Save your brains!

SAVE YOUR BRAINS! Harper, 2014.

Pants versus Zombies
The game is on! Crazy Dave
Might just save your life.

I kill the mockingbird

I KILL THE MOCKINGBIRD by Paul Acampora. Roaring Brook, 2014.

Lucy, Elena, and Michael are pleased to see that TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is one of their choices for summer reading. It is already one of their favorite books and one that their late beloved teacher Fat Bob loved, too. They know all too well, though, that not everyone is psyched about reading the book and hatch a plan to make TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD irresistible. A little help from the internet, some "misplaced" copies in bookstores, and soon their "I kill the mockingbird" plan has gone viral. Will the consequences be something with which the three can live? Will there be other repercussions? This novel considers all things literary and some very non-literary things as well as, over the course of a summer, demand for the book increases, a friendship is on the way to possibly becoming something more, and a town witnesses some magic.

The literary references are sure to please readers who are well read, but all readers are certain to find an element of connection in this novel about books, reading, teachers, love, cancer, small towns, and more.

Richard Scarry

RICHARD SCARRY'S BEST NURSERY TALES EVER

RICHARD SCARRY'S CARS, TRUCKS, AND THINGS THAT GO

Perfect concept books
New editions that need to e shared with all kids.

The Big Easy

OUT OF THE EASY by Ruta Sepetys. Philomel, 2013.

New Orleans in the 1950s is a fascinating time period: brothels, bookstores, gangsters, Mardi Gras. What more could one want in a book? How about a heroine who is caught between two worlds? A series of nefarious characters? Some snobs? Unusual friends? Morris Finalist (Between Shades of Grey) Sepetys spins the tale of Josie, the daughter of a prostitute. Josie fled "home" early and now resides over the bookstore in which she works in the afternoons. Each morning, though, she returns to Willie's brothel to clean up after the wreckage of the preceding evening. When her mother runs off with the ne'er do well Cincinnati, Josie hopes her life will settle down a little. What follows is not quite what Josie hoped. A death, perhaps a murder, a friendship that might be more, threats, opportunities, and more combine in this coming of age story with an incredibly eccentric cast of characters.

Flight of Fancy

THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF MR. MORRIS LESSMORE by William Joyce. Atheneum, 2012.

Morris Lessmore is swept away by rough winds. When he settles back to earth, he finds himself in front of a house laden with books. Lessmore opens the world of books and reading to countless folks who come in search of something. Dedicated to Bill Morris and Colleen Salley, two of the greatest lovers of story in the children's book field, this book was first an Oscar winning film. It is also an incredible app for the iPad.