In a Glass Grimmly
From School Library Journal Gr 3 Up-Gidwitz is back with a second book that, if possible, outshines A Tale Dark & Grimm (Dutton, 2010). Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, cousins Jack and Jill have had a particularly tough day. Jack has a mean-boy problem: he's bullied and tortured by a clique whom […]
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
Children's Literature – Jean Boreen This is a superlative look at a "humbug" that occurred in New York State in 1869 when a local farmer dug up a ten foot tall man/statue, offered the paying public an opportunity to see it, and then dealt with the backlash of the public realization that the petrified giant […]
Zombie Makers : True Stories of Nature's Undead
The Washington Post …creepy and fascinating…Johnson's book is the stuff of nightmares as well as scientific progress. —Abby McGanney Nolan
Reached
Publishers Weekly: As the finale to Condie's Matched trilogy opens, Cassia, Ky, and Xander are separated, working as subversive agents of the Rising rebellion and awaiting their chance to take down the dictatorial Society. Condie doesn't waste time getting to the action: the long-awaited Rising begins in the early chapters, and its ramifications and complications […]
The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan
School Library Journal Gr 5-8 Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes's 14-year-old sister takes on a new case, this one involving Lady Cecily Alistair, the champion of the poor and working classes of London. The Holmes brothers continue to be concerned about Enola's lack of a "proper" upbringing and she continues to evade them by disguising herself […]
The Case of the Left-handed Lady : an Enola Holmes Mystery
Children's Literature – Jean Boreen This second book of the Enola Holmes mystery series picks up with the lead character's new life in London. Using a variety of aliases—Ivy Meshle, Mrs. Ragostin (wife of the learned Dr. Ragostin), and the Silent Sister of the Streets—Enola is able to craft an independent life away from that […]
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline
School Library Journal Gr 5-9–From the riveting prologue to the satisfying conclusion, readers are hurled headlong into Enola Holmes’s latest case. Still eluding her brothers, Sherlock and Mycroft, who will, she fears, place her in a finishing school, Enola is horrified one day to find that her beloved landlady, Mrs. Tupper, has been kidnapped. Using […]
The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye
School Library Journal – School Library Journal Gr 5–9—In this fifth book in the series, Enola, younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, discovers that the royal Duque del Campo's wife, Duquessa Lady Blanchefleur, has gone missing. Through an array of pseudonyms and disguises, the 14-year-old sets out for the grimy underside of Baker Street's […]
Who Could That Be At This Hour?
Overview In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. He began asking questions that shouldn't have been on his mind. Now he has written an account that should not have been published, in four volumes that shouldn't be read. […]
Snakes
Publishers Weekly Calling snakes “strange, secretive, and surprising,†Bishop offers an excellent photographic guide to these reptiles in all their diversity. Striking magnified images depict a variety of snake species in the wild and in captivity, including a feathered bush viper (whose scales resemble tree leaves), garter snakes overwintering in a burrow, and an African […]