The 30-Month Old (Parent Handouts and Info - Parent)
Are You There, God? - It's Me, Margaret -- by Judy Blume (Author) (Book - Child)
"Judy Blume and her character Margaret Simon were the first to say out loud (and in a book even) that it is normal for girls to wonder when they are ever going to fill out their training bras. Puberty...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast -- by Robin McKinley (Author) (Book - Child)
"Contrary to the name, 16-year-old Beauty is not the prettiest girl in her family. But she is the cleverest, bravest, and most honorable. When her father makes a promise with a beast who lives in an...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Wingman -- by Daniel Pinkwater (Author) (Book - Child)
"To escape the problems of being poor and Chinese, Donald begins to cut school to climbe the George Washington Bridge where he meets Wingman, a sort of Chinese superman." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
A Deadly Game of Magic -- by Joan Nixon (Author) (Book - Child)
"Seeking shelter from a fierce Texas storm, four teens are trapped inside a strange house as unwitting players in a magician's evil games. The phone goes dead. A plaster head suddenly appears. A...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Beyond the Divide -- by Kathryn Lasky (Author) (Book - Child)
"In this affecting pioneer tale by a Newbery Honor-winning author, an amish girl heads west with her father after he has been shunned by their community." From Publishers Weekly
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft -- by Thor Heyerdahl (Author) (Book - Child)
"Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspecteed that...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle: A Fictional Account of Charles Darwin's Work and Adventures During the Five-Year Long Voyage -- by Felicia Law (Author) (Book - Child)
"This delightful episodic biography of Charles Darwin lets readers experience a sea voyage around the world in a 19th Century English three-masted brig. In December 1831, the ship, HMS beagle, set...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep -- by Jack Prelutsky (Author) (Book - Child)
"Twelve poems featuring a vampire, werewolf, ghoul, and other monsters." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Wolf of Shadows -- by Whitley Strieber (Author) (Book - Child)
"Wolf of Shadows is an intensely moving story of the aftermath of a nuclear attack told from the point of view of a large wolf living in a forest near Minneapolis. Human behavior, emotions and anatomy...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
