The Dog Who Cried Wolf
Added to the library in honor of the birth of Anna Sophia Nicole Simpson. Kirkus Reviews: Moka's a good dog, and he loves his young owner Michelle. Life seems perfect until she reads a book about wolves to him. Moka takes a critical look at his life: the leashes, the dog food and particularly the […]
In a Blue Room
Added to the library in honor of the birth of Emillie Marie Smith. School Library Journal: PreS- This dreamy bedtime book doesn't have a single unnecessary word. Alice bounces on her bed, wide awake and making demands. She will only sleep in a room in which everything is blue. Mama brings in flowers, a cup […]
The Sea Serpent and Me
Added to the library in honor of the birth of Madison Nicole Nelson. Kirkus Reviews: This whimsical look at the friendship between a young female narrator and a fast-growing sea serpent will amuse young listeners while providing adult readers with the bittersweet opportunity to ponder the ways relationships grow and change. Smaller than the girl's […]
The Best Pet of All
Added to the library in honor of the birth of Gavin Marshall Condon. Child Magazine: After his mother repeatedly refuses to get him a dog, a little boy asks for a dragon. "If you can find a dragon, you can keep it for a pet," she replies. He does find one, of course, and life […]
I'll Pass For Your Comrade : Women Soldiers In the Civil War
VOYA: Silvey, author of Children's Books and Their Creators (Houghton Mifflin, 1995), offers a fascinating account of women who fought in the Civil War as she describes the primary reasons why women chose to disguise themselves and fight alongside their husbands and brothers. She provides more than a dozen examples of women who fought in […]
Bubble Homes and Fish Farts
Kirkus Reviews: Bayrock's love of "way cool science" bubbles over in this surprisingly substantial book. How do animals use bubbles? For sailing, running, breathing, nesting-even playing (dolphins seem to blow bubbles just for fun). Sixteen double-page spreads cover 16 wholly different ways that fish, insects, amphibians and mammals use bubbles. Did you know that one […]
The Diamond of Darkhold
Children's Literature: Nine months have passed since Lina, Doon, and their fellow Emberites left their underground home and joined the people of Sparks. Although the initial hostilities and arguments are over, life is still filled with hardships, and "Doon could see no way to make things better." Then one day a roamer appears and Doon […]
Bold New Horizons
Captain Jack Sparrow was once a teenager too! This series tells original stories about the scrapes the young pirate found himself in, and how he got out. Books 10-12 finish up a time-stopping story arc-literally! As Fitzwilliam's timepiece exhibits strange powers, Jack and his crew must make their way back to the present…and prevent their […]
The Sorcerer of the North
VOYA: Years have passed since Will's adventures in Skandia-he is now a full-fledged Ranger on his first assignment. Thinking he is stuck in the isolated Fief of Seacliffe, Will is surprised to be called away by his old mentor, Halt, for a secret mission. Rumors of genuine sorcery, not simple mind control or mass hysteria, […]
Doomwyte
On a moonless night, two rats follow hypnotic lights into the forest, never to be seen again. Such is the power of the Doomwytes, sinister ravens led by the deadly Korvus Skurr. And when the young mouse Bisky persuades the creatures of Redwall Abbey to go in search of a fabled treasure, hidden long ago […]