Big Mean Mike
I'm Bored
Rabbit and Robot : the Sleepover
Nighttime Ninja
Look Up!: : Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer
Publishers Weekly Burleigh (George Bellows: Painter with a Punch!) investigates a woman astronomer who made a significant discovery in the 1900s when most women in her field “were human ‘computers.’ Their job was to record. And measure. And calculate. The women were expected to ‘work, not think.’” Henrietta Leavitt didn’t comply. Working at the Harvard […]
I Funny
Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world's greatest standup comedian–even if he doesn't have a lot to laugh about these days. He's new in town and stuck living with his aunt, uncle, and their evil son Stevie, a bully who doesn't let Jamie's wheelchair stop him from […]
The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
School Library Journal Gr 5-8 It is March, 1889, in London, and Enola is still lodging in the East End and evading her brothers, Mycroft and Sherlock, so as to avoid boarding school. For six months, she has been using the alias Ivy Meshle and pursuing her "life's calling" as a Perditorian ("finder of the […]
Ice! : the Amazing History of the Ice Business
Children's Literature – Jean Boreen: Nonfiction written for kids has made such fantastic leaps in the past ten years, and this new interesting and informative addition is thoroughly enjoyable and readers will find it engaging. I am fairly confident that not too many children—much less their parents or teachers—have given too much thought to the […]
Alex the Parrot : No Ordinary Bird
Publishers Weekly: Alex, as adult readers may recall, was indeed no ordinary bird: for 30 years, this African grey parrot, purchased in a pet shop, was the research subject of animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg, who taught Alex how to count and do simple arithmetic; recognize shapes, materials, sizes, and colors; and speak and understand hundreds […]
Too Hot? Too Cold?
Kirkus Reviews: A fascinating and thorough look at how both animals and humans regulate their body temperatures. Beginning with the difference between warmblooded and coldblooded species (the terms endothermic and ectothermic are introduced but not used), Arnold devotes spreads to such topics as muscle movements, sweating, the shrinking and expanding of blood vessels in the […]