Bear Country: Bearly A MisadventureBy Doreen Cronin That crazy Chicken Squad is back with another mystery to solve. This time, their caretaker, Barbara, is missing! She hasn’t kept to her usual routine, and now she’s not home. The Chicken Squad soon discovers that young Anna McClanahanahan’s hamster is missing too. Then they get reports of […]
Front DeskBy Kelly Yang Mia Tang and her parents have immigrated from China to California. Although the Tangs had excellent jobs in China, they are struggling to find work in the United States. When they land a job managing a motel, they think they’ve hit the jackpot. The pay is good, the whole family can […]
Disappearing EarthBy Julia Phillips On the Kamchatka Penninsula, a relatively isolated part of Russia, two girls go missing. Eleven-year-old Alyona and eight-year-old Sophia, alone and trusting, accept a ride from an unknown man and vanish. Disappearing Earth then moves through each month of the subsequent year, telling the stories of a wide variety of characters, […]
Survivor Diaries: Avalanche! By Terry Lynn Johnson Ashley and Ryan are twelve-year-old twins. Both love to ski and have experience ski touring. Although Ashley is a very competent skier, she is constantly trying to keep up with Ryan, who excels at everything. When Ashley and Ryan separate from their parents on a ski trip, they […]
by Linda Holmes Evvie Drake Starts Over, by Linda Holmes, is a light read for those who are looking for a refreshing tale for summer. Evvie Drake is recently widowed, her doctor husband having been the apple of everyone’s eye in their small Maine town. His golden boy reputation has outlived him and he […]
The Marrow ThievesBy Cherie Dimaline The Marrow Thieves is a dystopian tale of the not-too-distant future. Climate change is now wreaking havoc on the coasts, the cities have crumbled, and survivors are struggling to maintain small communities. The most pronounced effect of these changes is the loss of an important part of our humanity: our […]
Daisy Jones and the Six Taylor Jenkins Reid Written as a series of interviews , Daisy Jones and the Six chronicles the rapid rise and fall of one of the most popular band of the Seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid creates an entire band and their history from scratch, piecing it together through snippets of dialogue […]
To the Bright Edge of the WorldBy Eowyn Ivey It’s 1885 and Colonel Allen Forrester has been assigned to lead his men up Alaska’s Wolverine River. The journey will take them from Prince William Sound in the Gulf of Alaska, through narrow canyons and passages not yet explored by white men, and down the Yukon […]
A Complicated CaseBy Ulf NilssonIllustrated by Gitte Spee All the animals in the forest are feeling down. Detective Gordon, a toad, and his assistant, Buffy, wonder why. Eventually they realize that someone is saying mean things to the forest animals. This is not allowed according to the Law, and Gordon and Buffy must solve the […]
All Four StarsBy Tara Dairman Gladys Gatsby is only twelve years old but she loves to cook! She enjoys fine foods from around the world, and shops at a gourmet grocery store. Gladys’s parents are just the opposite. Much to Gladys’s dismay, they eat take out every night and never turn on the stove – […]