New Books
11 Birthdays - by Mass, Wendy
J FIC MAS
After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again. A Junior Library Guild selection, 2010-2011 Bluebonnet List.
14 Cows for America - by Deedy, Carmen Agra
J 327 DEE
Maasai tribal members, after hearing the story of the September 11th attacks from a young Massai, who was in New York on that day, decide to present the American people with fourteen sacred cows as a healing gift.
All stations! distress! - by Brown, Don
J 910.9 BRO
Provides the captivating story of the amazing Titanic, the people who built it, and its tragic demise during its maiden voyage across the Atlantic as told through first-hand accounts and detailed illustrations of the events as they happened.
Down, Down, Down - by Jenkins, Steve
J 591.7 JEN
Provides a top-to-bottom look at the ocean, from birds and waves to thermal vents and ooze.
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau - by Yaccarino, Dan
J B YAC .
From early childhood, Jacques Cousteau was interested in the life under the sea. He said that the best way to observe a fish is to become a fish. Discover how he found a way to "become a fish" in this colorfully illustrated book.
The Hinky Pink : an old tale - by McDonald, Megan
J FIC MCD
Summoned to the Great Castle of Firenze to create a special dress for Princess Isabella Caramella Gorgonzola, Anabel, a talented seamstress, is at first delighted but then increasingly despairing as time passes and her efforts are continually subverted by an unseen sprite.
Mudshark - by Paulsen, Gary
J FIC PAU
Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and locator of lost items, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark.
Squirrel's World - by Moser, Lisa
J FIC MOS
Squirrel's well-meaning attempts to help his forest friends do not always turn out as planned.
That Book Woman - by Henson, Heather
J FIC HEN
A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.
The Uglified Ducky - by Claflin, Willy
E FIC CLA
Resets Hans Christian Andersen's tale, The ugly duckling, in the Northern Piney Woods of Alaska, where a baby moose is raised by a family of ducks who try to teach him to waddle, quack, and fly but cannot see his true beauty.