简 & 魔术师和她的龙!
This week the Three P’s recommend 简 & The Magician as a great story about a brave knight, 简, 和她的龙, who go on a quest through the kingdom to find the Missing Magician. The Magician has been up to some mischief, making a terrible storm, full of lightning & 雷声和加仑 & 雨水加仑数. His great storm is flooding the kingdom, and it’s up to 简 and her dragon to convince the Magician to make things right. BBW recommends this awesome new dragon puppet from Folkmanis as a perfect accompaniment to this great adventure story. Who doesn’t love the teeth on this guy?阅读更多→
纸杯蛋糕女王
Heather Hepler’s newest book, 纸杯蛋糕女王, will be out in 2009年9月 from Penguin. Penny’s parents need a break from each other. So the summer before her freshman year, she and her mom move from NYC to her mom’s home town, 猪的空心, 人口5,584. 随着她过去的生活逐渐消逝, Penny holes up in the back room of the cupcake bakery her mom has opened, designing and decorating endless cupcakes, wishing things would get back to normal. School starts and Penny finds herself the target of a decades old rivalry and in the sights of a mean girl and her clique. 事情会变得越来越糟阅读更多→
瘦
令人难忘的, 痛苦的, and intense – if I only had 3 words to sum up Ibi Kaslik’s YA novel, 瘦, those would be the ones I would choose. Giselle is the 22-year-old medical student whose troubled relationship with her late father has plagued her for years and has manifested itself in anorexia; 14-year-old Holly, a middle school student and Giselle’s younger sister, 在跑步中找到慰藉, but even that isn’t enough to help her as she watches her sister spiral out of control and tries to cope with her own anxieties about growing up. The sisters alternate in narrating the story after Giselle has been released from a阅读更多→
午夜凶杀
回到文艺复兴时期的意大利, Avi‘s newest book for young readers, 午夜凶杀, 充满了政治阴谋, 欺骗, 和悬念. Set before the events of Midnight Magic(1999), there’s a sinister plot from someone within the royal court to overthrow the king, and Magnus the Magician has been targeted as the scapegoat for the crime. 以叛国者的名字命名, 显然是魔法产生的, 淹没了帕加蒙蒂奥的街道, Magnus is arrested and accused of conspiracy. His well-meaning but naive new servant, 10岁的法布里齐奥, sets out to save his master from death and assemble the clues to root out the real traitor before it’s too late. 快节奏的阅读更多→
为改变而阅读
以支持联合服务, a national effort launched by President Obama to engage more Americans in serving their communities this summer, Reading is Fundamental (RIF) invites you to 为改变而阅读. Help collectively log 3 Million Minutes of reading with children to help raise awareness about the impact of children’s literacy on the long-term economic health of the country. The challenge will culminate on Sept. 11 – the National Day of Service and Remembrance. 从今天开始和孩子们一起阅读. 珍惜每一分钟! Consider: Nearly two-thirds of low income families own no books for their children. Reading to preschoolers is the most important阅读更多→
饲料
What could happen to us in a world where we no longer need to think? Where people live their daily lives uber-connected to the internet and everything it has to offer- encyclopedias of knowledge a split-second away, instant communication capabilities, worlds of information and shopping- complete with pop-up ads tailored to your desires? And what could happen if the thing connecting you to this infinite world malfunctioned? M.T. Anderson’s 饲料 tackles these issues. 在未来的世界里, 人们和饲料一起生活, a chip implanted into their brains that connects them to the internet on steroids. Everything they do, shop, hang out with friends, go阅读更多→
后
后 by Amy Efaw tackles the very sensitive issue of “dumpster babies.“德文是一名优等生, 她所在足球队的明星守门员, and probably more mature than her own mother. So what could have possessed her to throw her own baby in the trash? The answer is not simple, and Efaw approaches it with a fresh perspective. The book is largely set in a Juvenile Detention Center, where Devon awaits a hearing to determine whether or not her case should be kept in Juvenile court. Through her interactions with her lawyer and the people (both the staff and the other girls) at the center,阅读更多→
胆小的松鼠 & 松鼠木偶
我们选出的最佳书籍 & puppet combo this week is our friend the 胆小的松鼠. Life in his tree is safe (“we Three P’s like safe”) but boring. 看看这景色, 吃坚果, be afraid of all the scary things in the world (killer bees, 鲨鱼, germs); that’s Squirrel’s day in a nutshell (pun intended). But then something happens and Squirrel has to leave the tree in a hurry and discovers – wow! the world isn’t as scary as he thought! He will be Ok; heck, he can even have some fun! We think this is a great book, especially for those阅读更多→