Prodigy
Publishers Weekly The characters are known, world-building is complete, and readers know the destination is still out of reach. It’s the second book of a trilogy—how will the author handle it? Lu opts for a high simmer of intrigue in her sequel to Legend. June and Day are crucial pawns in the game of political […]
The Animal Book
Publishers Weekly ★ 09/23/2013 Jenkins compiles more than 300 animals, using a loosely encyclopedic format with sections covering topics like “Animal Extremes,†“Predators,†and “Animal Senses.†Jenkins’s always skillful use of cut- and torn-paper animal artwork appears throughout (several images comes from his earlier books), while factually detailed captions describe each subject, resulting in a […]
Sea Turtle Scientist
Dr. Kimberly Stetwart, also known as the Turtle Lady of St. Kitts, is already waiting at midnight when an 800-pound leatherback sea turtle crawls out of the Caribbean surf and onto the sandy beach. The mother turtle has a vital job to do: dig a nest in which she will lay eggs that will hatch […]
Champion
Publishers Weekly ★ 10/07/2013 The conclusion to Lu’s Legend trilogy opens on a stage set for personal resolution, maybe even a happy ending. With the political transition established and the Patriots quiet, June and Day appear to have the opportunity to close their romantic distance. But there are lessons neither has learned about how much […]
Mastiff
Added to the library in memory of Mike Trudell presented by Christine Trudell.
The Case of the Vanishing Honey Bees
Kirkus Reviews 2013-09-15 Markle presents a solid, respectful overview of colony collapse disorder for an audience slightly younger than Loree Griffin Burns' The Hive Detectives (2010). The author opens her story in October 2006, with a beekeeper checking on his hive to discover that thousands of his workers have disappeared. From this compelling opening, she […]
Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled : How Do We Know What Dinosaurs Really Looked Like?
"Readers will come away from this excellent book with a new appreciation for dinosaur imagery and for the talented paleoartists who produce it." —The Horn Book Magazine, starred review
Toilet : How It Works
School Library Journal ★ 10/01/2013 Gr 2–5—A unique nonfiction offering that deals with human waste in a way that most other books have not. The topic of toilets could go in many directions, and this book addresses a number of them. Readers learn the biology of why people need to use a toilet, how it […]
The House of Hades
Kirkus Reviews 2013-10-11 Having plunged into Tartarus at the end of the last book, The Mark of Athena (2013), Percy and Annabeth struggle toward the Doors of Death, while their friends hurry to meet them on the other side at the titular House of Hades. Riordan is most successful in his evocation of Tartarus and […]
Allegiant
Publishers Weekly 10/28/2013 Roth shakes up her storytelling (and will do the same to some readers) in this highly anticipated, largely satisfying wrap-up to the Divergent trilogy. First, the majority of the story takes place outside the city walls, since Tris and Tobias (aka Four) have joined the rebel group known as the Allegiant, whose […]