Ashes [Ashes Trilogy]by Ilsa J. BickHigh School Egmont 468 pp.9/11 978-1-60684-175-4 $17.99An electromagnetic pulse kills most of the country's population instantly; many of those left become zombielike, "brain-zapped" cannibals. Survivor Alex teams up with eight-year-old Ellie and soldier Tom to search for other people. The trio's deepening bond adds...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored byAfter wrapping up the apocalyptic Ashes trilogy with Monsters last fall, Ilsa J. Bick returns with White Space, a fat thriller that finds its chills in the...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored byGreg Heffley is back, in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck, the eighth in Jeff Kinney's mega-popular novels about the middle-school antihero. The format, in which...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored byThere's no doubt that Steve Jenkins can do things with paper collage that are impressive and beautiful; perhaps less obvious to the eye is the scientific thinking...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored by Photo: Michael LionstarCynthia Voigt's latest book, Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things, is a largely comic Victorian mystery that seems miles away from the tough...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored byWith more than fifty books published since 1991, I can't think of a literary pool Donna Jo Napoli hasn't at least dipped her toe into: picture books,...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored by Photography courtesy of the author.After a successful career of nearly two decades as a poet and author of books for younger children, in 2008 Kathi Appelt...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored by Photo: Cary HazlegroveLizi Boyd’s Inside Outside is a lo-fi busybox of a book: sixteen wordless spreads of a child’s play and projects indoors and out, linked...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored byJim Giblin has had two long and fruitful careers in children's books, first as an editor, retiring as publisher of Clarion Books in 1989, and continuing to...
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