This book is told in verse, which really sets a cool tone. It's heartbreakingly beautiful in the pain of the little dog separated from her boy, but you know by the parallel stories that there will be many resolutions, and the book delivers on that promise. I love happy, triumphant endings, and th...
This is no ordinary fairy tale princess story. I cannot remember last when a children's book touched me so deeply. I read this at the same time as my precocious 7 year-old daughter, who read independently at night while I read ahead during the day.. We read the last 3 chapters together out loud...
Young Timothy wants to prove that his grandfather is fine and that he doesn't have to go into a nursing home. He suggests he and his grandfather go camping and fishing and together they seek to borrow his grandfather's old truck camper from the veterinarian who purchased Grandpa's veterinary bus...
Young boys are forever seeking competition to be the fastest or best at doing something. Tony dared his best friend, Joel, to climb the Starved Rocks buffs with him; however, Joel thought the only reason dared him was because Tony was scared of swimming in the dangerous Vermillion River. Joel d...
At her grandmother's log cabin, nine-year-old Liz is led to make contact with children she believes may be her ancestors.
My 4th and 5th grade students have loved this book! Loosely based on a real bear presently residing in the Lake Superior Zoo in Duluth, Minnesota, Trouble started his life in the Anchorage, Alaska area. The story speculates that Trouble had probably been driven off by his mother, as he was abou...
Or from anything else, for that matter. And day after day he worked to prove to his father and to the rest of the pack that he was, indeed, brave. He was the first to leave the den, the last to return every day. He even began to challenge the other pups for the meat brought home from the hunt. Oc...
She watched and watched. She loved the man. She had loved him since they had found one another when she was barely more than a pup. That had been a cold night in a much larger city. She had been young and homeless and hungry. He was homeless and hungry, too, though not so young. They had kept one...
Surely not because she is afraid of such a tiny thing. Not because she has no mind of her own, either. There is a reason, to be sure, and it comes out of something I haven’t yet told you about Zoey. Actually, there are many things I haven’t told you about Zoey, about her mother … about everybody ...
Emily couldn’t hear Logan calling anymore. She kept running all the same. At the stream, she didn’t bother looking for the stones. She just splashed across it. She came to the clearing. This was where she had left Logan picking flowers. She knew it was the place. But he was gone. The grass was tr...
But being a princess didn’t keep her from having a good time. In fact, Regina couldn’t remember ever having as much fun as she had with her new servant, as oddly unreliable as Rose was. Rose could come up with the most amazing adventures. One night, as Regina lay on the pillow next to Rose, bored...
Dallas looked up from her bowl of Cheerios. “Tell me again what it sounded like,” she said. “I don’t know!” The truth was Jenna didn’t want to say it again. She knew what she had heard last night. Now, though, with the morning sun spilling across Dallas’s kitchen table, sa...
It flew. It flung itself sideways as if it never intended to land. Kaye sat in the middle of the backseat so she could look out the windshield. All she could see, though, was the flying snow. In the headlights it became a white wall. The white wall divided at the last instant to let them through....