Word! Ideas for books and library programs
EDIT: I have since removed the spoilers that were previously published in this post. Title: Wake Author: Lisa McMann ISBN: 9781416953579 Pages: 210 pages Publisher/Date: Simon Pulse, c2008. She closes her eyes. Tries to think. Holds up a weak finger, letting him know she needs a moment. But she feels the next one coming already. [...]
Title: The Pout-Pout Fish Author: Deborah Diesen Illustrator: Dan Hanna ISBN: 9780374360962 Pages: un-numbered Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, c2008. “I’m a pout-pout fish With a pout-pout face, So I spread the dreary-wearies All over the place.” I absolutely LOVE this book. I discovered several months ago, and have been recommending it ever since. Written by [...]
Title: Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake Author: Jennifer Allison ISBN: 0525476938 Pages: 339 pages Publisher/Date: Dutton’s Children’s Books, c2006. Miss Underhill frowned at Gilda as if she were suddenly speaking a foreign language. “What?” “You said her ghost rises out of the water screaming. Then what happens?” “I don’t think I want to [...]
Title: A Crooked Kind of Perfect Author: Linda Urban Narrator: Tai Alexandra Ricci ISBN: 9780739359617 Discs: 3 CDs, 3 hours 17 minutes Pages: 211 pages Publisher/Date: Random House/Listening Library, c2007. “I was supposed to play the piano. The piano is a beautiful instrument. Elegant. Dignified. People wera ball gowns and tuxedos to hear the piano. [...]
Title: Ellie McDoodle: New Kid in School Author: Ruth McNally Barshaw ISBN: 9781599902388 Pages: 188 pages Publisher/Date: Bloomsbury Children’s Books, c2008. My house: Gone. We’re moving away, and I probably won’t ever see it again. Good-bye room. Good-bye, bird tree. Good-bye, four-leaf clover patch. … Good-bye, basement. … Good-bye, playroom in the attic. … All [...]
Title: Who is Jim Hines? Author: Jean Alicia Elster ISBN: 9780814334027 Pages: 134 pages Publisher/Date: Wayne State University Press, c2008. “Doug knew them all, except one. His dad talked about him, but Doug never saw his truck. He never came with the other men in the morning. Doug heard his name often enough, so he [...]
Title: Willow Run Author: Patricia Reilly Giff ISBN: 0385730675 Pages: 149 pages Publisher/Date: Wendy Lamb Books, 2005. “Every single apartment was the same. Gray. Not a curtain on a window…. A kindergarten kid could have drawn it: a long low box that stretched from one end of the paper to the other, no paint, no [...]
Title: Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen Will Travel Author: Ruth McNally Barshaw ISBN: 9781582347455 Pages: 170 pages Publisher/Date: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children’s Books, c2007 “So now I’m trapped in a steel projectile, hurtling down the highway into the Great Unknown with a bunch of control freaks and snotty-nosed brats. Eric started a fight with Deanna and Tiffie [...]
November 9, 2009
challengingthebookworm
