Lion’s Lair

In the following link, you can hear reviews of the Awards which were announced this week. 
http://www.uwex.edu/ics/stream/flden/CCBC/2007/index.html

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Girl, 15, Charming But Insane
by Sue Limb
Publishers Weekly (August 16, 2004)
An account of a British girl’s mishaps and humiliations follows a protagonist who resembles a teenage Bridget Jones. The novel, told in a third-person narrative, gets into the psyche of Jess Jordan, who describes herself as “girl, fifteen, charming, but insane, huge bum, massive [...]

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Three Lives to Live
by Anne Lindbergh
From Publishers Weekly
When a girl in an old-fashioned dress tumbles out of an unused laundry chute, Garet is understandably surprised. Her grandmother, Gratkins, on the other hand, accepts the newcomer as a matter of course, calls her Daisy and enrolls her in school, claiming that she is Garet’s long-lost [...]

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Baby-sitters’ Summer Vacation
by Ann M. Martin
Notes: During summer vacation, the Baby-sitters and many of the kids they sit for are going to
Camp
Mohawk. The girls soon discover that camp isn’t just nature walks and making lanyards.
 
Secret of the Porcelain Cats
by Lilas McGinnis
Notes: Two cousins camping with a disabled veteran on an island in
Lake Erie [...]

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Judy Moody Gets Famous
by Megan McDonald
School Library Journal (October 1, 2001)
Third-grader Judy Moody is back in her second adventure for the young chapter-book crowd. She has a mood for all seasons, and this time it is jealousy. She thinks everyone else is famous except for her-even her parents and brother all have claims to fame. [...]

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No Boys Allowed
by Marilyn Levinson
From Publishers Weekly
Cassie is devastated when her lawyer-father leaves his family to embark on a new future in
Kansas with a “twenty-six-year-old lawyerette.” While Cassie’s disorganized mother tries her hand at a job for the first time and Cassie’s sister Corinne obsesses over her looks and a boy at school, Cassie [...]

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Students-readers.  If you are a fan of Maximum Ride by James Patterson, go to the web site www.maximumride.com    Lots of fun ahead.

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