by Joanne | Dec 14, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Elsie Wyatt wants to be a professional musician just like her dad. She plays the French Horn and she wants to audition as a freshman for the prestigious Shining Birches. If she was accepted, she would be the youngest person to join the group. She joins the high school...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 14, 2011 | Non-Fiction
ONE DAY THAT CHANGED A NATION A nonfiction master brings the start of the American Revolution to life. A 26-year-old King George II found himself in financial turmoil after crushing the French, Austrians, and Spanish in battle. Luckily money was no object since he...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 14, 2011 | Picture Book
It’s Christmastime, and Mortimer Mouse, unhappy in his cramped, cold hole, goes in search of a new home. He spies a nativity scene that looks just right for him, so he moves the statues out and settles himself into the manger! But when he hears the Christmas...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 14, 2011 | Picture Book
In My First Christmas, warm illustrations and easy-to-follow text celebrate the joys and traditions of this special holiday. From decorating the tree to putting cookies out for Santa, the Christmas spirit is beautifully captured by Tomie dePaola.—from the...
by Joanne | Dec 14, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Slave Henry married slave Nancy and they had several children. One day while Henry was at work his master sold Nancy and the children. Henry was powerless to save his family, he knew he had to get North to begin a search for his family. Henry builds a crate and mails...
by Katy Manck | Dec 13, 2011 | Picture Book
Wrong Way duckling doesn’t waddle behind Mother Duck just like Right Way and Your Way. He wants to splash in a puddle or look for snails instead of just walking down the path to the pond for swimming lessons. Do you think that Wrong Way will swim just the way that...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 13, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Everybody knows the ancient Greek myth of the Minotaur…or do they? In Dark of the Moon, Tracy Barrett flips the story on its head and lends the tale a new perspective. The main players are all in place, but their motivations and roles in the story are quite different...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 13, 2011 | Non-Fiction
In 1999, the popular German woman’s magazine Brigitte voted the deceased twenty-one-year-old Sophie Scholl ” The Woman of the Twentieth Century” and in 2003 the Greatest Germans TV series ranked her the highest German woman in the country’s...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 13, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Titanic Sinks! is an incredibly interesting read made so by author Barry Denenberg’s use of a fictionalized journalist, S. F. Vanni as the narrator. The character Vanni’s reports on the Titanic’s maiden voyage as he travels along on the ill-fated ship are pitch...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 13, 2011 | Picture Book
Ant is thrilled. She has received an invitation to dinner with the king. Since this is the first time she has been so honored, Ant wants to make a good impression. She arrives on time, and is careful to use her best table manners. However, the same cannot be said of...
