Raven\’s Gate
School Library Journal Review: Gr 9 Up?Matt is in serious trouble. He’s been involved in a robbery where a man was stabbed, and he now has to choose between jail or a new program that places juvenile offenders with community members. Suddenly he is moving to Lesser Malling and finding out about his chores on […]
Super Science Concoctions: 50 Mysterious Mixtures for Fabulous Fun
School Library Journal Review: K-Gr 6 Solutions, mixtures, emulsions, and gels are but a few of the concoctions presented here. Although many of the projects in this volume are familiar, it is the logical arrangement of the material that sets it apart. A brief, concise, and lively explanation of the scientific method and inexpensive ways […]
Inkheart
School Library Journal Review: Gr 4-8-Characters from books literally leap off the page in this engrossing fantasy. Meggie, 12, has had her father to herself since her mother went away when she was young. Mo taught her to read when she was five, and the two share a mutual love of books. Things change after […]
The Meanwhile Adventures
Publishers Weekly: The Mack family from The Giggler Treatment returns in The Meanwhile Adventures by Roddy Doyle, illus. by Brian Ajhar. This time the Slugs of Dublin don crash helmets in their attempt to take over the world (“No legs good! Two legs bad!”), Mister Mack inadvertently robs a bank and Billie Jean Fleetwood-Mack attempts […]
Freddy and Mr. Camphor
Worn out from his duties as President of the First Animal Bank and Editor of the Bean Home News, Freddy decides to relax for the duration of the summer by taking a position as caretaker of a large estate.
Eldest
FROM THE PUBLISHER Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on […]
The Golem\’s Eye, The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 2
The second adventure in the Bartimaeus trilogy finds our young apprentice magician Nathaniel working his way up the ranks of the government, when crisis hits. A seemingly invulnerable clay golem is making random attacks on London. Nathaniel and the all-powerful, totally irreverent djinni, Bartimaeus, must travel to Prague to discover the source of the golem\’s […]
The Amulet of Samarkand, Bartimaeus Trilogy ,book 1
Set in modern-day London, this first book in a gripping new trilogy introduces young magician\’s apprentice Nathaniel. Humiliated by a hotshot wizard, Nathaniel summons the not-so-tame djinni, Bartimaeus, and sends him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand.
Good brother, Bad brother : the Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth
On April 14, 1865, five days after the end of the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth fired a single shot and changed the course of American history. His infamous deed cost him his life and brought notoriety and shame to his family-particularly his elder brother, the renowned actor Edwin Booth. From that day forward, Edwin […]
Naughts & Crosses
School Library Journal Review: Gr 8-10?Excited by the idea that her best friend, Callum McGregor, will be going to her school, 13-year-old Persephone Hadley, daughter of a racist politician, is too young and too privileged to realize that friendships between naughts, like Callum, the son of her mother\’s former maid, and Crosses, like herself, are […]