Baker, Keith. Who
Is the Beast? Voyager Picture Book, 1990. $6.00
(Paperback) ISBN: 0152001220
Who is the "beast" all the other
animals are afraid of? Children will know even before
the beast finds out. Follow the beast as he turns fear
into friendship.
Cousins, Lucy. Count
With Maisy. Candlewick Press, 1997. $5.99 (Boardbook)
ISBN: 0763602345
Maisy the mouse is counting and so can you.
Count the things in Maisy’s world from one to ten.
Bunting, Eve. Sunflower
House. Illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt. Voyager Picture
Book, 1996. $6.00 (Paperback) ISBN: 0152019529
Sunflower House will bring back warm thoughts
of summer play. A little boy creates a summer full of
fun planting a circle of seeds and watching them grow
into, yes, a house.
Brett, Jan. Annie
and the Wild Animals. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1985.
$5.95 (Paperback) ISBN: 0395510066
When Annie’s cat disappears, she looks
for another animal to hug and pet, but wild animals do
not make good
pets. Jan Brett’s stunning illustrations surround
a rewarding story.
Waddell, Martin. Farmer
Duck. Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. Candlewick
Press, 1991. $4.99 (Paperback) ISBN: 1564025969
Poor little duck has to work for the laziest
farmer around. Children know when something is not fair
and will see that sometimes it takes the whole community
to set things right. The cow, the sheep and the hens come
to duck’s rescue with a plan.
Early Elementary
Johnston, Tony. The
Ghost of Nicholas Greebe. Illustrated by S.D. Schindler.
Puffin, 1996. $5.99 (Paperback) ISBN: 0140562672
Nicholas Greebe dies, but his journey is
not over. With just the right touch of humor and scariness,
one of Nicholas’s bones has an amazing hundred-year
journey. A series of lucky events brings the bone back
to its owner, and the ghost of Nicholas Greebe can finally
rest.
Wood, Audrey. Rude
Giants. Voyager Picture Book, 1993. $6.00 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0152018891
They’re loud and they’re selfish.
They steal and they’re clumsy. When two rude giants
move into the neighborhood castle, what’s a village
to do? Why teach them manners of course.
Silverman, Erica. Don’t
Fidget a Feather! Illustrated by S.D. Schindler.
Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998. $5.99 (Paperback) ISBN: 0689819676
Tension mounts as duck and gander’s
freeze-in-place contest takes a harrowing turn when a
fox discovers them. Will one of them make a move and give
up the championship before the fox has his dinner?
Sis, Peter. Komodo.
Mulberry Books, 1993. $5.95 (Paperback) ISBN: 0688166954
A little boy dreams of dragons. Komodo dragons
are real, although very rare. A trip to Komodo Island
might bring a glimpse of a real dragon.
Lowell, Susan. The
Bootmaker and the Elves. Illustrated by Tom Curry.
Orchard Books, 1999. $5.95 (Paperback) ISBN: 0531071383
In this humorous retelling of an old fairy
tale, the shoes are boots and the customers are cowboys
and cowgirls.
Flack, Marjorie and Kurt Wiese. The
Story About Ping. Viking Press, 1933. $5.99 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0140502416
Children enjoy this classic tale of Ping,
a young duckling who has many adventures finding his way
back to his family on the wise-eyed boat sailing on the
Yangtze river.
Thurber, James. Many
Moons. Illustrated by Marc Simont. Harcourt Brace
and Co., 1943. $7.00 (Paperback) ISBN 0152018956
A young princess is sick and only the moon
will help her get well. Her father (the King) asks all
the wisest people in the court how to get the moon. Only
the court jester has an answer.
Middle Grades
Scieszka, Jon. Knights
of the Kitchen Table. Puffin, 1991. $3.99 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0140346031
Knights, wizards, castles--how do three friends
go from a birthday party to jousting in King Arthur’s
court? Adventures pile on top of adventures before this
time warp trio finds their way home.
Cleary, Beverly. Ramona’s
World. Illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. Morrow Junior,
1999. $15.00 (Hardcover) ISBN: 0688168167
Ramona is back in Beverly Cleary’s newest
book featuring one of her most loved characters. Ramona
is in fourth grade and dealing with all the trials and
tribulations that fourth graders face, as well as some
that are just made for Ramona.
Park, Barbara. The
Kid in the Red Jacket. Random House, 1987. $3.99
(Paperback) ISBN: 0394805712
Howard Jeeter is the new kid in school. New
city, new house, new school--it’s enough to make
anyone scared. But Howard has another issue to deal with--his
new six-year-old neighbor has taken a liking to him, and
she is as lonely as he is. He wants to be nice, but how
would it look at school if he has a six-year-old tagging
along?
Hughes, Dean. Team
Picture. Aladdin Paperbacks, 1996. $3.99 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0689819900
Thirteen-year-old David can pitch. He has
almost perfect control. If only he could control everything
else in his life--his foster father, his team-mates, the
game--life would be okay.
Korman, Gordon. The
Chicken Doesn’t Skate. Scholastic Paperbacks,
1998. $4.50 (Paperback) ISBN: 0590853015
The subject of a science project on food
chains becomes the class pet and hockey team mascot. The
class and the team come up with one crazy plot after another
to save Henrietta from the last step in the project--cooking
her to be eaten.
High School
Cooney, Caroline B.
Driver’s Ed. Bantam Books, 1994. $4.99 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0440219817
Barbara Cooney gives us a fast-paced novel
centered around two high school characters, Remi and Morgan.
Life is full of friends, talk, sports, and dating--until
they forget that driving a car can kill. A thoughtless
prank changes many lives forever.
Paulsen, Gary. Puppies,
Dogs, and Blue Northers: Reflections on Being Raised by
a Pack of Sled Dogs. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing,
1996. $9.95 (Paperback) ISBN: 0385325851
Gary Paulsen has given us many novels about
life in the wilderness. In this book he reflects on his
lifelong sled dog companion, Cookie and her pups. He shares
with his readers the constant wonderment, joy and love
these dogs bring to his life.
Blais, Madeleine. In
These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle. Warner Books, 1995.
$11.99 (Paperback) ISBN: 0446672106
In a gripping basketball saga, do the Hurricanes
have what it takes to win a state championship? Blais
has given us an intense, inside look at girls’ high
school athletics--the joys, the defeats, and the drive
it takes to win.
Doherty, Berlie. The
Snake Stone. Puffin, 1995. $4.99 (Paperback) ISBN
0140383921
The Snake Stone is a moving story of a boy’s
search for the mother who had to give him up. James, with
questions he can no longer ignore, undertakes a journey
of self discovery.
Kingsolver, Barbara. Pigs
in Heaven. Mass Market Paperback, 1993. (Paperback).
In this sequel to her popular book The
Bean Trees, Kingsolver brings to conclusion the
story of Taylor Greer and her adopted Cherokee daughter,
Turtle. Written with sensitivity and humor, this story
is grounded in the heart.
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