Reviews

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...

Debbie Cavalier and her friends have compiled an entertaining and diverse album featuring pop rock musical styles with samplings of disco, classical, and worldbeat...

Gr 9 Up—When you wake up on the Island of Nil, the rules are simple: you have exactly one year to get off, or you die...

Gr 8 Up—Hollihan profiles the lives of 16 trailblazing war correspondents in this well-researched and riveting book...

K-Gr 2—Samuel accidently bumps into Hamza and further angers the boy when his goblet of wine tips over onto him...