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The Mysterious & Unknown series walks a fine line, presenting information that a student could use to write a report without throwing too much cold water on good old-fashioned, shivery…
A Review of "The Voyage of the Sea Wolf" in Kirkus Reviews
Ahoy ye mateys! Clamber on board the Sea Wolf for a salty adventure.
As the first in Bunting’s new series ended, 15-year-old Catherine, The Pirate Captain’s Daughter (2011), had been…
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The Mysterious & Unknown series walks a fine line, presenting information that a student could use to write a report without throwing too much cold water on good old-fashioned, shivery…
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The Mysterious & Unknown series walks a fine line, presenting information that a student could use to write a report without throwing too much cold water on good old-fashioned, shivery…
A Review of "Twice as Good" in Golf Digest
William (Bill) Powell’s story is an inspiring one, to be sure: The grandson of slaves who was raised in Minerva, Ohio, and found it difficult to pursue his love of golf because of…
A Review of "Track that Scat!" in The Midwest Book Review
Track that Scat! is a picturebook about discovering the traces of common woodland creatures, including rabbits, chickadees, red foxes, and Canada geese. A young girl and her faithful dog…
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“More than 700,000 girls become pregnant each year; the U.S. teen birthrate is higher than in all other industrialized countries, and tens of thousands of young people have been infected by…
A Review of "Frog and Friends: Best Summer Ever" in Booklist Online
Like the other Frog and Friends titles in the I Am a Reader! series, this installment features three small-scale adventures. In the first tale, Frog and Little Brown Bat compare and contrast…
A Review of "Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band" in Washington Parent
With his wild, feathered head and bass-guitar skills, Rooster is one cool cat … er, fowl. And with the big barnyard talent show coming up, he wants to put together the best jazz band ever.…
A Review of "Frog and Friends" in Great Kid Books
Finding books that work just right for new readers is a tricky business, as many families know. Children who are new to reading on their own often want humor, surprises and twists in the plot
A Review of "Best Summer Ever" in Kirkus Reviews
Frog and his friends are back (Frog and Friends, 2011) in another trio of early-reader tales, but this time they focus less on humor and problem solving and more on life lessons and manners.
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The Mysterious & Unknown series walks a fine line, presenting information that a student could use to write a report without throwing too much cold water on good old-fashioned, shivery…
A Review of "Track That Scat!" in Booklist
For young Finn and her hound, Skeeter, exploring the outdoors becomes a somewhat pungent adventure and a vehicle to introduce readers to identifying commonly known animals through their…
A Review of "What’s Looking at You, Kid?" in Booklist
Lewis, the current Children’s Poet Laureate, offers rhymes as riddles. Examples include “Hanging in the air’s the thing / he can do without a wing / Look, a yo-yo on a string! Whee!” and…
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The Mysterious & Unknown series walks a fine line, presenting information that a student could use to write a report without throwing too much cold water on good old-fashioned, shivery…
A Review of "The People of Twelve Thousand Winters" in Booklist
Long before the arrival of the first Europeans, the Lenni Lenape people lived near what is now northern New Jersey. Noble imagines what life was like for a 10-year-old boy, Walking Turtle,…
A Review of "Surviving the Hindenburg" in Booklist
The 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster is a good chance to rope in discussion of the 1937 explosion of the Hindenburg, which, as Verstraete’s foreword details, was nearly as long as…
A Review of "T Is for Titanic: A Titanic Alphabet" in School Library Journal
Gr 2-4–This alphabet book provides introductory information about the ship itself, the people associated with it, and a very basic outline of the events surrounding that fateful night in…
A Review of "Stella Batts Needs a New Name" in Publishers Weekly
First in a series featuring eight-year-old Stella, Sheinmel’s unassuming story, cheerily illustrated by Bell, is a reliable read for those first encountering chapter books. An aspiring…
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The US is the largest consumer of oil in the world, but its domestic production can’t meet the country’s oil needs. The choice to drill offshore remains controversial, and this balanced title
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According to the foreword, the books in the Compact Research: Drugs series "focus on three types of information: objective single-author narratives, opinion-based primary source quotations,…
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According to the foreword, the books in the Compact Research: Drugs series "focus on three types of information: objective single-author narratives, opinion-based primary source quotations,…
Spectacular Skyscrapers
The first book [Amazing Amusement Park Rides] highlights some of the world’s biggest and fastest (and scariest) amusement-park attractions and how they operate, such as the Steel Dragon 2000…
Spectacular Skyscrapers
The first book [Amazing Amusement Park Rides] highlights some of the world’s biggest and fastest (and scariest) amusement-park attractions and how they operate, such as the Steel Dragon 2000…