Tag: Book of the Day

Gretchen Over the Beach by R. W. Alley

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Gretchen Over the Beach by R. W. Alley

I was sent a copy of Gretchen Over the Beach by R. W. Alley   Gretchen Over the Beach by R. W. Alley Release Date: 2016-03-08 On a breezy summer day, Gretchen and her family head to the ocean. Gretchen wants to swim with her older brothers and sister, but everyone ignores her. When the wind steals her new sun hat, she catches it by its ribbon and is lifted into the sky, far, far above the beach, where a friendly seagull is happy to play. This ode to imagination…

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Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal by Margarita Engle

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Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal by Margarita Engle

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 America’s emergence as a global superpower. It was a miracle, this path of water where a mountain had stood—and creating a miracle is no easy thing. Thousands lost their lives, and those who survived worked under the harshest conditions for…

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The Question of Miracles by Elana K. Arnold

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The Question of Miracles by Elana K. Arnold

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 felt right since Iris’s best friend, Sarah, died.     When Iris meets Boris, an awkward mouth-breather with a know-it-all personality, she’s not looking to make a new friend, but it beats eating lunch alone. Then she learns that Boris’s very existence…

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Far from Fair by Elana K. Arnold

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Far from Fair by Elana K. Arnold

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 in an ugly RV they’ve nicknamed the Coach. There’s nothing fair about leaving California and living in the cramped Coach with her par­ents and exasperating younger brother, sharing one stupid cell phone among the four of them. And there’s definitely…

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At Water’s Edge (Water Rushes) by S. McPherson

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At Water's Edge (Water Rushes) by S. McPherson

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 life. Accidently trading places with the most powerful sorceress of the realm Coldivor, Dezaray finds herself assuming the identity of her magical lookalike, having to convince everyone in the realm that she’s the real deal.Aside from a few minor hiccups…

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The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton by Audrey Vernick

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The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton by Audrey Vernick

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 to bring us a captivating picture book about a compelling but little-known piece of baseball history. Beginning in 1922, when Edith Houghton was only ten years old, she tried out for a women’s professional baseball team, the Philadelphia Bobbies. Though…

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Tru and Nelle by G. Neri

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Tru and Nelle by G. Neri

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 their time together opens at the beginning of the Great Depression, when Tru is seven and Nelle is six. They love playing pirates, but they like playing Sherlock and Watson-style detectives even more. It’s their pursuit of a case of…

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Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter by Beth Fantaskey

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Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter by Beth Fantaskey

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 is unusual . . . unusually obsessed with being a news reporter. She can’t believe her luck when she stumbles not only into a real-live murder scene, but also into her hero, the famous journalist Maude Collier. The story of…

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The Case of the Vanishing Emerald: The Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins Book 2 by Holly Webb

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The Case of the Vanishing Emerald: The Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins Book 2 by Holly Webb

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 horrible things are happening to Miss Massey now… Just in time to make her think that the curse is working.” Sarah Massey, talented lead actress in Circus Sweethearts, is a mess. She should be dancing on air—after all, her boyfriend…

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Mercy: The Incredible Story of Henry Bergh, Founder of the ASPCA and Friend to Animals by Nancy Furstinger

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Mercy: The Incredible Story of Henry Bergh, Founder of the ASPCA and Friend to Animals by Nancy Furstinger

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, most animals in America were subject to horrific treatment. They needed a champion to protect them from abject cruelty, and that person was Henry Bergh. After witnessing the beating of a horse in the streets of New York and attending…

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