Summer vacation may be over, but the need for some brain candy isn't! These two books for teens are a perfect way to extend the fun of the warm summer months without actually taking more vacation. Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breathby Helene BoudreauSourcebooks/JabberwockyISBN: 978 1 4022 6446 … [Read more...]
Pulling a Story From a Hat
Ever wonder about the magic of stories? Here, we learn that they can be pulled from a hat, just like a magic trick. Fantastic! Mr. Zinger's HatCary FaganTundra BooksISBN: 978 1 77049 253 0In Leo's neighbourhood there was a small, strange man who was an author. Leo would see him out walking as he … [Read more...]
Half Full / Half Empty
Two unlikely friends, an optimist and a pessimist, try to have a picnic, and fall into a string of events that alternate rapidly between lemons and lemonade. Good News, Bad Newsby Jeff MackChronicle BooksISBN: 978 1 4521 0110 1When a chipper rabbit turns up at the edge of a grumpy mouse's mousehole, … [Read more...]
About Your Body, For Kids
This new series of books about bodies for kids covers several different aspects of what is going on with you and why. My Itchy BodyMy Healthy BodyMy Stretchy BodyMy Noisy BodyMy Messy BodyMy Achy Bodyby Liza Frommer & Francine GersteinTundra BooksThis series of books covers various body-related … [Read more...]
The Importance of Being Ten
Alice is about to turn ten, and she has hopes that are dear to her heart for this special birthday... Junoniaby Kevin HenkesGreenwillow BooksISBN: 978 0 061 96419 0Let it first be known that I am a massive fan of Kevin Henkes' picture books, but I'm pretty sure I've never red one of his middle grade … [Read more...]
Young Frankenstein
Kenneth Oppel, best known for the Silverwing series (so. good.), has brought us another pair of books in his can't-put-it-down writing style, this time, for teens. This Dark Endeavourby Kenneth OppelHarperCollinsISBN: 978 1 554 68340 6Oppel has imagined the formative years of young Victor … [Read more...]
Thinking Globally
Some days our kids can feel like their own problems are pretty big. Or maybe they are doing just fine, but we'd like to expand their scope, teach them to look beyond themselves for opportunities to help, and to learn how other people live. There are certainly books that do that - and this new book … [Read more...]
Super Twins Save the Day
This new series stars a pair of clever twins who have inherited enough of their father's genius to get themselves - and him - out of some tight spots. The Templeton Twins Have an Ideaby Ellis WeinerChronicle BooksISBN: 978 0 8118 6679 8John and Abigail are the twin children of a professor and … [Read more...]
Going for Gold
Watching the last few events of the Olympics was nicely timed with finishing up a middle grade or teen novel set amid the swimming competitions at London 2012 - and made for an interesting intersection of fact and fiction! If you've got an older kid or teen who has caught Olympic fever, this would … [Read more...]
Puzo for the Pint-Sized?
There have been plenty of riffs on pulp fiction and the noir novel for kids, some better than others. These will adopt that signature hard-boiled voice and style, and adapt the actual case for a younger audience. This can work out really well, or be sort of ... done. (I do particularly like Jack … [Read more...]
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