Entries from November 2009

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

The Shepherd’s Granddaughter by Anne Laurel Carter

From the time she was a little child, Amani Raheem knew she wanted to accompany her grandfather, Seedo, each day as he herded his flock of sheep up into the mountain meadows to graze.  When she reaches the age of six, Seedo starts to teach her how a good shepherd tends to his, or her, [...]

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Zoobreak by Gordon Korman

After she helped them successfully retrieve a priceless baseball card from the guy who swindled it from them, best friends Griffin Bing and Ben Slovak feel they have to help Savannah Drysdale track down her missing pet capuchin monkey.  However a class trip to a floating zoo docked at a nearby nature preserve solves one [...]

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson

What if you suddenly discovered that everything you’d been told about history, geography, science, yourself, was a lie?  What if you learned that, in fact, there aren’t seven continents but ten, and that those three extra continents form what remains of the Free Kingdoms, where Oculators battle valiantly against the encroaching forces of evil, protected [...]

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

The Curse of the Evening Eye by Carol Matas and Perry Nodelman

Molly and Adam Barnett are trying to break a century and a half-old curse to save their father’s life.  Dad’s 35th birthday is only days away, and, if they cannot stop her, Lucinda, the ghost of a long-dead family servant, is going to scare him to death. Lucinda is still furious that, back in the [...]