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Dead End in Norvelt Written by Jack Gantos Farrar Straus Giroux, New York ISBN: 978-0-374-37993-3 Grades 5 and Up Book Review Few authors can do what Jack Gantos manages to do in Dead End in Norvelt. As you turn the pages, you laugh out loud, clutching your sides. Next, you ponder the lessons of history. […]
The Lemonade Crime Written by Jacqueline Davies Published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2011 ISBN 978-0-547-27967-1 Grades 3 and up Book Review What fourth graders Jessie and Evan Treski know about fairness and friendship are put to the fire in this sequel to Jacqueline Davies’ The Lemonade War. Certain that Scott Spencer stole $208 […]
Junonia By Kevin Henkes Greenwillow Books, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-196417-6 Grades 3-6 Book Review When on their annual winter holiday on Sanibel Island, Alice Rice and her parents commemorate each special ritual, from the first heron to the first step in the ocean to Alice’s birthday. Alice’s “family was small, but in Florida, she pretended […]
Moon Over Manifest Winner of the 2011 Newbery MedalWritten by Clare VanderpoolPublished by Delacorte Press, 2010ISBN # 978-0385738835Grades 4 and up Book ReviewIn this debut novel by Clare Vanderpool, twelve-year old Abilene Tucker has been sent by her father to the seemingly sleepy town of Manifest, Kansas, to live with Pastor Shady Howard while her father […]
One Crazy Summer By Rita Williams-Garcia Winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King Award Published by Amistad, an Imprint of Harper Collins ISBN 978-0-06-076088-5 Grades 5 and Up Book Review In 1968, the nation was in tumult; Martin Luther King was shot in April, Bobby Kennedy in early June. Right in the middle of this year […]
Forge By Laurie Halse Anderson ISBN: 9781416961444 Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2010 Grades 6 and Up Book Review In book two of the trilogy that began with National Book Award Finalist Chains, Curazon, the perhaps-free, perhaps-still enslaved African-American soldier liberated from a British prison in Manhattan by Isabel at the end of […]
Emily’s Fortune Written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor with illustrations by Ross Collins. Published by Delacourt Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-385-73616-9 Grades 2-6 Peppered with humorous characters, lively language, and Collins’ expressive illustrations, this fast moving novel set in the Wild West employs the comedic exaggeration and outrageous happenings characteristic of a tall tale. Eight-year old Emily […]
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