What's New in the Library
November, 2006
Picture Books
The Gingerbread Girl – Ernst
The Gingerbread boy’s smarter younger sister out-foxes the fox.
The Gingerbread Cowboy – Squires
A cookie cowboy escapes from a ranch kitchen in the Western U.S. version
The Sunday Blues – Layton
Steve has the Sunday blues because Monday (and school) are lurking around the corner.
Mighty Machines: Backhoes
Mighy Machines: Dump Trucks
The Guide to Gruesome Monsters –Sierra
Lots of Young Cam Jansen books
Math/Scence
Math in the Kitchen – Amato
What is Volume – Trumbauer
How Much Does It Hold – Sargent
Healthy Eating – The new food pyramid
Math Appeal - Tang
NON_FICTION
True Book series:
Polar bears, Tigers, Elephants, Automobiles, President’s day
Homographs: Pete Presents the Presents and Live Lions Live on land
Homophones: The Prince Left His Prints; Flour Does Not Flower; The Knight Waits at Night; Fred Read the Red Book
Life Cycle of a Koala – Kalman
Yellowstone National Park – Meister
Learning About the Earth: Volcanoes
Forest Fires – Trumbauer
Pandas – Angel
Polar bears - Shores
Scholastic News non-fiction readers:
A Home in the Rain Forest, Home in the Coral reef, Sharks, Sea Turtles.
New horse series: Spanish Mustang; Shetland Pony; Appaloosa; Arabian; Morgan; American Saddlebred
Biographies: Stan Lee; Bram Stoker
Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of NY, 1880-1924 – Hopkinson
The US Army, US Army Rangers, US Army Special Operations,
Fiction
Series of Unfortunate Events, # 13 – The End – Snicket
Creepy Creatures – a Goosebumps graphic novel
Fairest – Levine
A novel set in the world of Ella Enchanted…Lucinda had given another dreadful gift – a magic mirror.
Lake of Skulls – first three in the new Paul Stewart series
A Knight’s Story, Joust of Honor and Dragon’s Hoard.