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NEWBIE FAIRY | Kirkus Reviews
A fitting farewell, still funny, acute, and positive in its view of human nature even in its 37th episode. Having, as Kline notes in her warm valedictory acknowledgements, taken 30 years to get through second and third grade, Harry Spooger is overdue to move on—but not just into fourth grade, it turns out, as his family is moving to another town as soon as the school year ends.
THE BAWK-NESS MONSTER
Penny plans to thank Bessie for rescuing her from a scary plunge in the lake three years ago. Bessie, known as the Bawk-ness Monster, is a part-chicken, part–sea serpent legend residing in Lake Bockamixon. Penny enlists her friends—skeptical Luc and eager Kaylee, a budding cryptozoologist—to help her reconnect with the large, feathered creature.
THE TRIPLET THREAT
An effort as insubstantial as any spirit. Eleven-year-old Maria Russo helps her charlatan mother hoodwink customers, but Maria has a spirited secret. Maria’s mother, the psychic Madame Destine, cons widows out of their valuables with the assistance of their apartment building’s super, Mr. Fox. Madame Destine home-schools Maria, and because Destine is afraid of unwanted attention, she forbids Maria from talking to others.
THE MYTHICS | Kirkus Reviews
From the Mythics series , Vol. 1 by Lauren Magaziner ; illustrated by Mirelle Ortega ‧ A young girl seeks her animal familiar. In the land of Terrafamiliar, everyone has an animal companion, or familiar, with whom they’re matched up. On Pairing Day, 10-year-olds like Marina all discover their familiars and begin the rest of their lives together. Marina worries that she’ll match with a scary or difficult animal.
SHERLOCK MENDELSON AND THE MISSING AFIKOMEN
by David Shawn Klein ‧ In this picture book, a young detective solves the mystery of the missing afikomen at his seder.
JUST HARRIET | Kirkus Reviews
by Gilbert Ford ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 21, 2020 Eleven-year-old Maria Russo helps her charlatan mother hoodwink customers, but Maria has a spirited secret. Maria’s mother, the psychic Madame Destine, cons widows out of their valuables with the assistance of their apartment building’s super, Mr. Fox. Madame Destine home-schools Maria, and because Destine is afraid of unwanted attention, she forbids Maria from talking to others.
THE MOO-STERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF COW
by Gilbert Ford ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 21, 2020 Eleven-year-old Maria Russo helps her charlatan mother hoodwink customers, but Maria has a spirited secret. Maria’s mother, the psychic Madame Destine, cons widows out of their valuables with the assistance of their apartment building’s super, Mr. Fox. Madame Destine home-schools Maria, and because Destine is afraid of unwanted attention, she forbids Maria from talking to others.
STARLIGHT SOUP | Kirkus Reviews
by Gilbert Ford ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 21, 2020 Eleven-year-old Maria Russo helps her charlatan mother hoodwink customers, but Maria has a spirited secret. Maria’s mother, the psychic Madame Destine, cons widows out of their valuables with the assistance of their apartment building’s super, Mr. Fox. Madame Destine home-schools Maria, and because Destine is afraid of unwanted attention, she forbids Maria from talking to others.
Children’s Books About Inventors and Inventions - Washington FAMILY Magazine
Photo by ThisIsEngineering from Pexels Did you know that May is National Inventors Month? Celebrate all things innovative by learning the true stories behind inventions that changed the world for better (and for worse!). Read about kid inventors and even try some fun STEM projects at home. Picture Books “Mr. Ferris and His Wheel” By Kathryn Gibbs Davis, illustrated by Gilbert Ford When Paris hosted the World’s Fair, they built a large tower as the centerpiece.
MONSTER FRIENDS | Kirkus Reviews
by Gilbert Ford ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 21, 2020 Eleven-year-old Maria Russo helps her charlatan mother hoodwink customers, but Maria has a spirited secret. Maria’s mother, the psychic Madame Destine, cons widows out of their valuables with the assistance of their apartment building’s super, Mr. Fox. Madame Destine home-schools Maria, and because Destine is afraid of unwanted attention, she forbids Maria from talking to others.
THE MYSTERIOUS MESSENGER
Narrator Lori-Felipe Barkin's clear, bright voice enhances this fast-paced urban fantasy. The mystery revolves around Maria, a neglected 11-year-old who is forced to work as part of her pseudo-psychic mother's scam conning elderly widows. But Maria has a secret. She really can communicate with a spirit, and that spirit is giving her clues to find a special treasure. There are plenty of plot twists, but the recurring theme of crossing boundaries creates subtle connections.
Storystorm 2021 Day 2: Vivian Kirkfield Creates a Compilation Book
by Vivian Kirkfield Ten years ago, I skirted the shadows of Tara’s 2011 PiBoIdMo (now Storystorm) Challenge. I walked away with a notebook filled with 30 ideas and a thirst for more. Two months later, I hopped aboard the first year of Julie Hedlund’s 12×12 Picture Book Challenge and wrote 12 picture book manuscripts. I got in the habit of gathering ideas from wherever they came and turning them into picture book stories. And that habit came in handy in the fall of 2017.
THE DRAGON IN THE LIBRARY
From the Kit the Wizard series , Vol. 1 Three friends fight an evil developer who wants to tear down the magical library. What should this trio of friends do during summer vacation? Outdoorsy Kit, a White girl, despairs of her friends, Alita and Josh, both kids of color, she really does. Why do they want to read when they could go to the cemetery and get muddy instead? But in the library, Kit discovers an ability: When she touches certain books, she travels to a magical place.
IT'S NOT VERY COMPLICATED
Eleven-year-old Maria Russo helps her charlatan mother hoodwink customers, but Maria has a spirited secret. Maria’s mother, the psychic Madame Destine, cons widows out of their valuables with the assistance of their apartment building’s super, Mr. Fox. Madame Destine home-schools Maria, and because Destine is afraid of unwanted attention, she forbids Maria from talking to others.
LITTLE RED HOODIE
Eleven-year-old Maria Russo helps her charlatan mother hoodwink customers, but Maria has a spirited secret. Maria’s mother, the psychic Madame Destine, cons widows out of their valuables with the assistance of their apartment building’s super, Mr. Fox. Madame Destine home-schools Maria, and because Destine is afraid of unwanted attention, she forbids Maria from talking to others.
A Winning Personality
A boy who believes in fairytales, a young psychic who can speak to the dead, besties about to break up, and three girls who take down a sexist list ranking their classmates by their looks. Author and librarian Betsy Bird leads characters from stories by Zoraida Córdova (The Way to Rio Luna), Gilbert Ford (The Mysterious Messenger), Debbi Michiko Florence (Keep It Together, Keiko Carter), and Brigit Young (The Prettiest) through a revealing personality quiz that will bring them to life.
The Year of Goodbyes
Buy Now Available Formats Print & eBook Like other twelve-year-old girls, Jutta Salzberg enjoyed playing with friends, going to school, and visiting relatives. In Germany in 1938, these everyday activities were dangerous for Jews. Jutta and her family tried to lead normal lives, but soon they knew they had to escape—if they could, before it was too late. Throughout 1938, Jutta had her friends and relatives fill her poesiealbum—her autograph book—with inscriptions.
Non-fiction and diction: 6 new books based on science, history or true stories
Here are some new, true books to help mould and shape our youth into better versions of our influences. (Angus P Byers) Looking to our surroundings is the first step in creating ourselves. Our earliest encounters with others have an indelible effect on our personalities and tastes. Here are some new, true books to help mould and shape our youth into better versions of our influences.
SOLDIER SONG by Debbie Levy , Gilbert Ford
One song was embraced by both sides of the very bloody conflict: “Home Sweet Home.” In December 1862, Union troops fought Confederate troops along the Rappahannock River in Virginia at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Levy’s narrative of the fighting is brief but detailed; she focuses her attention on the young combatants who faced harsh winter conditions in camp and who wrote letters home and sang spirited war songs to cheer their efforts.
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