CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"Imaginative and utterly bewitching. (Graphic science fiction. 9-12)"
Lovable Zita returns in a charmingly dashing interplanetary adventure to save yet another doomed planet from impending peril.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 27, 2012
"Not so much a set of retellings as a creative romp through traditional and tradition-based story-scapes, compulsively readable and just as read-out-loudable. (source note) (Fantasy. 11-14)"
The author of
A Tale Dark and Grimm (2010) starts over--sending young Jack and Jill on a fresh quest for self-knowledge through trials and incidents drawn (stolen, according to the author) from a diverse array of European folk and fairy tales.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2012
"A warm, witty, exquisitely nuanced multigenerational story. (Fiction. 10-14)"
Twelve-year-old Mary O'Hara is surrounded by good-humored women…her mum at home, her mum's mum, who is dying in Dublin's Sacred Heart Hospital, and her mum's mum's mum, who has just materialized as a ghost on her street.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 10, 2012
"Readers may find they never want to leave Tupelo Landing. (Mystery. 10-14)"
What do you get when you combine
Because of Winn-Dixie's heart with the mystery and action of
Holes? You get an engaging, spirit-lifting and unforgettable debut for young readers.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 24, 2012
"A suspenseful, surprising novel of friendship and family from the creator of the popular Clementine series. (Fiction. 9-12)"
Desperate times call for desperate measures indeed when, one summer afternoon on Cape Cod, 11-year-old Stella finds her sole caretaker, her great-aunt Louise, dead in her chair.
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