Keeper of the Lost Cities
Midnight Sun
The Cousins
Physik
When Septimus Heap's father unseals a forgotten room in the palace, he releases the ghost of a queen that lived 500 years earlier who is as awful in death as she was in life. It's up to Septimus to stop her in this third installment of the heart-stopping series.
The Neddiad : How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. In Pinkwater's (The Hoboken Chicken Emergency) wonderfully silly book set in the late 1940s, young Neddie Wentworthstein mentions to his father that he wants to eat in the famous restaurant shaped like a hat. Never mind that the Brown Derby is in Los Angeles and the family lives in Chicago?Neddie's […]
Arctic Thaw : the People of the Whale In a Changing Climate
School Library Journal Review: Gr 5-8?A somewhat sobering, yet upbeat examination of the probable effects of global warming on the culture of the I?upiaq whale hunters of Alaska's North Slope. Lourie, in company with atmospheric chemist Dr. Paul Shepson and three of his students, made three journeys to investigate the problems presented by climatic change […]
Walker Evans: Photographer of America
Kirkus Reviews: Nau presents the life and times of photographer Walker Evans, who first found widespread recognition with his photos for James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. As a young man, Evans felt compelled to photograph indigenous American culture: people on the street, buildings in disrepair, signs and images that represented the real […]
Jack Plank Tells Tales
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Billed as Babbitt's first novel in 25 years, this book is really a charming collection of linked stories about the gentler side of pirate life aboard the Avarice. The tale-teller, Jack Plank, understands that "plundering" is not his strong suit: "You have to yell and make faces and rattle your […]
Pretties
School Library Journal Review: Gr 9 Up?This sequel to Uglies (S & S, 2005) continues to provide a gripping look at a dystopian future, but does not stand on its own. Tally, the protagonist of the first book, has forgotten all that she did as an Ugly and has completely embraced the mindless life of […]
Septimus Heap. Book One, Magyk
School Library Journal Review: Gr 4-8?A wide cast of characters battle the forces of Darke Magyk in a well-realized world of fantasy. At birth, Septimus Heap is carried away for dead, and his father, Silas Heap, is entrusted with a baby girl. When the villainous Supreme Custodian tries to assassinate the now 10-year-old Jenna, who, […]