Pirate
New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and 8 pages of new text! Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the dangerous and adventurous life of piracy, privateering, and buccaneering. Superb, full color photographs of weapons, ships, flags, maps, and treasure offer a unique and revealing "eyewitness" view of pirate life on the high seas. […]
Russell the Sheep
Donated to the library by Paula Hapgood in honor of area people who work with wool. School Library Journal Review: PreS-Gr 1?Russell can't sleep. While the other sheep are dozing off, he ponders the problem of insomnia. Is he too hot or too cold? Perhaps a better place would help. When nothing works, he tries […]
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 […]
Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs!
School Library Journal Review: Gr 2-4?Kudlinski presents a number of early dino theories?a spike on the nose of the Iguanodon, drawings that depicted dinosaurs dragging their tails in the mud and running on spraddled, lizardlike legs?and shows, in her simple text, how further discoveries disproved these, and other, assumptions. She includes data on present-day concerns […]
Terrific
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Eugene Crumb, the balding and paunchy protagonist of this desert-island send-up, views every lucky break with pessimism. When he wins a cruise to Bermuda, he sighs, "Terrific… I'll probably get a really nasty sunburn." His glass continues to be half-empty after he survives a shipwreck and gets marooned ("Terrific… Now […]
The Case of the Missing Marquess :an Enola Holmes Mystery
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Gr 4-8?In what is hopefully the start of an exciting new series, Missing Marquess features the intriguing, much younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes. Enola was a late-life baby, causing something of a scandal in society. Her rather vague mother is a 64-year-old widow who disappears on Enolas […]