by Joanne | Jan 20, 2012 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Jimmy Gownley’s protagonist Amelia is a nine-year-old girl living with her mother in a small northeastern town in Pennsylvania after the divorce of her parents. (Amelia’s parents are to be commended for keeping an amiable relationship following the break-up of their...
by Katy Manck | Jan 20, 2012 | Science Fiction
Rachel knows she can never return home if she crosses the Line, but it’s the only way to save a man’s life. So she carries medicine into a primitive land – the land where the government stranded some of its own citizens when it sealed the country against enemy...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Historical Fiction
No one at the nursing home believes Lizzie as she tells a fantastic story about an elephant in the garden. Lizzie shares her story with Karl and his mom one winter’s day, as Karl helps rekindle her memories. Lizzie recalls for them the story of how her mother, who...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
As Grace takes a vacation from school to visit her grandmother who is moving, she worries that her best friend Mimi will replace new neighbor Max and his annoying friend Sammy as her best friends. When she gets back from visiting her grandmother, she discovers that...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Natural disaster and supernatural evil collide in the seventh volume of the epic BONE series. A long-dormant volcano explodes, blacking out the sun, mowing down trees, and filling the land with soot and ash. The Lord of the Locusts has been released. Against this...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Picture Book
Saying ‘I Love You’ in sign language feels good. Having a ladybug land on your hand feels good. Making a new friend feels good. Todd Parr celebrates all the feel-good things that tickle kids and adults alike, from rubbing noses and rubbing a dog’s...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Historical Fiction
This special Dear America edition is actually two stories in a single volume. In part one of a two-part story, Julie Weiss’s world is suddenly torn apart by a war that will forever change the face of humanity. Her life as a privileged Jewish girl quickly becomes...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Historical Fiction
The peaceful, traditional Southern life that Emma Simpson and her family know is shattered when the Civil War reaches their soil. Soon, Emma’s father and brother are called to battle, but her family is confident the South will quickly win the War between the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Historical Fiction
In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California — the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle. In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land. And where he...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2012 | Fantasy
Don’t miss this middle grade fantasy adventure about a boy, a magical tiger, an outlaw dragon, and a mischievous monkey who carry the fate of the world on their shoulders. From two-time Newbery Honor-winning author Laurence Yep (Dragonwings, Dragon’s Gate), now with...
