Gr 8 Up—Clarity "Clare" Fern, 16, has a gift, or maybe it's a curse...
Gr 6 Up—Avvy Go lives and works in Chinatown, Toronto, where the immigrant community struggles, but she goes to school in a beautiful, wealthy neighborhood that features large houses and entitled peers...
PreS-Gr 1—Mud holds a natural attraction for children it seems, and Gammell imaginatively plays off that premise with pages full of swirls and drips of brownish colors set against grays and blues of showery skies...
Gr 9 Up—While this book was written for, and specifically addresses, high school students with ADD or LD, it is sure to be useful for teens who are not sure what to expect when applying to college...
Gr 5—9—It is the 1800s in Philadelphia, the home of the nation's first hospital...
K-Gr 3—This lesser-known title by the author of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Puffin, 1977) is introduced to a new audience in a beautiful, bilingual edition featuring a Japanese translation alongside the original English text...
PreS-Gr 2—Chester is, quite understandably, in awe of his best friend, Forsythia; after all, she can bake incredible cakes, play piano upside down, grow prize-winning roses, perform in the circus and the ballet, train ferocious animals, and paint royal portraits...
K-Gr 3—Environmental threats facing fish in various habitats around the world are introduced in a picture-book, read-aloud format...
K-Gr 3—Raj, a handsome marmalade cat with a golden coat and chocolate stripes, believes he is a tiger...