Amazing Women Athletes

What special qualities, besides talent, go into the making of a world-class athlete? Young readers will discover the answer in Jill Bryant’s Amazing Women Athletes, the latest title in The Women’s Hall of Fame Series ... Read More »

January 26, 2004

Jeannie and the Gentle Giants

By Luanne Armstrong

Jeannie Mcleod is angry and scared when separated from her mother for the first time in her life and placed with a foster family. She doesn’t understand why her mentally ill mother has been hospitalized ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

This Is Me

By Stephanie Craig

Stephanie Craig’s first novel, This Is Me, includes all the ingredients of successful young adult fiction: friendship, romance, discord, angst, resolution. This mix results in a sweet, gentle story, but one that lacks a sustained ... Read More »

January 26, 2004

Generals Die in Bed

By Charles Yale Harrison

What do we tell the children? With the world events of last fall, everyone who lives or works with young people had to face that question. What do we tell them about war, justice, vengeance, ... Read More »

January 26, 2004

Sky Horse (mustang Mountain 1)

By Sharon Siamon

Right from page three, when a grizzly interrupts Becky’s hissy fit in a mountain meadow, Sky Horse hasn’t a dull moment. Becky is outraged at being stuck in the wilderness of Mustang Mountain Ranch with ... Read More »

January 26, 2004

The White Horse Talisman (the Summer of Magic Quartet)

By Andrea Spalding

Andrea Spalding’s prologue to the first book of her fantasy quartet set in the White Horse Hills of Oxfordshire crackles: “In the Place Beyond Morning, terrible trouble arose.” We’re listening in as the great white ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Under a Prairie Sky

By Anne Laurel Carter, Alan and Lea Daniel, illus.

When I grow up, I’m going to be a Mountie.” So opens Anne Laurel Carter’s new picture book, a first-person narrative of one boy’s ability to turn the task of finding his wayward little brother ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Busy Little Mouse

By Eugenie Fernandes, Kim Fernandes, illus.

A little mouse goes outside to play one morning, and in the course of the day he has fun with a bouncy dog, a wiggly pig, a timid sheep, a friendly cow, a happy cat, ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Rough Day at Loon Lake

By Kathleen Cook Waldron, Dean Griffiths, illus.

In this sequel to Loon Lake Fishing Derby, Kathleen Cook Waldron takes young readers on another madcap adventure with the same four animal friends: a squirrel, salamander, mouse, and turtle. On a hot summer day, ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Going on a Journey to the Sea

By Jane Barclay, Doris Barrette, illus.

In the middle of a Canadian winter, it’s quite a pleasure to look at a picture book about a sunny summer day on the beach. Jane Barclay tells her story in the voice of a ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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