Coyote Moon
By Maria Gianferrari Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Pages: 32 Age Range: 4 – 7 Years ABOUT A howl in the night. A watchful eye in the darkness. A flutter of movement among the trees. Coyotes. In the dark of the night, a mother coyote stalks prey to feed her hungry pups. Her hunt takes her through a suburban town, where she encounters a mouse, a rabbit, a flock of angry geese, and finally an unsuspecting turkey on the library lawn. POUNCE! Perhaps Coyote’s family won’t go hungry today. REVIEW ““Yip-yip-yip-yip!” indeed, for this...
Read MoreThe Stars of Summer: An All Four Stars Book
By Tara Dairman Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group Pages: 352 Age Range: 10 Years ABOUT Joan Bauer meets Ruth Reichl—Tara Dairman’s charming sequel to All Four Stars brings Gladys Gatsby to summer camp. In this charming sequel to All Four Stars, eleven-year-old foodie Gladys Gatsby now has her first published review under her belt and is looking forward to a quiet summer of cooking and reviewing. But her plans quickly go awry when her friend Charissa Bentley delivers Gladys’s birthday gift: a free summer at Camp Bentley. As Gladys feared, camp life is not easy: she struggles to...
Read MorePrincess Juniper of the Hourglass
By Ammi-Joan Paquette Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group Pages: 288 Lexile: 850L Age Range: 8 – 12 Years ABOUT In this royal adventure, Princess Juniper learns what it means to rule a kingdom—the perfect story for girls who love princesses AND adventure! For her thirteenth nameday all Princess Juniper wants is a country of her own. So when rumblings of unrest start in his kingdom, Juniper’s father decides to grant his daughter’s wish and sends her to a small, idyllic corner of the Hourglass Mountains until trouble blows over. Once there, Juniper discovers that ruling a...
Read MoreKeepers of the Labyrinth
By Erin E. Moulton Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group Pages: 304 Lexile: HL700L Age Range: 12 Years ABOUT Courage is tested, myths come to life, and long-held secrets are revealed. Lilith Bennette runs at midnight. She scales walls in the dark and climbs without a harness. She hopes that if she follows exactly in the steps of her strong air force pilot mother, she’ll somehow figure out the mystery of her mother’s death—and the reason why her necklace of Greek symbols has been missing ever since. So when Lil is invited to Crete for a Future Leaders International conference, the same...
Read MoreWe’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March
By Cynthia Levinson Publisher: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd. Pages: 180 Age Range: 13 – 17 Years ABOUT We’ve Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, between May 2 and May 11, 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi’s and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s precept to “fill the jails,” they succeeded—where adults had failed—in desegregating one of the most racially violent cities in America. Focusing on four of the original participants who have participated...
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