Juvenile Fiction & Nonfiction
Selected by Ann Sayers, Reference & Youth Services Librarian.
Scheduled to be published in the Times Union on 2/2005.
| Title: The Big House Author: Coman, Carolyn Publisher: Front Street 2004 For those who like Lemony Snicket. While their parents are in jail (one kind of "Big House") Ivy and her brother Ray are consigned to live in a mansion (another kind of "Big House") owned by the very people who conspired to send their parents to prison. |
| Title: Chasing Vermeer Author: Balliett, Blue Publisher: Scholastic Press 2003 For those ready to go "beyond" The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler; precocious children get involved in an art theft. Codes and skull-duggery! |
| Title: A Child’s Christmas in Wales Author: Thomas, Dylan Publisher: Candlewick Press 2004 Illustrations by Chris Raschka . Lyrical language that simply begs to be read aloud, any time of the year, but especially in winter. |
| Title: The Crow-Girl Author: Bredsdorf, Bodil. Translated from Danish Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux 2004 A spare almost heart-breaking survival story. Beautifully written: and just when your heart is squeezed tight, everything turns out all right. |
| Title: Funerals and Fly Fishing Author: Bartek, Mary Publisher: H. Holt 2004 An appealing "boy" book, for Korman and Paulsen readers. Brad is dispatched East to spend time with a grandfather he has never met. Old man Stanislawski runs a funeral home. Brad is both spooked and curious. Gradually the boy and his grandfather get acquainted. Easy, accessible, light-hearted and touching. |