The Horn Book Magazine back issues from May 2008:
Altogether, one at a time.(Editorial)
May 01, 2008; ... It's a family-friendly Horn Book for you this month, from Megan Lambert pondering what her children need to get from their picture books, to Rudine Sims Bishop's reflections (within a wide-ranging interview with K. T. Horning) on family dynasties in African American children's literature ....
An interview with Rudine Sims bishop.(Interview)
May 01, 2008; ... Throughout her career as a professor of education at The Ohio Stale University, Rudine Sims Bishop contributed significantly to the scholarship dealing with African American children's literature. Her seminal work, Shadow and Substance: Afro-American Experience in Contemporary Children's ...
Reading about families in my family.
May 01, 2008; ... In my family there are two moms and five kids. I've yet to find a children's book that depicts a cast of characters that looks anything like our particular multiracial, foster-adoptive family constellation, and I know there are lots of artistic, social, political, and market-driven reasons ...
Truffles.(Family reading)(Short story)
May 01, 2008; ... "Halloo!" Tigger called. "Halloo, is anyone there?" No one answered. The lines above are from my memory of a passage in a Winnie the Pooh story (a Disney version, not the original Milne). In an effort to "unbounce" Tigger, Pooh and his friends go for a walk with the ...
Goodnight squishy ball.(Family reading)(Where's My Squish Ball?)
May 01, 2008; ... My son, Jacob, has, since his earliest years, been his own man. This, of course, never stopped me from thinking that I could somehow control, at least to some extent, his view of the world. It usually didn't work. Once, when Jacob was about three or four, we rented a car and ...
Unriddling the world.(Short story)
May 01, 2008; ... Why do we tell stories? Alan Garner answered the question best, I think: we do it, he said, as the only way to express the simple truth of a universe that presents itself as a Mystery. We have to find parables, we have to tell stories to unriddle the world ... What we feel most ...
A dad grows up.(Family reading)(kids learn to love reading)
May 01, 2008; ... Finally! Something I feel so qualified to write about: how to share books with your children. I'm touting my credentials because this is something I've learned from raising two children who were born thirteen years apart. One of the pitfalls of being either a creator or a ...
Trashing Elmo.(Family reading)(children's books, imagination)
May 01, 2008; ... When our son Drake was on the way, certain policies and principles regarding his childhood scarcely needed to be spoken--indeed, to mention them aloud would have seemed coarse, even insulting. For example: WE WILL NOT CENSOR BOOKS AND TOYS. But because Bruce has been ...
Quack-tique.(The Writer's Page)(Death Mountain)(Excerpt)
May 01, 2008; ... A sneak peek at a writers' critique group proves the old cliche that characters really do write their own stories. Under attack, urn, discussion here: a certain tale about three porcine siblings ... WILBUR It's misleading to represent pigs as inept when everyone knows ...
Elizabeth Alalou and Ali Alalou: The Butter Man.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Elizabeth Alalou and Ali Alalou The Butter Man; illus, by Julie Klear Essakalli 32 pp. Charlesbridge 2/08 ISBN 978-1-58089-127-1 $14.95 (Primary) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While Nora is hungrily waiting for her father, her baba, to finish making his traditional Saturday ...
Peggy Perry Anderson: Chuck's Band.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Peggy Perry Anderson Chuck's Band; illus, by the author 32 pp. Lorraine/Houghton 4/08 ISBN 978-0-618-96506-9 $16.00 (Preschool, Primary) Chuck's Truck (rev. 5/06), its spiffy new blue paint now matching Chuck's overalls, plays a minor role in Chuck's second outing. This time ...
Andrea Beaty: Doctor Ted.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Andrea Beaty Doctor Ted; illus, by Pascal Lemaitre 32 pp. McElderry 4/08 ISBN 978-1-4169-2820-1 $14.99 (Preschool, Primary) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Practicing medicine without a license is only advisable for those under, say, age ten, and even then it carries risks ....
Laura Espinosa: Otis and Rae and the Grumbling Splunk.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Laura Espinosa Otis and Rae and the Grumbling Splunk; illus, by Leo Espinosa 32 pp. Houghton 5/08 ISBN 978-0-618-98206-6 $16.00 (Primary) Otis and Rae, jolly friends out for their first camping trip, work through their fears with good humor, spunk, and the magic of PB&B (for ...
Meredith Gary: Sometimes You Get What You Want.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Meredith Gary Sometimes You Get What You Want; illus, by Lisa Brown 32 pp. HarperCollins 5/08 ISBN 978-0-06-114015-0 $16.99 (g) Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-114016-7 $17.89 (Preschool) Mick Jagger may not have been singing about having to wear a raincoat over your ballet ...
Emily Gravett: Monkey and Me.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Emily Gravett Monkey and Me; illus, by the author 32 pp. Simon 3/08 ISBN 978-1-4169-5457-6 $15.99 (Preschool) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gravett (Orange Pear Apple Bear, rev. 7/07; Wolves) creates a whole world here with just two characters--a little girl and her stuffed ...
Bo R. Holmberg: A Day with Dad.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Bo R. Holmberg A Day with Dad; illus, by Eva Eriksson 32 pp. Candlewick 4/08 ISBN 978-0-7636-3221-2 $15.99 (g) (Preschool, Primary) Tim and his morn recently moved to a new town, so now Tim's dad takes a train to visit him. After meeting at the station, Tim and Dad spend the ...
Rachel Isadora: Uh-oh!(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Rachel Isadora Uh-oh!; illus, by the author 32 pp. Harcourt 5/08 ISBN 978-0-15-205765-7 $16.00 (Preschool) Homey, vibrantly colored pastel illustrations present a series of before-and-after scenes that occur during a mischievous toddler's day. In the tidily framed picture marked ...
Laura McGee Kvasnosky: Really Truly Bingo.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Laura McGee Kvasnosky Really Truly Bingo; illus, by the author 32 pp. Candlewick 5/08 ISBN 978-0-7636-3210-6 $15.99 (g) (Preschool, Primary) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bea has nobody to play with. Her mother is busy and her goldfish is inadequate. This dilemma is solved ...
Barbro Lindgren: Oink, Oink Benny.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Barbro Lindgren Oink, Oink Benny; illus, by Olof Landstrom; trans, from the Swedish by Elisabeth Kallick Dyssegaard 32 pp. R&S/Farrar 4/08 ISBN 978-91-29-66855-1 $16.00 (g) (Preschool, Primary) Preschooler pig Benny isn't big on impulse control. Digging holes in a neighbor's ...
Janet Lord: Albert the Fix-It Man.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Janet Lord Albert the Fix-It Man; illus, by Julie Paschkis 32 pp. Peachtree 3/08 ISBN 978-1-56145-433-4 $15.95 (Preschool, Primary) Albert--white-bearded, overalled, with a sunny, old-timey smile like a Petersham character--has a favorite pastime: repairing stuff for neighbors, ...
Kate McMullan: I'm Bad!(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Kate McMullan I'm Bad!; illus, by Jim McMullan 40 pp. Cotler/HarperCollins 5/08 ISBN 978-0-06-122971-8 $16.99 (g) Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-122972-5 $17.89 (Preschool, Primary) Here the McMullans switch their focus from big hunks of metal (I Stink!, rev. 5/02; I'm Dirty!, ...
Robin Pulver: Silent Letters Loud and Clear.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Robin Pulver Silent Letters Loud and Clear; illus, by Lynn Rowe Reed 32 pp. Holiday 5/08 ISBN 978-0-8234-2127-5 $16.95 (g) (Primary) Following Punctuation Takes a Vacation (rev. 5/03) and Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day (rev. 5/06), silent letters get a turn to make themselves ...
Lynn Reiser: My Baby & Me.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Lynn Reiser My Baby & Me; illus, with photos by Penny Gentieu 32 pp. Knopf 5/08 ISBN 978-0-375-85205-3 $16.99 (g) Library edition ISBN 978-0-375-95205-0 $19.99 (Preschool) "Hey, little baby! What can you do?" This companion to You and Me, Baby features four pairs of ...
Alice Schertle: Little Blue Truck.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Alice Schertle Little Blue Truck; illus, by Jill McElmurry 32 pp. Harcourt 5/08 ISBN 978-0-15-205661-2 $16.00 (Preschool, Primary) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Sheep said, 'Baaa!' / Cow said, 'Moo!' / 'Oink!' said a piggy. / 'Beep!' said Blue." Schertle's rhyming text ...
Viviane Schwarz: Timothy and the Strong Pajamas.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Viviane Schwarz Timothy and the Strong Pajamas; illus, by the author 40 pp. Levine/Scholastic 3/08 ISBN 978-0-545-03329-9 $16.99 (Preschool, Primary) Since Timothy Smallbeast "really, really wished" he was strong, he eats "extra-tough cookies," "thinks strong thoughts," and ...
Jeremy Tankard: Me Hungry!(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Jeremy Tankard Me Hungry!; illus, by the author 40 pp. Candlewick 4/08 ISBN 978-0-7636-3360-8 $15.99 (g) (Preschool, Primary) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It would take a heart of stone not to be charmed by the cartoonish Stone Age characters and dialogue in this picture ...
Rosemary Wells: Max's Bunny Business.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Rosemary Wells Max's Bunny Business; illus, by the author 32 pp. Viking 5/08 ISBN 978-0-670-01105-6 $15.99 (g) (Preschool) The format may be larger than the early Max and Ruby books, but the dynamics between bunny siblings Ruby and her frustrated and frustrating younger brother ...
Jaime Adoff: The Death of Jayson Porter.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Jaime Adoff The Death of Jayson Porter 260 pp. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion 4/08 ISBN 978-1-4231-0691-3 $15.99 (g) (High School) Jayson Porter's life in Bandon, Florida, is a living hell. His morn beats the crap out of him every other day, and his dad is too strung out on dope to ...
David Almond: My Dad's a Birdman.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... David Almond My Dad's a Birdman; illus, by Polly Dunbar 121 pp. Candlewick 4/08 ISBN 978-0-7636-3667-8 $15.99 (Intermediate) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This novel began life as a play, and its dramatic origins glimmer in the musicality of Almond's prose, his ...
Gigi Amateau: Chancey of the Maury River.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Gigi Amateau Chancey of the Maury River 246 pp. Candlewick 5/08 ISBN 978-0-7636-3439-1 $15.99 (g) (Intermediate, Middle School) The sentimental horse story is revived to magnificent effect in this moving novel. Written in an erudite first-person that owes a debt to Black Beauty, ...
Kathi Appelt: The Underneath.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Kathi Appelt The Underneath; illus. by David Small 311 pp. Atheneum 5/08 ISBN 978-1-4169-5058-5 $16.99 (g) (Intermediate) Deep among the Texan bayous, underneath a ramshackle cabin, an abandoned cat seeks refuge. Above lives Gar Face--the scarred, embittered, unredeemable ...
Avi: The Seer of Shadows.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Avi The Seer of Shadows 202 pp. HarperCollins 4/08 ISBN 978-0-06-000015-8 $16.99 Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-000016-5 $17.89 (Intermediate, Middle School) When fourteen-year-old Horace becomes an apprentice to Enoch Middleditch, society photographer, he joins the growing ranks ...
Joan Bauer: Peeled.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Joan Bauer Peeled 248 pp. Putnam 5/08 ISBN 978-0-399-23475-0 $16.99 (g) (Middle School, High School) Something's rotten in the rural apple-farming town of Banesville ... and a doomsaying ghost (and the accompanying public panic) is only the tip of the iceberg. Ace reporter Hildy ...
Andrea Beaty: Cicada Summer.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Andrea Beaty Cicada Summer 167 pp. Amulet/Abrams 5/08 ISBN 978-0-8109-9472-0 $15.95 (Intermediate) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a winning first novel, twelve-year-old narrator Lily has exiled herself to a self-imposed silence and isolation after a hinted-at tragedy that ...
Lesley M. M. Blume: Tennyson.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Lesley M. M. Blume Tennyson 225 pp. Knopf 1/08 ISBN 978-0-375-84703-5 $15.99 Library edition ISBN 978-0-375-94703-2 $18.99 (Intermediate, Middle School) At the height of the Great Depression, eleven-year-old Tennyson's poet mother finally tires of her lackluster existence and ...
S. A. Bodeen: The Compound.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... S. A. Bodeen The Compound 245 pp. Feiwel 5/08 ISBN 978-0-312-37015-2 $16.95 (g) (High School) When Eli was nine, his autocratic billionaire father led his family into the Compound, an extravagant underground bunker built to protect them against nuclear war. After receiving word ...
Meagan Brothers: Debbie Harry Sings in French.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Meagan Brothers Debbie Harry Sings in French 234 pp. Holt 5/08 ISBN 978-0-8050-8080-3 $16.95 (g) (High School) Drinking helps Johnny cope with the responsibilities his father's death forces upon him until his mother, equally offended by his drinking and his Goth fashion ...
Jen Bryant: Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Jen Bryant Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial 223 pp. Knopf 2/08 ISBN 978-0-375-84047-0 $15.99 Library edition ISBN 978-0-375-94047-7 $18.99 (Middle School) Bryant follows up her multivoiced free-verse account of the Lindbergh Baby case (The Trial, rev. 3/04) with a ...
Deb Caletti: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Deb Caletti The Fortunes of Indigo Skye 298 pp. Simon 3/08 ISBN 978-1-4169-1007-7 $15.99 (High School) Eighteen-year-old Indigo has a job she loves (she's a waitress), a super-nice boyfriend (nice muscles, too), and a comfortable, happy home life (sister, brother, single mom) ....
Andrea Cheng: Where the Steps Were.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Andrea Cheng Where the Steps Were; illus. by the author 143 pp. Wordsong/Boyds Mills 3/08 ISBN 978-1-932425-88-8 $16.95 (Primary, Intermediate) Told in the voices of five children from Miss D.'s third-grade class at Pleasant Hill, an inner-city elementary school slated to be ...
Joy Cowley: Chicken Feathers.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Joy Cowley Chicken Feathers; illus. by David Elliot 149 pp. Philomel 5/08 ISBN 978-0-399-24791-0 $15.99 (g) (Intermediate) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a place adjacent to Rootabaga Country and Centerburg, where people eat ham-and-corn fritters and say "yep" a lot, there ...
Beverly Donofrio: Thank You, Lucky Stars.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Beverly Donofrio Thank You, Lucky Stars 234 pp. Schwartz & Wade 1/08 ISBN 978-0-375-83964-1 $16.99 Library edition ISBN 978-0-375-93964-8 $19.99 (Intermediate) In this conventional yet compellingly realistic story about the anxieties of school and the ever-shifting world of ...
Siobhan Dowd: The London Eye Mystery.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... * Siobhan Dowd The London Eye Mystery 323 pp. Fickling 2/08 ISBN 978-0-375-84976-3 $15.99 Library edition ISBN 978-0-375-94976-0 $18.99 (Intermediate, Middle School) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The best mysteries have at their centers gifted but very human sleuths--their ...
Lisa Graff: The Life and Crimes of Bernetta Wallflower.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Lisa Graft The Life and Crimes of Bernetta Wallflower 250 pp. Geringer/HarperCollins 2/08 ISBN 978-0-06-087592-3 $16.99 Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-087593-0 $17.89 (Intermediate, Middle School) Besides being saddled with an ungainly name, Bernetta is also burdened with a ...
Mary Downing Hahn: All the Lovely Bad Ones.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Mary Downing Hahn All the Lovely Bad Ones 182 pp. Clarion 4/08 ISBN 978-0-618-85467-7 $16.00 (g) (Intermediate, Middle School) Travis and his sister Corey love to make mischief, so a summer's stay at their grandmother's reputedly haunted Vermont inn holds much promise. A ...
Kevin Henkes: Bird Lake Moon.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Kevin Henkes Bird Lake Moon 179 pp. Greenwillow 5/08 ISBN 978-0-06-147076-9 $15.99 (g) Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-147078-3 $16.89 (Intermediate) Two boys meet while vacationing at a Wisconsin lake. Each has a story of loss. In alternating chapters we hear from Mitch, whose ...
Steven Herrick: Naked Bunyip Dancing.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Steven Herrick Naked Bunyip Dancing; illus. by Beth Norling 201 pp. Front Street 4/08 ISBN 978-1-59078-499-0 $16.95 (Intermediate) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This series of poems adds up to a portrait of a good-natured Australian sixth-grade class as it moves through the ...
Will Hobbs: Go Big or Go Home.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Will Hobbs Go Big or Go Home 185 pp. HarperCollins 3/08 ISBN 978-0-06-074141-9 $15.99 (g) Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-074142-6 $16.89 (Intermediate, Middle School) Brady's summer starts with a bang, literally, when a meteorite crashes through the ceiling of his bedroom. He and ...
Mary Hooper: Newes from the Dead.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Mary Hooper Newes from the Dead 241 pp. Roaring Brook 5/08 ISBN 978-1-59643-355-7 $15.95 (g) (High School) A primal human fear is being in a dark, cramped space, unable to move, with no means of escape. This novel, based on a true story, takes readers into just such a nightmare ....
A. M. Jenkins: Night Road.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... A. M. Jenkins Night Road 361 pp. HarperTeen 5/08 ISBN 978-0-06-054604-5 $16.99 (g) Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-054605-2 $17.89 (Middle School, High School) With a trio of acclaimed realistic novels to her credit, Jenkins has turned her attention to more supernatural matters in ...
Diana Wynne Jones: House of Many Ways.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways 404 pp. Greenwillow 6/08 ISBN 978-0-06-147795-9 $17.99 (g) Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-147796-6 $18.89 (Intermediate) There is a light quality to Jones's fairy-tale lands that makes them sheer confectionery. Add to that her inventive ...
Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules; illus. by the author 217 pp. Amulet/Abrams 2/08 ISBN 978-0-8109-9473-7 $12.95 (Intermediate, Middle School) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Greg Heffley and his older brother Rodrick are back! In the same hand-printed format as ...
Steve Kluger: My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, & Fenway Park.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Steve Kluger My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, & Fenway Park 403 pp. Dial 3/08 ISBN 978-0-8037-3227-8 $16.99 (High School) A mix of diary entries, e-mails, and instant messages, Kluger's easy-breezy and thoroughly absorbing novel channels the hearts, heads, ...
Madeleine L'Engle: The Joys of Love.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Madeleine L'Engle The Joys of Love 255 pp. Farrar 5/08 ISBN 978-0-374-36316-1 $16.95 (g) (Middle School, High School) L'Engle completists will be interested in this early (1940s) and heretofore unpublished novel about a young and idealistic actress's apprenticeship in summer ...
Diane Les Becquets: Season of Ice.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Diane Les Becquets Season of Ice 282 pp. Bloomsbury 1/08 ISBN 978-1-59990-063-6 $16.95 (g) (High School) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One morning, Genesis's father takes his boat out on the lake and doesn't come home. It's November in northern Maine and, just hours after ...
Gail Carson Levine: Ever.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Gail Carson Levine Ever 246 pp. HarperCollins 5/08 ISBN 978-0-06-122962-6 $16.99 (g) Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-122963-3 $17.89 (Middle School) Olus, seventeen-year-old Akkan god of the winds, goes to neighboring Hyte to study the behavior of mortals and falls in love with ...
Grace Lin: The Year of the Rat.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Grace Lin The Year of the Rat; illus, by the author 182 pp. Little 1/08 ISBN 978-0-316-11426-4 $14.99 (Primary, Intermediate) The Year of the Rat, the first in the twelve-year Chinese cycle, signifies new beginnings. However, Pacy finds it difficult to face the major change in ...
Holly Lisle: The Ruby Key.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Holly Lisle The Ruby Key 361 pp. Orchard 5/08 ISBN 978-0-545-00012-3 $16.99 (g) (Intermediate, Middle School) Betrayed by her Uncle Banris, who would trade her family's lives for his own immortality, fourteen-year-old Genna strikes her own deal with Letrin, the powerful lord of ...
E. Lockhart: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... E. Lockhart The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks 342 pp. Hyperion 3/08 ISBN 978-0-7868-3818-9 $16.99 (High School) Alabaster Preparatory Academy sophomore Frankie Landau-Banks is cute, clever, and dating one of the most popular boys in school--who also happens to be ...
Norma Fox Mazer: The Missing Girl.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Norma Fox Mazer The Missing Girl 284 pp. HarperTeen 2/08 ISBN 978-0-06-623776-3 $16.99 Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-623777-0 $17.89 (Middle School, High School) "If the man is lucky, in the morning on his way to work, he sees the girls." So begins this chilling novel, in which ...
Maureen McCarthy: Rose by Any Other Name.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Maureen McCarthy Rose by Any Other Name 336 pp. Roaring Brook 3/08 ISBN 978-1-59643-372-4 $17.95 (High School) Taking a road trip to visit her dying grandmother, nineteen-year-old Rose finds she can't keep running from the devastating events of the previous year--her dad's ...
Hilary McKay: Forever Rose.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... * Hilary McKay Forever Rose 291 pp. McElderry 4/08 ISBN 978-1-4169-5486-6 $16.99 (Intermediate, Middle School) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anyone who feared that the Casson family might lose their verve in this, the fifth of the series, can rest easy. Eleven-year-old Rose, ...
Christina Meldrum: Madapple.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Christina Meldrum Madapple 404 pp. Knopf 5/08 ISBN 978-0-375-85176-6 $16.99 (g) Library edition ISBN 978-0-375-95176-3 $19.99 (High School) In a stellar debut novel that explores the nexus between the natural world and the spiritual realm, Meldrum spins a mesmerizing story ...
Jacquelyn Mitchard: All We Know of Heaven.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... Jacquelyn Mitchard All We Know of Heaven 310 pp. HarperTeen 5/08 ISBN 978-0-06-134578-4 $16.99 (g) Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-134579-1 $17.89 (Middle School, High School) Part soap opera, part Oliver Sacks case study, Mitchard's second young adult novel, based on a nearly ...
Catherine Gilbert Murdock: Princess Ben.(Young adult review)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; ... * Catherine Gilbert Murdock Princess Ben 344 pp. Houghton 5/08 ISBN 978-0-618-95971-6 $16.00 (g) (Middle School) Murdock (Dairy Queen, rev. 5/06; The Off Season, rev. 7/07) switches gears and genres to bring us a deliciously frothy yet substantial fairy tale, composed of equal ...