Before They Were Famous : How Seven Artists Got Their Start
When famous artists were kids, did they paint like artists? Or did they paint like kids? Find out for yourself in the pages of this book by art lover Bob Raczka. You ll see some of the first works ever done by seven well-known artists. You ll also learn plenty of fascinating facts about the […]
Radiant Shadows
Romantic Times BOOKclub: “Marr has done it again with this dark, beautifully woven story of love, magic, and belonging. She offers new insight on characters readers will fall in love with all over again. This is one of Marr’s best.†(a Top Pick)
Dave, the Potter
Children’s Literature Hill’s terse but emotionally evocative, poetic text describes the work of an enslaved potter in the 1800s. Known only as Dave, he not only created about forty thousand pots up to forty gallons in size, but also inscribed brief poems on some of them. We can admire them in museums today. Introducing Dave’s […]
Case Closed? : nine mysteries unlocked by modern science
Junior Library Guild selection.
Silverborn: The Mystery of Morrigan Crow
Into the Gauntlet
Clockwork Angel
VOYA Tessa, a sixteen-year-old orphan, travels solo across the Atlantic to Victorian England to join her brother in London. But her brother doesn’t meet her at the port—the Dark Sisters do. The Sisters keep Tessa captive while teaching her to use her “talent,” the ability to change into anyone else, dead or alive. Eventually Tessa […]
Reckless
School Library Journal Gr 7 10—Funke takes readers on a new adventure into a magical place where the dark side of fairy tales holds sway. Jacob Reckless, like his father before him, escapes into the Mirrorworld, and all is well until his younger brother, Will, follows him in and falls under the enchantment of the […]
The search for WondLa
School Library Journal Gr 5–8—Twelve-year-old Eva Nine is being raised by Muthr, a pale blue robot who is loving and maternal (she speaks in the sweet, unflappable tones of a 1950s sit-com mom), in an underground home on the planet Orbona. When a marauder destroys her home, she leaves Sanctuary in a quest to find […]
Monster High
Synopsis: From Lisi Harrison, the New York Times bestselling author of The Clique and Alphas, comes a new series with a fresh twist on high school, romance, and the horrors of trying to fit in. They prefer to call themselves RAD (Regular Attribute Disorder), but some call them monsters. So far, the “monster” community has […]