Category: Childrens Literature

By Shelby Wolf, Karen Coats, Patricia Enciso, Christine Jenkins

ISBN-10: 0415965055

ISBN-13: 9780415965057

This landmark quantity is the 1st to assemble prime scholarship on children’s and younger grownup literature from 3 intersecting disciplines: schooling, English, and Library and knowledge technological know-how. distinct by way of its multidisciplinary technique, it describes and analyzes different features of literary studying, texts, and contexts to light up how the ebook is reworked inside and throughout diverse educational figurations of interpreting and studying children’s literature.

• Part one considers views on readers and studying literature in domestic, college, library, and group settings.
• Part two introduces analytic frames for learning younger grownup novels, picturebooks, indigenous literature, picture novels, and different genres. Chapters contain statement on literary stories and artistic construction from well known authors and illustrators.
• Part three makes a speciality of the social contexts of literary research, with chapters on censorship, awards, advertising and marketing, and literary museums.

The singular contribution of this Handbook is to put the foundation for colleagues throughout disciplines to redraw the map in their individually figured worlds, hence to amplify the scope of scholarship and discussion in addition to push forward into uncharted territory.

By Greg Farshtey

ISBN-10: 0545516498

ISBN-13: 9780545516495

For one thousand years, the entire animal tribes in Chima lived jointly in peace. They thrived on a strong strength referred to as CHI, guarded via the Lions and shared particularly by means of all. Then, every little thing replaced while the Crocodiles attacked the Lions for keep an eye on of the CHI. Now the tribes, led via Laval the Lion Prince and Cragger the Crocodile King, are locked in an epic conflict for all of Chima!

By Marilyn Sadler

ISBN-10: 0679832696

ISBN-13: 9780679832690

Illus. in complete colour. camping out isn't for ladies, correct? at the very least, that's what P.J. and his acquaintances inform Donna and Honey Bunny after they are looking to tag alongside on a tenting journey. but if mysterious ghosts frighten the lads the entire manner domestic, merely the ladies recognize the real story.  

By Nick Eliopulos

ISBN-10: 054581264X

ISBN-13: 9780545812641

This trilogy of e-shorts shines a mild on the most compelling--and dangerous--villains of the hot YORK occasions bestselling series.

The warfare is over and Erdas is rebuilding. it kind of feels everyone seems to be celebrating a brand new age of peace.

Everyone other than Shane. Shane desires revenge.

The younger Conqueror is at the hunt, monitoring a goal who is aware his each circulate earlier than it occurs. He's ultimate in on his prey -- however the nearer Shane will get, the extra he starts to determine styles within the shadows.

Shane can experience a catch is ready. He's being led down a direction that he is probably not capable of go back from. Will he abandon his quest for vengeance . . . or stick to it into the darkness?

Author Bio
Nick Eliopulos is the writer of Spirit Animals: The publication of Shane, a chain of e-novellas set on this planet of the bestselling multi-platform sequence. His brief tales have seemed in Spirit Animals: stories of the nice Beasts and glued within the heart: Seventeen Comics from a nasty Age. An avid fan of comics, video games, and monster videos, he lives in Brooklyn and works in new york as an editor of books for children and youths.

By Donald J. Sobol

ISBN-10: 0553482971

ISBN-13: 9780553482973

The younger sneaker-clad large sleuth saves the day back in a number of ten brief mysteries that invite readers to puzzle out the strategies sooner than consulting the solutions behind the booklet. Reprint. SLJ.

By Katharine Ross

ISBN-10: 0679976663

ISBN-13: 9780679976660

Vast chook catches a lightning trojan horse and places it in a jar.  But while the trapped lightning bug's twinkle starts off to get dimmer, colossal poultry learns a necessary lesson approximately freedom and friendship.  

By Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson

ISBN-10: 006212028X

ISBN-13: 9780062120281

Zachary evening and the Starbounders are again, within the sci-fi event sequence Pseudonymous Bosch calls "a nice experience and an exceptional read," from Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson, authors of the Familiars series.

Zachary evening could have stored Earth, yet again at Indigo eight, he's nonetheless only a Starbounder-in-training. and in contrast to his fellow trainees, who're having a blast gearing up for the yearly Indigo video games, Zachary has extra vital issues on his brain. He has but to decipher the cryptic caution Professor Olari left him, and it feels like anyone is making an attempt to overcome him to it.

When all of the clues begin pointing to a bigger conspiracy, Zachary and his buddies needs to once more go away Indigo eight at the back of and take concerns into their very own arms. Their research will lead them throughout the a ways reaches of area, and it'll try their friendship, too. And, oh yeah, did they point out the destiny of the outerverse hangs within the balance?

With the "winning mix of motion and humor" (SLJ, starred evaluation) that earned The Familiars an Indie subsequent record decide and 8 state-award nominations, Starbounders: Rebellion catapults readers out of this global and onto a deep-space trip that's exciting from commencing to finish.

By Daisy Piper

Subscribe to Callie and her buddies as they embark on a thrilling venture to discover a mystical stone and resolve the secrets and techniques of a misplaced urban in e-book 2 of The Callie Chronicles.

When Callie and Lewis go back to a global of dragons, unicorns, and speaking tiaras, they make a startling discover... darkish forces threaten to overthrow the Palace of Albion with an old magic that has to be destroyed in any respect expenses. And that's no longer all. Rumors are stirring that the Raven Queen is alive and well...and bent on revenge.

As Princess Callie reunites with previous associates and meets new ones alongside easy methods to the traditional urban of Antheon, she discovers all isn't really what it seems... And that usually associates and foes are one and a similar.

"A fast paced, hugely unique fairy tale." - The Flashlight Reader

By Dr. Seuss

ISBN-10: 0394800923

ISBN-13: 9780394800929

Solla Sollew is an Odyssey-tale advised within the first individual via a tender narrator who stories issues in his existence (mostly competitive small animals which chunk and sting) and needs to flee them. He units out for the legendary urban of the name ("where they by no means have issues / not less than very few") and learns that he needs to face his difficulties rather than operating clear of them. He then is going again domestic to accommodate his "troubles," arming himself with an enormous bat and resolving that "Now my issues are going to have problems with me!"

The trip contains a number of great encounters, a few with light political implications. in a single example, the protagonist is compelled to haul a wagon for a bossy significant other. ("'This is named teamwork. I provide the brains. You provide the muscle mass, the aches and the pains.'") In one other scene, he's drafted into the military below the command of the fearsome normal Genghis Khan Schmitz, who abandons him at a severe second.

By Natalie Babbitt

ISBN-10: 054537636X

ISBN-13: 9780545376365

The recent novel by way of Natalie Babbitt, writer of Tuck Everlasting

Joe Casimir wanted support with the alternative he needed to make. yet how do you decide the individual that might help you opt? Mr. Boulderwall, the millionaire, knew precisely what he sought after Joe to decide on. And millionaires are specialists at making offerings. good, aren't they? yet Vinnie, the number-two guy down at Sope electrical, didn't a lot approve of millionaires. He stated to Joe, "Listen, child, all of 'em act like they're the single ones with a price tag to the show!" yet he didn't have any actual suggestion to provide. Joe's Gran didn't both, because it grew to become out, and neither did Aunt Myra.

The sturdy recommendation used to be there, even though. correct around the road. simply ready correct around the highway. there are lots of good stuff simply ready. You'll see.