Mon, November 2nd, 2009
Crust & Spray: Gross Stuff in Your Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat by C.S. Larsen
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Lynn: Unfortunately the flu is spreading fast. Children are worried too and it is important to provide them with accurate information. This new book in the Gross Body Science series is about the body’s defenses and reactions to minute invaders. Crust and Spray (Lerner/Millbrook 2009) addresses this timely subject with humor and [...]
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Mon, September 21st, 2009
Series Stars - Scientists in the Field
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy and Lynn: Bookends thanks Nonfiction Monday for allowing us to host this week. On Mondays, many bloggers in the kidlitosphere review stellar nonfiction titles for children and teens. Bookmark the Nonfiction Monday website so you can find each Monday’s host, or volunteer to host yourself. Any bloggers who have a Nonfiction Monday post for [...]
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Wed, September 16th, 2009
Series Stars: The Exiles by Hilary McKay
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: I think of this series of delightful books every August as my summer vacation winds to an end. In The Exiles (Margaret K. McElderry, 1991), the four Conroy sisters, Ruth, Naomi, Rachel, and Phoebe are excited when their parents come into an inheritance and they gleefully begin plotting how to spend their share. Their [...]
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Thu, August 6th, 2009
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Lynn: We left Todd Hewitt and Viola Eade in a breathless cliff-hanger at the end of The Knife of Never Letting Go. It has been a long year of waiting! The second volume, The Ask and the Answer (Candlewick, Sept. 2009), picks right up from that point. Todd and Viola have run right [...]
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Wed, June 17th, 2009
Enola Holmes Mysteries by Nancy Springer - Series Stars
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Lynn: It’s not every fourteen-year-old girl who can successfully work as a Perditorian (finder of lost things) on her own in the teeming dangerous streets of London. Enola Holmes is no ordinary girl and she is doing quite nicely, thank you, solving cases that baffle even her famous brothers. Before she disappeared, Enola’s eccentric mother [...]
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Wed, April 8th, 2009
The Gecko & Sticky: Villain’s Lair by Wendelin Van Draanen
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: Here’s a fun new series for elementary and younger middle school readers. In volume one, The Gecko & Sticky: Villain’s Lair (Knopf, 2009), Dave has a talking pet gecko named Sticky, who gets him involved with a dastardly, demented villain due to a magical Aztec wristband Sticky has stolen that Damien Black (said villain) [...]
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