Super Sniffers : Dog Detectives On the Job
Publishers Weekly Review: Patent provides an extensive and eye-opening look at how dogs are trained for a variety of service capacities, including in the military, for search-and-rescue operations, and as medical alert dogs. Occasional profiles of individual dogs appear amid larger, photo-heavy discussions of the wide variety of jobs these dogs do and how they […]
Mistakes Were Made
Children's Literature – Caroline Moore Failure Inc. is the best detective agency in town—just ask the owner and founder, Timmy Failure, and his 1500-pound polar bear, Total. Timmy runs his detective agency out of a closet and uses the Failuremobile (his mom’s Segway) to move about town, solving a variety of cases. As Timmy works […]
The Tell-tale Start
Children's Literature – Lois Rubin Gross This might be the start of a hilarious series! Edgar and Allan Poe are super-identical twins who share thoughts, feelings, and pranks that get them expelled from their Baltimore school. The orphaned twins, great-great-great-great grand-nephews of Edgar Allan of horror story fame, live with their incredibly tolerant aunt and […]
Oblivion
Anthony Horowitz's spellbinding fantasy series storms to a fitting finale in this fifth installment of The Gatekeepers. A raging storm has unleashed evil powers that the five youthful Gatekeepers will be hard-pressed to neutralize this world-crushing threat. One series closer you won't want to miss.
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Publishers Weekly Librarians and English teachers will happily recommend this adventurous romp from Grabenstein (the Riley Mack books), which pays playful homage to books and libraries while engaging readers in a fast-paced competition involving research and reasoning skills. Twelve seventh-graders win a chance to spend an overnight lock-in previewing their town’s new public library—it’s a […]
The Saturday Boy
School Library Journal Gr 5–8—It's been more than eight months since Derek, 11, has seen his dad, a soldier who flies Apache helicopters and is stationed in Afghanistan for another tour. They keep in touch through letters that Derek keeps in his dad's old school lunch box. He's read them so often he knows exactly […]
Beautiful Redemption
Entertainment Weekly : "The fourth and final installment picks up after the massive cliff-hanger in Beautiful Chaos and doesn't disappoint."
Stubby the War Dog
Publishers Weekly 04/21/2014 American soldier J. Robert Conroy befriended a stray dog with a stumpy tail while training to fight overseas in WWI. They bonded so closely that Conroy smuggled him to Europe, where Stubby accompanied Conroy’s regiment on the Western Front, lending both his superior olfactory senses and amiable temperament to the war effort. […]
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
"The modernist look, inherently interesting topic, and strong documentation…make this title a positive addition." —School Library Journal
My Country, 'tis of Thee : How One Song Reveals the History of Civil Rights
Publishers Weekly 04/14/2014 “More than any other, one song traces America’s history of patriotism and protest.” Murphy’s (Marching with Aunt Susan) sweeping opening line sets the stage for subsequent examples of how marginalized groups have adopted and changed the song, “My Country, ’Tis of Thee.” A straightforward narrative examines the song’s various versions. Beginning in […]