Reviews

Gr 5 Up—For Madison, played by Dora Madison Burge, life is carefree and full of fun...

Gr 9 Up—This is no Twilight rip-off, but a graphic novel adaption of a popular series that paranormal aficionados will love...

Gr 2–4—At eight years, eight months, and eight days old, Archie Morningstar is finally old enough to join his dad on the midnight taxi shift for "Take Your Kid to Work Day...

PreS-Gr 2—Sweet Little Sammy is having a bad day, and no one knows exactly why...

Gr 9 Up—Healy, Texas, is a small town where everyone knows each other's business, and the scandals that unfold around Alice Franklin are no exception...

K-Gr 4—These three books each take a different look at the animal world...

PreS-Gr 1—"Everybody knows monsters SNARL! But did you know…Even snarling monsters ride the bus to school...

Gr 7 Up—Seventeen and long orphaned, Kyra has grown up using her natural speed and stealth to thieve her way through life on Forge's streets...

Gr 9 Up—Adapted for younger audiences by the redoubtable Stefoff but not significantly different in scope, arguments, or, for that matter, reading level from Diamond's original (Harper, 1992, 2006), this wide-ranging study of what makes us human offers provocative views of evolution, adaptation, cultural diffusion, sexuality, genocide, race, mass extinctions of the past and present, the roots of drug abuse and language, and even the search for extraterrestrial intelligence ("we're alone in a crowded universe...