by Dawn | Mar 11, 2012 | Picture Book
Zachary recalls his childhood days spent in Fenway Park watching the Boston Red Sox with his family. After his father gives him the foul ball he caught, Zachary feels the magic of a baseball that transports him onto the playing field. He cherishes his baseball until...
by Dawn | Mar 11, 2012 | Picture Book
Minerva is a spoiled child, who acts out because her parents are too busy to spend time with her. She has had fifty-two nannies in fifty-two weeks! It is the fifty-third nanny that finally turns things around. She dubs Minerva “the unruly queen” and wants to banish...
by Dawn | Mar 11, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
For as long as they can remember, Brendan and Gary have been mercilessly teased and harassed by the jocks who rule Middletown High. But not anymore. Stealing a small arsenal of guns from a neighbor, they take their classmates hostage at a school dance. In the panic of...
by Dawn | Mar 11, 2012 | Fiction
Clifford has a checkup every year! At his first visit to the vet, Clifford is very small, the smallest pet in the waiting room. He is brave when he gets a shot. The following year, Clifford returns to the vet. This time, he doesn’t even fit in the doorway! This is...
by Dawn | Mar 11, 2012 | Non-Fiction
History is one hair-raising subject. This fascinating book discusses the many hair styles and trends that have occurred throughout history. It explores hair from the origins of man up to the most expensive haircut on record, $16,700, which included lunch! This is a...
by Dawn | Mar 11, 2012 | Fantasy
It wasn’t so bad being invisible. Sometimes invisibility had its uses. When Jack is sent to Hazelwood, Iowa for the summer, he expects to be invisible there as he is at home. Little does he know that the people of Hazelwood have been waiting for him for a long...
by Dawn | Mar 11, 2012 | Non-Fiction
A lot can happen in a second. Even more in a minute, a day, or a month. Since a second speeds by so quickly, we need to look at what can happen in a second and relate that to the way we measure time. For example, in one second a rattlesnake shakes its tail in warning...
by Dawn | Mar 11, 2012 | Picture Book
Now that Eddie can get ready all by himself, his morning routine is anything but ordinary! Eddie goes through a checklist he has made himself for getting ready for school as his mother watches. Some of Eddie’s ideas of getting ready for school clash with his mother’s...
by Joanne | Mar 11, 2012 | Picture Book
“Up at Lake Winna-Bango…the far northern shore… Lives a huge herd of moose, about sixty or more, And they all go around in a big happy bunch Looking for nice tender moose-moss to munch” –Dr. Seuss, from THIDWICK THE BIG-HEARTED MOOSE...
by Dawn | Mar 11, 2012 | Non-Fiction
It was the 1930s, and many families had lots of kids. But only one family had enough to field a baseball team…with three on the bench! The Acerras loved the game, but more important, they care for and supported one another and stayed together as a team. ...
