How to Make a Planet
Publishers Weekly 02/03/2014 Forbes offers a faux guide to creating a planet, with the second-person narration letting readers know exactly what they’ll need, starting with “a really, really Big Bang†(“it has to be so strong that it will go on for billions of billions of years,†he adds helpfully). Through this frame, Forbes enthusiastically […]
Love In the Time of Global Warming
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Little City Thrift.
Fortunately, the Milk
Kirkus Reviews Publishers used to say, "If you read only one book this year, make it this one." Gaiman has tried to write the only book anyone will need, ever, packing into it every adventure story written in the past 300 years. The book seems to include every plot on TVTropes.org. There's a time machine. […]
Big Nate : In the Zone
Big Nate always feels jinxed, but in his sixth adventure, things seem especially bad. Just as he is about give up, his luck changes, thanks to Chad's magic token. But how long can his lucky streak last?
Stone Giant : Michelangelo's David and How He Came to Be
Kirkus Reviews 2014-01-29 Sutcliffe make a big impression with this eye-catching introduction to one of Western civilization's most iconic sculptures. When the young artist was summoned from Rome back to his native Florence, he was commissioned to take on a work of heroic proportions. This sculpture of the Old Testament hero David was to symbolize […]
Parrots Over Puerto Rico
School Library Journal ★ 10/01/2013 Gr 3–6—Before humans arrived on the island, parrots numbered in the hundred of thousands. By 1967, only 24 birds remained. Since then, scientists in the Puerto Rican Parrot Recovery Program (PRPRP) have established aviaries to raise the birds in captivity and release them in the wild. Using a vertical page […]
The Dolphins of Shark Bay
School Library Journal ★ 11/01/2013 Gr 5–9—Turner's newest offering tops even her stellar The Frog Scientist (2009) and Project Seahorse (2010, both Houghton Mifflin) as she delineates and explains the research being conducted on a unique clan of dolphins at Shark Bay, Australia. The lucid text reveals the complexities of this cetacean society, first as […]
Jedi Academy
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Little City Thrift Store.
Hollow City : the Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
Added to the library in memory of Mike Trudell by Christine Trudell. From the Publisher: “…fans will be thrilled to know that the sequel to Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is as hauntingly sinister is the first and is unequivocally worth the wait. It’s a rare sequel that improves on the series’ beginning… A […]
The Great American Dust Bowl
From the Publisher "From its enticing, dramatic cover to its brown endpapers to a comical Grant Wood-esque final image, this is a worthy contribution to the nonfiction shelves." —Kirkus, starred review