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 […]

You Wish

Kirkus Reviews: When orphan Benjamin Bartholomew Piff makes a birthday wish for unlimited wishes, he follows the rules-eyes closed, he blows out all of the candles and doesn't reveal his wish-and suddenly, each wish he makes comes true. At the Wishworks Factory, where wishes are fulfilled, everyone is worried; for each wish Benjamin makes, another […]

Twilight

School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Gr 9 Up?Headstrong, sun-loving, 17-year-old Bella declines her mom's invitation to move to Florida, and instead reluctantly opts to move to her dad's cabin in the dreary, rainy town of Forks, WA. She becomes intrigued with Edward Cullen, a distant, stylish, and disarmingly handsome senior, who is also a […]

New Moon

School Library Journal Review: Gr 9 Up?Recovered from the vampire attack that hospitalized her in the conclusion of Twilight (Little, Brown, 2005), Bella celebrates her birthday with her boyfriend Edward and his family, a unique clan of vampires that has sworn off human blood. But the celebration abruptly ends when the teen accidentally cuts her […]