Sisters, Long Ago

Author	Mary Hershey
ISBN	1595141502

“Mom didn’t think it was funny when I took off my leg at school, put it in my locker, and then tied a rag around my stump with fake blood on it. After that, though, the kids at school pretty much knew if anyone was going to be cracking jokes about my leg, it was gonna be me.” So says thirteen-year-old Alastair...

Author	Eve Bunting
ISBN	0064403904

When a gorgeous seventh-grade boy moves across the street, Vicki is ecstatic-until she remembers her latest school assignment. For one week, Vicki and the rest of her sixth-grade class have to pretend they're parents and carry around five-pound bags of sugar dressed in baby clothes. And if he sees...

Author	Susan Cooper
ISBN	1416914773

Two Children, Two Struggles, One Battle... One child is Sam Robbins, a powder monkey aboard HMS Victory, the ship in which Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson will die a hero's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The other is Molly Jennings, an English girl transplanted from London to the United States...

Author	Edward Ormondroyd
ISBN	1930900139

With a tremendous surge of its wings, the Phoenix managed to seize a branch. David's legs slipped from the bird's back, and he dangled over the abyss.
Thus ends the near-disaster of their first flight together. But don't underestimate the Phoenix! Failure only makes David's new-found friend determinded...

Author	Rumer Godden
ISBN	0330442554

Tottie is a loving little wooden doll who lives with her family in a shoebox. The doll family are owned by two sisters, Emily and Charlotte, and are very happy, except for one thing: they long for a proper home. To their delight, their wish comes true when Emily and Charlotte fix up a Victorian dolls' house...

Author	Stephen Cosgrove
ISBN	0843176857

This is a beautiful story that explains the message: Sometimes Love Forces Us to Make Difficult Choices.

All in all I think this is one of the hardest Serendipity series books since the story is so hard to swallow. A young winged horse that has been introduced in some other Serendipity stories...

Author	Richard Kennedy
ISBN	0064402207

Oh, oh, oh, what a lovely, sad, wonderful little book. Except it is not really little at all. It's thick, a glorious 437 pages, full of adventure, fantasy, mystery, and Mother Goose.
C.S. Lewis once said, "A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the...

Author	Cynthia Rylant
ISBN	0060094354

A deeply compelling collection of poems about God and our everyday world from a Newbery medalist.

Cynthia Rylant takes teens on an invigorating spiritual journey as she explores what God's life on Earth might be like. Rylant's reflective and often humorous verse follows God as he tries out...

Author	Sherryl Jordan
ISBN	0590447297

Juniper is beautiful, brilliant, bubbling with vitality, buoyant with theories about life and immensely popular at school. She's also manipulative.

Dylan is creative, artistic, withdrawn, nerdish and desperately lonely.

Their home lives couldn't be more different.

Juniper's...

Author	Constance C. Greene
ISBN	0140347860

The first--and inho best of the series of "Al" books by Constance C. Greene. The young narrator--whose name is never given!--describes her new friend "Al" who just moved into the apartment down the hall.

Al(exandra---she NEVER uses her full name--soon because fast friends which our narrator...

Author	Kara Dalkey
ISBN	0441574467

In this deft and enchanting retelling of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. Kara Dalkey has mixed history and legend, weaving the Andersen fable into a fascinating novel about court life in ancient Japan -- a life of pageantry and poetry, of great beauty and casual cruelty, of life and courtly...

Author	Kathryn Lasky
ISBN	0152241272

When their father accepts a new job in England, July, Liberty, and their family find themselves exploring the foggy streets of London. The twins try to discover the source of the voice only they can hear--a voice that needs their help. Using telepathy and their individual talents, the twins uncover...

Author	Lloyd Alexander
ISBN	0142407860

Vesper and her friends are sailing off to the newly discovered archeological site of Troy. But danger is close behind—and the party is tricked and imprisoned in a fabulous palace called Xanadu. Xanadu’s master is none other than Vesper’s archenemy, Dr. Helvitius, who has a diabolical scheme...

Author

William Eamon

In the tradition of Galileo's Daughter and Brunelleschi's Dome, this exciting story illuminates the captivating world of the late Renaissance—in this case its plagues, remedies, and alchemy—through the life of Leonardo Fioravanti, a brilliant, remarkably forward-thinking, and utterly...

Author	Rob Brezsny
ISBN	1583940006

I wanted to like this book a whole heck of a lot more than I actually did. Nearly 500 pages of simultaneously grandiose and self-deprecating goddess worship and Bohemian musings. I can't swear that I wouldn't have liked this back when I was twenty-one or so, but, then again, I was twenty-one in the 1990s,...

Author	Carli Davidson
ISBN	0062242644

Original, amusing, and brilliantly documented, Shake is a heartwarming collection of sixty-one beguiling dogs caught in the most candid of moments: mid-shake. This glorious, graphic volume will stop you dead in your tracks as you are presented with images of man's best friend caught in contortion:...

Author	Francine Pascal
ISBN	0553492349

I was just starting high school when this book came out, and it was so different from the Sweet Valley books of old, which I'd read a few of, or even the Sweet Valley University books. I remember being so excited - this series was set immediately after the earthquake ripped through Sweet Valley and all the...

Author	Bruce Coville
ISBN	1416938826

KIDNAPPED TO

DIMENSION X!

When Rod Allbright's cousin Elspeth arrived for a visit the day after school let out for the summer, Rod thought his vacation was ruined. But after they are kidnapped to Dimension X by a monster named Smorkus Flinders, Rod realizes that Elspeth is the least...

Author	Gwendolyn Bounds
ISBN	0060564075

Forced from her downtown Manhattan apartment by the terrorist attack of September 11, journalist Wendy Bounds was delivered to Guinan's doorstep -- a legendary Irish drinking hole and country store nestled along the banks of the Hudson River in the small town of Garrison, New York -- by a friend.

Captivated...

Author	R.L. Stine
ISBN	0671894331

Patchy storyline - never pulled the plot together.

A second review, having read it again (I completely forgot that I'd ever read it originally, so obviously it didn't make much impression). The storyline didn't seem as dismal to me this time around - it's a simplistic RL Stine kids novel, in...

Author	Cheryl Lanham
ISBN	0425151948

I remember reading this a couple years ago, as it was an old book my sister had owned from the 90s and left behind. There's not very much to say about it, other than I was surprised that I kind of enjoyed it, seeing as how you already know what's going to happen going into it. I was surprised I actually still felt...

Author

M. Wade

This book is hilarious!! I'm going to retell what I think is the funniest chapter. It is called the Fart Chart. So basically this kid named Gordon (class clown) created the fart chart to see who would fart the most. Then it turned into a race to see who could get to a hundred the fastest. On the last day 10 kids...

Author	Gustavus Hindman Miller
ISBN	1402751842

Gustavus Hindman Miller’s groundbreaking masterwork, published nearly a century ago, remains the most compelling and thorough study of all the symbols that appear in our dreamscape. Updated, beautifully designed, and wonderfully easy to follow, it’s an invaluable source of information,...