Sins of the Father
Fitz's father has finally caught up with the runaway, and he has the whole Royal Navy with him! If that weren't bad enough, Jack is being chased down by the mysterious pirate Teague. With the forces of both the Crown and the carousers pursuing them, will Jack and Fitz be able to hold on to […]
The Battle For Skandia
VOYA Fans of The Ranger's Apprentice series will again dive right into this fourth adventure. Will and Evanlyn have eluded their Skandian captors and are waiting out the winter in an abandoned hunting cabin. Halt and Horace have managed to bluff their way across the Skandian border. Apprentice and master are finally reunited as each […]
Clementine's Letter
School Library Journal: Gr 2-4: Clementine and Mr. D'Matz, her third grade teacher, are finally "in sync." But now he's a finalist in a contest and will be spending the entire week with the Adventures for Teachers Committee and, if he wins, he will go on a research trip to Egypt and miss the entire […]
Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig
Children's Literature: Mr. and Mrs. Watson have a pig and her name is Mercy. This cheerful chapter book for developing readers is the fifth in a series of books about Mercy, the domesticated pig, who finds herself in trouble frequently. In this humorous story, the Watson's neighbors become hysterical when they discover that Mercy has […]
Poseidon's Peak
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. Book 11 finds Jack setting off on his own for a treasure he's not even sure exists–the mythical Trident of Neptune. But a mysterious band of pirates is […]
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 […]
Ramp Rats : a Graphic Guide Adventure
Kirkus Reviews: In this second volume of Orca's Graphic Guide Adventures, the how-to topic is skateboarding. Tween Benny must beat local bully Crunch in an upcoming skateboarding contest to save face at the skate park. Meanwhile, he and his friends can't practice, since the entire town is a "no-skate" zone. As the law chases them […]
Asterwood
The Last Resort
The Hive Detectives : Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe
School Library Journal: Gr 5?8?The mystery of the vanishing honeybees began in the winter of 2006 when beekeeper Dave Hackenberg inspected 400 of his 3000 hives in Florida and discovered that 20 million bees had simply disappeared. He frantically alerted state bee inspectors and other beekeepers that there was some strange new ailment affecting these […]