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TAKEN BY STORM by by Angela Morrison

December 21st, 2009 by Angela Morrison · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2009
  • Publisher: Razorbill
  • Release Date: March 5, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-59514-238-2
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-1-59514-274-0
Seventeen-year-old Leesie Hunt has rules: No making out. No sex. And definitely no falling for a non-Mormon. She pours all her passion into poetry, thoughts of escaping her tiny town and getting into her dream school, BYU. Then scuba diver Michael Walden arrives in Tekoa and everything changes. He survived a storm that took his parents’ lives, and the world as he knew it. Leesie and Michael couldn’t be more different. His dreams are tied to the depths of the ocean and hers to salvation above. Yet they are drawn… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Events · Grief · Love · Morrison, Angela · Poetry · Rated PG-13 · Razorbill · Religion · Romance · Young Adult

RUNNING FOR MY LIFE by Ann Gonzalez

October 2nd, 2009 by Ann Gonzalez · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2009
  • Publisher: WestSide Books
  • Release Date: March 25, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-934813-00-3
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
RUNNING FOR MY LIFE is the powerful story of Andrea McKane, a fourteen-year-old who struggles to cope with her mother's schizophrenia. The book accurately portrays the difficulties a teen faces when dealing with the illness, the abuse and the absence of a psychotic parent. RUNNING FOR MY LIFE shows the effects of mental illness on a family, and a teenager's attempts to manage the… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Events · Friendship · Gonzalez, Ann · Mental Illness · Rated PG · WestSide Books · Young Adult

Author Spotlight: Samantha R. Vamos, BEFORE YOU WERE HERE, MI AMOR (Giveaway Alert: Now – 05/22/09)

May 15th, 2009 by Samantha R. Vamos · Email post Email post · Print Print

This week, we’re celebrating Samantha R. Vamos’s debut! According to family lore (and, yes, a copy exists), Samantha composed her first children’s story when she was three years old. She dictated the story and her mother typed it. Needless to say, it was a rather short story! Samantha continued to write and “BEFORE YOU WERE HERE, MI AMOR” is her first children’s picture book. Samantha attended Georgetown University Law Center and practiced law in both Washington, D.C. and Chicago. She, her husband, and young son now live in the Seattle, Washington area. Samantha is currently contending with an ice cream-loving… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Author Spotlight · Author speaking availability · Bilingual · Book Trailer · Connect · Contests · Local · National · Picture Book · Rated G · Topic · Vamos, Samantha · Viking Children's Books · Washington

BAD GIRLS DON’T DIE by Katie Alender

May 6th, 2009 by Katie Alender · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
  • Release Date: April 21, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-1423108764
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence. Dysfunctional like her parents' marriage; her doll-crazy thirteen-year-old sister, Kasey; and even her own anti-social, anti-cheerleader attitude. When a family fight results in some tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes that her life is creeping from dysfunction into danger. Kasey is acting stranger than ever: her blue eyes go green sometimes; she uses old-fashioned… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Alender, Katie · California · Family · Friendship · Horror · Hyperion · Local · Mystery · National · Rated PG · Thriller · Young Adult

THE GEEK GIRL’S GUIDE TO CHEERLEADING by Charity Tahmaseb and Darcy Vance

April 15th, 2009 by Vance Darcy · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2009
  • Publisher: Simon Pulse
  • Release Date: May 19, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): N/A
  • ISBN (paperback): 1416978348
When Bethany -- self-proclaimed geek girl -- makes the varsity cheerleading squad, she realizes that there's one thing worse than blending in with the lockers: getting noticed. She always felt comfortable as part of the nerd herd, but being a member of the most scrutinized group in her school is weighing her down like a ton of textbooks. Even her Varsity… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Events · Family · Friendship · Humor · Indiana · Local · Minnesota · National · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Simon Pulse · Tahmaseb, Charity · Vance, Darcy · Young Adult

STEPPING UP by Mark Fink

April 13th, 2009 by Mark Fink · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Westside Books
  • Release Date: March 31, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover):  978-1-934813-03-4
Ernie Dolan is plagued by the curse of average. Nothing about him stands out, except his stutter. He goes off to a competitive basketball camp with best friend Mike Rivers.  Mike excels and Ernie embarrasses himself in his first pick-up game, earning the nickname "choke." As Mike hangs with the more popular jocks, this puts a big strain on their friendship. Ernie finds new allies.  Things change dramatically when Ernie morphs from outcast to hero, risking his life… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Action/Adventure · California · Events · Fink, Mark · Friendship · Local · National · Peer Pressure · Rated PG · Sports · WestSide Books · Young Adult

ME WITH YOU by Kristy Dempsey

March 31st, 2009 by Kristy Dempsey · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Summer 2009 /li>
  • Publisher: Philomel
  • Release Date: May 14, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 0399250174
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-0399250170
Here is a special two-some. From tea time to game time, in singing or swinging, in the good times and even in the grumpy ones, this granddaughter knows her grandpa loves her. With simple rhymes and charming illustrations, ME WITH YOU celebrates the sure love between a grandparent and a grandchild. This book celebrates the specialness of the two . . . and the uniqueness of each! The Author: Kristy Dempsey Location: Greenville, SC/Belo Horizonte, Brazil As a child, Kristy Dempsey enjoyed swinging from trees and splashing in the creek… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · 2009 Summer · Dempsey, Kristy · Events · Family · Friendship · Philomel · Picture Book · Poetry · Rated G · South Carolina

ONE WOLF HOWLS by Scotti Cohn

March 31st, 2009 by Scotti Cohn · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009 /li>
  • Publisher: Sylvan Dell Publishing
  • Release Date: March 10, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-934359-92-1
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-1-607180-37-1
Spend a year in the world of wolves with Scotti Cohn and her picture book, One Wolf Howls! Written for ages 4-8, this adventurous children's book uses the months of the year and the numbers1 through 12 to introduce children to the behavior of wolves in natural settings. The lively, realistic illustrations of Susan Detwiler complement the rhyming text and bring each month to life. One Wolf Howls is aligned to State Science and Math standards, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards, National Science Education… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Animal · Cohn, Scotti · Counting · Events · Illinois · Local · National · Nonfiction · Picture Book · Rated G · Sylvan Dell Publishing

THE BEEF PRINCESS OF PRACTICAL COUNTY by Michelle Houts

March 31st, 2009 by Michelle Houts · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009 /li>
  • Publisher: Delacorte Press
  • Release Date: April 14, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0385735841
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
After years of waiting, it's finally Libby Ryan's turn to shine at the Practical County Fair. Libby is filled with excitement as she raises two calves in hopes of winning the annual steer competition. Against her father's advice, Libby gives the calves names, even though both steers will eventually be sold. What's the big deal?  She's lived her whole life on a cattle farm.  After a few months of preparing for the Practical County Fair, Libby finds that she is growing closer to her steers with… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Animal · Contemporary · Delacorte · Events · Family · Friendship · Houts, Michelle · Local · Middle Grade · National · Ohio · Rated G

WATERSMEET by Ellen Jensen Abbott

March 4th, 2009 by Ellen Jensen Abbott · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: April 1, 2009
  • Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Children's Books
  • Release Date: April 1, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-7614-5536-3
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
From her birth, Abisina has been an outcast-for the color of her eyes and skin, and for her lack of a father. Only her mother's status as the village healer has kept her safe. But when a mythic leader arrives, Abisina's life is ripped apart. She escapes alone to try to find the father and the home she has never known. In a world of extremes, from the deepest prejudice to the greatest bonds of duty and loyalty, Abisina must find her own… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Abbott, Ellen Jensen · Action/Adventure · Events · Fantasy · Friendship · Local · Marshall Cavendish · Mythology · National · Pennsylvania · Rated PG · Young Adult

OCEAN HIDE AND SEEK by Jennifer Kramer

March 4th, 2009 by Jennifer Kramer · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Sylvan Dell Publishing
  • Release Date: March 10, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-934359-91-4
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-1-607180-36-4
The sea is a place of mystery, where animals big and small play hide and seek! Can you imagine a shark hiding in the light? What about a clownfish in plain sight? Don't believe it? Then, sink into the deep blue sea with Jennifer Evans Kramer and Ocean Hide and Seek! Surround yourself with the vibrant ocean illustrations of Gary R. Phillips. The ocean is an old, old place, and the exotic animals in the depths have learned to adapt to their surroundings to survive… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Events · Georgia · Kramer, Jennifer · Local · National · Nonfiction · Picture Book · Rated G · Science · Sylvan Dell Publishing

BABE RUTH AND THE BASEBALL CURSE by David A. Kelly

March 4th, 2009 by David Kelly · Email post Email post · Print Print

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  • 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 1918, the Boston Red Sox were unstoppable. They won World Series after World Series, thanks in part to their charismatic pitcher-slugger Babe Ruth. But some people on the Red Sox felt the Babe was more trouble than he was worth, and he was traded away to… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Action/Adventure · Biography · Events · Kelly, David A. · Massachusetts · Random House · Rated G · Sports

MABEL, ONE AND ONLY by Margaret Muirhead

March 4th, 2009 by Margaret Muirhead · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • 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 one-footed roller-skating and Super Ball bowling and enough rambunctious fun that even the grown-ups wonder what they're missing. All they have do is ask Mabel, a brand-new character who may just be the favorite cousin of… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Dial Books for Young Readers · Events · Family · Friendship · Humor · Local · Massachusetts · Muirhead, Margaret · National · Picture Book · Rated G

NEIL ARMSTRONG IS MY UNCLE AND OTHER LIES MUSCLE MAN MCGINTY TOLD ME by Nan Marino

February 9th, 2009 by nan marino · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2009
  • Publisher: Roaring Brook
  • Release Date: May 12, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 1596434996
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Muscle Man McGinty is a squirrelly runt, a lying snake and a pitiful excuse for a ten-year-old.  The problem is that no one on Ramble Street knows it, but me. Muscle Man McGinty can certainly tell some whoppers, but this time he's done the unthinkable.  He bragged he can beat the entire block in a game of kickball!   On Ramble Street, tough talk about kickball cannot be ignored.  For Tamara Ann Simpson this is great news. Now she'll finally be able to prove to everyone what a… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Events · Foster Care · Friendship · Historical Fiction · Local · Marino, Nan · Middle Grade · National · New Jersey · Roaring Brook Press

JANE IN BLOOM by Deborah Lytton

February 9th, 2009 by Deborah Lytton · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
  • Release Date: March 19, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-525-42078-1
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD                             
Jane's big sister Lizzie has always been the center of attention. No one ever pays attention to boring, plain Jane. But when Jane's twelfth birthday marks the beginning of Lizzie's final descent into a fatal eating disorder, Jane discovers that the only thing harder than living in her big sister's shadow, is living without her. In the wake of tragedy, Jane learns to look through her camera lens and frame life differently, embracing her broken family and understanding that every girl has her season… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · California · Contemporary · Dutton · Events · Family · Grief · Local · Lytton, Deborah · Middle Grade · National · Rated PG · Siblings

OPERATION REDWOOD by S. Terrell French

February 8th, 2009 by S. Terrell French · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Amulet Books
  • Release Date: April 22, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-8109-8354-0
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD                             
"SIBLEY CARTER IS A MORON AND A WORLD-CLASS JERK!!!"  When Julian Carter-Li intercepts an angry e-mail meant for his high-powered uncle, it sets him on an environmental adventure.  His uncle's company plans to log an ancient redwood grove and it's up to Julian and a clever group of friends to stop them.  Filled with humor and surprising plot twists, OPERATION REDWOOD is an environmental page-turner with a multi-cultural cast of characters.  It touches on the unique history of California's redwoods and the complexities of civil… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Action/Adventure · Amulet · California · Contemporary · Ecology/The Environment · Events · Family · French, S. Terrell · Friendship · Humor · Local · Middle Grade · Multicultural · National · Nature · Rated G

TOBY BELFER LEARNS ABOUT HEROES AND MARTYRS by Mel Tarman

February 8th, 2009 by Mel Tarman · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2009
  • Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
  • Release Date: March 15, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 9781589806474
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
More than six million European Jews were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. While this tragedy was taking place, thousands of Christian men and women sacrificed their safety and even their lives to provide much-needed help to the Jews. When Toby Belfer and her friend Donna visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum, they learn about the incredibly selfless acts of these Righteous Gentiles. From Janis Lipke, a man who saved hundreds of Jews by smuggling them out of the ghetto in Riga, Latvia, to… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Events · Historical Fiction · History · Local · Middle Grade · Multicultural · National · Pelican Publishing · Prejudice · Religion · Tarman, Mel · Texas

THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO TELL YOU by Heather Duffy Stone

February 7th, 2009 by Heather Duffy Stone · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2009
  • Publisher: Flux
  • Release Date: March 1, 2009
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
The stories people tell are always about the things we left behind, and about the things we wish we could do again. The real story isn't about what you know; it's about what you wish you knew then. When my brother and my best friend fell in love-that was the end of everything I knew. Fraternal twins Nadio and Noelle share a close connection-and as Noelle's best friend since they were five, Keeley Shipley fit perfectly into their world. But everything changes after Keeley spends the summer before junior year… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Drugs · Events · Flux · Friendship · Love · Mental Illness · New York · Stone, Heather Duffy · Young Adult

WINK! THE NINJA WHO WANTED TO BE NOTICED by J. C. Phillipps

February 7th, 2009 by J. C. Phillipps · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Viking
  • Release Date: March 19, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-670-01092-9
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
WINK! THE NINJA WHO WANTS TO BE NOTICED is about a young ninja student named Wink.  He wants is to prove to his teacher, Master Zutsu, that he is an awesome ninja.  But when Wink practices of the art of stealth and blends into his surrounds, no one notices him at all.  And Wink wants to be noticed.  After Wink is kicked out of the Summer Moon… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Connecticut · Contemporary · Events · Humor · Local · National · Phillipps, J.C. · Picture Book · Rated G · Self-esteem/Self-image · Viking Children's Books

CAROLINA HARMONY by Marilyn Taylor McDowell

February 7th, 2009 by Marilyn Taylor McDowell · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2009
  • Publisher: Delacorte Press, Random House
  • Release Date: March 10, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-385-73590-2
  • ISBN (library binding): 978-0-385-90575-6
It is the summer of 1964, and Carolina is a runaway hiding out at Harmony Farm, nestled in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. The Harmonys, Mr. Ray and Miss Latah, are treating Carolina as their own. Carolina yearns to belong, but she figures considering herself part of a family again is just wishful thinking. Carolina is holding her secrets close while the Harmonys patiently wait to hear her story. But she is caught between her past and her present. For nine years she lived easy… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Action/Adventure · Contemporary · Events · Family · Foster Care · Local · McDowell, Marilyn Taylor · Middle Grade · National · Random House · Rated G · Vermont

THE TIPTOE GUIDE TO TRACKING FAIRIES by Ammi-Joan Paquette

January 26th, 2009 by Ammi-Joan Paquette · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • tiptoeguidetotrackingfairie 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 with photos and art by the fabulous Christa Unzner, THE TIPTOE GUIDE TO TRACKING FAIRIES is a fascinating trip into that magical world that lies just on the other side of nature. You, too… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Events · Faeries · Fantasy · Local · Massachusetts · National · Nature · Paquette, Ammi-Joan · Picture Book · Rated G · Tanglewood Press

EXPLORE THE SOLAR SYSTEM! 25 GREAT PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES by Anita Yasuda

January 26th, 2009 by Anita Yasuda · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Nomad Press
  • Release Date: TBD
  • ISBN (hardcover): 1934670367
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-1934670361
From a space shuttle fashioned out of lemonade carton and felt to a Mars rover made from a cereal box and juice cans, the variety of imaginative projects in this resource can be built with simple everyday classroom and household items. Surrounding these activities are fun facts, illustrations, and related information on each space topic-all of which meets curriculum standards for early elementary science. For young students, their families, and teachers, this expedition through the galaxy is a perfect method for introducing astronomy in a way that also stimulates creativity… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Activitiy/Craft · Local · Middle Grade · National · Nomad Press · Nonfiction · Science · Yasuda, Anita · _CANADA Ontario

FAIREST OF THEM ALL by Jan Blazanin

January 26th, 2009 by Jan Blazanin · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: MTV Books
  • Release Date: April 21, 2009
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-1-4165-7993-9
Fifteen-year-old Oribella Bettencourt has a perfect life. She's a dancer, a model, and star of the beauty queen circuit. With her mother guiding her career, she's on the fast track to stardom when a Hollywood producer comes to Des Moines looking for a beautiful girl with lustrous golden hair to play a major role in his new movie. And Oribella fits that description perfectly. So what if she doesn't have any friends or anyone to talk to except her mother? She's on the brink of having all her… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Blazanin, Jan · Contemporary · Events · Family · Friendship · Grief · Iowa · Local · MTV Books · National · Rated PG · Young Adult

INITIATION by Susan Fine

January 26th, 2009 by Susan Fine · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Flux
  • Release Date: May 1, 2009
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
What comes from stuffing eight hundred blue-blazered boys into one school, where fifteen floors filled with classrooms and libraries and lunchrooms and science labs stack and bury desperate boys right on top of each other? That's what freshman Mauricio Londoño discovers, along with a few things about Macbeth and geometry, during his first long year at the St. Stephen's School for Boys in New York City. The Author: Susan Fine Location: Chicago After many years in New York City, Susan Fine said goodbye to Zabar's and Gray's Papaya in search of an… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Events · Fine, Susan · Flux · Friendship · Illinois · Local · National · Rated R · Young Adult

WHEN IT’S SIX O’CLOCK IN SAN FRANCISCO: A TRIP THROUGH TIME ZONES by Cynthia Jaynes Omololu

January 7th, 2009 by cjomololu · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Clarion
  • Release Date: July 20, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0618768271
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
When it's six o'clock in San Francisco, what time is it where you live? When it's six o'clock in San Francisco and Jared is just starting his day, it's eleven o'clock in Santiago, where Elena is hard at work on a math problem at school. When it's six o'clock in San Francisco and eleven o'clock in Santiago, it's four o'clock in Cape Town and Nkosi stops to look at used CDs in the market. When it's six o'clock in San Francisco, children all over the world are busy going… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · California · Clarion · Jaynes Omololu, Cynthia · Local · Multicultural · National · Picture Book · Rated G

TMI by Sarah Quigley

January 7th, 2009 by Sarah Quigley · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
  • Release Date: April 16, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0525479086
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Friends call Becca the Overshare Queen, but her tendency for TMI never seemed like a problem to her until she blabs about her sweet band-geek boyfriend's sloppy kisses-and gets dumped! Realizing it may be better to resist the temptation to overshare face-to-face, Becca decides to blog anonymously about everything instead. On her blog, Too Much Information, Becca unleashes her alter ego, Bella. Bella tells it like it is . . . though perhaps with a bit more drama. After all, no one's going to read… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · California · Contemporary · Dutton · Events · Friendship · Humor · Local · National · Quigley, Sarah · Rated PG · Romance · Young Adult

OTTO GROWS DOWN by Michael Sussman

January 5th, 2009 by Michael Sussman · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • 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, Otto's growing DOWN.  He's getting younger every minute and in danger of disappearing entirely.  Can he turn things around before it's too late-for Anna and himself? OTTO GROWS DOWN challenges children to think in new ways as they… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Action/Adventure · Contemporary · Humor · Local · Massachusetts · National · Picture Book · Rated G · Sussman, Michael

MODELS DON’T EAT CHOCOLATE COOKIES by Erin Dionne

November 27th, 2008 by Erin Dionne · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • 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 all, a thin girl can't be a fat model! What Celeste never imagined was that losing weight would help her gain a backbone . . . or that all she needed to… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Dial Books for Young Readers · Dionne, Erin · Events · Family · Friendship · Humor · Local · Massachusetts · Middle Grade · National · Rated PG · Self-esteem/Self-image

THE SEASON by Sarah MacLean

November 27th, 2008 by Sarah MacLean · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Scholastic
  • Release Date: March 2, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0545048866
Seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford doesn't fit into the world of Regency London - she's strong-willed, sharp-tongued, and she absolutely loathes dress fittings. Unfortunately, her mother has been waiting for years for Alex to be old enough to take part in the social whirlwind of a London Season so she can be married off to someone safe, respectable, wealthy, and almost certainly boring. But Alex is much more interested in adventure than romance. Between sumptuous balls, lavish dinner parties and country weekends, Alex, along with her two best friends, Ella and… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Events · Friendship · Historical Fiction · History · Local · Love · MacLean, Sarah · Mystery · National · New York · Romance · Scholastic Press · Young Adult

STUPID CUPID by Rhonda Stapleton

November 27th, 2008 by Rhonda Stapleton · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Fall 2009
  • Publisher: Simon Pulse
  • Release Date: December, 22, 2009
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-1-4169-7464-2
Felicity's no ordinary matchmaker...she's a cupid! Felicity Walker believes in true love. That's why she applies for a gig at the matchmaking company Cupid's Hollow. But when Felicity gets the job, she learns that she isn't just a matchmaker...she's a cupid! (There's more than one of them, you know.) Armed with a hot pink, tricked-out PDA infused with the latest in cupid magic (love arrows shot through email), Felicity works to meet her quota of successful matches. But when she bends the rules of cupidity by matching her best friend Maya… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Fall · 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Contests · Events · Family · Friendship · Local · Love · National · Ohio · Paranormal · Rated G · Rated PG · Romance · Simon Pulse · Stapleton, Rhonda · Young Adult

Before You Were Here, Mi Amor by Samantha R. Vamos

November 24th, 2008 by Samantha R. Vamos · Email post Email post · Print Print

 
  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Viking Children's Books
  • Release Date: March 19, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-670-06301-7
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
BEFORE YOU WERE HERE, MI AMOR is a bilingual children's picture book concerning all the things that one family does to welcome a new child into the world.  The story evokes the warmth and community of family life through the acts of each member of la familia - mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, grandmother, and grandfather, as well as the family puppy.  The illustrator, Santiago Cohen, enhanced the story with beautifully vibrant and colorful illustrations. BEFORE YOU WERE HERE, MI AMOR is an ideal book… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Author Spotlight · Babies · Bilingual · Book Trailer · Connect · Contests · Events · Expectant Parents · Family · Local · National · Picture Book · Rated G · Topic · Vamos, Samantha · Viking Children's Books · Washington

SLIDING ON THE EDGE by C. Lee McKenzie

November 9th, 2008 by C. Lee McKenzie · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: WestSide Books
  • Release Date:  April 24, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover):  978-934813-06-5
  • ISBN (paperback):  TBD
Shawna Stone is sixteen going on twenty-five. Already deeply scarred, she has learned to survive with a tough attitude and a thin blade. Her journey is destined to be short. SLIDING ON THE EDGE enters the world of a desperate teen and her disillusioned grandmother, each with secrets that stir mutual distrust. As these two unlikely companions struggle to co-exist we are reminded that the human spirit has the capacity to overcome even the deepest suffering. The Author: C. Lee McKenzie Location: Los Gatos, CA A native Californian, C. Lee McKenzie… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · California · Contemporary · Events · Family · Friendship · Humor · Local · McKenzie, C. Lee · Middle Grade · National · Romance · Suicide · WestSide Books · Young Adult

WINGS by Aprilynne Pike

November 8th, 2008 by Aprilynne Pike · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publisher: Harper Collins/Harper Teen
  • Release Date: May 5, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0061668036
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
WINGS is the first of four books about an ordinary girl named Laurel who discovers she is a faerie sent among humans to guard the gateway to Avalon. When Laurel is thrust into the midst of a centuries-old battle between faeries and trolls, she's torn between a human and a faerie love, as well as her loyalties to both worlds. The Author: Aprilynne Pike Location: Spanish Fork, Utah Aprilynne Pike has been spinning faerie stories since she was a child with a hyper-active imagination. At the age of twenty she received… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Events · Faeries · Fantasy · HarperTeen · Local · National · Pike, Aprilynne · Rated PG · Utah · Young Adult

FAERY REBELS: SPELL HUNTER by R.J. Anderson

November 7th, 2008 by R.J. Anderson · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
  • Release Date: April 28, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0061554742
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-0061554749
Youngest and boldest of all the faeries of the Oak, Knife fearlessly battles the savage crows and other predators who threaten her dying people. But when she strikes up a forbidden friendship with a human named Paul, she arouses the wrath of the powerful Faery Queen herself. With the help of some unexpected allies, Knife sets out to solve the mystery of the Oakenfolk's missing magic - but she soon discovers that the truth may cost her everything... Also available in the UK as KNIFE in… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Action/Adventure · Anderson, R.J. · Contemporary · Events · Faeries · Fantasy · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · HarperCollins Children's Books · Local · Middle Grade · National · Rated PG · _CANADA Ontario

THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH by Carrie Ryan

November 3rd, 2008 by Carrie Ryan · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Delacorte Press
  • Release Date: March 10, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 0385736819
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary's truths are failing her. She's learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Delacorte · Events · Fantasy · Local · Monsters · National · North Carolina · Ryan, Carrie · Young Adult

ONE WISH by Leigh Brescia

November 2nd, 2008 by Leigh Brescia · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Westside Books
  • Release Date: April 23, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-934813-05-8
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Overweight Wrenn Scott desperately wants to be popular and snag a hot boyfriend. Living with her single mom and younger sister, Karly, she lands a lead role in the high school musical, her voice for once overshadowing her weight. Pushing to get thinner by opening night, Wrenn's waistline shrinks as she learns all the wrong ways to lose weight from a new "it-girl" friend in the show. Meanwhile, her mom is falling for Phil, "a balding Channel 8 News-nerd"; her sister is wrapped up in her… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Body Image · Book Trailer · Brescia, Leigh · Contemporary · Events · Family · Friendship · Local · National · North Carolina · Rated PG-13 · WestSide Books · Young Adult

SHRINKING VIOLET by Danielle Joseph

November 2nd, 2008 by Danielle Joseph · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: MTV
  • Release Date: May 5, 2009
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-1416596967
Shrinking Violet is about high school senior, Tere Adams and her one dream-to be a DJ. By day she is paralyzed when she has to talk to people, but at night, she rocks, doing mock broadcasts in her bedroom. Her confidence is further eroded by her mom, who still sees Tere as the chubby, pale kid, the other children called Snowball. Mom thinks that Tere's dreams are just silly fantasies, but her new husband, Rob, offers Tere an internship at his top-forty radio station. Her best friend, Audrey, the only… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Events · Florida · Friendship · Humor · Joseph, Danielle · Local · MTV Books · National · Rated PG · Self-esteem/Self-image · Young Adult

MY BIG NOSE AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS by Sydney Salter

November 2nd, 2008 by Sydney Salter · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Harcourt
  • Release Date: April 1, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-0152066437
It's the end of junior year, and summer is about to begin. The Summer of Passion, to be exact, when Jory Michaels plans to explore all the possibilities of the future--and, with any luck, score a boyfriend in the process. But Jory has a problem. A big problem. A curvy, honking, bumpy, problem in the form of her Super Schnozz, the one thing standing between Jory and happiness. And now, with the Summer of Passion stretched before her like an open road, she's determined for Super Schnozz to… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Author speaking availability · Body Image · Contemporary · Events · Family · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · Humor · Local · National · Nevada · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Salter, Sydney · Self-esteem/Self-image · Utah · Young Adult

FORTUNE’S FOLLY by Deva Fagan

November 2nd, 2008 by Deva Fagan · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
  • Release Date: April 14, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-8050-8742-0
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Ever since her mother died and her father lost his shoemaking skills, Fortunata has survived by telling fake fortunes. But when she's tricked into telling a grand fortune for a prince, she is faced with the impossible task of fulfilling her wild prophecy-or her father will be put to death. Now Fortunata has to help Prince Leonato secure a magic sword, vanquish a wicked witch, discover a long-lost golden shoe, and rescue the princess who fits it. If only she hadn't fallen in love… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Events · Fagan, Deva · Fantasy · Henry Holt BFYR · Local · Maine · Middle Grade · National · Rated PG

BREATHING by Cheryl Renée Herbsman

October 23rd, 2008 by Cheryl Renee Herbsman · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Viking
  • Release Date: April 16, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-670-01123-0
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD                             
What if the guy who took your breath away was the only one who could help you breathe? Savannah would be happy to spend the summer in her coastal Carolina town lying in a hammock reading her beloved romance novels and working at the library. But then she meets Jackson. Once they lock eyes, she's convinced he's the one-her true love, her soul mate, a boy different from all the rest. And at first it looks like Savannah is right. Jackson abides by her mama's strict rules… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · California · Contemporary · Events · Family · Herbsman, Cheryl Renee · Local · National · Rated PG · Romance · Viking Children's Books · Young Adult

SOUL ENCHILADA by David Macinnis Gill

October 16th, 2008 by David Macinnis Gill · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins
  • Release Date: April 7, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 0061673013
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Bug Smoot was thirteen years old when her grandfather put her soul up as collateral on his dream car --a classic 1958 Cadillac Biarritz.  Now, five years later, Papa C is dead and buried, and Bug is trying to make it on her own by delivering pizzas and staying one step ahead of her landlord.  And then the repo man arrives.  Only Mr. Beals--stinking to high heaven of rotten eggs and sporting leathery wings--is not just any repo man...just as Pesto, Bug's longtime unrequited crush, is… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Events · Gill, David Macinnis · Greenwillow Books · Local · National · North Carolina · Paranormal · Young Adult

SHINE, COCONUT MOON by Neesha Meminger

October 12th, 2008 by Neesha Meminger · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster
  • Release Date: March 1, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-1416954958
  • ISBN (paperback): 1416954953
Samar--a.k.a. Sam--is an Indian-American teenager whose mom has kept her away from her old-fashioned family.  It's never bothered Sam, who is busy with school, friends, and a demanding boyfriend.  But things change after 9/11.  A guy in a turban shows up at Sam's house--and turns out to be her uncle.  He wants to reconcile the family and teach Sam about her Sikh heritage.  Sam is eager, but when boys attack her uncle, chanting "Go back home, Osama!," Sam realizes she could be
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Categories: 2009 Spring · Author Videos · Book Trailer · Contemporary · Events · Local · Margaret K. McElderry · Meminger, Neesha · Multicultural · National · New York · Rated PG · Young Adult · _CANADA Ontario

THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA by Cynthea Liu

October 12th, 2008 by Cynthea Liu · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Speak Puffin
  • Release Date: February 19, 2009
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-0142411346
Chinese-born Cece was adopted when she was two years old by her American parents. Living in Texas, she’s bored of her ho-hum high school and dull job. So when she learns about the S.A.S.S. program to Xi’an, China, she jumps at the chance. She’ll be able to learn about her passion—anthropology—and it will give her the opportunity to explore her roots. But when she arrives, she receives quite a culture shock. And the closer she comes to finding out about her birth parents, the more apprehensive she gets. Enter… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Adoption · Book Trailer · Contemporary · Events · Family · Friendship · Illinois · Liu, Cynthea · Local · Multicultural · Music · National · Rated PG · Romance · Speak · Travel · Young Adult

THE YEAR THE SWALLOWS CAME EARLY by Kathryn Fitzmaurice

October 10th, 2008 by Kathryn Fitzmaurice · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Winter, 2009
  • Publisher: HarperCollins/The Bowen Press
  • Release Date: February 3, 2009
  • ISBN (Trade): 978-0-06-162497-1
  • ISBN (Library): 978-0-06-162499-05
Eleanor "Groovy" Robinson loves cooking and plans to go to culinary school just as soon as she's old enough.  But even Groovy's thoughtfully planned menus won't fix the things that start to go wrong the year she turns eleven.  Suddenly, her father is in jail, her best friend's long absent mother reappears, and the swallows that make their annual migration to her hometown arrive surprisingly early. As Groovy begins to expect the unexpected, she learns about the importance of forgiveness and starts to understand the complex… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · 2009 Winter · Activitiy/Craft · Animal · Author Videos · Book Trailer · Bowen Press · California · Contemporary · Events · Family · Fitzmaurice, Kathryn · Food · Friendship · Local · Middle Grade · National · Nature · Rated G

MUDVILLE by Kurtis Scaletta

October 8th, 2008 by Kurtis Scaletta · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009 /li>
  • Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Release Date: February 24, 2009
  • ISBN: 0375855793
Welcome to Moundville, where it's been raining for longer than 12-year-old Roy McGuire has been alive. Most people say the town is cursed-right in the middle of their biggest baseball game against rival town Sinister Bend, black clouds crept across the sky and it started to rain. That was twenty-two years ago . . . and it's still pouring. Baseball camp is over, and Roy knows he's in for a dreary, soggy summer of digging ditches in the mud, pretending his dad's meals are edible, and wishing he were… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Alfred A. Knopf · Contemporary · Events · Humor · Local · Middle Grade · Minnesota · National · Rated G · Scaletta, Kurtis · Siblings · Sports

ALWAYS MY BROTHER by Jean Reagan

October 8th, 2008 by Jean Reagan · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Summer 2009
  • Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
  • Release Date: June 30, 2009
  • ISBN: 978-0-88448-313-7
ALWAYS MY BROTHER is a fiction picture book about sibling death told from the perspective of a younger sister, Becky. More than anything else, she and her brother loved to play soccer together. When he dies, she quits soccer. Eventually, with the insistence of their dog, Toby, Becky recaptures her joy of soccer while honoring her loss. This story which portrays honest emotions and realistic hope is sprinkled with humor. ALWAYS MY BROTHER was inspired by the relationship between my two children, before the loss of our son in 2005. Jane… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Death · Grief · Local · National · Picture Book · Rated G · Reagan, Jean · Siblings · Tilbury House · Utah

SHADOWED SUMMER by Saundra Mitchell

October 8th, 2008 by Saundra Mitchell · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009 /li>
  • Publisher: Delacorte
  • Release Date: February 10, 2009
  • ISBN: 978-0-385-73571-1
Shadowed Summer is... A southern gothic ghost story, and it goes a little something like this: Nothing ever happened in Ondine, Louisiana, not even the summer Elijah Landry disappeared. His mother knew he ascended to heaven, the police believed he ran away, and his girlfriend thought he was murdered. Decades later, certain she saw his ghost in the town cemetery, fourteen-year-old Iris Rhame is determined to find out the truth behind "The Incident With the Landry Boy." Enlisting the help of her best friend Collette, and forced to endure the company of Collette's latest crush… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Book Trailer · Delacorte · Events · Friendship · Indiana · Local · Middle Grade · Mitchell, Saundra · Mystery · National · Paranormal · Rated PG · Supplemental Content · Young Adult

PAWS, CLAWS, HANDS AND FEET by Kimberly Hutmacher

October 8th, 2008 by Kimberly Hutmacher · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Sylvan Dell Publishing
  • Release Date: February 10, 2009
  • ISBN (Hardcover): 978-1-934359-88-4
  • ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-934359-98-3
About PAWS, CLAWS, HANDS AND FEET ... Waking, shaking, feel the beat, paws, claws, hands and feet. Leap like a frog! Swing like a monkey! Dig like a squirrel! In PAWS, CLAWS, HANDS AND FEET, children not only observe how animals use their appendages, they are also encouraged to join in the fun. In doing so, they enter the world of animals, discover their unique gifts, and realize how similar we humans are to our animal friends. The Author: Kimberly Hutmacher Location: Central Illinois I have written numerous pieces of
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Categories: 2009 Spring · Animal · Events · Hutmacher, Kimberly · Illinois · Local · National · Nature · Picture Book · Rated G · Science · Sylvan Dell Publishing