This is a great book!  It is a simple description of what an amphibian is.  The illustrations are funny and creative.  The book makes you laugh while learning. It is written in clever rhymes.  Very good for young science students.  There are questions in the back to help with your understanding.

This is a cute poem about a family”s love for a baby.  Each family member reaches in some way that relates to the baby.

It’s a story that makes you feel love.

I enjoyed the peaceful happy feeling shared in this book.  The pictures are beautiful.

This would be a good gook for young readers wanting to get into chapter books.  The end is a fun turn around for children.  The story is meant to have a element of suspense, but is not too much for small children.

The pictures are fun and colorful.  The details of the story make it come to life.

This book is written as a poem.  It is fun and colorful.  This would be fun to read to younger children and to find the rhyming words.  It is a cute quick read just for fun.  It’s full of rhyming words.

This book has instructions for 10 simple engineering projects that girls might particularly enjoy.  Each project has a very specific material list and most would require a quick and inexpensive trip to the hardware store.  The instructions are clear and easy to follow and a scientific explanation is included with each project.  A glossary, index and table of contents makes the book easy to navigate and there are resources listed for further research.  Encouraging girls to explore the field of engineering is important in our increasingly technologically oriented world.  I think this book will be a great resource for the annual middle school science projects as well.

Do you know what was Thomas Jefferson’s most delightful work…beyond architecture, inventing, founding the University of Virginia, and being the third president?…His thousand-foot-long vegetable garden.  In this school garden story, a classroom teacher replicates Thomas Jefferson’s annual neighborhood pea growing contest.  The winner was the person with the fastest growing seeds…serving their “sweet as candy” peas at a celebration party.  Two girls research agricultural practices to help their individual pea crop grow the fastest and experience the ups and downs typical of scientific experiments.  The author weaves historical and agricultural information into this lighthearted story without being overly didactic.  The charming watercolor illustrations show a class of multiracial students, however, the boys are depicted as “goof offs” (sticking out a tongue at someone, taunting a girl with a worm) in the periphery of the illustration, while the girls are doing the serious work.  Wonderful Afterword in the back matter explains more about Jefferson and his contest. Bibliography , Websites, and Page Notes included.

You are the main character of this book with a decision to explore the Alaskan wilderness, Australian forests, or the Cascade Mountains… or explore all three! You may encounter bears, cougars, and other wildlife. Your decision making will determine whether you survive or not. You may need to decide what to eat and not to eat, stand up to a cougar or play dead. Do you build a shelter or look for help? Once the reader comes to an end, it is easy to turn back the pages and try a different choice. This book is great fun!

As the law states, Grace gets her bar code tattoo the day of her 17th birthday, although Eric, her crush, warns her against it. It appears that Global-1, a large corporation tracks people through a tracking device injected with the bar code. Grace, the daughter of the bar code invention, goes home to find that Global-1 is tracking her, forcing her to run and hide with Eric who is part of Decode, an underground organization who is battling Global-1. Members of Decode set out to do what they can to fight against Global-1 while trying to save people from a world wide devastating tsunami. This is the third book in the series, although it reads well as a stand-alone.

Charlie, short for Charlotte, is the daughter of a king who is slowly going mad.  Ever since her mother, the queen, left in the middle of the night six years ago, the king has been lost and Charlie has been left on her own.  A nasty housekeeper who thrives on punishing her, locking her in her room, denying her room, education, and cleanliness is a character you’re sure to hate.  Left to her own devices, Charlie sneaks around the castle learning all the hideyholes and gossip.  She hears that the people are ready to revolt and overthrow her father, so she decides to go to the prime minister.  It appears he is the reason for her mother’s disappearance and also has plans to groom Charlie to become queen as soon as he kills the king.  It’s up to Charlie to set things right.  This book is aptly titled as the castle is full of shadows and secrets, and snappy dialogue.  Renner shows strong characterization and a believable plot with lots of action and twists and turns.  A great story without having to resort to magic.

This book was so full of interesting facts about tornadoes through history.  The glossary words are not only found in the back, but also on the pages they are used to help increase understanding as you read.  The pictures give you a feel for what tornadoes can do.

The end of the book gives good advice to prepare and keep safe through such and experience.

This is a great book to learn about the amazing power of weather.

Good read!