Fiction

Gr 9 Up—Olivia (Ms...

Gr 5—8—Wilson knew from an early age that writing was her calling...

K-Gr 2—Like last year's The First Christmas (Candlewick, 2010), this cheerful tale of Santa getting ready for his big night has "changing-pictures," which are created by overlaying two images, divided into horizontal or vertical slats...

K-Gr 3—Taken from her home in Indonesia when she was five years old, Anju has lived in captivity, performing with an American circus for 35 years, followed by 15 years in a small zoo...

Gr 8 Up—This volume centers around four main questions: "Who Are the Taliban?"; "How Should the United States Deal with the Taliban?"; "What Is the Taliban's Relationship with Pakistan?"; and "What Is the Taliban's Relationship with Other Nations?" It is within this framework that key leaders and experts such as Barack Obama, Peter Bergen, and Dmitry Shlapentokh explore issues from America's transitional military strategy to how the U...

PreS-Gr 1—Begin with one weird and wacky, black-and-white beastie, then add an additional, but very different-looking one, to each subsequent page, and you have the Emberleys' newest offering, done with their inimitable twist and style...

Gr 4—7—When Josephine Cravitz, 12, and her parents move to Awkward Falls, she explores the crumbling old mansion next door and finds a parentless boy living there...

Gr 4—7—Three years have passed since the underground city of Nightshade was liberated by intelligent and long-lived rats led by Juniper in Nightshade City (Holiday House, 2010)...

Gr 8 Up—Hannah Ward is a 19-year-old dancer with the Manhattan School of Ballet...