Fiction

Gr 4—6—Hooper is a happy dog until Hurricane Katrina leaves him without a family and a home...

Gr 4—7—This debut novel, told in alternating chapters by 13-year-old twins, Vicky and Rhianna Davies, recounts the desperate measures three siblings take to keep from being split up by the foster care system...

Gr 8 Up—Carlos Duarte, 16, has tremendous confidence...

Gr 4—6—This title looks at various aspects of humor, including history, types, cultural and gender differences, the physiology of a laugh, types of laughs, artificial laughter, animals and humor, and, finally, how to develop jokes and share them...

Gr 2—4—Kenney explains the significance of these three sites as national monuments...

PreS-Gr 1—The Cycling Wangdoos, a racing team, train in the mountains of Tibet...

Gr 9 Up—Four different artists present the lives of four United States presidents...

Gr 2—5—In his latest adventure, Frankie stumbles through a math quiz on a Friday afternoon, only to be given a second chance after school on Monday...

Gr 2—4—Amusingly framed as a cheesy popularity contest, this parade of personified planets features illustrations in which rotund, recognizably marked caricatures of these heavenly bodies pose and mug, surrounded by an entourage of relevant though unidentified scientists, space probes, satellites both natural and artificial, books, constellations, and astronomical symbols...