by Dawn | Dec 12, 2011 | Picture Book
“All at once the wind stopped blowing, not even a breeze, and the wind disappeared. The sky turned a strange shade of green and the farm fell completely still. The only sound Otis heard as he putt puffed toward the barn was the farmer shouting in the distance....
by Dawn | Dec 12, 2011 | Picture Book
A young boy remembers the stories his father told him about he and his family living through the great depression. No matter how rough it got there is a sense of optimism in the family. 40 pages ISBN-13: 978-0375861970 Reviewed by: Frank Hodge, Bookseller Emeritus,...
by Dawn | Dec 12, 2011 | Mystery
Trophy disappears from the display case at Mary Todd Lincoln Middle School and a nature week for the 8th graders is cancelled until the trophy is returned. Bethedsa Fielding with cohort Tenny Boyer set out to solve the case. However with each clue uncovered a new...
by Dawn | Dec 12, 2011 | Action / Adventure
Story of a dog’s coming of age as the dog, Rascal, desperately tries to save the life of his injured human boy master. His trials bring him in contact with many animal denizens of the bayou. 208 pages ISBN-13: 978-0375866517 Reviewed by: Frank Hodge,...
by Dawn | Dec 12, 2011 | Picture Book
“Will I see you again?” Gus asks his dog Ella. “A promise made under a full moon cannot be broken,” she replies. What is more natural than a boy and his dog sitting together under the moon? Nothing—except that Gus has his arm around his skeletal dog, who died earlier...
by Dawn | Dec 12, 2011 | Picture Book
Bad Kitty is decidedly Grinch-like about Christmas, and she has an alphabet of reasons why she’s unhappy and acts she has committed against the household’s Christmas preparations to show it. After her poor behavior, the family takes her and Poor Puppy off to see Uncle...
by Dawn | Dec 12, 2011 | Fiction
Megan and her family are part of a group called Travelers who roam each summer around Ireland doing odd jobs for survival. Megan loves the freedom she feels when the family is on the road. Megan’s two feet are in Dublin but her heart is going down the road come...
by Dawn | Dec 12, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Terezin, a model concentration camp established by the Nazis to satisfy the International RED CROSS over prisoner treatment, had a school for children. The poetry included is imagined based on what was found buried after the war. Very appropriate for students engaged...
by Dawn | Dec 12, 2011 | Fiction
Twelve year old Andrej with his nine year old brother Tomas and infant sister Wilma flee from the Germans in WWII when their Romany encampment is bombed. They find refuge in a private zoo where the animals speak to them about freedom and the lives they used to...
by Katy Manck | Dec 12, 2011 | Action / Adventure
Rachel wonders about The Others, the mutated creatures that exist across The Line. That invisible barrier still protects the Unified States from the results of a terrible war. No one crosses it now; no one worries about the Unified citizens who were trapped outside...
