Try This! : 50 Fun Experiments For the Mad Scientist In You
Kirkus Reviews 2014-06-25 Pretested by a crew of young assistants, these dozens of science demonstrations are both doable and worth doing.The experiments are grouped into seven categories such as "Bugs and Microbes," "Weird Physics" and "Things Water Does." They range from making slime ("oobleck") and "biofilm" to designing a cat IQ test and constructing skittering […]
Playing Pro Football
School Library Journal 11/01/2014 Gr 4–7—Top-notch writing, colorful photos and sidebars, fact boxes, and diagrams combine to make this series a standout. Many readers dream of athletic stardom: these books offer an overview of the less glamorous side: what players must do to reach the professional level of sports, athletes' daily routines, and how they […]
Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
School Library Journal Review : Starred Review. Gr 3-5-Even those who aren't fans of musician Johnny Cash will appreciate the beauty of this biographical picture book. Written in free verse, with colorful, realistic illustrations done in oil, this title poignantly portrays the powerful influences of poverty, religion, family, and music on Cash's life. When Cash […]
Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle
School Library Journal Review Gr 1-4-While transforming animals' waste products into life-giving material, dung beetles perform a vital cleaning service to the environment. This overview of the three types of dung beetles sometimes uses fanciful language, e.g., the "dung-pat pie fresh from the oven," but rather than distract, it lightens the topic. Often arriving within […]
Fablehaven
TeensReadToo.com : Kudos to Mr. Mull for such a great debut fantasy novel, and for giving me something absolutely wonderful to read during my Harry Potter-deprived winter. I can't wait for the next book in the series!
A Farm of Her Own
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Mount Hope Grange #77 in Memory of Sally Boivin.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid : the Long Haul
Overview: A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun . . . unless, of course, you’re the Heffleys. The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns. Gas station bathrooms, crazed seagulls, a fender bender, and a runaway pig—not exactly Greg Heffley’s idea of a good time. […]
The Unsinkable Walker Bean
Publishers Weekly This rip-roaring tale of swashbuckling adventure from the Eisner Award-winning Renier offers up a story line and art of equally intriguing depth. It is colonial times, and Walker Bean must help his grandfather, who’s been cursed by a pair of witchy undersea lobster-women named Tartessa and Remora, by returning a magical skull to […]
Pathfinder
VOYA, August 2014 (Vol. 37, No. 3) – Mary Ann Darby Alice TodHunter Moon is feeling lost and confused—her mother has died, her father has vanished, and horrible creatures are snatching up villagers and chasing her. Seven years after the final installment of Septimus Heap, Tod lives in a village of PathFinders, and just after […]
Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Publishers Weekly ★ 09/15/2014 Tension escalates in Henrietta, Va. (as does the body count), in the third of four titles in Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle, following The Raven Boys and The Dream Thieves. Gansey’s elderly British mentor, Malory, is just one of the new arrivals in town (he’s certainly among the more benevolent) as Gansey, Blue, […]