Autumn shapes (Chernesky), a new version of “The Little Red Hen” (Finch), and a “Stella and Sam” story (Gay)
Some spooky tales and a story about seafaring cats
In a new series, sleuthing by teen heroines related to Sherlock Holmes and Bram Stoker (Gleason).
Flora, a pig, dreams of going to Antarctica and becoming a sled pig.
Today we look at three historical novels about very strange families. Taking things chronologically, first up is Sarah Dunant’s Blood & Beauty, about the very real, and very twisted Borgias of Renaissance Italy. Wikipedia lists among their crimes “adultery, simony, theft, bribery, and murder (especially by arsenic poisoning).” I quite like that parenthetical at the [...]
Leonard Peacock has big plans for his 18th birthday....to kill Asher Beal and then commit suicide....This is a difficult, yet powerful, book. Quick’s use of flashbacks, internal dialogue, and interpersonal communication is brilliant.
The book perfectly captures the feeling of riding the rails.
Africa Is My Home: A Child of the Amistad By Monica Edinger Illustrated by Robert Byrd Candlewick Press $17.99 ISBN: 978-0-7636-5038-4 Ages 9-12 On shelves October 8th It’s no secret that nonfiction in children’s literature is the buzzword of the day. Thanks to the rise of interest in the Core Curriculum State Standards, kids are [...]
Wearing stilts and a trench coat, Raccoon absconds with a stolen pizza.