CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 9, 2013
"Even the gargoyle comes away with a pirate hat. A polite chorus of "Aaarrgghh"s all round, please, for this rather twee outing. (Fantasy. 10-13)"
A conked-out attacker lying in a pool of…beet juice is as close as this dainty piratical escapade gets to actual gore or violence.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 3, 2013
"This is children's music grown-ups won't mind hearing over and over, no trouble at all. (Songbook/CD. 3 & up)"
For listeners of all ages, Boynton and Michael Ford's latest CD/songbook combination presents 12 new songs in a country-western mode.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 3, 2013
"Red meat for rabid dragon lovers, but younger fans of the authors' Edge Chronicles may be discomfited by the gruesome bits and steamy clinches. (Fantasy. 12-16)"
A young wanderer enters the Wyrmeweald--a mountainous land of sudden death, untold riches, and dragons, dragons, dragons--in this grim trilogy opener.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 3, 2013
"Powerful emotional relationships and tight plotting in this debut mark Terrill as an author to watch. (Science fiction. 12 & up)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 3, 2013
"A horror story with heart and soul. (Post-apocalyptic romance. 12 & up)"
In this top-notch sequel to
The Hallowed Ones (2012), Katie, exiled from her Amish community, heads north with Alex and Ginger, the two outsiders she's befriended, seeking other survivors of the vampire plague that's unmade their world.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 3, 2013
"Jinks opens her projected trilogy in high style, offering a period melodrama replete with colorful characters, narrow squeaks and explosions of ectoplasmic goo. (glossary of slang and monster types) (Historical fantasy. 10-13)"
Child-eating bogles infest Victorian London, providing work aplenty for "Go-Devil Man" Alfred Bunce and his intrepid young apprentice, Birdie.
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