact, he has had trouble getting started for more than ten years. That is why, in desperation, Mr. Grumply begins a […]