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|  | Ada, Alma Flor ¡MUU, MOO!
March 01, 2010 - Ada and Campoy team up again (¡P"o Peep!, 2003, etc.) to produce this lovely anthology of rhymes, songs and poems from the Hispanic oral tradition. The selection is focused on popular verses with animal themes, which plays naturally to the interests
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|  | Almond, David THE BOY WHO CLIMBED INTO THE MOON
March 01, 2010 - Roald Dahl meets Antoine de Saint-Exupry in this delightfully improbable tale in which a previously unimaginative English boy named Paul surprises himself by declaring that the moon's just a hole in the sky. Paul, who gets more inventive by the
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| | Amnesty International FREE?
March 01, 2010 - Fourteen top writers from around the world contribute short stories for a collection benefitting Amnesty International. Each tale explores one of the rights asserted in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, passed in 1948. The
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| | Angleberger, Tom THE STRANGE CASE OF ORIGAMI YODA
March 01, 2010 - Sixth grader Tommy has a dilemma: He doesn't know whether to trust the advice of Origami Yoda, who dispenses wisdom from his perch on the finger of mega-nerd Dwight. Tommy compiles this case file, written by himself and other students who have
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| | Arato, Rona MRS. KAPUTNIK'S POOL HALL AND MATZO BALL EMPORIUM
March 01, 2010 - The traditional Lower East Side Jewish immigration story is rekindled with the inclusion of a fantastical fire-breathing–yet-friendly dragon and a bunch of lead-hard matzo balls. The Kapustins—big sister Shoshi, brother Moshe and Mama—arrive at
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| | Avasthi, Swati SPLIT
March 01, 2010 - This portrait of a family shaped and scarred by abuse asks how both victims and perpetrators can move forward. After a 19-hour drive from Chicago to Albuquerque following a beating at the hands of the father he both loves and fears, Jace Witherspoon
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| | Baker, Keith LMNO PEAS
March 01, 2010 - A passel of industrious peas narrates inventive, alphabetically arranged avocations: "We are peas—alphabet peas! / We work and play in the ABCs." Amid towering, digitally textured capital letters, Baker's veggies, sprouting green arms, legs and
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| | Bancks, Tristan MAC SLATER HUNTS THE COOL
March 01, 2010 - An Aussie teen turns global coolhunter in a slick, fast-paced story that bookends nicely with Scott Westerfeld's So Yesterday (2004). No one is more surprised than Mac Slater when the nerdy underdog child of impoverished hippie parents is tapped by
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| | Bell, Ted THE TIME PIRATE
March 01, 2010 - Laboriously harking back to the pulp juveniles of yestercentury—or at least their melodramatic plotting and uncomplicated values—Bell presents the continued exploits of intrepid teen Nick McIver, boy time traveler. Bound and determined to become a
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| | Boyle, Bob HUGO AND THE REALLY, REALLY, REALLY LONG STRING
March 01, 2010 - Flat, stylized illustrations and a meandering yet linear plot proclaim Boyle's background in animation (he's the creator of Nick Jr.'s Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!). Hugo is a purple hippopotamus with a huge head and small, blocky body. Hugo, his dog, their
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| | Brett, Jan THE EASTER EGG
March 01, 2010 - Brett is in rare visual form in this tale of a bunny who hopes to win a prized opportunity to help the Easter Rabbit. Little Hoppi goes through his community seeking ideas for the winning decorated egg. The other bunnies, each of a different breed
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| | Briant, Ed CHOPPY SOCKY BLUES
March 01, 2010 - Fourteen-year-old Jason Smallfield comes to understand that things are not always as they seem in a coming-of-age novel that packs a punch. Jason's father is a well-known movie stuntman, an expert in all things "choppy socky"—karate, defenestration
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| | Brown, Alan James LOVE-A-DUCK
March 01, 2010 - This affable tale chronicles the adventures of a rubber duck on the loose, with Brown impishly recounting the story from the faux fowl's point of view. Love-a-Duck is quite content to be Jane's bath toy. However, when the waterlogged plaything is
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| | Carman, Patrick THIRTEEN DAYS TO MIDNIGHT
March 01, 2010 - A ward of the state for most of his life, Jacob has bounced from home to home until landing with the eccentric and mildly iconoclastic Mr. Fielding—who, when the car they're in hits a tree at 60 miles an hour, dies, but not before passing on an
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| | Cassidy, Kay THE CINDERELLA SOCIETY
March 01, 2010 - Jess Parker, ace cheerleader, just wants to be invisible. On the last day of her crummy sophomore year, though, she receives an invitation to join the Cinderella Society. The Cindys promise Jess a place to fit in, tips to becoming self-confident
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| | Cheng, Andrea ONLY ONE YEAR
March 01, 2010 - Cheng, known for exploring issues of diversity (Shanghai Messenger, illustrated by Ed Young, 2005, etc.), tackles a custom that many will find disorienting. Sharon and her younger sister are upset that their two-year-old brother, Di Di, will live
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| | Cook, Kacy NUTS
March 01, 2010 - Nell, a precocious 11-year-old homeschooler living in Ohio, has her world rocked when she attempts to rescue two abandoned baby squirrels. Her caring parents have their doubts, but the ever-enterprising Nell educates herself from a website. She
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| | Cooper, Elisha FARM
March 01, 2010 - Agriculture receives exhaustive treatment in this text-laden picture book about people, animals and fields on the farm from the beginning to the end of the growing season. While the language rings lyrical and pure, it dominates, detracting from the
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| | Correa, Shan GAFF
March 01, 2010 - Although not as tightly crafted as Graham Salisbury's stories, Correa's debut evokes the lush mlange of sights, sounds and smells in 13-year-old Paulie's multicultural neighborhood in Hawaii. Two years after a lumberyard accident forced his father
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| | Coy, John EYES ON THE GOAL
March 01, 2010 - School's out, fifth grade is over and best friends Jackson, Gig, Isaac and Diego are off to soccer camp. In this second of a four-book, four-sport series, following Top of the Order (2009), Coy offers another successful story of sports and friends,
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| | Crane, Carol THE HANDKERCHIEF QUILT
March 01, 2010 - When frozen water pipes break, flooding the school, longtime elementary teacher Miss Anderson rallies students and their families to make a quilt from handkerchiefs she's collected, gifts from those she's taught over the years. The quilt is sold for
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| | Datlow, Ellen THE BEASTLY BRIDE
March 01, 2010 - Readers of a Datlow/Windling anthology have certain expectations: that the thick volume will include stories by writers both known and new; that headpieces for each tale will be Vess's sinuously evocative drawings; that a fully formed introduction
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| | Day, Susie MY INVISIBLE BOYFRIEND
March 01, 2010 - Although Heidi is not a subject of ridicule at her British reform school, which she attends because her parents work there, she's not Miss Popularity, either. In imitation of her favorite TV detective, Heidi starts wearing a long beige raincoat,
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| | de Gramont, Nina EVERY LITTLE THING IN THE WORLD
March 01, 2010 - A deft and poignant exploration of reproductive choices. In spite of informative sex-education classes at her private school in New Jersey, 16-year-old Sydney Biggs gets pregnant with a boy she barely knows from a nearby, less-affluent town. Her
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| | Dowell, Frances O'Roark FALLING IN
March 01, 2010 - A master at capturing the emotional lives of modern kids in realistic fiction proves equally adept with fantasy. When sixth-grader Isabelle Bean, the kind of "girl who is as silent as a weed," falls through the floor of a supply closet into what is
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| | Duane, Diane A WIZARD OF MARS
March 01, 2010 - One of finest current writers of speculative fiction pays loving homage to its Golden Age in this ninth title in the Young Wizards series. Kit, Nita and their companions are recuperating from the Pullulus event by concentrating on their individual
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| | Dunrea, Olivier OLLIE'S EASTER EGGS
March 01, 2010 - Gossie, Gertie, BooBoo and Peedie are all busy preparing for Easter, gathering, dying and hiding their eggs. Ollie, on the other hand, is ... hopping, and the little brown gosling sports a pink bonnet with bunny ears. Dunrea's characteristically
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| | Durango, Julia GO-GO GORILLAS
March 01, 2010 - In the jungle at the Great Gorilla Villa, the gorilla King Big Daddy calls for his royal messenger, a mouse on a moped, and says, "Summon every last gorilla / to the Villa, don't be late. / I expect them all by sundown— / please don't make Big Daddy
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| | Emond, Stephen HAPPYFACE
March 01, 2010 - Moving easily between cartoons and painterly black-and-white illustration, this epistolary novel of a young teen's reinvention of self is subtle and effective. As he's stuck in his brother's shadow and in the middle of his alcoholic parents' unhappy
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| | Erskine, Kathryn MOCKINGBIRD
March 01, 2010 - This heartbreaking story is delivered in the straightforward, often funny voice of a fifth-grade girl with Asperger's syndrome, who is frustrated by her inability to put herself in someone else's shoes. Caitlin's counselor, Mrs. Brook, tries to
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| | Fagan, Cary THE BIG SWIM
March 01, 2010 - This is Ethan's first year at summer camp, and he'd rather go unnoticed. He's a closet writer who hates sports and loves nature. Despite his anxiety, Ethan finds that camp isn't so bad. He's not the worst at the activities, and there's a girl,
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| | Finn, Daniel SHE THIEF
March 01, 2010 - Baz is an excellent thief. She has been since the beginning, when Demi found her as a tiny child and she came to live with him in Fay's den of child crooks in an (perhaps frustratingly) unspecified urban slum. No one is as good at picking pockets as
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| | Fischer, Scott M. JUMP!
March 01, 2010 - Nature's predatory pecking order reveals itself in bouncy rhymes and goofy illustrations. A fly, a frog, a cat, a hound, a crocodile and a shark get gobbled in succession after dramatic, last-ditch escape attempts. Each verse, sung from the animal's
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| | Flood, Nancy Bo WARRIORS IN THE CROSSFIRE
March 01, 2010 - In World War II, the United States fought Japan for control of the Pacific islands, but what about the people who already lived on those islands? This brief and powerful story will help to keep alive the memory of indigenous families caught in the
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| | Gardner, Lyn OUT OF THE WOODS
March 01, 2010 - Bursting with literary references, this single-plot sequel incorporates familiar tales galore. Romantic Aurora, feisty/grumpy Storm and preternaturally verbal toddler Anything are enjoying domestic peace when wicked witch Belladonna hunts them down
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| | Gershator, Phillis WHO'S AWAKE IN SPRINGTIME?
March 01, 2010 - "Down, down goes the sun, / And down in the sea, / Fish find a safe place to hide. // Who's asleep? / 'Not I,' says the minnow." Habitat by habitat, a child dressed in a lamb costume investigates the possible sleepers: ducks in the pond, turtles
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| | Gilani-Williams, Fawzia NABEEL'S NEW PANTS
March 01, 2010 - Gentle, hardworking Nabeel prepares to celebrate Eid with gifts for his wife, mother and daughter, but he doesn't realize when he also replaces his patched pants with a four-fingers-too-long pair that his family is too busy preparing for the
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| | Glaser, Linda EMMA'S POEM
March 01, 2010 - Emma Lazarus lived and wrote in New York City. She wrote the poem for which she is known when she was 34, in 1883, to help raise money for the building of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. In clear cadences, Glaser describes Lazarus's
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| | Goembel, Ponder ANIMAL FAIR
March 01, 2010 - Expanded from the traditional three-liner used more in modern times as a nursery rhyme than a song, Goembel adds to the animal hijinks by taking the nonsense lyrics and using her bright ink-and–acrylic wash illustrations to provide a unifying
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| | Goto, Hiromi HALF WORLD
March 01, 2010 - Fat, poor and intellectually slow, Melanie Tamaki's days are divided between torment at school and her alcoholic mother at home. The day a crow gives her a fortune cookie—one that says only "go home"—all that changes. Melanie follows her
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| | Grabien, Deborah DARK'S TALE
March 01, 2010 - An abandoned cat struggles to find her place within the fragile balance of nature in this fine animal fantasy. Dark, dumped by her owners in Golden Gate Park, has a hard time adjusting to the feral life. But when invading coyotes disrupt the
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| | Harrison, Michelle 13 TREASURES
March 01, 2010 - Packed off to her unwelcoming grandmother's house, 13-year-old Tanya faces an unpleasant summer, tormented by fairies only she can see and urged by Fabian, the groundskeeper's son, to explore the forbidden woods to solve the mystery of a child's
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| | Hart, Alison EMMA'S RIVER
March 01, 2010 - Ten-year-old Emma travels up the Mississippi on the steamboat Sally May in 1852, defending her pony against ruffians, throwing improbable temper tantrums and learning about social injustice. The big river and the boat form an interesting background,
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| | Hayter, Rhonda THE WITCHY WORRIES OF ABBIE ADAMS
March 01, 2010 - This frothy debut novel delivers plenty of entertainment to the elementary and middle-grade audience interested in magical fantasy. Abbie, a fifth-grade girl from a family of witches, tries to fit in with the normal world but constantly finds
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| | Henkes, Kevin MY GARDEN
March 01, 2010 - A little girl enjoys helping her mother in her garden, but she knows if she had a garden, it would be something else entirely: no weeds, ever-blooming multicolored flowers with hues she can change with just a thought, chocolate rabbits instead of
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| | Holmes, Mary Tavener A GIRAFFE GOES TO PARIS
March 01, 2010 - From the scorching Egyptian desert to bustling Paris, this historically inspired account describes the remarkable trip of a young guide who brings an unusual gift to the French king. Through the fictional voice of Sudanese escort Amir, this
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| | Houtman, Jacqueline THE REINVENTION OF EDISON THOMAS
March 01, 2010 - A middle grader with a high-function spectrum disorder finds some real friends in this wry debut. Eddie may be a genius when it comes to scientific knowledge and to repurposing broken appliances, but the best he can do socially is to treat others as
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| | Hoxter, Holly Nicole THE SNOWBALL EFFECT
March 01, 2010 - Whenever faced with a decision, 17-year-old Lainey Pike always chooses the chicken—selecting the safest option, so she knows exactly what she's going to get. However, when her mother commits suicide, Lainey begins rethinking her comfortable approach
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| | Hughes, Dean MISSING IN ACTION
March 01, 2010 - Jay's dad has been declared Missing in Action in the Pacific during World War II, so he and his mom have moved from Salt Lake City to small-town Utah, where his mother's family lives. Life there is unsettling, especially when his mother's men
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| | Hulme, Joy N. EASTER BABIES
March 01, 2010 - "When signs of spring are in the air, / we look for babies everywhere!" With that opening the text proceeds to count up from one newborn foal and two brooding hens through five nestlings, eight piglets and ten ducklings through 12 Easter bells,
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| | Isadora, Rachel SAY HELLO!
March 01, 2010 - Today Carmelita visits her Abuela Rosa, but to get there she must walk. Down Ninth Avenue she strolls with her mother and dog. Colorful shops and congenial neighbors greet them along the way, and at each stop Carmelita says hello—in Spanish, Arabic,
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| | Jackson, Kathryn PANTALOON
March 01, 2010 - Salerno's lively and colorful new illustrations for a 1951 text (originally illustrated by Leonard Weisgard) show the adventures of Pantaloon, a standard poodle who "never can get enough of those delicious baked-and-iced things!" on display in the
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| | Jay, Stacey MY SO-CALLED DEATH
March 01, 2010 - Peppered with gross-out humor, the camp flows freely in this latest zombie comedy from Jay. As the novel opens, perky cheerleader KarenVeraplummets to a messy death from the top of a human pyramid.Confused that she seems to be fine even though
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| | Jinks, Catherine LIVING HELL
March 01, 2010 - Gleeful Alien-esque action adventure. Cheney has spent every one of his 17 years on a spaceship (33 years if you count the time in suspended animation). One day, he knows, Plexus will land on a planet, but space is home. His life is birthday
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| | Johnson, Neil THE FALLING RAINDROP
March 01, 2010 - Minimalist art and spare text create a narrative based on the water cycle, which is briefly explained in the front matter, but this is less a science book than a philosophical treatise on living in the moment and hoping for the best. Grey watercolor
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| | Katz, Bobbi NOTHING BUT A DOG
March 01, 2010 - An unnamed little girl describes her very pleasant life, which is full of nice activities yet still empty due to her unfulfilled longing for a dog. The girl cycles through her hobbies and outdoor play in different locations and seasons, with
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| | Kelley, Jane NATURE GIRL
March 01, 2010 - Should readers care enough about the Appalachian Trail experiences of an extremely whiny girl to stick with this effort? Rising seventh grader Megan has had a hard year, as her best friend, Lucy, has barely coped with her own mother's bout with
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| | Kerr, Judith ONE NIGHT IN THE ZOO
March 01, 2010 - Bright, cheerful rhymes and soft, witty illustrations tell the story of a most curious night at the zoo while presenting the numbers one to ten in this smart and silly counting book. What did the zoo animals do on this particular evening? Definitely
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| | Kroll, Steven THE TYRANNOSAURUS GAME
March 01, 2010 - A rainy day at school turns a dozen restless children into master storytellers. Students stare out the window at the falling rain in dismay, until the teacher suggests a game. Next thing you know, the students are sitting in a circle,
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| | Kuskin, Karla A BOY HAD A MOTHER WHO BOUGHT HIM A HAT
March 01, 2010 - Hawkes produces new illustrations to accompany Kuskin's cumulative poem, originally published in 1976, which begins simply enough—a mother buys a boy a red, woolly hat. The story then unapologetically leaves logic behind, veering off on a
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| | Lach, William MY FRIENDS THE FLOWERS
March 01, 2010 - A rhyming celebration of flowers gets a Silly Symphony artistic treatment with surprising success. At first blush, the grinning daffodil, morning glory and four-o'clock blossoms on the cover appear to have all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. The
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| | Lawlor, Laurie MUDDY AS A DUCK PUDDLE
March 01, 2010 - From A to Z, Lawlor has collected American folk sayings to tickle the funnybone. The similes, as coupled with Long's comic cartoon-like illustrations, will linger in readers' imaginations. The picture that accompanies "Jittery as a long-tailed cat
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| | Lawson, JonArno THINK AGAIN
March 01, 2010 - More than 40 introspective poems and accompanying illustrations explore the complexity of close relationships. The gifted Canadian artists Lawson (Black Stars in a White Night Sky, 2008) and Morstad (Where You Came From, with Sara O'Leary, 2008)
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| | Lowell, Pamela SPOTTING FOR NELLIE
March 01, 2010 - In this trite effort, ninth grader Nellie is a gymnast just getting ready to compete at the national level when she sustains a serious brain injury in an automobile accident. Her resentful, high-school-junior sister, Claire, was driving home after
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| | Lowry, Brigid JUICY WRITING
March 01, 2010 - Lowry offers both inspiration and technical help in this upbeat guide for young writers. Strong on enthusiasm and Zen spirit, the manual lacks much in the way of literary models but offers many gimmicks—inventing new religions, writing about a day
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| | MacDonald, Margaret Read TOO MANY FAIRIES
March 01, 2010 - The magic in this Celtic cognate to "It Could Always Be Worse," summoned by an old woman's complaints about her housework, comes in the shape of crazy-cleaning fairies, who, as soon as they have washed the dishes, swept the floor, made the bed and
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| | Mackall, Dandi Daley THE STORY OF THE EASTER ROBIN
March 01, 2010 - Mackall offers a trite, heavy-handed story of a little girl named Tressa and her grandmother, who are preparing decorations for Easter as they observe a robin's nest on their windowsill. Tressa worries about the safety of the robin's eggs, and her
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| | Maguire, Eden BEAUTIFUL DEAD
March 01, 2010 - Two days after the stabbing death of her boyfriend, Phoenix, Darina, hiding inside an old, abandoned barn in a remote wooded area (although it's never explained why the teenage girl ventured there alone) secretly observes his initiation into the
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| | Mart"nez, Rueben ONCE UPON A TIME/HAB›A UNA VEZ
March 01, 2010 - A successful Mexican-American bookseller makes his debut as a writer with this bilingual collection of seven folktales from Spanish and Latin-American lore. Mart"nez offers sweet and fresh versions of two Caribbean stories already introduced to the
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| | Mazer, Anne SPILLING INK
March 01, 2010 - Two prolific writers for children offer advice on the writing process for young writers. In an engaging, informal style, Mazer and Potter cover the range of writing concerns, from getting started, creating characters, writing dialogue, finding a
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| | Mortimer, Anne BUNNY'S EASTER EGG
March 01, 2010 - Bunny is tired after a long night distributing Easter eggs. Too tired to hide her last, plain egg, she curls up with it in her basket. A "crackling sound" and a bump drives her to a less busy nest, but the birds' cheeping makes that one too loud,
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| | Moss, Jenny SHADOW
March 01, 2010 - The common fantasy themes of hidden royal identity and reluctance to be a monarch are distinguished here with a grimly resolute protagonist defined by deep-rooted pragmatism and plagued by persistent doubt and desperation for freedom. Named only
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| | Na, II Sung THE THINGAMABOB
March 01, 2010 - A bright-eyed elephant finds a "thingamabob," and curiosity sets in. Enchanted by the new toy—a cherry-red umbrella—he begins to explore its possibilities. Just when the agreeable creature seems most mystified by the enigmatic object, raindrops
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| | Newton, Jill CRASH BANG DONKEY!
March 01, 2010 - This book, told with a sure storyteller's voice, will be a crowd pleaser. On the very first page, it is obvious that red-bearded Farmer Gruff needs more sleep. Day and night, he must chase away the crows that are eating all his corn. As the Farmer
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| | Novak, Matt A WISH FOR YOU
March 01, 2010 - In this lighthearted chronicle of the making of a family, text and art deliver an affirmative message. A man and woman meet accidentally, fall in love, marry, travel the world, wish for a baby and become happy parents. Told from the perspective of
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| | Nye, Naomi Shihab TIME YOU LET ME IN
March 01, 2010 - A selection of the work of 26 (not 25) young poets makes up this varied collection, musing on topics from personal identity to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Nye's introduction artfully sets a tone that encourages readers to remember the
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| | O'Malley, Kevin ANIMAL CRACKERS FLY THE COOP
March 01, 2010 - "The Brementown Musicians" is a wonderful bit of cleverness captured by the Brothers Grimm. Here O'Malley takes the folktale for a contemporary spin and has a high time with it. He follows the main architecture of the tale while ramping up the
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| | Olson-Brown, Ellen OOH LA LA POLKA-DOT BOOTS
March 01, 2010 - Olson-Brown's joyful jubilee is a tribute to polka-dot footwear. Jaunty verses utilize an assortment of adjectives to describe types of clothing from hats to pants and everything in between. Each two-page spread features a quartet of barefoot
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| | Parr, Todd THE EARTH BOOK
March 01, 2010 - Parr adds to his successful series of easy-to-understand, vibrantly illustrated stories with this ecologically themed offering for younger children. He uses a simple, repetitive structure written in first person: "I [do this worthwhile activity] /
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| | Peirce, Lincoln BIG NATE
March 01, 2010 - Sixth grader Nate Wright doesn't excel in much at P.S.38. He's not as smart as his best friend Francis nor as lamely funny as his other best friend Teddy, and he's certainly not (unfortunately) successful at everything, like his annoying older
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| | Perry, M. LaVora PEACEBUILDERS
March 01, 2010 - A scattered, even haphazard biography of peace activist and Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda focuses on his friendship with his teacher, Josei Toda. Born in 1928 to a seaweed-farming family, Ikeda wanted to join the army like his four older brothers,
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| | Reeve, Philip FEVER CRUMB
March 01, 2010 - Rejoice! Reeve returns to the vivid, violent, steampunky world of his Hungry Cities Chronicles. In a still-stationary London, signs of the genocide that killed the mutant Scriven overlords are fading. Teenage Fever Crumb, orphaned in the Skinners'
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| | Resau, Laura STAR IN THE FOREST
March 01, 2010 - When her father is deported, Zitlally, a Mexican girl living in Colorado, feels that her home is breaking into pieces, like the fractions she is studying at school. Her grades start falling, she cannot tell her friends the truth, her mother is
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| | Rockwell, Anne ST. PATRICK'S DAY
March 01, 2010 - The Rockwells mother and daughter bring to St. Patrick's Day the same cogent, ecumenical treatment they've brought to the other titles in the Mrs. Madoff series (Presidents' Day, 2008, etc.). "On St. Patrick's Day," says Evan, "I wore my green
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| | Rosenthal, Amy Krouse THE WONDER BOOK
March 01, 2010 - An uneven collection of poems and witticisms, the very best of which evoke Shel Silverstein. Several poems are takes on old standbys, such as "It Could Be Verse": "Eeny Meeny and Miney Moe / Caught a tiger with their tow / The tiger hollered; they
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| | Rosenthal, Besty R. WHICH SHOES WOULD YOU CHOOSE?
March 01, 2010 - Sherman is a young boy with many shoes, but not all of them fit every occasion. "Which shoes does Sherman choose / to go shelling at the shore?" A turn of the page reveals: "He wears flip-flops so his feet won't get sore." Sherman's shoe collection
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| | Siddals, Mary McKenna COMPOST STEW
March 01, 2010 - A rollicking, rhyming alphabetical recipe for making successful compost. Aiming at young readers and even younger listeners, Siddals keeps the tone light while providing easy instructions on how everyone can participate in this eco-friendly
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| | Simmons, Jane BERYL
March 01, 2010 - A brisk tale with black-and-white illustrations sprinkled throughout, this features talking animals, unlikely coincidences, a breathless narrative style and a message about the value of diversity. When Beryl, an orphaned pig, is mistakenly marked
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| | Springer, Nancy POSSESSING JESSIE
March 01, 2010 - Strikingly shallow characters abound in this brief horror-fest. High-school senior Jessie was not responsible for her younger brother's death. Although she loved him, he was arrogant and reckless. After he drives the family car into a tree while
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| | Stalder, Paivi ERNEST'S FIRST EASTER
March 01, 2010 - It's Ernest's first Easter, so this bunny-in-training has just one house: Tommy's. He gets in at the expense of only one flowerpot, but once in Tommy's rather messy room, he is stumped for a good hiding place. Fred's dog basket won't do, and the
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| | Tonatiuh, Duncan DEAR PRIMO
March 01, 2010 - In a story based on the author's childhood experiences, two cousins, Charlie and Carlitos, exchange letters. Charlie lives in the United States; his primo Carlitos lives in Mexico. They both write about the friends, games, foods, fiestas and
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| | Turner, Megan Whalen A CONSPIRACY OF KINGS
March 01, 2010 - With each volume of this stellar series, the question arises anew: How will the text deceive its readers now that we're able to recognize Eugenides's lies? This time, it's through the first-person narration of Sophos, the excruciatingly honest (but
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| | Van Cleve, Kathleen DRIZZLE
March 01, 2010 - Narrating this rambling fantasy is 11-year-old Polly Peabody, whose family owns a magical rhubarb (chocolate and medicinal varieties) farm, open to the public with a lake, umbrella ride and other attractions. Although the surrounding farmland is
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| | Wallace, Rich SPORTS CAMP
March 01, 2010 - Pitched directly at sports fanatics, Wallace's new novel follows an 11-year-old boy during his first visit to Camp Olympia, where he'll join with his new buddies in Cabin Three to compete with five other cabins in various sports for the coveted camp
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| | Ward, Jennifer THERE WAS AN OLD MONKEY WHO SWALLOWED A FROG
March 01, 2010 - Old monkey swallows bits and pieces of the rainforest to a cumulative refrain, a rhythm and melody straight from that little old lady: "He swallowed the toucan to squawk at the bat. / He swallowed the bat right after the cocoa. / He swallowed the
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| | Wargin, Kathy-jo K IS FOR KITE
March 01, 2010 - In her first picture book, Gatto offers cheerful, brilliantly colored paintings of children celebrating springtime and Easter pursuits. Her illustrations have a flattened perspective and a childlike simplicity well suited to an abecedary. The text
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| | Willems, Mo LET'S SAY HI TO FRIENDS WHO FLY!
March 01, 2010 - The same sort of gentle, surprise ending found in Cat the Cat, Who Is That? (2010) comes into play in this second offering about Willems's new feline character. In this title, Cat the Cat cheers on her friends Bee the Bee, Bird the Bird and Bat the
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| | Williams, Sarah deFord PALACE BEAUTIFUL
March 01, 2010 - When Sadie and Zuzu's family moves from Texas to their grandmother's house in Salt Lake City, they explore an attic cubby (marked "Palace Beautiful") and discover a diary written by a young girl who lived in the house during the flu epidemic of
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| | Wynne Jones, Diana ENCHANTED GLASS
March 01, 2010 - Wynne Jones's inimitable style showcases a multi-generational cast of heroes and a chaotic finale at the village f'te. Andrew Hope leaves his job as a university lecturer when his grandfather bequeaths him both a house and a field-of-care. Andrew
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| | Yolen, Jane FOILED
March 01, 2010 - Veteran fantasist Yolen introduces the utterly charming and sassy Aliera, a quirky tenth-grade loner who's both color-blind and an expert fencer, in this charming graphic novel. Aliera slinks her way through high school, focusing on fencing
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| The Arabian Nights: A New Edition
March 01, 2010 - The most famous tales in The Arabian Nights have flown far beyond the confines of the night-shrouded bedroom in which Scheherazade spins stories to the vengeful king who will kill her come morning (unless she makes sure he just has to know what happens next). "There is no such thing as a canonical text of the Nights with a fixed number of stories," writes Middle East scholar Robert Irwin in his introduction to Volume 2 of Penguin Classics' new three-volume edition. So should we care that Cambridge University scholars Malcolm and Ursula Lyons, for the first time since Sir Richard Burton in the 1880s, have based this English translation on the 1839-42 Arabic edition that contains more stories than any other, usually in fuller versions? We should
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