DUCKS GO VROOM by Jane Kohuth

• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2011
• Publisher: Random House Children’s Books
• Release Date: February 8, 2011
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-0375965678
• ISBN (paperback): 978-0375865602

In DUCKS GO VROOM simple, funny action words and onomatopoeia describe three silly ducks’ rather impolite visit to their Auntie Goose’s house. This rollicking, tongue-twisting, rhyming story of three enthusiastic houseguests, paired with the lively artwork of illustrator Viviana Garofoli, is just the right speed for beginning readers… Continue reading

• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2011
  

  CLARITY by Kim Harrington

• Publisher: Scholastic Point
• Release Date: March 1, 2011
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-545-23050-6
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

Clarity “Clare” Fern sees things. Things no one else can see. Things like stolen kisses and long-buried secrets. All she has to do is touch an object and the visions come to her. It’s a gift.

And a curse.

When a teenage girl is murdered, Clare’s ex-boyfriend wants her to help solve the case… Continue reading

THE OWL KEEPER by Christine Brodien-Jones

• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Release Date: April 13, 2010
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-385-73814-9
• ISBN (paperback): TBD                         

Maxwell Unger has always loved the night.  He used to do brave things like go tramping through the forest with his gran after dark. He loved the stories she told him about the world before the Destruction — about nature, and books, and the silver owls. His favorite story, though, was about… Continue reading

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  THE AMARANTH ENCHANTMENT by Julie Berry

  Publication Season/Year: Winter 2009

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Children’s Books
• Release Date: March 3, 2009
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-599903-34-7
• ISBN (paperback): TBD                             

THE AMARANTH ENCHANTMENT is about a girl named Lucinda, whose parents left for the royal ball and never returned, when she was five years old. Ever since, Lucinda has been stuck in perpetual servitude at her evil aunt’s jewelry store. Then, on the very same day, a… Continue reading

BABE RUTH AND THE BASEBALL CURSE by David A. Kelly

• Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2009
• Publisher: Random House
• Release Date: February 24, 2009
• ISBN: (paperback) 9780375856037
• ISBN: (hardcover) 9780375956034

BABE RUTH AND THE BASEBALL CURSE is a fast-paced account of Babe Ruth, the Boston Red Sox, and the terrible curse that seemed to follow the Red Sox after they traded their star pitcher to the New York Yankees.

Before… Continue reading

MABEL, ONE AND ONLY by Margaret Muirhead

• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
• Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
• Release Date: April 2, 2009
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-8037-3198-1
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

The only kid on her block, Mabel can usually count on her grown-up neighbors for a game or two. Not today, though. Everyone is busy, and Mabel is a bit lonely . . . until she and her canine sidekick, Jack, think up idea after idea. There’s… Continue reading

THE TIPTOE GUIDE TO TRACKING FAIRIES by Ammi-Joan Paquette

• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
• Publisher: Tanglewood Press
• Release Date: April 25, 2009
• ISBN (hardcover): 193371820X
• ISBN (paperback): 978-1933718200

The sun is out. The birds are singing. It’s a perfect day for tracking fairies. Are you game? Follow our intrepid young narrators as they skip from rock to flower to waterfall, following the clues. Will their search turn up any fairy friends?

Illustrated… Continue reading

SEASIDE DREAM by Janet Costa Bates

• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
• Publisher: Lee and Low Books
• Release Date: Sep, 30, 2010
• ISBN (hardcover): TBD
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

Cora keeps watch as presents and family stream through the door. The house is abuzz with aunts, uncles and cousins. Pots and pans are filled with food from their family’s native Cape Verde. A big party, birthday cake and all, will take place on the beach.  It seems… Continue reading

OTTO GROWS DOWN by Michael Sussman

• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
• Publisher: Sterling
• Release Date: February 3, 2009
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-4027-4703-8
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

What would it be like if time went backwards?  One unlucky little boy is about to find out!

Otto has just one birthday wish: that his new baby sister Anna had never been born. And it comes true when the days suddenly start moving in reverse.  But now, instead of growing up… Continue reading

MODELS DON'T EAT CHOCOLATE COOKIES

• Publication Season/Year: February, 2009
• Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
• Release Date: February 5, 2009
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-0803734-35-7
• ISBN (paperback): 978-0-803732-96-4

Thirteen-year-old Celeste Harris is no string bean, but comfy sweatpants and a daily chocolate cookie suit her just fine. Her under-the-radar lifestyle could have continued too, if her aunt hadn’t entered her in the HuskyPeach Modeling Challenge. To get out of it, she’s forced to launch Operation Skinny Celeste-because, after… Continue reading