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Newt's Emerald, Rachel Wadham
Newt's Emerald, Rachel Wadham
Children's Book and Media Review
To honor her birthday Lady Truthful’s father shows off the precious and magical emerald that she is to inherit until the event takes an ominous turn and the jewel is stolen. Determined to recover the gem, Truthful heads to London, where with the help of her eccentric aunt, she disguises herself as a man to make inquiries. Her efforts reveal that something more sinister is afoot and with the help of an able former Navy officer, the thief is identified and the chase is on. When the pair is kidnapped and Truthful is unmasked because of her successful efforts to …
Nasa For Students, Aylea Stephens
Nasa For Students, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
NASA’s website for students provides a look at what work NASA does and interesting things about space. Older kids can explore career opportunities, watch videos about interesting things that happen in space, and find out the latest news about what is going on at NASA or in the night sky. Younger kids can enjoy NASA’s Kids Club that has space related games and coloring sheets. The website has pictures and information about space explorations, meteor showers, women in STEM subjects, and many other things related to NASA.
Mirrored, Aylea Stephens
Mirrored, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
In this modern twist of Snow White, readers get the perspectives of all the primary characters. Violet is brilliant but ugly enough that her classmates and teachers despise and bully her. She only has one friend, Greg, until he forgets her and starts dating Violet’s worst enemy. While Violet is dealing with losing her only friend she meets Kendra, a witch who can help her change the way she looks and teach Violet how to use her magical gifts. Violet becomes obsessed with using magic to become beautiful, but nothing she does seems to be able to change Greg’s mind. …
Mango Languages, Aylea Stephens
Mango Languages, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Mango is a language learning program that offers more than 70 language courses and ESL instruction in 17 languages. It can be used by kids and adults. The lessons look like flashcards, and users can go from one “flashcard” to another for the lesson parts. Each lesson starts out with a spoken conversation with a translation, and then a step-by-step explanation of the meanings of the words and how to pronounce them. The cards offer opportunities to immediately test if the word or phrase has been learned with plenty of repetition. The lessons also contain grammar notes as well as …
Magonia, Aylea Stephens
Magonia, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Aza Ray is drowning in air. She’s had a lung disease her whole life, and no one expects her to live very long. When she sees in a ship in the sky, her family thinks that it is another hallucination side effect to the many medications that she has to take, but Aza knows that it’s real because she can hear someone on the ship calling her name. Only her best friend, Jason, believes her, but before they can learn about what it is, Aza is taken from her regular world and put into another: Magonia. This is a world …
Magic School Bus Presents: Volcanoes And Earthquakes, Liz Kazandzhy
Magic School Bus Presents: Volcanoes And Earthquakes, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
Jump on the Magic School Bus and come explore volcanoes and earthquakes! First you’ll take a look at the many types of volcanoes and their intriguing characteristics—shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes, even volcanoes under the sea and in space! After experiencing lava, explosions, and water-spewing geysers, Ms. Frizzle will take you on to explore and explain how earthquakes and tsunamis come to be.
Magic School Bus Presents: Planet Earth, Liz Kazandzhy
Magic School Bus Presents: Planet Earth, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
Jump on the Magic School Bus and come explore planet Earth! This adventure will take you to the highest and lowest places on earth, earthquake faults and rock formations, and places where water has worn the earth away. You’ll also explore caves and volcanoes and find all sorts of rocks, minerals, crystals, and fossils.
Magic School Bus Presents: Our Solar System, Liz Kazandzhy
Magic School Bus Presents: Our Solar System, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
Jump on the Magic School Bus and come explore the solar system! After a quick stop at the sun, you’ll visit all eight planets in the solar system, one by one. And not only that, you’ll also learn about the moon, the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, icy dwarves (like Pluto), and comets.
Made You Up, Aylea Stephens
Made You Up, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Alex can’t tell what is real and what is not. She suffers from paranoia and schizophrenia. She takes pictures of everything so later she can tell what is real and what isn’t and checks her food for poison. She was first diagnosed after an incident with a boy that everyone says didn’t really happen, but when she meets a boy that reminds her of him she keeps wondering how much is real and how much isn’t. What she wants is to be normal, but she doesn’t really know how to get there. Alex navigates her senior year of high school …
Love Fortunes And Other Disasters, Aylea Stephens
Love Fortunes And Other Disasters, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Fallon Dupree is excited to go to high school because she knows that when she is in the town of Grimbaud she’ll be able to follow a love fortune that is 100% accurate. When her fortune tells her that she will never find love, she is surprised and devastated. Fallon isn’t the only student with a terrible fortune, however. She becomes part of a rebellion that wants to overthrow the power of Zita’s famous love charms to give everyone a chance at love. She works with Sebastian, a boy known as the ultimate heartbreaker, to discover the secret’s behind Zita’s …
Llama Llama Red Pajama, Chelsie Troxel
Llama Llama Red Pajama, Chelsie Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
Llama llama prepares for bedtime with his mother. She tucks him in and then heads downstairs to clean. Llama llama starts to get upset and he wants his mama and she is not coming. He starts to worry that she is gone and throws a big tantrum. Mama hears the commotion and thinking that something is wrong, she hurries to her Llama llama. Mother tells Llama llama that his drama is not very appreciated. Llama then goes to sleep knowing that his mama loves him and it is time for bed.
The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape Of Margret And H.A. Rey, Tessa Mcmillan
The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape Of Margret And H.A. Rey, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
Many years ago, two Jewish artists from Germany met in Brazil, started a business, fell in love, and got married. The Brazilians could not pronounce their German names, so the couple shortened them to H.A. and Margret Rey. While honeymooning in Europe, the Reys decided to stay in Paris so H.A. could pursue a career as a children's book author and illustrator. During this time, H.A. started developing stories about a curious little monkey, influenced by the many monkeys he saw in Brazil. But Hitler's forces delayed H.A.'s plans for the little monkey until he and Margret could safely escape …
Jinx #2: Jinx's Magic, Aylea Stephens
Jinx #2: Jinx's Magic, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Jinx can do magic, but that doesn’t mean that he understands it. When he is being stalked by a werewolf with a notebook, learns that the trees of the Urwald are being cut down, and is unable to convince Revan why saving the trees is important (and the Urwald really is its own country), he knows that he has to do something to fix it. Simon sends him to Samara to study at the Temple. Magic is illegal in Samara, but Jinx hopes that he’ll be able to find the answers he needs to defeat the Bonemaster for good and …
I Saw Esau, The Schoolchild’S Pocket Book, Sydnee Burr
I Saw Esau, The Schoolchild’S Pocket Book, Sydnee Burr
Children's Book and Media Review
Upon visiting an elementary school anywhere in the country, the children are chanting the same rhymes that their parents chanted as well as their grandparents. I Saw Esau is a collection of these childhood memories and can be enjoyed, laughed at, and learned from by all generations.
I Love To Eat: Deluxe Touch-And-Feel (Spanish And French Edition), Liz Kazandzhy
I Love To Eat: Deluxe Touch-And-Feel (Spanish And French Edition), Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
This quality, interactive board book introduces babies to a variety of words associated with eating, including high chair, sippy cup, peas, and cookie. It’s a vocabulary book, not a story book, and features a total of 12 words, each word presented in English, French, and Spanish.
I Am Otter, Aylea Stephens
I Am Otter, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
No one knows for sure where Otter came from, but now she lives with Otter Keeper and her best friend, Teddy. They have a lot of fun together, but Otter Keeper has to go to work during the week no matter what Otter does to keep him from leaving. She decides that it’s unfair that she and Teddy don’t have jobs, so she decides to start their own business: a toast restaurant. They have a great time, but Otter Keeper comes home to a big mess and all of the customers have to go home. Soon Otter realizes that Teddy …
How To Catch A Mouse, Liz Kazandzhy
How To Catch A Mouse, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
Clemmie is a fearsome mouse catcher. Or so she thinks. After studying about how to catch a mouse, she goes on the prowl, searching for anything that looks like a mouse—a pink tail, two round ears, and whiskers. They all turn out to be everything BUT a mouse, and little does Clemmie know that the real mouse is hiding in plain sight! When she finally finds the pesky mouse, she uses the same strategy of disguising herself to catch him.
Hold Fast, Liz Kazandzhy
Hold Fast, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
In downtown Chicago there lives a poor but optimistic family, the Pearls, who love to read and always stick close to each other—Dash, the father; Sum, the mother; Early, the 11-year-old daughter; and Jubie, the 4-year-old son. Things seem to be looking up for them as Dash continues his career as a librarian and makes some money on the side by transferring old books, but one day, a mysterious tragedy strikes and Dash goes missing. When criminals come to their home and destroy it, Sum and her kids are forced to find refuge in a homeless shelter. The story continues …
Historium, Whitney Troxel
Historium, Whitney Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
The Historium is an entire museum located in the pages of a book. The first few pages, or entrance to the museum, include a brief explanation of Archaeology and an invitation to learn from the past. The museum features six different galleries: Africa, America, Asia, Europe, The Middle East, and Oceania. Each gallery features a summary of each region, illustrations of artifacts found in those regions, and descriptions of each artifact. There is also a timeline of all the artifacts included in the museum to help visitors visualize what time period the different artifacts came from.
Jake And The Never Land Pirates: Hide The Hideout! / The Old Shell Game, Aylea Stephens
Jake And The Never Land Pirates: Hide The Hideout! / The Old Shell Game, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
In the first episode of Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Captain Hook is up to his old devious tricks. In the first half of the episode, Captain Hook is determined to steal the kids’ hideout for himself so he can have his own pirate hideout. Although there are a few close calls, Captain Hook is not able to find it, and his mishaps while trying to locate the hideout causes him to catch a cold. In the second part of the episode, Captain Hook steals a shell from Izzy. The three kids do their best to find it, but …
Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories Of Survival, Liz Kazandzhy
Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories Of Survival, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
As the title alludes, this book is a compilation of survival stories that are similar to Anne Frank’s. These true stories are told by the survivors themselves, all Jews from the Netherlands, who were forced into hiding during World War II when they were just children. Each recollection is unique, since backgrounds, experiences, and outcomes differed for every individual, but they are bound together by a common culture (both Dutch and Jewish), a tragic history, and themes of courage and kindness of countless people that allowed these children to survive.
Hemingway Editor, Aylea Stephens
Hemingway Editor, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Hemmingway Editor is an app that can be used online for free or downloaded to a computer for a fee. Its goal is to help writers strengthen their writing skills by identifying sentences that are hard to read, phrases and words that could have a simpler alternative, adverbs, and passive voice. It lights up potential problem areas in different colors so that they can be identified at a glance. It also shows the grade level that is required to understand the content based on the vocabulary and writing style. It includes basic text formatting and a writing mode so that …
The Gold Seer Trilogy #1: Walk On Earth A Stranger, Aylea Stephens
The Gold Seer Trilogy #1: Walk On Earth A Stranger, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Lee Westfall has a hidden gift that could make her family rich if it wasn’t so dangerous. She has a gold sense that can lead her to gold, things close to the surface or veins of gold underneath the earth. When her parents are murdered, it seems that someone has discovered her secret. To stay safe from her villainous uncle, she goes to find her best friend, Jefferson, who has gone to California after the news of the discovery of gold in California. Lee disguises herself as a boy to avoid getting caught and goes on an adventure across America …
Girl Meets World: Girl Meets World, Whitney Troxel
Girl Meets World: Girl Meets World, Whitney Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
Daughter of Cory and Topanga, Riley Matthews is not allowed to ride the New York subway by herself. After her parents catch her and her best friend, Maya Hart, trying to sneak out the window, Cory and Topanga give an impassioned speech that it’s time for Riley to discover who she is and make the world her own. They then give Riley permission to ride the subway. Riley becomes inspired by Maya’s know-how of the subway and its people, including a cute boy they meet named Lucas. She decides she wants to become just like Maya and starts mimicking her …
Elemental, Tessa Mcmillan
Elemental, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
A plague outbreak in the United States caused all survivors to relocate to any outlying islands. One group of survivors living on Hatteras Island has the ability to control the elements—fire, water, earth, and wind—all except Thomas. When a storm threatens Thomas’s colony, the elders or Guardians, send the youth to Roanoke Island for safety. But after they arrive, Thomas sees smoke coming from their village. The youth return to Hatteras and discover that pirates destroyed their homes and captured the Guardians. The pirates see the youth and head back to claim them, but Thomas and his friends return to …
Dragons At Crumbling Castle, Aylea Stephens
Dragons At Crumbling Castle, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Dragons at Crumbling Castle is a collection of short stories written by Terry Pratchett in his younger years. The stories contain a unique set of heroes, including Hercules the Tortoise, people on a speck bent on traveling to another speck, carpet people exploring new lands, a caveman who enjoys inventing things that will change the world, a champion egg dancer, a boring knight, and an abominable snowman. The book contains fourteen zany stories with plots ranging from going to fight dragons to a bus going back in time.
Clark The Shark Dares To Share, Aylea Stephens
Clark The Shark Dares To Share, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Clark the Shark loves school, but sometimes he gets confused about some things. Sharing is one of the things that he gets confused about. He tries to share his appreciation for Benny Blowfish’s song, but Mrs. Inkydink says that he has to wait his turn when he starts dancing. He doesn’t understand why the giver has to choose to share instead of just sharing in the first place. When he wants to share his hockey skills, his team is upset that Clark didn’t let anyone else score. Finally Clark learns what sharing is, and it makes him and everyone else …
Pillage #2: Choke, Tessa Mcmillan
Pillage #2: Choke, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
When a school prank lands Beck in the hospital, three strange visitors come to see him: an annoying journalist; a pasty-white, hooded man; and a killer plant. These three visits cause Beck to plant the last dragon stone. Beck is warned that if he does not hatch and kill the dragon, Beck’s father will be lost. However, when Beck sees the newborn queen dragon, he is entranced. Keeping his plans hidden from everyone, except Kate and Wyatt, Beck raises the queen thinking he can control her. But his family’s curse drives the queen out of hiding to pillage Kingsplot. When …
Bulldozer's Big Day, Tessa Mcmillan
Bulldozer's Big Day, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
As a bright, new day begins over the city's construction site, Bulldozer can't wait to invite his friends to his birthday party. Excitedly he asks Digger Truck why today is so special. But Digger Truck says there is nothing special about the day except for doing his assigned work. Bulldozer's excitement turns to disappointment as the rest of his friends don't recognize the significance of the day as well. Just when Bulldozer thinks he will be alone on his birthday, his friends surprise him with a massive cake to celebrate Bulldozer's big day.
Blueberries For Sal, Chelsie Troxel
Blueberries For Sal, Chelsie Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
Little Sal and her Mother spend an afternoon picking blueberries on Blueberry Hill. Sal finds the blueberries delicious and ends up eating more than she puts in her pail. After walking and picking for a while, Sal gets tired and sits to rest and eat more blueberries. Meanwhile, a mother bear and her little baby bear are out eating blueberries as well. Little bear loves the blueberries and sits to eat them all. While both the little bear and little Sal are busy eating blueberries they find themselves alone and in search of their mothers. Sal then looks to find …