NEWJanuary &
Preschool
Nothing Like a Puffin, Sue Soltis
What do a puffin and a shovel have in common?
A New Year's Reunion
Maomao's father works far away and comes home only at Chinese New Year. When Papa arrives, Maomao hardly recognizes him at first. The family does familiar activities and Maomao loves doing ordinary things with Papa. But all too soon it is time for Papa to go away again.
Grade K-3 (easy readers)
Mr. Putter and Tabby Ring the Bell
The school bell is ringing. The crispy fall wind is blowing. Mr. Putter wishes he could go back to school--even for just one day. Then he has an idea: How about a visit during show-and-tell with Mrs. Teaberry, Tabby and Zeke?
Levi Strauss gets a Bright Idea
Retells, in tall-tale fashion, how Levi Strauss went to California during the Gold Rush, saw the need for a sturdier kind of trousers, and invented jeans.
Grade 3-5 (intermediate)
The Shipwreck, Jorn Reil
The Inuk Quartet, Vol. I. Can Leiv survive? Will he avenge the murcer of his father?
The Unforgotten Coat
When two mongolian brothers inexplicably appear one morning in her six grade class, Julie, who lives in a town near Liverpool, England, named Bootle, becomes their new friend and "Good Guide," navigating them through soccer, school uniforms and British slang.
Never Forgotten
In eighteenth century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the mother elements--Wind, Fire, Water and Water and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID--CABIN FEVER,
Jeff Kinney. Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime subject. But the crazy thing is, he's innocent. Or at least sort of.
Grades 6-8 (upper elementary)
The Apothecary, Leon Carr & Leo Corday
Follows a 14-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.
Dragons of Silk
Four generations of Chinese and Chinese-American girls, beginning in 1835m are tied together by the tradition of raising silkworms and the legacy of the legendary Weaving Maid.
THE SON OF NEPTUNE, Rick Riordan
Demigod Percy Jackson, still with no memory, and his new friends from Camp Jupiter, Hazel and Frank, go on a quest to free Death, but their bigger task is to unite the Greek and Roman camps so that the Prophecy of Seven can be fulfilled.
WONDER STRUCK, Brian Selznick
Ben and Rose secretely wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he hqas never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone on desperate quests to find what they are missing.