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*NEW* The Puzzling World of Winston Breen:
The Potato Chip Puzzles
by Eric Berlin
ME GROUP (GRADES 2–6) • Reviews: BL, HG, K
Twelve-year-old Winston Breen loves making and
solving all kinds of puzzles. So when Winston gives
his little sister, Katie, an empty keepsake box for her
birthday, she’s sure there must be more to the present.
To Winston’s total surprise, she’s right! Katie discovers
that the box has a secret compartment, and inside
are wooden pieces inscribed with random words and
letters. Now Winston has three puzzles to solve: Who
put the pieces in the box? Why were they put there?
And what on earth do the inscriptions mean?
Isbn: 9780399251986 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 256 pp
aR level: 4.4 • aR Points: 9 • sRC level: 4.2 • sRC Points: 14 • lexile: 670l
JLG: $13.25 • Putnam’s: $16.99 • JlG Month: JUn 2009
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo:
An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea u
by Sy Montgomery • photographs by Nic Bishop
NE GROUP (GRADES 2–6) • Reviews: BCCB, HGs, KH, SLJH
It looks like a bear and climbs like a monkey, but
it isn’t a bear or a monkey. It has a pouch like a
kangaroo, but what’s a kangaroo doing up in a tree?
Meet the Matschie’s tree kangaroo, which lives in
the dense canopy of Papua New Guinea’s cloud
forest—and is one of the most endangered species
in the world. A group of scientists venture into the
Matschie’s native habitat to study and track these
rarest of creatures. List of Web sites. Glossary of Tok
Pisin words. Index. Winner of the 2007 NCTE Orbis
Pictus Award. A 2007 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book.
Isbn: 9780618496419 • Dewey: 599.2 • 11" x 9" • 80 pp
aR level: 5.3 • aR Points: 20 • sRC level: 6.2 • sRC Points: 7 • lexile: 830l
JLG: $9.00 • Houghton Mifflin: $18.00 • JlG Month: Jan 2007
Ray & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure
by Dan Gutman
SE GROUP (GRADES 2–6)
Joe “Stosh” Stoshack has the ability to travel through
time, and he’s used his gift to meet legendary baseball
players and to try to change history for the better.
When he hears the story of Ray Chapman, he knows
he must use his talent again: in 1920, before batters
wore helmets, Chapman was struck in the head by a
wild pitch and died soon afterward. Stosh arrives in
the past, but his plan to interrupt Chapman’s deadly
at-bat comes to ruin when Stosh is handcuffed and
detained by a ballpark security guard. Can Stosh
escape and save Chapman’s life?
Isbn: 9780061234811 • Dewey: f • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 192 pp
aR level: 4.2 • aR Points: 4 • sRC level: 3.3 • sRC Points: 8 • lexile: 590l
JLG: $9.00 • HarperCollins: $15.99 • JlG Month: MaR 2009
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Red, Red, Red u
written and illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev
K GROUP (GRADES PreK–K)
Reviews: BCCB, CL, H, HGs, K, SLJ
“Where are you going in such a hurry, Turtle?”
asks Mrs. Raccoon. “I am off to see something red,
red, red,” says Turtle. Is it Mrs. Raccoon’s red roses?
No. Is it Rabbit’s red tomatoes, red cherries, or
red watermelon? No. Is it the red smokestack on
Captain Dog’s boat? “No, no, no.” What could it be?
Follow along with the rest of the town and find out!
Pen-and-ink and watercolors.
Isbn: 9780399246289 • Dewey: e • 8 1/2" x 11" • 32 pp
aR level: 2.7 • aR Points: 0.5 • sRC level: 3.6 • sRC Points: 1 • lexile: aD720l
JLG: $9.00 • Philomel: $16.99 • JlG Month: aPR 2007
*NEW* Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors
by Joyce Sidman • illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
P GROUP (GRADES K–1)
Reviews: BCCB, BLH, HH, KH, PW, SLJ
Every color has a role to play in this poetic journey
through the seasons. The shouting yellow of spring
becomes the melting yellow of summer. In fall,
“Yellow grows wheels / and lumbers / down the block,
/ blinking: / Warning—classrooms ahead.” In winter,
yellow and her brilliant sisters have all gone home,
and gray and brown are the only beauties left. Fullcolor
mixed-media paintings on wood with computer
illustration.
Isbn: 9780547014944 • Dewey: e • 10" x 10" • 32 pp
aR level: 3.2 • aR Points: 0.5 • sRC level: 2.3 • sRC Points: 1
JLG: $13.25 • Houghton Mifflin: $16.00 • JlG Month: JUn 2009
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