Historical May 1985 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
A good story is even better when it surprises you with something you didn’t expect to find there or with something you never knew before.
One easy-to-read picture book, Henri and the Loup-Garou, introduces you to a new monster from New England and Canadian folklore.
This werewolf-like beast haunts the woods at night as Henri goes out to get food for his family.
A clever trick allows him to find his way home safely so he can tell his frightening story afterward to his family—and to you.
A picture book with illustrations so outstanding that it won the Caldecott Medal is The Glorious Flight across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, by Alice and Martin Provensen.
The book brings you a little about French family life in the early 1900’s and a lot about Louis Bleriot’s attempts to fly across the English Channel, suffering a variety of bruises in a variety of flying machines.
With gentle humor (Bleriot even looks a bit like Peter Sellers), the authors colorfully and authentically re-create an exciting time in aviation history for children. Why do you young readers only want to check out stories that took place today, or maybe last week, at the very earliest? Fifth through eighth graders are missing an absorbing mystery if they overlook The Callender Papers by Cynthia Voigt, A book set in Massachusetts in 1894. Twelve-year old Jean is an orphan living with her Aunt Constance at a girl’s school in Cambridge. Constance is the headmistress.
When a school trustee, Mr. Thiel, hires Jean to organize his family’s papers, she has no idea that within a short time, she will uncover secrets about her own past and she will be in great danger. Readers may be surprised to find some unusually independent women and to discover how much more was expected of twelveyear-olds during that time period. Wordchanger, also for older readers, has never left our shelves, even though it has a very contemporary setting.
When she discovers that her new husband has developed a device that can transform written words anywhere and that he intends to use it for criminal purposes, Martha quickly leaves home taking both the machine and her twelve-year-old son with her. Their harrowing trip across the country in a hard-to-handle trailer is filled with close calls.
When a young runaway hides in the trailer and opens their dangerous, radioactive cargo, their problems multiply.
The story offers you non-stop suspense while it also explains neutrinos, describes how to back up a trailer, and proves the existence of evil stepfathers.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, May 1985.
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