On the Farm, at the Marketby G. Brian Karas; illus. by the authorPrimary    Ottaviano/Holt    40 pp.4/16    978-0-8050-9372-8    $16.99Karas divides his entertaining and enlightening behind-the-scenes story of a farmers’ market into two sections. The first, “On the Farm,” places a sunny focus on the daily grind that keeps three types of...

Dare the Windby Tracey Fern; 
illus. by Emily Arnold McCullyPrimary    Ferguson/Farrar    40 pp.2/14    978-0-374-31699-0    $17.99    gIn the early 1800s, young Ellen Prentiss (1814–1900) learned to be a keen and fearless sailor on her father’s trading schooner. Captain Prentiss also taught Ellen a difficult skill most sailors, and even some captains,...