Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
KLIATT Buckle your seatbelts: the final book in this breathless SF adventure series about young people with wings has arrived. Max and her "flock," accompanied by a talking dog and pursued by vicious half-wolf Erasers and crazy scientists, are on the run again, trying to stop the destruction of half the world's population while the […]
Dogs and Cats
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. K-Gr 5?This could have been just another book about pets, albeit with a clever gimmick (after reading about one of the species, youngsters can flip the volume over to learn about the other). However, Jenkins has created a book that reaches beyond the mundane and into the spectacular. The […]
Hurricane Force : In the Path of America's Deadliest Storms
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Gr 4-8?Using books and other resources listed in his source notes, personal experiences growing up in South Florida and as a reporter for the New York Times, and material garnered from the newspaper, Treaster has created a serious scientific and socioeconomic look at one of nature's deadliest forces. From […]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Don't miss the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling's bestselling Harry Potter series!
The Christmas Pig
Cam Jansen and the Summer Camp Mysteries
Cam Jansen and her best friend, Eric, are spending three weeks at Camp Eagle Lake. Along with sports, arts and crafts, and other fun activities, there are also three exciting mysteries to solve: The First Day of Camp Mystery, It's a Raid!, and The Basketball Mystery. With three camp mysteries in one book, this super […]
Evil Genius
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. With a series of breakneck twists and turns, Jinks's (the Pagan Chronicles) latest novel follows Cadel Piggott, a seven-year-old Australian boy with an incredible mind and a proclivity toward mischief: "He loved systems: phone systems, electrical systems, car engines, complicated traffic intersections." Following a string of disasters, which Cadel engineers […]
Lawn Boy
Publisher Weekly Review: At the start of this witty, quick-moving tale from the Newbery author, a 12-year-old receives an unexpected birthday present from his grandmother: his late grandfather's riding lawn mower. Since his family's lawn is postage-stamp size with grass that never seemed to grow enough to need mowing, he's initially unsure what to do […]
The Sight
"There will be three, kin of your kin . . ." The wild cats have flourished in their new home on the banks of the lake for several seasons, and the Clans are growing strong and healthy with new kits. The time has come for three kits of ThunderClan to become apprentices. Hollypaw, Jaypaw, and […]
Summer Ball
School Library Journal Review: Gr 5?8?This novel continues the story of Danny Walker, the basketball-obsessed hero of Travel Team (Philomel, 2004). In the interval between the two books, the 13-year-old and his friends went on to win the travel-team championship. Now that they are heading off to summer basketball camp, Danny is feeling the pressure […]