The Secret Club
From the Publisher: Moving to a new town is exciting! But Tamsin misses her old friends. Her new classmates are cool, but they have a secret club with mysterious anklets. And Tamsin isn't a member, yet. Will one "no" vote keep her out of the club…and out of friends?
The Worst Gymnast
Sister Spirit
Cave of the Dark Wind : a Never Land Book
From the Publisher: While Peter is away from the island, James and the other Lost Boys discover a mysterious cave. Shining Pearl and her sister Little Scallop warn the boys that the cave is a dangerous place, inhabited by a creature known as the Goat Taker – a beast so scary that even the Mollusk […]
The Problem Child
School Library Journal Review Gr 4-6?Sabrina Grimm, 11, and her 7-year-old sister, Daphne, are still on the trail of The Scarlet Hand, which has kidnapped their parents. On the way to rescuing them, the sisters meet their likable Uncle Jake, whom they had never heard of before. Granny Relda had arranged for everyone in town […]
The Sisters Grimm : the Unusual Suspects
School Library Journal Review: Gr 4-6?In this second book in the series, Sabrina and Daphne continue their family's fairy-tale detective work in the Hudson River town of Ferryport Landing. The village has more than its share of Everafters, a group of fairy-tale characters who escaped persecution in Europe by fleeing to America over 200 years […]
Ox, House, Stick : the History of Our Alphabet
From the Publisher: Bold collage illustrations and clear prose trace the origins of our familiar letters. From the proto-Sinaitic peoples, through the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans, this book follows the development of the Roman alphabet. Includes sidebar information on punctuation, writing materials, the technology of printing, and more.
War In the Middle East
From the Publisher An award-winning journalist offers a reporter?s-eye view of the Middle East conflict, from Black September to the Yom Kippur War to events of the present day. In 1970, when the Jordanian civil war known as Black September began, U.P.I. correspondent Wilborn Hampton was sent to report on unfolding events. Holed up in […]
Everything You Should Know About: Hummingbirds Faster Learning Fact
The Sisters Grimm, Book One : the Fairy-tale Detectives
School Library Journal Review: Gr 4-6?Buckley has created a world in which humans and fairy-tale creatures live side-by-side in rural New York in an uneasy alliance. Brought here by Wilhelm Grimm in an attempt to save them, the Everafters are now kept in check by the man's descendants. Enter Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, two sisters […]