EASY TO READ CHAPTER BOOKS

Ballet Sisters: the Duckling and the Swan by Jan Ormerod. Scholastic. 0439822815. $5.99

Sylvie and her older sister dance their way through make-believe adventures of princesses, fairy queens, swans and ducklings.

On the Road by Nick Page. Scholastic. 43.99 9780545007207

Learn about cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, and more. The text is written in easy-to-read rhymes and is illustrated with irresistible photographs. Three pages of fun learning activities are designed to both challenge and entertain new readers. Ages 4-8

Happy Go Lucky (Big Apple Barn #1) by Kristin Earhart. Scholastic. 0439893712. $3.99. Ages 4-8.

Happy Go Lucky leaves his mother’s side to go to Big Apple Barn riding school and a new life of adventure and training, but will he fit in and be able to keep focused on his work.

New Series - Fairy House series by Kelly McKain. Penguin. $6.99 Ages 6-9

Fairy Friends: Snowdrop; Fairy for a Day: Bluebell; Fairies to the Rescue: Daisy; Fairy Riding School: Rosehip.

New Series - Butterfly Meadow by Olivia Moss. Penguin. $4.99. Ages 6-9

In Butterfly Meadow, colorful butterflies dance through the air, glowworms inch through the grass and bumblebees buzz around every flower. It's a place where friendships and adventures take flight. #1 - Dazzle's First Day; #2 - Twinkle Dives In.

NEW CHAPTER BOOKS

Barnstormers: Three Kids, A Mystery and a Magic Baseball — Book 1(Tales of the Traveling Nine) by Loren Long and Phil Bildner. S&S. 1416918639. Ages 8 – 12 $9.99.

In the late 1800’s, a baseball with strange powers belonging to their late father works wonders for three children and a traveling baseball team that must raise $10,000.

Best Friends-Main Street #4 by Ann M. Martin. Scholastic. $6.99 978 439868822. paperback

As Flora and Ruby near the first anniversary of their arrival in town, Flora prepares for a visit from her old best friend. She's excited . . . but her new best friend, Olivia, isn't. Olivia's afraid she won't measure up, and that Flora will regret ever coming to Camden Falls. It's a very big reunion set for a very big day -- Camden Falls's 350th birthday celebration. Does one best friend truly have to be the best . . . or can they find a way to get along?

Calder Game by Blue Balliett. Scholastic. $17.99 9780439852074

When Calder Pillay travels with his father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery- including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while others in the village have less-than-friendly feelings toward it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem out of place...and then they dissapear!!!!

Dark Day in the Deep Sea - Magic Tree House #39 by Mary Pope Osborne. Random House $11.99 9780375837319

Jack and Annie continue their quest for the secrets of happiness–secrets they need if they're going to save Merlin. But when the magic tree house leads them to a tiny deserted island in the middle of the ocean, they're not sure who needs help more–Merlin or themselves! The brother and sister team are soon rescued by a ship of explorers and scientists. But the crew isn't looking for the secrets of happiness. The crew is looking for . . . a sea monster!

Dragon's Child by Jenny Nimmo. $5.99 Scholastic. 9780545064682 Ages 8 and up

Dando, a young dragon, has not learned how to fly yet when the herd must leave for their valley. Unable to hang onto his mother's back he falls and is captured. There are always rescue attempts with the kind slave-girl, an orphaned bird and the melancholy son of the dragon's captors that help Dando escape and learn to fly. Good read aloud.

Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages. Penguin. $7.99. 9780142411490.

It's 1943 and 11 year old Dewey Kerrigan lives with her father in a town that doesn't officially exisit - Los Alamos, New Mexico. Her father, a scientist and mathematician, works with others around the cclock on a secret project known as "the gadget". Dewey feels like an outsider and finds making friends difficult in a world of unknowns. Ages 10 and up

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson. Random House. $8.99. 9780440239413. paperback

Orphaned at age 16, Hattie longs for a place where folks will welcome her and become her family. When an uncle leaves her a claim of 320 acres in Montana, she hastens to make a home of her own, unprepared for life on the prairie in the brutal winter of 1918.

Leonardo's Shadow by Christopher Grey. Simon & Schuster. $8.99. 9781416905448. paperback

Giacomo, a young servant boy, is taken in by Leonardo da Vinci and grows up watching out for this great man, protecting him from his creditors even as Leonardo is pressured to finish The Last Supper. Although part of Leonardo's life, Giacomo still has dreams of his own: to be an artist and to find the secret of his parentage (which he hopes will lead back to da Vinci).

Marley - A Dog Like No Other by John Grogan. HarperCollins. $6.99. 9780061240355. paperback

This adaptation for young people is from Grogan's bestseller, Marley and Me . The story of Marley,an incorrigible yellow Labrador retriever will eat the sheetrock right off the wall while retaining his heart of gold. For all dog lovers.

Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. Candlewick. $9.99. 9780763639877. paperback

An old-fashioned story about a vain and selfish china rabbit who learns the value (and price) of love.

Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall. Random House. $15.99 9780375840906

THE PENDERWICK SISTERS are home on Gardam Street and ready for an adventure! But the adventure they get isn't quite what they had in mind. Mr. Penderwick's sister has decided it's time for him to start dating—and the girls know that can only mean one thing: disaster. Enter the Save-Daddy Plan—a plot so brilliant, so bold, so funny, that only the Penderwick girls could have come up with it. It's high jinks, big laughs, and loads of family warmth as the Penderwicks triumphantly return.

Physik - Septimus Heap (Book Three) by Angie Sage. $7.99. 9780060577391. paperback

The young Apprentice to the Extraordinary Wizard yearns to go beyond his training in Magyk to Physik, an ancient form of healing championed by the great Physician Marcellus Pye.

Quantum Prophecy - #1 The Awakening by Michael Carroll. Penguin. $7.99. 9780142411797. paperback. Ages 12+

Ten years after the disappearance of superhumans-both heroes and villans-13 year olds Danny and Colin begin to develop super-powers, making them the object of much unwanted attention.

White Giraffe by Lauren St. John. $6.99. Penguin. 978142411520. Paperback - Ages 10 and up.

After a fire kills her parents, 11 year old Martine leaves England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Aftrica, where befriends the mythical white giraffe and learns about the demands of being a "chosen one".

NONFICTION

Do, Re, Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido d’Arezzo by Susan Roth. Houghton. 0618465723 $17.00

Guido d’Arezzo developed the written language of music using lines and spaces and was determined to make his idea work. Imagine what music would be like if there were no notes.

Let It Shine: three favorite spirituals by Ashley Bryan. Atheneum. 0689847327 $16.99

Read, sing and enjoy a kaleidoscope of color as you share this peppy book with intricate cut paper collage. Spirituals include: This Little Light of Mine, Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In and He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands.

Vinnie and Abraham by Dawn FitzGerald. Charlesbridge. 9781570916588. $15.95.

The true story of Vinnie Ream and her gift for sculpture, offers her the opportunity to
have President Lincoln sit for her. Vinnie then must fight to sculpt his statue for the Capitol rotunda.

Twist: Yoga Poems by Janet S. Wong. McElderry. 0689873948 $17.99.

A collection of sixteen original poems to inspire even the youngest yogi. Each pose is no longer simply a stretching position, but a picture and story that will exercise the imagination as well as the body.

Titanic: the Ship of Dreams. Orchard. 0439899958. $18.99.

This gorgeous new pop up brings photos, information and the story of the Titanic to life. Told through the journal entries often year old Jack and his family as they board the Titanic.

New Chapter Books (hardcover)

  • Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls by Meg Cabot. $15.00 9780545039475 Ages 7-10
  • Battle for Skandia - #4 in the Ranger Apprentice series by John Flanagan. $16.99 9780399244575 Ages 12 and up
  • Brett McCarthy: Work in Progress by Marian Padian $15.99 9780375846755 Ages 12 and up
  • Bronte's Book Club by Kristina Gregory. $16.95 9780823421367 Ages 10 and up
  • Calder Game by Blue Balliett $17.99 9780439852074 Ages 12 and up
  • Clementine's letter by Sara Pennypacker. $14.99 9780786838844 Ages 6 and up
  • Dark River - Power of Three #2 in the Warriors series by Erin Hunter $16.99 9780060892050 Ages 12 and up
  • Mozart Question by Michael Morpurgo $15.99 9780763635527 Ages 10 and up
  • Nim at Sea by Wendy Orr. Sequel to Nim's Island. $12.99 9780440422327 Ages 7 and up
  • Pandora Gets Jealous by Carol Hennesy $12.95 9781599901961 Ages 10 and up
  • Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall $15.99 9780375840906 Ages 9 and up
  • Queste - #4 Septimus Heap by Angie, Sage $17.99 9780060882075 Ages 12 and up
  • Sarah Simpson's Rules for Living by Rebecca Rupp $13.99 9780763632205 Ages 7 -10
  • Stink and the Great Guinea Pig Race by Megan McDonald $12.99 9780763628352 Ages 6-10
  • Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson $16.99 9780439899277 Ages 15 and up
  • Sweet Far Thing #3 in the Great and Terrible Beauty series by Libba Bray $17.99 9780385730303 Ages 12 and up
  • Time Thief - Gideion Trilogy by Linda Buckley $17.99 9781416915270 Ages 12 and up

Chapter Books (new in paperback)

  • Anahita's Woven Riddle by Meghan Sayres $7.95 9780810995482 Ages 12 and up
  • Close Encounters of a Third-World Kind by Jennifer Stewart $6.95 9780823421619 Ages 7 and up
  • Donutheart by Sue, Stauffacher. $5.99 9780440420651 Ages 8 and up
  • Drowned Maiden's Hair by Laura Amy Schiltz $6.99 9780763638122 Ages 8 and up
  • Forging the Sword-Farsala Trilogy by Hilari Bell $6.99 9780689854187 Ages 12 and up
  • Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson $8.99 9780440239413 Ages 12 and up
  • Leonardo's Shadow by Christopher Grey $8.99 9781416905448 Ages 12 and up
  • Meanie Genie - Little Genie series by Miranda Jones $4.99 9780440422273 Ages 7 and up
  • Lost Colony - Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer. $7.99 9780786849598 Ages 10 and up
  • Marley-Dog Like No other by John Grogan $6.99 9780061240355 Ages 10 and up
  • Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo $9.99 9780763639877 Ages 9 and up
  • Penny from Heaven by Jennifer Holm $6.99 9780375836893 Ages 10 and up
  • Physik-#3 Septimus Heap by Angie Sage $7.99 9780060577391 Ages 12 and up
  • Please Write in this Book by Mary Amato $6.95 9780823421381 Ages 8 and up
  • Quillan Games #7 in Pendragon Series $7.99 9780689869136 Ages 12 and up
  • Sisters Club by Megan McDonald. $5.99 9780763632205 Ages 8-12
  • Smile by Geraldine McCaughrean $5.50 9780440239529 Ages 8-12
  • Space Station Rat by Michael Daley $6.95 9780823421510 Ages10-12
  • Sweet 16 by Kate Brian $8.99 9781416900337 Ages 14 and up
  • Time Surfers: Orbit Wipeout by Tony Abbott $4.99 9780553483048 Ages 7 and up
  • Time Surfers: Space Bingo by Tony Abbott $4.99 9780553483031 Ages 7 and up
  • Virus on Orbis - #1 Softwire by PJ Haarsma $6.99 9780763636388 Ages 8 and up

 

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