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Goof-Off Goalie: Gym Shorts
by Betty Hicks • illustrated by Adam McCauley
SE GROUP (GRADES 2–6) • Reviews: H, HGs, SLJ
Goose loves being on a soccer team, but he hates all
that running. Maybe, he thinks, he could play goalie:
“Goalies didn’t run as much. They got to stand still a
lot. And dive into the dirt.” Goose quickly learns that
becoming a good goalie is hard work and requires
something he doesn’t have: focus. So Goose’s friends
draw up a detailed plan guaranteed to make him a
better goalkeeper—if they can make him stick to it.
Black-and-white illustrations.
Isbn: 9781596432444 • Dewey: f • 5 7/8" x 7 1/4" • 64 pp
aR level: 2.5 • aR Points: 1 • sRC level: 1.7 • sRC Points: 4 • lexile: 280l
JLG: $9.00 • Roaring brook: $14.95 • JlG Month: seP 2008
Granddad’s Fishing Buddy u
by Mary Quigley • illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch
P GROUP (GRADES K–1) • Reviews: BL, HG, SLJ
Sara visits her grandparents’ lake cottage and doesn’t
want to miss a thing. Though the sky is still dark,
she’s awake when Granddad gets up to meet his
fishing buddy. “Ooooo . . . fishing . . . Can I come
too?” she asks. Granddad eyes her skeptically.
“Can you keep real quiet so the fish don’t know
we’re there? Can you row the boat without making it
turn in circles? Can you put a worm on the hook?”
Sara agrees and “YIPPEE!” is allowed to go. Then
she remembers the rules. “Yippee,” she whispers.
Full-color art.
Isbn: 9780803729421 • Dewey: e • 10 1/2" x 9" • 32 pp
aR level: 3.1 • aR Points: 0.5 • sRC level: 3.6 • sRC Points: 3 • lexile: aD700l
JLG: $9.00 • Dial: $16.99 • JlG Month: seP 2007
Grumpy Bird u
written and illustrated by Jeremy Tankard
K GROUP (GRADES PreK–K)
Reviews: BCCB, CL, HGs, K, PW, SLJ
Bird wakes up in an awfully grumpy mood. He’s too
grumpy to play. He’s even too grumpy to fly. “Looks
like I’m walking today,” he says. But his friends won’t
let him walk in peace. As he passes them one by one,
Sheep, Rabbit, Raccoon, Beaver, and Fox all want to
know what he’s doing. When he says he’s walking,
they think it looks like fun and want to come along!
Why do they have to be so cheerful ? Full-color ink
and collage illustrations. A 2008 IRA Children’s
Choices selection.
Isbn: 9780439851473 • Dewey: e • 10" x 10" • 32 pp
sRC level: 1.6 • sRC Points: 1 • lexile: 280l
JLG: $9.00 • scholastic: $12.99 • JlG Month: MaY 2007
*NEW* Gullible Gus
by Maxine Rose Schur • illustrated by Andrew Glass
I GROUP (GRADES 2–4)
Cowboy Gus has a terrible problem. He believes
everything that people tell him, even when they’re
fibbing! As a result, he’s earned the nickname Gullible
Gus. Gus doesn’t want to be gullible anymore, so
his doctor sends him to the town of Fibrock to meet
Hokum Malarkey, the biggest liar in the universe. If
Gus can see through even one of Malarkey’s stories,
he’ll be cured. Full-color illustrations in oil crayon
and turpenoid.
Isbn: 9780618927104 • Dewey: e • 6" x 9" • 48 pp
JLG: $13.25 • Clarion: $15.00 • JlG Month: seP 2009
Gully’s Travels
by Tor Seidler • pictures by Brock Cole
A GROUP (GRADES 3–5)
Reviews: BLH, CL, H, HGs, K, PWH, SLJH, WC
Gully, a Lhasa apso, enjoys a cushy, quiet life. He
lives with his kind owner, a professor, at One Fifth
Avenue in Manhattan. He eats Prime Premium and
spends summers in Paris. Then the professor becomes
engaged to a woman who’s allergic to long-haired
dogs, so he reluctantly gives Gully away—to his
doorman. Suddenly Gully’s refined life is turned
upside down. He is thrown into a crowded Queens
house with the big, raucous Montoya family, who
also own three mutts. Convinced this new situation is
all a mistake, Gully forms an escape plan.
Isbn: 9780545025065 • Dewey: e • 6 3/4" x 8 7/8" • 192 pp
aR level: 5.6 • aR Points: 4 • sRC level: 5.7 • sRC Points: 8 • lexile: 890l
JLG: $9.00 • scholastic: $16.95 • JlG Month: oCT 2008
Gus, the Pilgrim Turkey
by Teresa Bateman • illustrated by Ellen Joy Sasaki
P GROUP (GRADES K–1) • Reviews: BL, HG, K
In spring, Gus the Turkey looks stunning in his
Easter hat. In summer, Gus dons patterned shorts
and dances in the sprinklers. Now it’s autumn, and
he’s already talking about wearing his tuxedo on New
Year’s Eve. So Gus’s friends decide it’s time to tell him
about Thanksgiving. “They told him about Native
Americans who helped the Pilgrims. No problem.
They told him about the big feast. No problem.”
And then they tell Gus what’s on the Thanksgiving
Day menu. BIG problem! Full-color art done in
watercolor, colored pencils, and pen and ink.
Isbn: 9780807512661 • Dewey: e • 8" x 10" • 32 pp
aR level: 2.8 • aR Points: 0.5 • sRC level: 1.6 • sRC Points: 1 • lexile: aD470l
JLG: $9.00 • albert Whitman: $16.99 • JlG Month: noV 2008
The Heart of the Beast:
Eight Great Gorilla Stories
by Nancy Roe Pimm
A GROUP (GRADES 3–5) • Reviews: BL, CL, V
What goes on in the heart of the beast? Gorillas have
long been misunderstood as ferocious, unfeeling
animals, but we now know them to possess a wide
range of emotions: grief, love, fear, anger, sadness.
Meet eight gorillas, from sign language–using Koko
to Snowflake, the only albino gorilla ever seen, who
demonstrate just how much we humans have in
common with our primate cousins. Black-and-white
photography. Time line. Bibliography. Index.
Isbn: 9781581960549 • Dewey: 599.884 • 7 3/8" x 5 5/8" • 112 pp
aR level: 7.5 • aR Points: 3 • sRC level: 8.7 • sRC Points: 8 • lexile: 1100l
JLG: $9.00 • Darby Creek: $18.95 • JlG Month: MaR 2007
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