Reveiws

Gr 3—5—Ten-year-old detective Encyclopedia Brown solves ten new cases in this installment (Dutton, 2009) in Donald Sobol's series...

Gr 3—6—Master storyteller Jim Weiss recounts his own version of the Lewis and Clark Expedition...

Gr 4—7—Imagine being a fifth grade superhero who is bullied at school...

Gr 3—6—In Lois Duncan's sequel (2010) to Hotel for Dogs (2008) and News for Dogs (2009, all Scholastic), 12-year-old Andi Wallace thinks that she came in second place one too many times...

Gr 8 Up—Three angels in human form are sent to the small town of Venus Cove to offset the forces of evil and restore faith in the community...

Gr 9 Up—Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier have gathered 12 stories about zombies and unicorns by well-known and lesser-known authors in this collection (Margaret K...

Gr 8 Up—Charles Benoit's debut young adult novel (HarperTeen 2010) is told in the second person, hence the title...

Gr 9 Up—Beatrice Szabo is having a tough year in this novel (Scholastic, 2009) by Natalie Standiford...

Gr 5—8—The nine short stories in this collection (Harcourt, 1994) by Bruce Coville involve a box given to a boy by an angel, a boy who may be a unicorn, an unseen monster stalking some children, a vampire telling a tale of the blood-drinking tradition, men who are werewolves, an obsessively neat family brownie and a not so neat girl, a headless ghost with a message, the American flag and standing up for one's beliefs, and the company of elves...