The History Puzzle : How We Know What We Know About the Past
School Library Journal Review: Gr 5-8 Beller looks at more than 20 historical sites or archaeological excavations, from the World Trade Center to Olduvai Gorge, from the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975 to Noah???s Ark, in order to present the varying interpretations of history and how they have been colored by tradition, socioeconomic […]
Junie B., First Grader: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!
Here's Looking At Me
This book explores how artists see themselves.
Your Eyes In Stars
Publishers Weekly: Kerr's (Gentlehands) eminently readable novel set during the Depression almost feels like two books in one. Narrated by 14-year-old Jessie Myrer, the daughter of a prison warden (she dubs him a "benevolent dictator"), the first part chronicles her blossoming friendship with a new neighbor, Elisa Stadler, whose family has moved from Germany to […]
Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls : a Mystery
School Library Journal Review: Gr 9 Up?While at the Big Blonde club, Lulu loses her purse?the one with gorgeous Alfy Romero's phone number in it?and she wants it back. Along with her friends Charlie and Daisy, she sets out to find it and becomes enmeshed in a wild case of identity theft and homicide. Why […]
John, Paul, George & Ben
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. For those constitutionally opposed to history lessons, Smith (Math Curse) profiles the Founding Fathers as the nonconformist kids they might have been. Beatles allusions, like the title, are mercifully few but well-placed ("Say, you want a revolution?" the narrator asks, referring to 1776) as Smith introduces each fellow. "Once there […]
Mercy Watson Goes For a Ride
Booklist: PreS-Gr. 2. Mercy the pig, who proved herself a worthy child substitute in ercy Watson to the Rescue (2005), is up to her old tricks again. This time the self-absorbed, endearingly naughty Mercy brings many a child's dream to life: she squeezes herself onto Mr. Watson's lap and commandeers his beloved 1959 pink Caddy […]
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs
School Library Journal Review: K-Gr 3?This imaginary adventure combines a boy's two passions?pirates and prehistoric animals. Flinn's markers run out while he is drawing a dinosaur at school and he goes to the supply closet to get more. There he discovers a sobbing pirate who explains that his ship has been stolen. Along with three […]
Carnival At Candlelight
While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster.