by Dawn | Dec 5, 2011 | Fantasy
This second volume in the Books of Umber series is a worthy successor to the first, and continues to develop a fascinating fantasy world. Although young Happenstance, the boy with no memory and the amazing jewel-like eyes, has had enough adventures for a lifetime, and...
by Dawn | Dec 5, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Gritty, complex, snarky, self-effacing, smart, and poignant And Then Things Fall Apart will grab the reader and likely remain with the reader days and weeks after the novel is finished. Keek is stuck in her grandmother’s hot attic room suffering from chicken pox...
by Dawn | Dec 5, 2011 | Picture Book
“Celebrate the season from a to z.” This alphabet book uses brilliant photographs to present an assortment of things connected somewhat loosely to the season of autumn. The photographs make it perfect for sharing with a younger audience. 32 pages...
by Dawn | Dec 5, 2011 | Paranormal
Romantic, captivating, powerful, and all-consuming, Carrier of the Mark is a different kind of paranormal romance. When Megan moves to Ireland with her father, she has a mini-culture shock. School is Ireland is a little different than back home in the U.S. For one...
by Dawn | Dec 5, 2011 | Non-Fiction
“In 102 minutes hijackers had destroyed the World Trade Center, crippled the Pentagon, and doomed four jet liners. 2,973 people were dead, more than the number of Americans killed at Pearl Harbor or on D-Day. It was the largest loss of life on American soil as a...
by Dawn | Dec 5, 2011 | Fiction
From the jacket flap: If you’re brimming with questions, I have a suggestion…the need to inquire just might require a book such as this. (It’s not to be missed.) In a series of rhyming questions and wonders, a boy gets no closer to answers, but has more questions...
by Dawn | Dec 5, 2011 | Picture Book
“He was a boy on a farm and a kid with chicken pox. He was a soldier, and a husband, and a gardener, and most of all, an artist.” Grandpa Green’s great grandson tells the tale of his great grandpa’s life by wandering through the garden reflecting on the...
by Dawn | Dec 5, 2011 | Non-Fiction
“With a marionette, the controls are above and the puppet hangs down… But what if the controls were below and the puppet could rise up?” “There’s a holdup in the Bronx, Brooklyn’s broken out in fights; There’s a traffic jam...
by Dawn | Dec 5, 2011 | Picture Book
Life is very short and there’s no time for fussing and fighting myfriends”– Lennon/McCartney “Just kicking down the cobblestonesLooking for fun and feeling groovy”– Paul Simon Everything seems pretty darned difficult these days....
by Dawn | Dec 5, 2011 | Fiction
Spunky is happy with his life as it is. He was adopted from an animal shelter by a great family. He is devoted to brothers Julian and Huey Bates, sleeps in Huey’s Blanket Cave every night, and has all the Nibbles he wants. Sometimes Spunky is frustrated that...
