K-Gr 2—A small Western town quakes in terror at the arrival of the notorious outlaw, Dirk Yeller...
Gr 6—9—At the end of The Suburb Beyond the Stars (Scholastic, 2010), Brian and Gregory passed through a portal to the world of the Norumbegans to enlist help in defeating the Thussers, who have defied the rules of the game that was supposed to settle the ancient conflict between these two peoples...

Gr 6—9—This carefully researched, gracefully written, attractively formatted book explores the discovery of the 9000-year-old Paleoindian whose nearly complete skeletal remains caused an uproar in both scientific and Native American circles...
Gr 11 Up—After the sudden death of her mother, Alexandria Lee, a 16-year-old hippie, moves from the communal farm in California where she was raised to live with her flawlessly beautiful and suspiciously young-looking grandmother in Georgia...
PreS-Gr 1—A young girl trudging home with her mom on an urban sidewalk complains of fatigue and wishes their house had legs and could walk to them...
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...