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Book Review - The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo

"What If?"
"What If?" A fortuneteller told you to follow an elephant?
"What If?" A Magician could do real magic, not that fake rabbit out of the hat stuff?
"What If?" An elephant came crashing from the ceiling onto your lap?
"What If?" The person you trusted the most, kept from you a secret that could answer your prayers?
"What If?" The elephant could make all your hopes and dreams come true?
"What If?"
Ten year old Peter Augustus Duchene life suddenly changes when the most amazingly, wonderful thing happens....an elephant....."What If?".

Book Review - Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

What do you get when you have:
"TWO OVER, TWO UNDER, OF ROYAL DESCENT, TWO FLYERS, TWO CRAWLERS, TWO SPINNERS ASSENT. ONE GNAWER BESIDE AND ONE LOST UP AHEAD"?
The answer is: A Quest of course...
Gregor is in the laundry room with his sister Boots, he's just doing the laundry till Boots goes missing. To Gregor surprise Boots falls down the air duct behind the dryer and he follows. When they land they are in a strange underground world , and greeting them are huge human size roaches. They are taking to an underland city named Regalia where Gregor's quest begins.

Check out the other books in the Underland Chronicles
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
Gregor and the Mark of Secrets
Gregor and the Code of Claw

Book Review - Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in cuba by Margarita Engle

Daniel
" My parents are musicians-
poor people, not rich.

They had only enough money
for on ticket to flee Germany,....

My parents chose to save me
instead of saving themselves,.....

Thousands of other Jewish refugees
stand all around me
on the deck of this ship
waiting for refuge."

Daniel's parents have made the ultimate sacrifice, they send him on a boat hoping that it will reach the United States. Instead the boat is sent to Cuba where Daniel is one of many Jewish refugees. He befriends a local girls that has as many painful secrets as he does. Daniel does not know what will happen next, and fears that he will never see his parents again and will be sent back to Nazi Germany.

NEW SERIES !!!

Come and check out the new mystery series at the library called: Ghost Detectors.

Join Malcolm and his best friend Dandy as they start their new career's as Ghost Detectors. It's sure to be a blast




Books in this series

Book 1: It Creeps!
Book 2: I'm Gonna Get You!
Book 3: Tell No One!
Book 4: I Dare You!
Book 5: Draw!
Book 6: Don't Read This!

Book Review - Magickeepers: The Eternal Hourglass by Erica Kirov

Nick is having a tough summer. His report card is awful, his dad is embarrassing, and he doesn’t have a friend in the world. On the morning of his thirteenth birthday all of this changes. Not only does Nick find out that his cousin is the world famous magician, Damien, but he has an entire family of real magicians and guest what?…Nick is the most powerful magician of them all!

Nick's not too happy when they kidnap him and force him to live on the top floor of a casino. This is not just any casino though, here tigers walk freely throughout the hallways, there is snow falling in 90 degree weather and polar bears swim in the family pool. Nick soon finds out that he is there for his own protection and must help unravel a deep, dark family secret. Nick is the only person in the world who can help solve the mystery of the missing hourglass before the evil shadowkeepers get to it or to him first, and they will stop at nothing to find it.

An excellent first book in what hopes to be a great series! Check out the prologue for book #2 at the end of the last chapter.

Summer Reading Finale

Great job to everyone who participated in the 2009 Summer Reading Program. This year we had over 300 children register, who read a total of 2,847 books!

Congratulations to all of the winners from each grade and to the Green Team for winning it at the end! Thank you to the SpoonMan for putting on such a great show!

Remember, just because the summer reading program is over, doesn't mean you should stop reading!!!