PreS-Gr 2—A nice coop, good friends—what more could a French hen desire? Adventure, that's what! Louise's excursions start simply enough—a voyage, a trip to the circus, a visit to an exotic marketplace...

Gr 6—10—This gripping story (Farrar, Straus, 2009) by Helen Frost about two neighboring families during the Great War relates personal perspectives on the war, the struggle for women's suffrage in the U...
Gr 7—10—The final volume (Scholastic, 2010) in Meg Cabot's Airhead trilogy wraps up the story of Em Watts, whose brain has been transplanted into America's top model and who, at the opening of the book, finds herself the prisoner of Brandon Stark, son of one of the world's wealthiest and most evil men...
Gr 9 Up—Picture a dazzling montage of shimmering lakes and snow-peaked mountains...
Gr 7—10—Picking up two months after Cammie's attempted kidnapping in Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Hyperion, 2009; Brilliance 2009), Ally Carter's next installment (Hyperion, 2010) brings on more danger, betrayals, secrets, and potential romance...
K-Gr 3—Thomas Lewis's beginning reader (HarperCollins, 1971) is based on actual accounts of the 1943 eruption of the Paricutin volcano in Mexico...
Gr 6—8—Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone's fervent wish is to become a great lawyer one day, or better yet, a great judge...
Gr 4—6—Jacqueline West's debut novel (Dial, 2010) follows a young girl's intriguing and thrilling adventures as she enters the fantasy world of Elsewhere...
Gr 9 Up—"Let your eyes be heard without making a sound...