Reveiws

Gr 9 Up—Sixteen-year old Zoe's mother has cancer, her dad is barely coping with his wife's impending death, and her best friend is moving in Annette Curtis Klause's debut ovel (Delacorte, 1990)...

Gr 7 Up—In a story set at the end of World War I, the poverty of her Texas sharecropping family sends 17-year-old Mercy Kaplan away to support herself...

Gr 4—6—It's the year 1955 and the U...

Gr 3—6—Minli, who lives with her poor parents in the junction of Fruitless Mountain and the Jade River, loves her father's stories about Jade Dragon and the Old Man of the Moon...

Gr 5 Up—Louisa May Alcott's charming, although now somewhat dated, companion piece to the perennially popular Little Women highlights the life of the wildest of the March sisters, Jo, now married to "her professor," and presiding as the harried but happy mistress over the Plumfield Estate School—home to a small group of needy boys, relatives, and sons whose mischievous antics and emotional upheavals provide ample opportunities for Alcott to share her personal philosophy about learning and life...

PreS-1—Research has determined that children who are exposed to books and language in the preschool years have a much better chance becoming successful readers when they reach school age...

PreS-Gr 3—Author/singer/songwriter Sarah Pirtle's latest release of children's music is filled with songs about animals, nature, and family...

PreS-Gr 1—Poor Max is having a terrible day due to his class assignment to color a "dumb flower picture" as a Mother's Day present...

PreS—Grammy nominee Michele Valeri sings 15 of her original compositions, backed up by Marcy Marxer (ukuleles, congas, guitar, mandolin, churango, percussion, bass) and Cathy Fink (banjo, guitar)...