Fiction

PreS-Gr 1—Summer ends, and Tortoise must go back to school...

Gr 4—6—"Art by the numbers" takes on new meaning in this rewarding book, complete with foldout flaps, carefully shaped and color coordinated to maximize their visual impact...

PreS-Gr 2—This disjointed story about making friends seems unsure of its message and never comes together...

Gr 2—4—From early humans to the British punks of the 1970s and many stops in between, Krull teases readers with intriguing, humorous facts about hair and grooming...

K-Gr 2—What would pirates do at school? The question is answered in rhyming verse and lighthearted cartoon images...

PreS-Gr 1—The Cycling Wangdoos, a racing team, train in the mountains of Tibet...

Gr 9 Up—Four different artists present the lives of four United States presidents...

Gr 2—5—In his latest adventure, Frankie stumbles through a math quiz on a Friday afternoon, only to be given a second chance after school on Monday...

Gr 2—4—Amusingly framed as a cheesy popularity contest, this parade of personified planets features illustrations in which rotund, recognizably marked caricatures of these heavenly bodies pose and mug, surrounded by an entourage of relevant though unidentified scientists, space probes, satellites both natural and artificial, books, constellations, and astronomical symbols...