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Lily Renée Wilheim had a happy childhood, but her teen years were marred by war. When she was 14, the Nazis invaded her native Austria, and Lily Renée and other Jews were persecuted and selected for concentration camp internment and death. Her parents were able to get her onto one of the last Kindertransports out […]
Neal Barton hates most everything, except Apathea Ravenchilde, the imaginary heroine of a mega-popular fantasy book series. But when Neal’s best friend Danny gets caught by his mother reading the Apathea Ravenchilde series, she ships him off to boarding school and begins a campaign to remove the “evil” books from the Americus Public Library. Now […]
I had the pleasure over Labor Day weekend of getting to go back to Dragon*Con, just in time for the 25th anniversary. If you don’t live in the South, or you aren’t a fan of science fiction and fantasy movies, television shows, and books, you might not have heard of Dragon*Con. I’ve even met people […]
Frankie is in big trouble — he failed his math quiz! But his teacher gives him the whole weekend to study and then he can take a make-up quiz. The only problem is that his family — who promised to help him study — keep interrupting him to ask him to help them cook or […]
Paul and his sister Marie are still fighting the Germans, but their objectives are not as clear as when they helped sneak their Jewish friend Henri out of occupied France. Now it’s hard to know who to trust. The Resistance folk are split between those who trust the exiled French General Charles de Gaulle and […]
Luz (pronounced “loose”) doesn’t think too much about the environment until her city starts having blackouts and her mom doesn’t want to drive because gas is so expensive. Now Luz can’t get to the mall to buy the shoes she really wants. But Luz isn’t going to sit idly by; she’s got a plan to […]
One of the artists I had the pleasure of meeting at this year’s American Library Association Annual Conference was Ryan Sias, author of Zoe and Robot: Let’s Pretend! Before meeting Ryan, I hadn’t heard of Blue Apple‘s Balloon Toons line of early reader graphic novels. But after I got a look at the first five […]
Miss Muffet is missing. Sounds like a job for Detective Blue, but the former Little Boy is going to have to search through a lot of nursery rhymes to get to the bottom of this bowl of curds and whey! Detective Blue Written by Steve Metzger; Illustrated by Tedd Arnold Ages 4-7 Orchard/Scholastic, July 2011, […]
Ah, freshman year: the beginning of high school, the most wonderful years of your life. WHATEVER. Annie and her friends are beginning to suspect that getting older and heading to high school may not be all it’s cracked up to be. Are they ready for a year of shifting friendships, stubborn lockers, first crushes, team […]
Fifth grade is a time of change for Shuichi. He’s at a new school, in a new town, and well on his way to making new friends. He and Yoshino, the girl he sits next to in class, get along well with their classmates, but as they get older and begin to move into puberty […]
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