Synopsis A girl’s imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world. The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine’s gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in...
Synopsis Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones. With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid...
Synopsis For Addie Ann, graduating up to junior high means that she was grown. However, over the course of the summer and into the early school year, she realizes what being grown actually means and what terrible things can happen...
For eleven-year-old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over: We stay, we starve, his baba has warned. With the darkness of night as cover, they flee to the big city of Mumbai in hopes of...
Synopsis Join the Mysterious Benedict Society as Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance embark on a daring new adventure that threatens to force them apart from their families, friends, and even each other. When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, the foursome...
Synopsis Both of his parents have died, so Hugo Cabaret lives with his uncle inside of the clock room at the train station in London. He’s inherited his father’s ability to tinker with toys and anything that has working gears,...
“There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.” A large black and white sketch of the said knife joins the first line of Neil Gaiman’s Newberry Award winning The Graveyard Book. Not a graphic novel and...
Graphic novels are hot! No longer an underground movement appealing to a small following of enthusiasts, graphic novels have emerged as a growing segment of book publishing, and have become accepted by librarians and educators as mainstream literature for children and young adults. Related Link: Graphic Novel Reporter
You’ve heard the saying “It’s never too late.” We say, “It’s never too early!” Even children can be introduced to basic business principles and the rewards of entrepreneurship.
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Jan 19th, 2010 There probably hasn’t been a decade that saw so much change in the book industry since Johannes Gutenberg came up with the movable-type printing press about 560 years ago. Many factors contributed to that change, but two tower above the...
