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Leaving Time, Liz Sugihara
Leaving Time, Liz Sugihara
Children's Book and Media Review
Thirteen year old Jenna Metcalf has been looking for her mother as long as she can remember. Her mother, Alice, disappeared years ago after an unsolved accident and Jenna refuses to believe that she abandoned her. She reads her mother’s research journals, searches the internet, and hires two uniquely talented people to help her along the way. With the assistance of Serenity, a psychic with natural ability, and Virgil, a detective who worked on her mother’s case years ago, Jenna slowly begins to unravel the mystery surrounding her mother’s disappearance and learns of the truth of what happened years ago.
Piggy, Ariel Woodbury
Piggy, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Piggy loves books! And he especially loves books about best friends. But Piggy spends too much time reading to have time to make any friends. When he has read all but one of his books he decides he wants to find a friend to share it with. He sees a cat reading a book in the park and tries everything to try and get her attention but nothing works! Until, that is, he offers to let her read his last book. The new friends have lots of fun reading and playing together.
Into White, Olivia Noli
Into White, Olivia Noli
Children's Book and Media Review
Into White is a coming of age story about Latoya, a high school junior who hates being black. After another black student bullies her, she prays to God to make her white. The next morning, she wakes up white with blond hair, blue eyes, and a skinny butt. After discovering this, Jesus appears in her room to tell her that her prayer was answered. She goes to school with the intention of being popular, but her new life is harder than she expected. Toya experiences things she never would have if she was "invisible" like she used to be. She …
Mix It Up!, Laura Trumbo
Mix It Up!, Laura Trumbo
Children's Book and Media Review
Begin by tapping the gray dot and a magical world of colors full of mixing, squishing, and squashing is at your fingertips. Tap the gray spot and discover a plethora of more colorful friends. More colorful spots appear as you tap, coming out from the sides of the page and gradually spreading out across the whole book. What happens when you shake together big blobs of paint? What if you squish them together? Put your hand on the page one last time, count to five, say good-bye to all the colorful spots, and explore the world of colors and art …
The Lost Property Office, Tessa Mcmillan
The Lost Property Office, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
Jack Buckles and his younger sister, Sadie, are stuck in London. Their mother has brought them there to search for their missing father. Disobeying orders to stay in the hotel, Sadie follows a man who looks like her father. Frantic, Jack follows Sadie’s trail. The two finally reunite in front of The Lost Property Office. They go inside for help and meet Gwen, an apprentice clerk. Suddenly, robotic beetles attack the building and separate Jack and Gwen from Sadie. The beetles were from the Clockmaker, the villain holding Jack’s dad hostage until Jack uses his gift of finding lost items …
Liberty's Journey, Aubree Keate
Liberty's Journey, Aubree Keate
Children's Book and Media Review
Lady Liberty has always wished she could roam and visit the many people she's welcomed into her lands, and early one morning she sets out to do just that. Stepping down from her revered place surrounded by the buildings of Manhattan, she begins a trek west across the United States of America. Leaving the skyscrapers behind, she visits green and brown fields, small town county fairs, open deserts, and concludes her journey at the great Golden Gate Bridge. However, it doesn't take long for her to feel lonely for her city's brilliant lights. Once home, she is met with cheers …
Gray Wolves: Howling Pack Mammals, Amanda Durrant
Gray Wolves: Howling Pack Mammals, Amanda Durrant
Children's Book and Media Review
This informational text explores the defining aspects of gray wolves: they are mammals and the largest member of the wild dog family. The book also compares physical and behavioral characteristics of gray wolves with other animals such as coyotes and African lions. Gray wolves live in remote portions of the North Hemisphere, and the book discusses their habitat and their interaction with humans. Finally, the author explores the life cycle of gray wolves while comparing and contrasting it with other mammalian species, such as the dwarf mongoose and snowshoe hare.
Pingo And The Playground Bully, Bailey Dryer
Pingo And The Playground Bully, Bailey Dryer
Children's Book and Media Review
Chad and his imaginary friend, Pingo, are enjoying recess with Chad’s classmates and their respective imaginary friends. Their fun Games turn quickly into taunting and competition as the children argue which of their imaginary friends is the smartest, sneakiest, coolest, and so forth. Jeremy, the playground bully, and his imaginary friend, Grunt, become upset that they weren’t invited to participate in the games. Pingo is disappointed with the rivalry and wants a better way to play where everyone can be included. The children deem Pingo the best for his efforts to make friends and he closes with the iconic statement: …
Celebrating Florida, Kristie Hinckley
Celebrating Florida, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Meet Mr. Geo, a geography teacher who knows everything there is to know about our fifty states. Today he is visiting Florida and the wildlife that covers this beautiful state. His visit to Walt Disney World and Sea World will leave you with a bucket list of things to do. From St. Augustine, where America was first discovered, to the Florida Keys where people snorkel and scuba dive, Florida is the perfect place for a vacation. And more than eighty million people visit Florida each year!
Bear Snores On, Robyn Lee
Bear Snores On, Robyn Lee
Children's Book and Media Review
How much noise does it take to wake up a bear sleeping through winter? Bear Snores On tells the funny tale of Bear sleeping while his friends Mouse, Hare, Gopher, Badger, Raven, and Wren come to his cave and eventually end up having a party! When Bear eventually wakes up due to the commotion he is sad that he has missed out on all the fun, so the forest friends start the festivities all over again and enjoy the rest of the night as a group.
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 …
This Train, Sydnee Burr
This Train, Sydnee Burr
Children's Book and Media Review
Bright trains zip by and teach young readers about colors, opposites, and rail riders. With simple wording that is age appropriate, This Trainfocuses on the theme of opposites: fast and slow, uphill and downhill, day and night, etc. Toddlers become acquainted with comparison through text and remain engaged by the bright colors, fine-tuning their color recognition abilities.
Over The Garden Wall: Schooltown Follies, Olivia Noli
Over The Garden Wall: Schooltown Follies, Olivia Noli
Children's Book and Media Review
In this chapter of Over the Garden Wall, Greg wanders off and sees a schoolhouse. Trying to find him, Wirt and Beatrice look inside the old fashioned school. Meanwhile, Greg plays outside with some poor animals (as indicated by their clothes). He rushes inside when a large gorilla attacks. Seeing how sad all the young animals who attend the school are, Greg sings a song about putting molasses on their potatoes. This is stopped by the owner of the school who comes and takes all the instruments away and sends the animals to bed. Greg wants to make the world …
Fantastic Frogs, Kristie Hinckley
Fantastic Frogs, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Fantastic Frogs is a Level 2 Scholastic Discover More reader. Readers will learn that frogs are amphibians and that they have similarities and differences with toads. Tricky words are defined in a glossary at the end of the book, making the text even more accessible to young readers. There are lots of facts scattered throughout the book, including a gross fact: Frogs pull off their old skin and eat it!
Bear Wants More, Robyn Lee
Bear Wants More, Robyn Lee
Children's Book and Media Review
Bear Wants More follows the first eventful day after Bear wakes up after hibernating all winter. Because Bear slept for so long he is really hungry and eats all the food he has available. Then Mouse, Hare, and Badger show him where to find strawberries, clover, and fish to eat. Back at his den, his other friends Gopher, Mole, Raven, and Wren have started cooking treats and decorating for the party they are throwing in Bear’s honor. But when Bear shows up at his home he’s eaten so much that he can’t fit through the door! The party is moved …
The Walls Around Us, Abigail Packard
The Walls Around Us, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Violet and Ori have been best friends since their first ballet class, but their relationship is tense as Violet, living a life of luxury and riches, doesn’t seem to have all that Ori, a poor girl living with her truck driver dad, does. Ori dances with an ease and grace that everyone notices while Violet has precise talent that’s stilted and always overshadowed. After Ori gets the star part and Violet’s enemies threaten to expose her as a slut, Violet stabs two girls with a box cutter behind the ballet theater. Ori runs out to find Violet and Violet turns …
Brick By Brick, Bailey Drayer
Brick By Brick, Bailey Drayer
Children's Book and Media Review
The foundation is being laid for the heart of a new country. Nameless, faceless hands labor to construct the white house: home to the president of the land of the free. The colored hands of men, women, and children labor alongside white men in mixing, sawing, and lifting each brick. As the symbol of freedom is built with the blood and sweat of these hands, their earned wages are pocketed by the slave owners who call them property.
Over The Garden Wall: Hard Times At The Huskin' Bee, Olivia Noli
Over The Garden Wall: Hard Times At The Huskin' Bee, Olivia Noli
Children's Book and Media Review
Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee is the second twelve minute chapter of Over the Garden Wall. Having taken The Woodsman's directions, Wirt and Greg are heading up the path in search of a town. The town is apparently empty, until they find a bunch of people dressed up as pumpkins while hay dancing. Wirt and Greg are sentenced to a few hours of manual labor for trespassing and trampling a couple of pumpkins. After helping with the harvest, they are instructed to start digging. A bird that has been following them, Beatrice, suggests that they are digging their own …
Mae And June And The Wonder Wheel, Kristie Hinckley
Mae And June And The Wonder Wheel, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
June is on a mission to find a new friend who is fun, friendly, and full of adventure! Grandma Penny sends her a “wonder wheel” that provides an exciting challenge for each day of the week. The challenge might be to reach out to a friend or collect items of a certain color. Mae is June’s new neighbor and classmate who definitely qualifies as fun, friendly, and full of adventure! And even though jealous classmates and dramatic older sisters can be frustrating, June always finds a way to make the best of hard situations.
Detective Gordon: A Case In Any Case, Sarah Rawle
Detective Gordon: A Case In Any Case, Sarah Rawle
Children's Book and Media Review
When two Evert and Karen go missing from their kindergarten class, Gordon and Buffy must work together to find them. The duo investigates the case of the missing children, seeking the help of the young classmates as they try to come up with an idea of where the children might have gone. They put together a search team with all the animals in the forest. Every animal is needed just in case Evert and Karen are hungry, cold, or tired or if the animals need a rope, ladder, or a boat to rescue them.
Juliet's Ghost, Rebeca Wallin
Juliet's Ghost, Rebeca Wallin
Children's Book and Media Review
On Halloween night, a group of high school students sneak into their school theatre to borrow costumes for a party. As the dates decide on famous couples to dress up as, various romantic entanglements unfold. Amidst this excitement, the somewhat spooky Wendy appears with the story of a ghost that appears on the stage every Halloween night after dying before she had a chance to play Shakespeare’s Juliet. After one failed attempt to make the ghost appear, a new student takes the challenge seriously and Kate (who left earlier,) appears to play the part of Juliet. When the real Kate …
Glass Sword, Abigail Packard
Glass Sword, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
After Maven’s despicable betrayal, Mare, Cal, and the Scarlet Guard are on the run. They arrive at a Scarlet Guard Base, but Cal is taken into custody and Mare is estranged as a newblood. Mare and Kilorn break Cal free and escape on a stolen plane determined to find the other newbloods. Mare and her gang meet Jon, a newblood man who can see the future. He refuses to join them, but directs them to Cameron, a newblood girl that escaped from Maven’s prison. Mare and her group of newbloods infiltrate the prison, free the prisoners, kill Queen Elara, and …
Safe In A Storm, Oliva Hales
Safe In A Storm, Oliva Hales
Children's Book and Media Review
Safe in a Storm tells the story of several animal families as both parents and their young find shelter from the storm. The story is told in thirteen rhyming couplets that offer reassurance to young animals (and young readers). The audience is first introduced to a mother sheepdog and her pup hurrying home in the face of a rumbling storm. After that, the lens continues on to sweep across various geographies and introduces such animals as ducks, whales, giraffes, and bobcats among others. A full circle is accomplished by the last page where we see the mother sheepdog and her …
Over The Garden Wall: The Old Grist Mill, Olivia Noli
Over The Garden Wall: The Old Grist Mill, Olivia Noli
Children's Book and Media Review
Wirt and his brother, Greg, are walking alone in the woods and realize that they are lost. They run into a bluebird, Beatrice, who offers to help, but are overtaken by The Woodsman, who takes them to his home. He tells them that as soon as he gets back, he will try to lead them home while avoiding The Beast. After wondering off, they encounter a large wild dog who attacks them for Wirt's candy. The monster dog falls into the water wheel of the mill and a black turtle is squeezed out of its stomach. The monster turns into …
This Is A Serious Book, Jess Verzello
This Is A Serious Book, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
This is a serious book for serious readers only. There is no dancing, laughing, throwing, chewing, sharing, drawing, misbehaving, or other such nonsense behavior allowed. But when donkey and zebra have a parade and invite all of their other animal friends to join, this serious book soon turns into a serious party and a not so serious book.
The Rainbow Fish, Olivia Noli
The Rainbow Fish, Olivia Noli
Children's Book and Media Review
Rainbow Fish has glittery scales and everyone, even himself, thinks he is very beautiful. One day, a small blue fish asks for one of the sparkling scales, but Rainbow Fish refuses to share any of his beauty. Because he was unkind, no one likes Rainbow Fish and he becomes very lonely. A wise octopus recommends that Rainbow Fish share his scales. Rainbow Fish learns that sharing fills him with warm, fuzzy feelings.
The Great War: Stories Inspired By Items From The First World War, Jerrett Bell
The Great War: Stories Inspired By Items From The First World War, Jerrett Bell
Children's Book and Media Review
For the one-hundred-year commemoration of “The War to End all Wars,” eleven prize-winning authors and renowned artist Jim Kay (Harry Potter: The Illustrated Edition) come together to create eleven beautiful short stories loosely tied around an object from WWI, all from the perspective of a child. The book features artwork between each story with a dark, two-page spread in the style of German Expressionism and noir art.
Miss Muffet, Or What Came After, Nicole Clark
Miss Muffet, Or What Came After, Nicole Clark
Children's Book and Media Review
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey; along came a spider, who sat down beside her, and frightened Miss Muffet away. That’s not the end of the story, though, as Miss Muffet, or What Came After reveals! As it turns out, the spider didn’t scare Miss Muffet, but instead befriended her and joined her in an adventurous escapade across the countryside. The pair meet Little Bo Peep (whose true story is also a bit more involved than her nursery rhyme suggests), stop a theft, and eventually end up as performers at the king’s castle.
The Book Thief, Shelby Bunker
The Book Thief, Shelby Bunker
Children's Book and Media Review
Death narrates the story of young Liesel Meminger. Liesel lives in Nazi Germany in the home of Rosa and Hans Hubermann. As the story progresses, her beliefs and morals are questioned and her life is threatened by the war. Her family hides a Jew for a brief spell, almost starving themselves on limited rations and little to no income. She steals books and learns to read, forming her own opinions in the process. Although she is just a child, Liesel matures quickly as she experiences the horrors of war.
Go, Little Green Truck!, Kristie Hinckley
Go, Little Green Truck!, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Little Green is a green pickup truck who loves helping Farmer Gray and his family with chores. But then a bigger, sturdier blue pickup truck comes along and replaces Little Green. Months pass and Little Green is forgotten in the meadow. When spring comes around, Farmer Gray’s daughter realizes that Little Green would be just right to take to the farmer’s market. She cleans Little Green up and the two are a hit at the farmer's market! Farmer Gray can now use Big Blue and Little Green!