4 BOOKS FRee! - Junior Library Guild

Durinda’s Dangers: The Sisters 8, Book 2
by Lauren Baratz-Logsted and Greg Logsted with Jackie Logsted
illustrated by Lisa K. Weber
ME GROUP (GRADES 2–6) • Reviews: HG
The Huit octuplets are facing big problems. Not
only are the sisters’ parents missing, but evil neighbor
Helena Wicket has been snooping through their
mother’s top-secret scientific files. Fortunately, the
second-oldest octuplet, Durinda, has just discovered
her special power—the ability to temporarily freeze
people. If Durinda freezes “the Wicket” (as the Huits
call her), the girls can snoop through her uninviting,
fruitcake-scented house to learn what she has stolen
from their mother’s files. Black-and-white drawings.
Isbn: 9780547053394 • Dewey: f • 5 1/8" x 7 5/8" • 128 pp
aR level: 5.0 • aR Points: 3 • sRC level: 5.2 • sRC Points: 6 • lexile: 790l
JLG: $9.00 • Houghton Mifflin: $15.00 • JlG Month: feb 2009
*NEW* The Dust Bowl:
An Interactive History Adventure
by Allison Lassieur
A GROUP (GRADES 3–5) • Reviews: BL
In 1929, the United States entered the Great
Depression. Now it is 1931, and the southern Great
Plains is experiencing a tremendous drought. What
will you do? Stay on your Kansas farm? Become
a migrant worker? Or choose to be a government
photographer, documenting life in the Dust Bowl?
This interactive history adventure contains three
separate fact-based storylines, with fifty-three choices
in all and nineteen different endings. An introduction
and conclusion provide context and additional
information. Time line. Further reading and Internet
sites. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Map. Black-andwhite
and color photographs.
Isbn: 9781429623438 • Dewey: 978/.032 • 5 1/4" x 7 1/2" • 112 pp
JLG: $13.25 • Capstone: $20.99 • JlG Month: aPR 2009
*NEW* Dying To Meet You:
43 Old Cemetery Road, Book 1
by Kate Klise • illustrated by M. Sarah Klise
A GROUP (GRADES 3–5) • Reviews: BL, H, K, PW, SLJ
Children’s author I. B. Grumply desperately needs
to write his next Ghost Tamer book, but for years
he has been suffering from crippling writer’s block.
Thinking a change in surroundings will do him good,
he rents an old Victorian mansion for the summer.
But how can he possibly concentrate on writing
when he discovers that the supposedly quiet house is
inhabited not only by eleven-year-old Seymour Hope
and his cat (Grumply despises children and is allergic
to cats), but also by the ghost of Olive C. Spense, the
home’s original owner? Black-and-white illustrations.
Isbn: 9780152057275 • Dewey: f • 5" x 7 1/4" • 160 pp
aR level: 4.9 • aR Points: 2 • sRC level: 4.5 • sRC Points: 5 • lexile: 730l
JLG: $13.25 • Harcourt: $15.00 • JlG Month: JUn 2009
Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know
She Was Extinct u
written and illustrated by Mo Willems
K GROUP (GRADES PreK–K)
Reviews: BCCB, H, HGs, K, PW, SLJ
Edwina the dinosaur is the most popular gal in town.
She plays with the kids, helps little old ladies cross
the street, and bakes the best chocolate chip cookies.
Everyone loves her . . . except for Reginald Von
Hoobie-Doobie, who has persuasive evidence that
dinosaurs are extinct. Reginald does all sorts of things
to prove his argument—he gives a report, hands out
flyers, stages a protest—but no one cares. Is anyone
willing to listen? Full-color art.
Isbn: 9780786837489 • Dewey: e • 12" x 9" • 40 pp
aR level: 2.5 • aR Points: 0.5 • sRC level: 2.7 • sRC Points: 1 • lexile: aD500l
JLG: $9.00 • Hyperion: $16.99 • JlG Month: noV 2006
Elizabeth Leads the Way:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote u
by Tanya Lee Stone • illustrated by Rebecca Gibbon
I GROUP (GRADES 2–4) • Reviews: BLH, H, HGs, PW, SLJ, WC
Elizabeth Cady Stanton grew up in the nineteenth
century, when women did not have the same rights as
men. From an early age, she thought this inequality
was unfair. Why couldn’t women go to college, own
property, or vote? In 1848, realizing that “if women
could vote, they could help change all kinds of laws,”
she set out to obtain women’s suffrage. Stanton’s
battle cry spread like wildfire across the country:
“Have it, we must. Use it, we will.” Author’s note.
Bibliography. Full-color illustrations done in gouache
and color pencils.
Isbn: 9780805079036 • Dewey: 305.42092 b • 8 1/2" x 11" • 32 pp
aR level: 3.8 • aR Points: 0.5 • sRC level: 4.3 • sRC Points: 1 • lexile: aD700l
JLG: $9.00 • Holt: $16.95 • JlG Month: JUl 2008
Emma’s Turtle u
by Eve Bunting • illustrated by Marsha Winborn
P GROUP (GRADES K–1) • Reviews: BL, HG, K, SLJ
Emma’s turtle loves it when Emma reads him stories
about far away places. “She shows me pictures of
elephants in Africa and kangaroos in Australia. There
are tigers in India and panda bears in China. It is all
quite amazing.” So amazing that Turtle digs out of
his pen and goes to see for himself. After walking for
what feels like forever, he’s sure that frog hopping
by must be an Australian frog and those chimes are
Indian temple bells. How will he find his way home?
Watercolor illustrations.
Isbn: 9781590783504 • Dewey: e • 10" x 8" • 32 pp
aR level: 2.2 • aR Points: 0.5 • sRC level: 2.4 • sRC Points: 1 • lexile: 430l
JLG: $9.00 • boyds Mills: $15.95 • JlG Month: noV 2007
Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls
by Lynne Jonell • art by Jonathan Bean
A GROUP (GRADES 3–5) • Reviews: CL, HG, K, SLJ, WC
Emmy is an ordinary girl—almost. Because she
has been bitten by Raston the Rat, she can talk to
rodents—and they talk back. With the help of a
second bite from Raston, Emmy and her friend
Joe can also shrink down to rodent size. These
capabilities prove useful, since the children must
try to stop Miss Barmy, Emmy’s horrible former
nanny. Now a rat, Miss Barmy is keeping five little
girls hostage and has a plan to steal Emmy’s family’s
jewels. . . . Black-and-white illustrations.
Isbn: 9780805081510 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 368 pp
aR level: 5.1 • aR Points: 10 • sRC level: 4.7 • sRC Points: 17 • lexile: 770l
JLG: $9.00 • Holt: $17.95 • JlG Month: Jan 2009
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