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.