Juvenile Fiction
Selected by Ann Sayers, Reference & Youth Services Librarian.
Scheduled to be published in the Times Union on 6/2005.
| Title: Ida B and her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster and (Possibly) Save the World Author: Hannigan, Catherine Publisher: Greenwillow Books 2004 Ida B. is a fresh-faced home-schooled girl, full of verve. However, when her mother contracts cancer, Ida's world changes. Against her will, Ida is enrolled in the local public school, where her heart grows hard. How Ida manages to regain her love of life makes for a warm and uplifting story. |
| Title: Millions Author: Boyce, Frank Cottrell Publisher: Harper-Collins 2004 A fast moving, funny story with a very clever narrator who is into the saints and self-mortification following his mother's death. When Damian and his brother strike it rich, how to spend their new found millions? |
| Title: Peter and the Star-Catchers Author: Barry, Dave and Ridley Pearson Publisher: Hyperion Books 2004 This terrific book answers all the questions you need to know about Peter Pan: Where did he come from? What is star-dust? Who were the Lost Boys? What is Never-Never Land? Full of action and adventure, and at the same time whimsical. |
| Title: The Star of Kazan Author: Ibbottson, Eva Publisher: Dutton Children's Books 2004 When two spinster sisters find an abandoned baby in the hills outside Vienna, their lives change. Set in the early 1900s, this is the story of the child Annika, who thrives in the circle of love that her foster mothers create, but at the same time the girl longs to solve the mystery of her real mother. This book has it all — missing jewels, greed, love, suspense: it's a cross between Dickens and "The Secret Garden" and a simply wonderful old-fashioned tale. |