Holm, J., (2010) Turtle in paradise. New York: Random house Children’s Books. Fiction-realism/historical Turtle lives in the 1930s and during the depression. Author Holm uses some of her own family stories to create this book. Turtle is a daughter to a single mother who is trying to make ends me...
Junior Books ProjectCategory: Graphic NovelSource: Dr. KimmelThis hard cover graphic novel is a small-sized book which would be easy for small hands to hold. The front cover has a picture of Squish and his two friends Pod and Peggy. In the back is a black scary figure--Lynnwood, a bully at their ...
Holm, J., & Holm, M. (2011). Squish: Super Amoeba. New York: Random House.ALSC Graphic Novels Reading ListGraphic NovelThis is a fun and exciting graphic novel about an Amoeba who is trying to find himself and just get through the school day. Squish has to deal with school, family, and friends as...
The main reason I love this books is for the humor she adds to each family member. Each character is believable including May Amelia's wicked grandmother, and her negative and often verbally abusive father.The Trouble With May Amelia, Atheneum Books For Young Readers, Copyright 201l, is the sequ...
Brother and sister team, Matthew and Jennifer Holm, bring us another sassy adventure starring Babymouse in their 10th graphic novel of the series. In this adventure, the very klutzy Babymouse is encouraged by Henry, the new transfer kid in school, to try-out for the school musical. While she hop...
Tags: graphic novel, sequel, super heroes, bullying, bravery, self-confidence, parallel story lines, cliques,Squish is an amoeba who is heading back to school and wants to be part of the "cool" group this year. He learns that being himself and standing up for his friends is more important than ...
I don't know how they got the idea for a graphic novel series about an amoeba named Squish and his adventures at school, but Jennifer and Matthew Holm put their considerable talents together to create a fun-filled but issue-driven story here. Squish sets off for school--the pond--with his friend ...
This book was really fun to read! It's not in the typical format of a picture book, it's like a comical book set up (illustrations make it seem like you're reading a comical book. I think students from 4th grade to 8th or 9th grade would actually enjoy reading these babymouse books. They all have...
My 6 year old daughter loves these... "Typical" is being said quite a bit around my house now. cute...but kids in the target age range won't get many of the references to actual musicals.
another babymouse adventure, this timew her daydreaming gets her punished by being stuck on the school math olympics team. along the way she visits narnia (and finds an understanding teacher) and fights sauron. she, of course, becomes victorios by trusting herself. iloved this one because of t...
I don't know how many of these I've read, but this is my favorite so far. I actually think it's almost for older readers. Who else would get the jokes, like the math teams' names: The Fighting Fractions, The Hypotemouses, and the Owlgorithms? This concerns Babymouse's low grades in math, so h...
This book is about a girl named BabyMouse who is always daydreaming about being a Scientist. She gets a new Science teacher who is confident that he and his students will be great scientists someday. But BabyMouse can never seem to focus in class because she is always daydreaming. Her father give...
Babymouse is caught in a pickle when he accidentally turned on the sprinklers in the library and destroys all the books. In order to pay for the new books, he holds a cupcake sale to pay for it, but it isn't that easy. His archenemy Felicia is also selling cupcakes, but with ads and a catchy sl...
Here is another hilarious Babymouse adventure from the sister-brother team of Jennifer and Matt Holm. In this story, Babymouse accidentally sets off the school's sprinkler system, destroying her beloved library, and a cupcake-selling fundraiser to help pay for the damage is set in motion. Babymo...
Babymouse wants to become President of her school. She is very excited about being able to be in charge of the school and finally being able to beat mean perfect Felicia. At first Babymouse is scared of running for President because she didn’t feel that she would be good enough. When some encoura...
Not your classic retelling of "A Christmas Carol", this one is 5x's as fun to see and read.---------- Babymouse wants a Whiz Bang for Christmas. We know that. Her parents know that. Her classmates and friends know that. Heck, EVERYBODY knows THAT. But, can she discover the true meaning of Christ...
This was a more entertaining read than I anticipated. I thought that the way Jennifer Holm separates herself in the book with the use of square boxes really lets kids understand how to interpret the book. As a reader, it almost gives you the sense that you are the narrator and are interacting wit...
I enjoyed reading Extreme Babymouse. There were lots of laughs, but lots of things that made me kinda think, "What`s going to happen?" Especially in the end, where Babymouse hears the, "Meow," and it turns out to be Felicia, in pain. But other than that, it was pretty funny. Going to a ski/snowbo...
As a kid who goes to school with people carrying all the latest fashion trends and lifestyles its kind of hard not to want to be exactly like everybody else. This graphic novel is original because it demonstrates the art of standing up to peer pressure and listening to your inner voice. Many ki...
Ginny is now in 8th grade, and she and her family have just moved. Ginny joins the cheerleading squad and finds true love (well, at least a guy she can relate to and have fun with). But amidst these happy events, her stepdad loses his job, her mom finds out she’s pregnant and quits her job, Hen...
"Yeah, Dude, there's a whole world out there, too. When's the last time you left his room?"Squish gets $50 for his birthday and decides to buy a new video game. But suddenly, nothing is more important to him than getting to the next level of the game: not friends, not family, not school work, not...
In 1846, the United States has never had a civil war, but it does have a Wild West.Refined Philadelphia seems very far from the Wild West, but motherless Jane has no one to teach her manners. Her father is a surgeon who believes brains are meant to be used, and doesn’t teach his daughter to walk...
"Remember -- you make your own luck." Abandoned on the frontier by her faithless fiance, Jane Peck prepares to head home, only to learn that the Philadelphia life she once knew is no more. But can a proper young lady find happiness as the only woman in a primitive pioneer settlement? Armed with o...
Jane Peck is a nineteenth-century girl with a mind of her own and a handsome suitor who loves her for it. She's outwitted wild animals, vengeful ghosts, and a disloyal fiance, but when her finishing school nemesis, Sally Biddle, invades the Washington Territory, Jane finds everything she holds de...
Penny adalah nama panggilan kesayangan dari seorang gadis bernama Barbara Ann Falucci. Ayahnya, yang telah lama meninggal, amat menyukai lagu "Pennies from heaven" milik Bing Crosby, sampai-sampai memanggil anak satu-satunya dengan sebutan Penny. Ia dan keluarganya tinggal di Brooklyn, keluarga y...
The neighborhood is tense and worried: Caleb Devlin is home again. Five years ago he did a heinous crime that the adults won’t talk about, so the kids’ imaginations run wild, and Penny starts to have panic attacks again because of all this. Penny and her brother Teddy are relatively new to the ne...
We were in the parlor on Walnut Street. A cheery fire was blazing, and Papa was reading to me from “Rip Van Winkle.” The delicious aroma of Mrs. Parker’s cherry pie mingled in the air with the familiar smell of Papa’s pipe. It was all so warm and safe. And then, all at once, the ship gave a sicke...