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Essential Literary Themes - School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
These volumes provide detailed guidelines on examining literary works for thematic content and critiquing them. Each selection presents comprehensive overviews of familiar literary classics and films, followed by insightful analyses and critical-thinking questions. Theses and their… View →
Super Simple Gardening - School Library Connection
This series will appeal to science teachers, beginning gardeners, and garden clubs. Each book gives easy step-by-step instructions on how to create the garden. The photographic illustrations are first-rate. Teachers will appreciate the botany students are learning as well as the… View →
Hoop City - Youth Services Book Review
. . . an excellent choice for reluctant readers, those reading below grade level and ESL students. Strong, likeable characters, realistic situations, very well done. Recommend to high school students interested in sports, especially boys and those ready to graduate. View →
Alex (Coming Out) - Youth Services Book Review
This is just one book in a six book series about different teens facing difficult situations. . . . The reader travels the hard road with Alex, a likable, believable hero as she/he struggles to be who he needs to be. Recommend[ed] to anyone who needs to understand how it feels to be… View →
Tunnel (Time of Death) - Youth Services Book Review
Kyle is a believable, likable protagonist; he is truly suffering and thus, changing due to his horrendous action. Excellent choice for high schoolers who may not consider the consquences of their actions, for time-travel buffs and those just looking for a good story well-told. View →
Echidnas (World's Weirdest Animals) - Booklist
Readers won’t be able to resist this book’s cover photo of the strangely adorable echidna, with its long, bald beak and spiny body. As this entry into the World’s Weirdest Animals series explains, the echidna is one of the only egg-laying mammals in the world. In… View →
Emergent Behavior (Bots) - VOYA
. . .the story is fast paced and well written. Edmond is a believable character. The reader does not have to be as brilliant as Edmond to understand the technology and robotic science that goes into creating Hart–it is well within the reader’s reach. There are enough unresolved… View →
Eating Ethically (Food Matters) - Booklist
This volume in the Food Matters series addresses food production and consumption in the U.S., with an eye on factory farms. Felix clearly establishes that ethical food should be “produced without abuse to animals, the environment, or humans.” The animal rights chapter. . .will… View →
Thunder and Lightning (Weather) - Booklist
This attractive introduction. . .takes advantage of the book’s horizontal trim to provide fine, color photos of thunderstorms as well as diagrams depicting the formation of lightning and the time difference between sight of lightning and the sound of its thunder. Photos and related View →
United States President Biographies - School Library Connection
This is an interesting new collection of presidential biographies geared toward younger students. . . . This is an ideal set to have in the library. Each title has several quick and easy-to-read facts on each spread so as not to overwhelm the reader, along with a large photograph or… View →
Amazing Inventions – Booklist
The small books are an inviting size for young hands, and the short text and bright photos are equally child-friendly. . . .Young children will likely both learn a little from and enjoy these books. View →
Essential Issues Set 4 - School Library Connection
Each attractively illustrated volume features colorful sidebars, a timeline, an “essential facts” summary section, additional resources, and source notes. The introductory chapters provide a broad survey of the topic, while the concluding chapters offer constructive… View →