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These very basic introductions will work best when accompanying classroom instruction.
Through a brief story, each book demonstrates multiple uses of one punctuation mark: Ahmed, for instance, uses exclamation points when he makes the soccer team (Exciting!). Different-color type effectively highlights each in-text use of the featured punctuation mark. The stories are slight, but the repeat characters' enthusiastic, friendly faces may engage readers. A list of each mark's key functions is appended. Review covers these Punctuation Station titles: "What Did You Say?", Stop Right There., Take a Pause, Paul, This Is Exciting, We're Going to the Smiths' House, and What Is That?.
A debut romance for libraries looking to diversify their offerings.—Marilisa Jiménez García, Hunter College, New York City
Evan and Alma are in love, but they couldn't be more different: he's from a wealthy Georgia family, while she and her family are undocumented Mexican immigrants. Their relationship is threatened when their town begins deporting its illegal residents. Though the story's obvious political viewpoint is presented at the expense of character development, it succeeds in humanizing a controversial issue.
Told with skillful poetic nuances, this Romeo-and-Juliet story of forbidden love will entice fans of Maggie Stiefvater's "Raven Cycle" (Scholastic) who wished for a little more romance.
Fast paced and exciting, this accessible novel will appeal to those who enjoy adventure stories.—Marie Orlando, formerly at Suffolk Cooperative Library System, Bellport, NY
As winter wanes in the mountain regions of Colorado, Nashoba, an aging wolf, struggles to find fresh game for his pack, all the while desperately trying to hold on to his alpha status. He knows full well that his true survival depends not on besting an eager challenger but on the next kill, which will produce life-saving food. A shrewd raven named Marla, seeking an unlikely partnership, offers to help Nashoba hunt if he will let her share the leavings. In a parallel story, thirteen-year-old Casey also dreams of kills, but those that are from a video game he plays incessantly. These kills are both spectacular and numerous, and his appetite for real-world hunting is whetted when he receives a bow-and-arrow set for his birthday. These two stories—of one struggling with decreased killing power and one full of his own increasing power