Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Excellent (553)
- Primary (523)
- Young Adult (483)
- Preschool (460)
- Intermediate (451)
-
- Outstanding (443)
- Picture Book (317)
- Dependable (249)
- Toddler (210)
- Friendship (196)
- Animals (120)
- Family (101)
- Magic (100)
- Adventure (94)
- Nonfiction (78)
- Fantasy (73)
- Mystery (66)
- Humor (60)
- Romance (49)
- Significant Shortcomings (49)
- Teen Romance (45)
- History (44)
- Dogs (41)
- Fairy Tale (39)
- Death (38)
- School (35)
- Science (34)
- Educational (31)
- Monsters (30)
- High School (29)
- Publication Year
- File Type
Articles 901 - 930 of 3511
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
Lunar Chronicles #2: Scarlet, Aylea Stephens
Lunar Chronicles #2: Scarlet, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
While Cinder is trying to break out of prison and start a rebellion against the evil queen Levana of Luna, Scarlet Benoit is halfway around the world looking for her grandmother. Her grandmother might have information about the lost princess of Luna, and there are people who will do anything to get that information from her. Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who might have answers to where her grandmother is, and together they travel to attempt to rescue her grandmother. Meanwhile, Cinder escapes from prison with the help of Captain Thorne, a swashbuckling pirate wanted in multiple countries for …
Lunar Chronicles #1: Cinder, Aylea Stephens
Lunar Chronicles #1: Cinder, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
As the best mechanic in New Beijing, Cinder knows how to build and fix almost everything—except how to stop more people from finding out that she is actually a cyborg and has very few rights and privileges under the law. When Prince Kai comes to ask for her help in repairing an android who has secret information that could solve earth’s political problems with the Lunars, she is thrown into a world where she is trying to help solve a diplomatic crisis, prevent the prince from finding out that she is a cyborg, and is used as an experiment to …
The Lucy Variations, Aylea Stephens
The Lucy Variations, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Lucy Beck-Moreau had a promising future as a concert pianist and was gaining fame in the musical world until she quit after her parents and grandfather lied to her about her grandmother’s death so Lucy would be more focused on her music. Now, she is in regular school and everyone instead expects her ten-year-old brother, Gus, to be the star of the family. When Gus gets a new teacher, he encourages her to go back to piano, not for her family but for herself and the music. Going back to music involves the possibility of a forbidden romance, distancing herself …
Kat Incorrigible #3: Stolen Magic, Aylea Stephens
Kat Incorrigible #3: Stolen Magic, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Kat is finally able to start preparing for her test to become a full-fledged Guardian, but she has to do it in secrecy and avoid causing any problems for Angeline and her marriage to Lord Frederick Carlyle. Not too long into the trip to the Carlyle estate, it becomes apparent that someone intends to hurt Kat or someone in her family--possibly the same person who stole the Guardians’ collection of magic portals. As Kat works to practice her magic and avoid the person who keeps threatening her and her sisters, she solves the mysteries about her family’s past and helps …
Goodnight Already!, Aylea Stephens
Goodnight Already!, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Bear is so tired that he feels like he could sleep for months, but his neighbor Duck is wide awake! Duck comes to Bear and asks him to play cards, make smoothies, and do lots of other activities, but Bear sends him away. Duck comes back asking for help making cookies. Again, Bear sends him away. Duck comes back one more time to get Bear to play with him, but Bear just wants to sleep. Bear’s crankiness makes Duck feel sleepy, but now Bear doesn’t feel like sleeping.
Flawed, Jess Verzello
Flawed, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
Celestine North is the perfect teenager. She has straight A’s, is dating the handsome Art Crevan, has a good group of friends, loves her parents, and always always follows the rules. Until one day her choice to help a man, a Flawed man, goes against what society has deemed to be correct. As she becomes a pawn in too many political games, Celestine questions whether the Flawed system that seemed so perfect before, is actually the biggest flaw of them all. Accused, branded, and now targeted on both sides, Celestine must choose who she can trust and how to bring …
Finding Dory, Carlie Smith
Finding Dory, Carlie Smith
Children's Book and Media Review
One year after rescuing Nemo, Dory starts to have memories about the family she lost. She persuades Marlin and Nemo to accompany her back to the Jewel of Morro Bay, California to find her parents. Once arriving at the Marine Life Institute (a version of Seaworld) she gets split up from her companions and placed in quarantine for sick fish. She meets Hank, the octopus with seven legs, who agrees to help her search. They journey across the park and Dory reunites with some of her old friends. Plagued by worries her parents won’t love her because she remembers it …
Crenshaw, Amelia Hillebrant
Crenshaw, Amelia Hillebrant
Children's Book and Media Review
Being homeless is a bad dream for many, but for Jackson it’s a reality. After Jackson’s dad is diagnosed with a condition that keeps him from working, Jackson’s family is tight on money, short on food, and down on luck. Jackson wants his parents to give him the facts--he never much liked silly stories. So when his old imaginary friend shows up, Jackson wants nothing more than to get rid of him. Crenshaw is a giant cat who loves surfing, bubble baths, and purple jelly beans, and he’s not real. Jackson doesn't believe in imaginary friends anymore, and just wants …
Code Quest: Atlantis: The Search For The Lost City, Aylea Stephens
Code Quest: Atlantis: The Search For The Lost City, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
This code-cracking book lets kids take part of an adventure while learning some non-fiction facts about the lost city of Atlantis. The main character, Amy James, explorer, asks for the reader’s help to put together clues to find out what happened to Atlantis. Amy hides away on the Neptune, a ship in 1885, to find the lost city. When Amy gets caught, she and the captain realize that their same goal might lead them to the lost city. They explore many places and think they found the lost ruins, but a storm prevents them from too much exploration of their …
After The Ball, Whitney Troxel
After The Ball, Whitney Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
Kate Kassell is a recent fashion school graduate with a dream to design couturier. However, since her estranged father’s business is selling “knock-offs” of designer fashions Kate is unable to find a job. In an attempt to reconnect with his daughter, Kate’s father Lee offers her a job at the family business. Kate’s stepmother and stepsisters treat her terribly in repeated attempts to get her to quit. When Kate exceeds expectations her stepmother frames her for corporate espionage and gets Lee to fire his own daughter. With some help from her godmother, Kate disguises herself as a new employee named …
Where's Walrus? And Penguin?, Aylea Stephens
Where's Walrus? And Penguin?, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
When Walrus and Penguin manage to escape from the zoo, they are in for a lot of fun adventure. Disguising themselves as a mother and a baby, ticket takers and newspaper sellers, a pigeon feeder and a pigeon, part of a crew on a rowboat, a taxi driver and passenger, the orchestra director and member of an opera, and players on a baseball team, they manage to avoid the zookeepers trying to catch them. When Walrus gets hit on the head and has to be taken to the hospital, however, Walrus finds someone to be the love of his life.
Wake Up, Island, Tessa Mcmillan
Wake Up, Island, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
During the dawning hours, as a child sleeps soundly in bed, the world on the child’s island home starts waking up. Animals, birds, plants, and insects begin their morning routines of waking from their beds, foraging for food, and securing their homes. In the midst of all this outdoor activity, the child is awakened by the sun’s light. However, not even a hearty pancake breakfast can keep the child from running outside to welcome the start of a new day.
Twelve Kinds Of Ice, Michelle Parker
Twelve Kinds Of Ice, Michelle Parker
Children's Book and Media Review
Twelve Kinds of Ice is a beautifully written book that takes you through seasons by introducing you to the different ices and how they are enjoyed. Starting with the thinnest ice in the sheep pails and the excitement it starts as anticipation grows for the upcoming skating ices and the activities they bring. The world is theirs to explore on roads of ice. But as spring time comes the ice continues to change. The skating days are counted, the last ice is enjoyed until the day it is gone. But even though it's gone, the ice is smooth in their …
Totally Red, Rebeca Wallin
Totally Red, Rebeca Wallin
Children's Book and Media Review
Little Red Riding Hood gets several makeovers in this creative introduction to theater styles. The original story is set up using a basic storybook theater style and is then retold in various styles including melodrama, Shakespearean, hip-hop music, avant-garde, and musical theater. The script itself is humorous and includes narrators that give a quick introduction to each scene explaining the theater style the audience is about to see. The concise introductions and short scenes perfectly convey each style while maintaining a young audience’s interest. Dialogue is flowing and natural and the script includes helpful director’s notes for staging as well …
The Somewhat True Adventures Of Sammy Shine, Tessa Mcmillan
The Somewhat True Adventures Of Sammy Shine, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
Jimmy has built a flight-ready, small aircraft, and he’s itching for a test pilot. So, he steals Hanks’ pet mouse, Sammy Shine. But the launch goes awry when Jimmy accidentally destroys the plane’s remote. Sammy takes over the controls, but he eventually crashes inside the wild Great Woods. Once there, Sammy meets a mouse clan and their friendly leader, Osmund. Osmund believes Sammy is magical because of his airplane, but warns that Mustela, the evil weasel, will want it to take over the woods. When Sammy’s aircraft disappears and Mustela isn’t to blame, Sammy searches for Goggles, an old and …
Suite For Human Nature, Rachel Wadham
Suite For Human Nature, Rachel Wadham
Children's Book and Media Review
Based on a musical composition by lyricist Lampert and musician Wynton Marsalis, this folkloric allegory tells the tale of Mother Nature and her children. Mother Nature wants to have a child so she creates a boy and names him Fear. Leaving him with the humans to tend to the earth she returns to find all in turmoil. Determined to make things right she creates Envy but finds the outcome is not as expected. Again she tries with Hate and Greed, then again with a sister, Fickle. Nothing turns out and born down by grief she finally listens to the advice …
Ravenspire #1: The Shadow Queen, Aylea Stephens
Ravenspire #1: The Shadow Queen, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Lorelai is a princess on the run from the evil queen who used her magic to enslave the kingdom and take control over Lorelai’s father. Using her own magic and the help of her younger brother and the man who has helped them survive for years as fugitives, Lorelai plans to defeat Queen Irina. Her challenge increases when Queen Irina makes a deal with Kol, the heir to the throne of a neighboring kingdom called Eldr. Kol needs magic to protect his kingdom against the ogres invading it, so he promises to bring Queen Irina Lorelai’s heart in exchange for …
Railhead, Rachel Wadham
Railhead, Rachel Wadham
Children's Book and Media Review
Crossing the Great Network of trains that hurtle through the gates between planets and stealing what he needs to survive is just the way Zen wants to spend his time until the mysterious Raven hires him for a job. Revealing that Zen holds just the right DNA necessary for him to breach security on the Emperors impenetrable train, Raven is sure Zen has what it takes steal an enigmatic object from the trains art collection. Knowing this job will set his family up for life Zen agrees, but things don’t go as planned leaving Zen facing danger at every turn. …
Pax, Jess Verzello
Pax, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
Pax and his boy Peter are inseparable—that is until the oncoming war forces them apart. Before he reports to the front lines, Peter’s father is sending Peter off to live with his grandfather, but forces the boy to leave his fox behind in the forest where Pax will be “safe.” However, once apart, Peter discovers that leaving Pax was the worst decision of his life. He sets out on a journey to find his beloved other half; his determination fueled by love and loyalty. Even though Pax and Peter are apart, their connection is stronger than ever as they faithfully …
Numbers With Nemo, Cynthia Phillips
Numbers With Nemo, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
Nemo is having a party! The characters from Disney’s Finding Nemo are featured in an under the sea party aimed at teaching preschoolers numbers one through ten. Preschoolers will identify, count, trace, sequence, and match numbers. Children can record the numbers in their own voice and decorate interactive scenes with earned stickers. Mr. Ray, Nemo’s teacher, is the host and entertains the guests with songs. A secured parent section allows you to add accounts for up to four children that will track their progress. It also provides additional information on reinforcing learning at home. This animated app has been awarded …
Notakto, Cynthia Phillips
Notakto, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
You’ve heard of Tic-Tac-Toe where you try to get three X’s or O’s in a row? Well, this is Notakto where there are only X’s and you do not want to be the one to win. This one-player game has levels ranging from Easy to Insane. The levels are successive and higher levels are unlocked as each is cleared. The game can be set to have 1 to 6 tables at a time.
Not If I See You First, Aylea Stephens
Not If I See You First, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Parker Grant doesn’t give second chances to people who break the rules. Because she is blind, the rules are both for her and the people around her to make life better. After her mom died in a car accident leaving her blind, her first boyfriend, Scott, broke her heart, and her dad dies of a prescription drug overdose, the rules are more important than ever. She is no longer afraid to tell people what she really thinks because she can’t see anyone’s reactions, but when she and Scott are back in the same school and the track coach asks if …
No Better Friend: A Man, A Dog, And Their Incredible True Story Of Friendship And Survival In World War Ii (Young Readers Edition), Liz Kazandzhy
No Better Friend: A Man, A Dog, And Their Incredible True Story Of Friendship And Survival In World War Ii (Young Readers Edition), Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
World War II began in the Pacific as a result of Japan’s imperialist desire to conquer its surrounding nations. In 1942, after sweeping through Siam and Malaya, Japanese forces unexpectedly overtook Britain-occupied Singapore. It was at this point that the stories of Frank Williams, a radarman in Britain’s Royal Air Force, and Judy, a loyal and talented pointer, began to collide. Having both been on ships that were attacked by the Japanese, they found themselves stranded for a time until finding a way to journey across the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the city of Padang. Unfortunately for them, Padang …
Muddle And Match: Monsters, Cynthia Phillips
Muddle And Match: Monsters, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
Barry the brave, batty beast gives a graceful and glorious gig on the guitar and obtains an ovation from the other outlaws. Confused? This charming board book is filled with silly monster alliterations. Each monster has a top, a middle, and a bottom that can be mixed and matched with monster parts on other split pages. The there are 8 monsters in simple and bright illustrations. The combinations that are made make new monsters and new stories to tell. Muddle and Match Monsters is one in a book series entitled Muddle and Match. Other books in the series include Muddle …
Mila 2.0: Redemption, Liz Kazandzhy
Mila 2.0: Redemption, Liz Kazandzhy
Children's Book and Media Review
MILA 2.0 begins as a story of a seemingly typical 16-year-old girl named Mila. She struggles with the recent death of her father, deals with high school drama, and quickly falls for a new boy in town named Hunter. However, she soon discovers that she is actually a recently-created robot designed by the government for espionage purposes, and her “mom” is actually one of her designers who broke her out of the government facility because she recognized the uniquely human qualities in Mila. While trying to escape together to a foreign county, Mila and her mom outrun one group of …
Just Flirt, Aylea Stephens
Just Flirt, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Dee Barton wants to spend the summer being a Superflirt with her Nine Rules of Flirting and the guys that come to stay at her family’s campground. Sabrina wants to spend the summer being popular and being the perfect girlfriend to Blaine, Dee’s ex-boyfriend. Both girls dislike the other. When a secret blog gets them both involved in a lawsuit that could change their lives, Dee and Sabrina realize that they are not as different as they thought as they team up to stop the people who want to use them to further their own ambitions. They manage to stop …
Jake's Never Land Shapes And Patterns, Cynthia Phillips
Jake's Never Land Shapes And Patterns, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
That sneaky Captain Hook is after the treasure! Jake and his friends need get there before Captain Hook and Smee. In this game, children learn about shapes and patterns with the characters from Disney’s Jake and the Neverland Pirates. This preschool game has tracing, matching, and patterns presented in a storybook format. During the adventure they can earn gold doubloons, buy pirate gear, and take pictures of themselves for a personalized dancing puppet.
Illuminae, Roger Layton
Illuminae, Roger Layton
Children's Book and Media Review
Everyone has problems, but Kady didn’t realize how bad things could get. She had just broken up with her boyfriend when everything blew up—literally. While she is at school, the company-owned mining planet she lives on is invaded by a rival corporation. Everyone scrambles to escape the attack on any ship they can get to. Her ex-boyfriend, Ezra, makes it to one ship; Kady finds another, and she can only hope her family was able to escape as well. Their situation becoming even more severe, Kady and Ezra are forced to work together and do their best to get keep …
Hour Of The Bees, Jess Verzello
Hour Of The Bees, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
There might be nothing worse for a twelve-year-old city girl than to be forced to spend an entire summer in the hot, boring New Mexico desert taking care of a grandfather she’s never met. Carolina, who goes by Carol, dreads helping her family pack up the dying sheep ranch and move her dementia-riddled Grandpa Serge into an assisted living facility. But Carol and Serge begin to form a connection as he recounts her Mexican-American heritage and the life that once occupied the barren desert. Carol finds herself desperate to solve the mysteries of the bees, the lake, and the people …
First Grade Dropout, Aylea Stephens
First Grade Dropout, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
The boy in this story has been a lot of things (hungry, bored, and wet), but the worst of all those things is when he knows he will have to become a first grade dropout. He has done something so embarrassing that he cannot go back to school. He tries to come up with ways to avoid going to school, like casting a spell to undo what he did or building a time machine to go back before it happened, so that he doesn’t have to face his classmates knowing that he called his teacher “mommy”. He’ll miss being around …