I was sent a copy of Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal by Margarita Engle Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal by Margarita Engle Release Date: 2016-03-29 In 1914, the world celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, which connected the world’s two largest oceans and signaled …
I was sent a copy of The Question of Miracles by Elana K. Arnold The Question of Miracles by Elana K. Arnold Release Date: 2016-03-08 Sixth-grader Iris Abernathy hates life in Corvallis, Oregon, where her family just moved. It’s always raining, and everything is so wet. Besides, nothing has …
I was sent a copy of Far from Fair by Elana K. Arnold Far from Fair by Elana K. Arnold Release Date: 2016-03-08 Odette Zyskowski has a list: Things That Aren’t Fair. At the top of the list is her parents’ decision to take the family on the road …
I was sent a copy of At Water’s Edge (Water Rushes) by S. McPherson At Water’s Edge (Water Rushes) by S. McPherson Release Date: 2015-09-01 When 17-year-old, Dezaray Storm drunkenly stumbles across a portal one night, her downtrodden life begins to change, mainly because she starts living someone else’s …
I was sent a copy of The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton by Audrey Vernick The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton by Audrey Vernick Release Date: 2016-03-29 Audrey Vernick and Steven Salerno have again collaborated …
I was sent a copy of Tru and Nelle by G. Neri Tru and Nelle by G. Neri Release Date: 2016-03-01 Long before they became famous writers, Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) were childhood friends in Monroeville, Alabama. This fictionalized account of …
I was sent a copy of Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter by Beth Fantaskey Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter by Beth Fantaskey Release Date: 2016-03-01 It’s 1920s Chicago—the guns-and-gangster era of Al Capone—and it’s unusual for a girl to be selling the Tribune on the street corner. But ten-year-old Isabel Feeney …
I was sent a copy of The Case of the Vanishing Emerald: The Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins Book 2 by Holly Webb The Case of the Vanishing Emerald: The Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins Book 2 by Holly Webb Release Date: 2016-03-08 “Isnt it a bit strange that all these …
I was sent a copy of Mercy: The Incredible Story of Henry Bergh, Founder of the ASPCA and Friend to Animals by Nancy Furstinger Mercy: The Incredible Story of Henry Bergh, Founder of the ASPCA and Friend to Animals by Nancy Furstinger Release Date: 2016-04-05 Only 150 years ago, …
I was sent a copy of Lincoln Tells a Joke: How Laughter Saved the President (and the Country) by Kathleen Krull Lincoln Tells a Joke: How Laughter Saved the President (and the Country) by Kathleen Krull Release Date: 2016-03-08 Poor Abraham Lincoln! His life was hardly fun at all. …