Island Book 3 Escape
It's bad enough that Luke, Lyssa, Will, J.J., Ian, and Charla are stuck alone on the island. Now they have company–bad company. Also, Will is seriously injured and needs help immediately. Before, escape was something the kids could only hope for. Now it's a matter of life and death.
Gizmos & Gadgets : Creating Science Contraptions That Work (& Knowing Why)
School Library Journal Review: Gr 4-7-Hauser gives directions for making a bunch of gadgets, gizmos, contraptions, and doohickeys constructed with stuff often found in cupboards, closets, garages, and "junk" drawers. Materials such as plastic soda bottles, marbles, buttons, straws, and cardboard tubes are cut, trimmed, shaped, and bent in order to be glued, stapled, sewn, […]
Cave Sleuths
Not all scientists spend their days inside laboratories; a hardy few are out in the field taking high-adrenaline risks to unravel scientific mysteries. In this series, you'll meet daredevil scientists from a variety of disciplines who regularly face danger and their own fears in order to gather crucial data.Driven by curiosity and the desire to […]
Hidden Child
After more than 50 years of keeping his story to himself, Isaac Millman reveals his personal experience as a child in France during World War II–and how his life was changed forever–in spare prose, vivid composite paintings, and family photos that survived the war.
Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May.)
It's holiday time, and Room One is doing lots of fun things to celebrate.Like making elf costumes! And singing joyful songs! Only, how can Junie B. enjoy the festivities when Tattletale May keeps ruining her holiday glee? And here is the worst part of all! When everyone picks names for Secret Santa, Junie B. gets […]
Sammy Keyes And the Dead Giveaway
FROM THE PUBLISHER: The bad news: Sammy's made a deadly mistake. The good news: No one knows she did it. The delicious dilemma: Everyone thinks her archenemy Heather is to blame. Now Heather's in a major jam, and in some ways it's only fair–Heather's pinned more than a few crimes on Sammy. Besides, there are […]
High Rhulain
School Library Journal Review: Gr 6 Up?The Redwall saga continues with a book that can stand entirely on its own. Tiria is a young ottermaid with amazing skill with rock and sling. She lives in Redwall with her father and the entire cast of beloved characters from earlier novels. When she starts to dream of […]
Replay
School Library Journal Review: Gr 6-8?Meet Leonardo. His family calls him sardine, as he often feels smashed between Contento, his moody older sister, and his two younger brothers, Pietro and Nunzio. His life is filled with possibilities; he's a dreamer (which gains him the additional nickname of fog boy). But two events converge in unexpected […]
Percy Jackson & the Olympians : Book 1, the Lightning Thief
Publisher Weekly Review: A clever concept drives Riordan's highly charged children's book debut (the first in a series): the Greek Gods still rule, though now from a Mt. Olympus on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building, and their offspring, demigods, live among human beings. Narrator Percy Jackson thinks he's just another troubled 12-year-old, […]
The Sacrifice
Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1692 and await trial in a miserable prison while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom.