Reveiws

Gr 7 Up—Listeners do not have to be familiar with the first two titles—Life As We Knew It (2006) and Dead and Gone (2008)—in Susan Beth Pfeffer's "Last Survivors" trilogy to understand the final installment (2010, all Harcourt and Listening Library) about the aftereffects of the destruction of the Moon by a meteor resulting in the death of millions of people and the alteration of the Earth's climate...

Gr 3—6—What if you turned into a fire-breathing dragon every time you got mad? That's the dilemma 15-year-old Princess Millie faces in E...

Gr 6—9—Princess Talia of Euphrasia lives with the shadow of a curse placed on her at birth by the witch Malvolia in Alex Flinn's delightful twist (HarperTeen, 2009) on the story of Sleeping Beauty...

Gr 7 Up—Based on Anne Frank's diary, Sharon Dogar's compelling story (Houghton Mifflin, 2010) is told from the viewpoint of Peter Van Pels, the 15-year-old boy whose family joined the Franks in hiding in an annex in Amsterdam during World War II...

Gr 6—9—Kate, whose father was a woodcarver, learned to use a carving knife before she could use a spoon...

Gr 4—7—Eleven-year-old Tess is dismayed when she finds out her Bethsaida Island, Maine, school might close due to lack of students...

Gr 7 Up—Welcome to Monster High! It's a place where movie monsters' descendants attend high school right along with the "normies," though they have no clue...

Gr 7 Up—Gracie believes that there are only two kinds of girls: "Those Girls," who make heads spin and horns beep, and everyone else...

Gr 9 Up—Jenna, a member of the Green Teen club, plans to spend the summer at home in New Jersey working on environmental campaigns with her best friend, Olivia...