Red Sings From Treetops : a Year In Colors
Added to the Lisbon Public Library in celebration of the birth of Micah Gabriel Simpson.
Bad Boys Get Henpecked!
Added to the Lisbon Public Library in celebration of the birth of Aiden Scott O'Connor.
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Donated in Memory of Theresa Dowd by Mary & Don Beaudin. Children's Literature: Calpurnia is an active, inquisitive eleven-year-old girl, living in a small Texas town in 1899. She takes no interest in cooking or sewing and is, in fact, inept in all household duties. Calpurnia is the only girl in a family of seven […]
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Donated in Memory of Theresa Dowd by Mary & Don Beaudin. School Library Journal Gr 3-6: Living in the shadow of the Fruitless Mountain, Minli and her parents spend their days working in the rice fields, barely growing enough to feed themselves. Every night, Minli?s father tells her stories about the Jade Dragon that keeps […]
Shiver
Donated in Memory of Theresa Dowd by Mary & Don Beaudin. Publishers Weekly Stiefvater leaves the faeries of Lament and Ballad for a lyrical tale of alienated werewolves and first love. For years, Grace has been fascinated by the yellow-eyed wolf that saved her from its pack when she was a child. Sam, bitten by […]
When You Reach Me
Donated in Memory of Theresa Dowd by Mary & Don Beaudin. Children's Literature: Charmingly eccentric and impossible to categorize, this middle grade novel pays homage to Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time while employing many of that book's elements as it crisscrosses the boundaries between reality and fantasy, time travel and mystery. Three distinct storylines […]
Hip-Pocket Papa
Kirkus Reviews Building on the appealing notion of nurturing fathers, Markle and Marks present this tiny Australian frog in the context of its natural environment. Both male and female hip-pocket frogs guard their developing eggs, but after they've hatched, the male keeps his tadpoles safe in hip pockets until they have used up their yolks […]
The Circulatory Story
Junior Library Guild Selection.
The Magic Thief. Book One
VOYA One fateful evening, Conn attempts to pick the pocket of an old man wandering the streets of Wellmet. Conn discovers that he has removed a locus magicalicus, the magical stone of a wizard. Such stones and wizards are common enough in Wellmet; however, this wizard is not ordinary: Nevery has been banished from Wellmet […]
The Truth About Horses, Friends, and My Life As a Coward
School Library Journal: Gr 4-7?Though most girls love horses, Sophie has had only negative experiences with them. Mom had purchased a pony several years ago for Sophie's older sister to ride, but Really turned out to be a mean-spirited biter. Sweetheart, a trick-playing Arabian, and Fancy Free, a huge and intimidating Western Buckskin, were acquired […]