The Adventures of Anatole by Nancy Willard, illus. Orca tunes in for On the News: Ways of Understanding Death by Merrie-Ellen Wilcox, examining the history, beliefs, and customs surrounding death in cultures around the world; My Life as a Diamond by Jenny Manzer, in which a talented baseball player has a secret—he used to live life as a girl; The Night the Forest Came to Town by Charles Ghigna, illus.
Owlkids takes in the view with Earthrise: Looking for Patterns in Nature by Patchen Barss, illus. Page Street blazes a trail with Uncharted by Erin Cashman, a contemporary fantasy that uncovers an ancient secret some would die to protect, and others would kill to expose; Home and Away by Candice Montgomery, a debut novel in which black and fabulous Tasia grapples with her identity after she learns an explosive secret; Afterimage by Naomi Hughes, a debut thriller about a girl who is the sole survivor of an explosion that kills thousands; and The Freedom Trials by Meredith Tate, following inmates who compete in seven challenges to win their freedom or die trying.
Papercutz goes prehistoric with Dinosaur Explorers, Vol. Charmz dresses up for Beauty Queen, Vol. Celebrating Animal Underdogs by Melissa Stewart, offering a look at animals who have characteristics that may seem like weaknesses, but are actually strengths; Countdown: Peachtree Petite marks the calendar for Babies in the Park: Autumn and Babies in the Park: Winter by Kathryn O.
My Life Story by Sonia Sotomayor, illus. Puffin puts it all together with Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, launching Puffin Graphic Classics, a line of graphic novel adaptations of classic works followed by the original unabridged text; and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, which helps kick off the Puffin Plated line of books pairing full-color classics with recipes contributed by celebrity chefs. Singer, the tale of a native Los Angelino who takes on an alien invasion, time travel, and heartbreak.
Razorbill changes it up with Metamorphosis Nine by Heidi Lang, in which a teen girl fresh out of rehab wins a place on a dangerous near-Earth asteroid mission; Whispers in the Thunder by Tochi Onyebuchi, sequel to the fantasy-adventure Beasts Made of Night ; Seafire by Natalie C. Warne flits into fall with tie-ins, in various formats, to the following properties: Flower Fairies , Peter Rabbit , and Spot. Penguin Workshop takes a swat at fall with Klawde 1: Penguin Young Readers is all smiles for Croc and Ally: Friends Forever by Derek Anderson, featuring a crocodile and an alligator who are best friends; and the following leveled readers: Life in the Gobi Desert by Ginjer L.
Phaidon fires up the oven for Cook in a Book: Holm, a follow-up to The Fourteenth Goldfish ; Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J. Ford, following Jack and Annie during a monster storm in Galveston, Tex. James, which finds two houses bringing joy to each other, despite their differences. Running Press breaks a leg for Lulu the Broadway Mouse by Jenna Gavigan, featuring a mouse living in a Broadway theater and assisting child actors; Love by Stacy McAnulty, challenging the greeting-card stereotypes about how to show love; and The Reckless Club by Beth Vrabel, about five kids forced to spend a day volunteering in an assisted living community to make amends for pranks they committed on the last day of eighth grade.
Eerie Elementary 9 by Jack Chabert, illus. Historia de dos gatitos Dog Man: Aprende a compartir Learning to Share. Licensed Publishing rings the doorbell with Hello Neighbor: Missing Pieces by Carly Anne West, illus. Scholastic Paperbacks gets more than a handful of lint with The Pocket Geniuses 1: Fly to the Rescue!
Bryant, debut volume in a series in which toy versions of famous figures from history magically come to life to help a boy with his homework; The Bad Guys 7: Chicken House casts a spell with The Apprentice Witch: Battle of the Beetles by M. Leonard, the final tale in the Beetle trilogy, which finds Darkus and his friends searching for Arch-villainess Lucretia in the Amazon rain forest. Think the Arabian Nights. Think Alice in Wonderland. You can think a lot about Rushdie's story about a boy's quest to restore the gift of storytelling to his father, but you'll probably be too busy enjoying it.
This is a dense, fantastical book, in which the comic rubs shoulders with evil and the savage with the lyrical. The first book in Le Guin's deep, dense and utterly brilliant Earthsea series, a fantasy sequence that is to Terry Prachett what double cream is to skim milk.
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Le Guin writes with a calm authority, almost a stillness, as she charts the story of the young wizard Sparrowhawk who misuses magic and unleashes an evil shadow-beast who threatens his land. Only Sparrowhawk can destroy it, but the journey is long and difficult and takes him to the farthest corner of Earthsea. Eliot is finding it hard to come to terms with his mother's death. But then he finds a ghost in his bedroom who has her own grief to deal with. Nimmo's beautifully written and understated novel is about the way the past makes its imprint upon the present and the subtle interconnections of both history and family relationships.
Francois Place is an artist, an author, a dreamer and the inventor of strange, fantastical countries and legends that he realises through fly-away prose and exquisite pen pictures. It is like being taken on an amazing off-beat adventure by a 19th century explorer. This is a must-have book for the dreamer in every child, a book to awaken curiosity and the imagination. Imagine a country where night lasted an entire winter and where in the darkness danger stalks.
Price conjures a world of magic and danger to tell this modern, mythic fairytale about a boy imprisoned in a tower whose cries for help are heard by the witch-girl, Chingis. If they like this try the equally enthralling Ghost Dance and Ghost Song. A culture clash of epic proportions ensues in this classic novel that sees two privileged English kids abandoned in the Australian outback and forced to fend for themselves. Truly scrumptious tale of a boy called Charlie Bucket who wins a golden ticket, entitling him to a day out at Willy Wonka's miraculous chocolate factory.
The real question about this book is how long you'll be able to hold off before reading it to your kids. Dahl's wonderfully evil sense of humour makes what could simply be a modern version of the cautionary tale into something exceptional. The writing sizzles, foams, spits and bubbles over. Read it to them from six; read it alone from eight. As a great storm rages around their house, Amy and Peter hear a terrible noise like a dying giant. Amy knows that the sound is an ancient oak tree half a mile away being ripped from the ground.
Trapped among its roots is a secret that only she can uncover. Beautifully wrought story about the way secrets bring you together and tear you apart, and about the competitive relationship between a brother and sister from a fine writer best known for his brilliant books for teenagers. Highly entertaining book about Eric, a perfectly ordinary boy, who feels his nose becoming cold and wet and his ears becoming floppy as he is transformed into a dog. In its own schoolboyish way Eric's transformation is just as interesting and surreal as that of poor Gregor Samsa into a beetle.
The Roald Dahl must-read for this age-group; they'll find it impossible to resist even if they are hooked on the Danny Devito film version.
In fact, seeing the film leads naturally into wanting to read the story of the remarkable Matilda, ignored and derided by her parents and bullied by the odious teacher Miss Trunchbull, who not only has a brilliant mind but strange kinetic powers. A brilliant, empowering book that shows children that they don't have to be helpless even in the face of the most bullying of adults.
Wonderful story about the disagreeable Mary Lennox who, after her parents die, is brought back from India to live in her uncle's great lonely house on the moors. Hodgson Burnett captures the fury of being a helpless, lonely child that makes both Mary and the invalid Colin behave badly. Eight-year-olds are likely to get frustrated by the sentence construction. Either read it to them or wait a couple of years. Modern environmentally and health-conscious youngsters might eye the fox hunting and smoking with horror. But this story of Barney, a small boy who makes friends with a strange, Stone Age type boy he finds living in the local quarry, is enormously appealing.
A really rollicking straightforward read that celebrates a strange friendship and the way two are better than one when it comes to taking on the bullies. Stig's puzzlement at the modern way of life makes the reader look at the world from a slightly different perspective. The girls are enrolled in stage school so they will be able to earn a living.
It all seems slightly quaint now, but Streatfield's characterisations are wonderfully vivid, the writing straightforward and honest and the narrative a page-turner. Quite delightful and infinitely more real than all those titles currently being churned out for ballet-mad little girls. No spoonfuls of sugar are necessary to help this classic tale slip down. Jane and Michael's new nanny turns out to be the intimidating Mary Poppins, who brings a little magic into the lives of children in the Edwardian middle classes' equivalent of "care".
Yes, the Harry Potter books are derivative and hierarchical, but Rowling's a genuinely witty writer with a terrific gift for naming things: What's more, they are real page-turners and appeal to boys and girls equally. The second in the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, is the weakest; the third, The Prisoner of Azkaban the best, not least because the Dementors are so truly terrifying.
But these kinds of arguments are academic: I've yet to meet a child who is resistant and plenty of adults find them just as spellbinding. Eight upward, but younger brothers and sisters are liable to get in on the act earlier, particularly if you read it to them. It runs to 8hours and 23minutes, which sure beats nine hours of I Spy. Written in , Cresswell's stories about life in a small Welsh village where Lizzie wanders the streets with her head in the clouds seem almost to come from another century. But while village life has changed out of all recognition, the emotions of Lizzie, who wants something exciting to happen in her life, who loves her soft dad and rather severe mum but keeps getting into scrapes and who meets a witch in the way other people run into the milkman, remain as fresh as a daisy.
A touch of romance and a shiver of fear are to be found in this Carnegie Medal-winning fantasy, set in the beautiful valley of Moonacre where the moon princess once ruled. Old-fashioned, but there is toughness beneath the whimsy. More for the girls than the boys. A classic that doesn't reduce the world - on the contrary, it opens it up - but which does view it from a child-sized perspective.
It tells the story of a family of little people who live beneath the floorboards and borrow from "human beans" who don't even know they exist - until the young Arietty makes friends with "the boy upstairs". There is nothing in the slightest bit twee about it. Norton writes brilliantly, viewing the world as if through the eyes of her little people with a sense of wonder and terror. Even children who are addicts of the excellent but bastardised film version and the superb BBC serial version will gobble this up on the printed page.
Jessica loses her house in the blitz and is evacuated before the rest of her school to a huge Welsh castle with only the gardener and housekeeper for company. But she is not alone; the castle grounds are full of other mysterious presences including a ghostly boy, a sinister green lady, a screeching peacock and chains of desperate "stonestruck" children, engaged in a deadly game of tag with Jessica as the quarry.
Cresswell writes with a spare, dense poetry about the desolation of separation, the isolating effect of unhappiness and the need to take care about what you wish. A really spellbinding piece of grown-up writing for children that makes the Goosebumps series pale into insignificance. It can be read alone at 10 upward, but both are very satisfying for adults to read to the 8-upward age range.
In a different vein, but just as good, is Cresswell's Snatchers - the story of a girl whose guardian angel appears in the local park to protect her from the Land of the Starless Night.
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