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Marco Polo: Dangers And Visions, Ariel Woodbury
Marco Polo: Dangers And Visions, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Marco Polo, a political prisoner, dictates his adventures to his cellmate. They begin with Marco Polo's long-lost father returning from his travels to the Great Khan. Marco, the last living member of his immediate family, is determined to join him. They depart to find Catholic delegates to bring back per the Great Khan's instructions. The group encounters thieves and disease on their journey. Eventually, the delegates they had with them return to Europe. Marco’s tale continues to become more wild. Would anyone believe the incredible stories of moguls, madness, and visions?
The Mysteries Of Maisie Hitchins: The Case Of The Feathered Mask, Cynthia Phillips
The Mysteries Of Maisie Hitchins: The Case Of The Feathered Mask, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
Professor Tobin has traveled the world collecting exquisite and priceless artifacts. He has decided to donate a number of the artifacts to the British museum. The night before the crates are delivered to the museum, one of the artifacts is stolen, a one-of-a-kind feathered mask from the Amazon. Maisie Hitchins, Professor Tobin’s young house maid and friend, determines to catch the thief. She has little to go on, but the Professor is counting on her. It turns out, thieves are not always what they seem, and maybe the feathered mask was needed more somewhere besides the British museum.
A History Of Civilization In 50 Disasters, Emilee Bell
A History Of Civilization In 50 Disasters, Emilee Bell
Children's Book and Media Review
A History of Civilization in 50 Disasters throws together the fates of a variety of countries through the light of massive global disasters. The book explores the effects of volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and more, halfway around the world from where they occurred and months after the initial damage was done. Readers will dive a little deeper into the small yet impactful disasters that inevitably occur when human society clashes with nature, from famine to plague epidemics. 50 Disasters even includes zany episodes like a tank of molasses exploding in tenement neighborhoods in the dead heat of summer. From BC to …
League Of Archers #2: The Stolen Crown, Tessa Mcmillan
League Of Archers #2: The Stolen Crown, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
Ellie and her League of Archers have been fighting against Lord de Lays by providing a haven for destitute villagers affected by his tyranny. With no other choice, the League begins stealing from the rich to help the forest refugees. One of Ellie’s stealing adventures goes horribly wrong when she witnesses King John’s murder, a plot devised by de Lays to take over the throne. Luckily, de Lays’ son, Stephen, helps Ellie escape and then later begs to join the League. Ellie reluctantly agrees, and Stephen’s presence begins to splinter the League’s tight knit bond. Later, the League hears that …
A History Of Medicine In 50 Discoveries, Emilee Bell
A History Of Medicine In 50 Discoveries, Emilee Bell
Children's Book and Media Review
Beware of whiplash as you track the evolution of medicine across the globe from the ice age to 2016. Remedies are lost and rediscovered during the rise and fall of empires; unsavory research begets groundbreaking health practices; knowledge is stolen, borrowed, given, distorted, and built upon through flurries of epidemics, religious mania, and superstition. The book shows a glimpse behind the Chamberlen Family shroud of secrecy that hid nothing less than the original forceps, passed down from generation to generation of highly successful birthing doctors in the 1600s. Readers will learn of an Italian study to the coast where a …
A History Of Travel In 50 Vehicles, Emilee Bell
A History Of Travel In 50 Vehicles, Emilee Bell
Children's Book and Media Review
Explore the history of ingenuity at its most dynamic through A History of Travel in 50 Vehicles. Spanning hundreds of millennia, Grey tackles the ins and outs of transportation from cultural, economic, social, and environmental perspectives. The book discusses the ethics of human, animal, motor, and elemental powered vehicles. It also considers the ramifications of international communities and unchartered spatial territories in new developing technologies. From rickshaws to jet-packs, bicycles to segways, the ingenuity of mankind is celebrated in this book of fifty milestones in human transportation.
Newton’S Rainbow: The Revolutionary Discoveries Of A Young Scientist, Haley Cook Haley Cook
Newton’S Rainbow: The Revolutionary Discoveries Of A Young Scientist, Haley Cook Haley Cook
Children's Book and Media Review
Newton was born to a poor farm family, but after his step father died, he went off to school where he lived with the Clarks. He built water clocks, mini windmills, and a rudimentary crank powered cart. He was then called back home to help on the farm but was a terrible farmer. His schoolmaster was able to convince his parents to let him go to college. In college, he studied everything. After detailing his time at Cambridge, the story ends with the classic tale of Newton sitting under a tree and having an apple fall on his head. He …
Magellan: Over The Edge Of The World, Emilee Bell
Magellan: Over The Edge Of The World, Emilee Bell
Children's Book and Media Review
Failure after failure drives Ferdinand Magellan to forsake his native Portugal and fly under Spanish colors in the name of fame, fortune, and exploration. Political intrigue sows doubts of the feasibility of his quest, but eventually, Magellan becomes commander of an armada aiming to find a faster route to the Spice Islands. On the sea, Magellan finds no respite. Mired in the center of Portugal-Spanish political conflict, Magellan maneuvers through ocean storms while diplomatic tempests never wane. One by one, the Armada de Molucca sheds men and ships as a result of storms, scurvy, mutinies, and conflicts with natives until …
Ladies Of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation, Cynthia Phillips
Ladies Of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
Ladies of Liberty is a book about the women who helped to lay the groundwork for the United States. Included are stories about a number of women who were educators, writers, mothers, reformers, novelists, explorers, and more. These women opened orphanages, started women’s rights movements, supported presidents, raised children, and powerfully helped to form a young nation. Women such as Sacagawea, a Native American who helped lead Lewis and Clark through the Louisiana Territory, and Lucy Terrace Prince, a freed slave and brilliant poet and orator, offer stories about amazing women “of color” during a time where skin color was …
Chocolate: Sweet Science & Dark Secrets Of The World’S Favorite Treat, Katherine Martin
Chocolate: Sweet Science & Dark Secrets Of The World’S Favorite Treat, Katherine Martin
Children's Book and Media Review
The world’s fascination with chocolate is not something new. It started a long time before the New World was discovered. Taking cacao from the Americas, Spaniards spread a chocolate obsession throughout Europe. Although chocolate was originally a beverage, over time it has turned into a confectionery treat. Currently, the world of chocolate is concerned with whether the cocoa beans are grown using fair trade.
Children Of The Past: Archaeology And The Lives Of Kids, Katherine Martin
Children Of The Past: Archaeology And The Lives Of Kids, Katherine Martin
Children's Book and Media Review
With the help of archaeologists, the secret of what has happened in the past becomes clearer. Historians have studied the measurements of handprints, fingerprints, and footprints to discover that many paintings and markings were in fact created by children rather than adults. All throughout history, children have left their mark in different ways. Through studying what these children have left behind, young readers learn they are not too different from children of the past.
Scholastic Discover More: Titanic, Beverly Jones
Scholastic Discover More: Titanic, Beverly Jones
Children's Book and Media Review
The Titanic tragedy is one that will never be forgotten. People are still fascinated and saddened by the story of the unsinkable ship that turned out to be sinkable after all. This installment in the Scholastic Discover More series does an excellent job of providing a timeline of the events leading up to the sinking of the famous ship. It also provides stories from some of the ship's survivors. This book contains everything you could ever want to know about the legendary Titanic.
Because I Was A Girl: True Stories For Girls Of All Ages, Emilee Bell
Because I Was A Girl: True Stories For Girls Of All Ages, Emilee Bell
Children's Book and Media Review
This is the anthology of the modern age of women. Girls of all ages, from all walks of life, unfold the events of their lives to the eyes of the public. Raw, honest, positive, and hopeful stories line the pages of de la Cruz’s book. Read of the courage of trailblazing politicians, financial executives, and fiery entrepreneurs. Witness the bloom of young girls into fierce advocates, truth-speaking writers, and empathetic social innovators. Ache with the bruised, abused, and suppressed; rejoice as they rise above the cards they’re dealt to mentor and raise the ones behind them.
Guts & Glory: The Vikings, Jared Leighton
Guts & Glory: The Vikings, Jared Leighton
Children's Book and Media Review
Guts & Glory: The Vikings is Thompson’s second book in his series of fun and compelling history books. Thompson takes you through the rich history of the Vikings, from their discovery of North America five centuries before Columbus to the founding of Russia. The book starts by painting a picture of a typical Viking pillage off the coast of England, and the reader is exposed right away to the pure brutality of these ancient Scandinavians—a great way to set the stage for the rest of the book. Be prepared to learn about their conquered settlements, founding of countries, weapons and …
Forgotten Bones: Uncovering A Slave Cemetery, Cynthia Frazier
Forgotten Bones: Uncovering A Slave Cemetery, Cynthia Frazier
Children's Book and Media Review
A worker was watching a backhoe dig a trench for a new sewer line when a human skull rolled out of the bucket and hit his shoe. As soon as the coroner determined that the skull was very old and that it wasn’t a part of a crime scene, bioarchaeologists were called in. This was the beginning of the third slave cemetery excavation in the Northern United States. Scientists carefully surveyed the area, found the remains of fourteen people. Through meticulous means, they determined the race, sex, health and age of the people when they died. DNA determined where the …
Dare To Disappoint: Growing Up In Turkey, Katherine Martin
Dare To Disappoint: Growing Up In Turkey, Katherine Martin
Children's Book and Media Review
All six-year-old Özge wants is to go to school like her big sister Pelin. She even sneaks into the school instead of going to the store for milk. As she reaches her teen years, school becomes Özge’s entire life. Although once a dream of hers, it becomes a nightmare as she is encouraged study as hard as possible, get into the best high school and then college in Turkey, and eventually become an engineer. Özge struggles between pleasing her father or choosing to follow her new dreams of being an actress and swimming in the ocean. For a time, she …
A Darkly Beating Heart, Meagan Andrus
A Darkly Beating Heart, Meagan Andrus
Children's Book and Media Review
Reiko wants nothing more than to exact revenge on everyone who has ever wronged her. While working in Japan with her aspiring fashionista cousin, she visits Kuramagi, a village determined to preserve historical accuracy. In Kuramagi, Reiko stumbles upon a historical artifact that allows her to step into the life of Miyu, a girl from the Edo period of Japan whose heart also craves vengeance. Reiko believes that in order to exact her own revenge, she has to help Miyu with hers. However, Reiko does not know all of the secrets surrounding her sojourns into Miyu’s life, or what has …
The Mesmerist, Tessa Mcmillan
The Mesmerist, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
Ever since Jessamine Grace’s father was killed, she and her mother have earned a living working as spiritualists for London’s elite. Their work is a sham until one job causes Jessamine to actually receive deadly messages from the supernatural cult, Mephisto. Realizing Jessamine has the gift of mesmerism, communicating and interacting with the dead, her mother takes Jessamine to Balthazar, a half-faerie man who heads a small league of gifted youth dedicated to thwarting Mephisto and other evil forces. While Jessamine is training with Balthazar’s league, Jessamine’s mother is killed by Mephisto’s ghouls. Jessamine joins in the fight against Mephisto’s …
Family Tree #4: Home Is The Place, Leah Christopher
Family Tree #4: Home Is The Place, Leah Christopher
Children's Book and Media Review
In her growing-up years, Georgia struggles to make sense of the paranoia of her over-protective mother, the rift between her grandmother and great-grandmother, and the unexplained death of her great-great-grandmother. While piecing together these puzzles, Georgia also learns from loss—she watches her older brother make choices that lead to her teacher’s death in a car accident, sees her father struggle with unemployment, and experiences the horrors of September 11, 2001, hearing that her friend’s father has died in New York City. Georgia also tries to find her own way as a musician, although her mother, Francie, can’t understand why. As …
Family Tree #3: Best Kept Secret, Leah Christopher
Family Tree #3: Best Kept Secret, Leah Christopher
Children's Book and Media Review
Francie lives in a safe neighborhood in New Jersey in the 1980s, but her experience with a potential kidnapper causes her to become fearful and paranoid. She feels guilty when a peer goes missing, believing it could have been Francie herself who met the same fate. Then Francie discovers her parents will be divorced, and she tries to distract herself by becoming the perfect daughter, friend, and student. Francie also experiences from a distance the troubled relationship between her mother, Dana, and grandmother, Abby, who both starred in the previous two books in the series. Growing up is not easy, …
Up For Sale-Human Trafficking And Modern Slavery, Emilee Bell
Up For Sale-Human Trafficking And Modern Slavery, Emilee Bell
Children's Book and Media Review
From forced labor to sex slavery, Up for Sale: Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery gives a comprehensive overview of contemporary slave situations across the globe. The book begins by briefly acquainting the reader with a history of slavery, and tying trends from the past with the current slave environment. Slave labor, sex slavery, and child slaves are explained in individual chapters. The final chapter presents the reader with action steps to fight human trafficking and slavery.
The Complete Maus, Natalie Hatch
The Complete Maus, Natalie Hatch
Children's Book and Media Review
Art Spiegelman is trying to come to terms with his Auschwitz-surviving father and the realities of what happened to him and the world under Hitler’s power before he was born. Never having got along with his father and always feeling like his older brother, killed during WWII when he was still a young boy, was the ghost that he could never live up to, Art feels trapped in his life as a designated failure. Using his cartoonist mindset and skills, Art slowly uncovers stories about his father’s past, illustrating them and sorting the realities and stories into something he can …
And I Darken, Abigail Packard
And I Darken, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Lada and Radu are siblings, children of the Wallachian prince, but they couldn’t be more different. Where Lada wraps herself in layers of anger and stark realism, Radu is kind and sensitive. When they are sent to the Ottoman Empire as pawns in a political game, Lada is furious, but Radu is open to the new culture, particularly the religion of Islam. The siblings find common ground in Mehmed, the third son of the sultan. Lada creates a fiercely passionate and loyal relationship with him while Radu harbors strong, forbidden feelings for Mehmed. When Mehmed becomes heir to the throne …
If You Lived Here: Houses Of The World, Kimberly Jackson
If You Lived Here: Houses Of The World, Kimberly Jackson
Children's Book and Media Review
What would your house look like if you lived halfway across the world or were born a hundred years ago? You can travel all around the world without leaving the comfort of home as you turn pages to visit houses across the globe in different eras. Each home is unique and lets you get a taste of the culture of people who live there. Information on the materials used to construct each house, the location, and a fascinating fact provide even more insight into these fifteen homes and their inhabitants. Who wouldn’t want to live in the mountains of Switzerland, …
Salt To The Sea, Abigail Packard
Salt To The Sea, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Joana is a nurse in training from Lithuania. Florian is a Prussian artist running from the work he did for the fuhrer. Emilia is a pregnant girl fleeing her homeland of Poland. Alfred is an enthusiastic German soldier set on enforcing the fuhrer’s standards. Joana, Florian, and Emilia end up in a refugee group that is walking through the frozen German landscape, desperately trying to survive and blend in amidst the turmoil caused by WWII. Each has their secrets, but they begin to trust and even love each other. During their struggles, Alfred composes letters in his head to his …