I have to mention Louis Sachar's newest, The Cardturner. It is excellent.
Sent from my iPad
On Jul 4, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Barbara Karp <basyak10@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Here are some recently published favorites.
>
>
>
> Seven hungry babies by Candace Fleming
>
> Thunder-boomer! by Shutta Crum
>
> Miiss Brooks loves books! (and I don't) by Barbara Bottner
>
> Winter's tail: how one little dolphin learned to swim again
> by Juliana
> Hatkoff, Isabella Hatkoff, and Craig Hatkoff
>
> Ghosthunters series by Cornelia Funke (originally published
> beginning 2007)
>
> A wild life: the authorized biography by Jeff Corwin
>
> The magician's elephant by Kate DiCamillo
>
> Wild Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff
>
>
> "Books have three
> of the deadliest foes
> on this Earth:
> fire,
> water, and ignorant men...
> ...books are the finest treasures of all.
> You
> need only feast once with your eyes
> and your heart.
> And you'll be
> full with their wisdom
> forever." (Melanie Little, The Apprentice's
> Masterpiece)
>
> "Librarians...have
> been my lifelong friends, guides and heroes." Joseph Bruchac
>
> Basya
> Karp, Librarian
> Shulamith High
> School and Shulamith School For Girls
> Brooklyn, New York
> basyak10@hotmail.com
>
>> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:21:59 -0400
>> From: bawall@NORTHNET.ORG
>> Subject: best or favorite newish books please
>> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
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>> Dearest Colleagues:
>>
>> I would be interested in your favorite new books that perhaps no one knows
>> about or at least the books do not get a lot of major attention. I have a
>> class coming up that I will be teaching and I would like to share your books
>> along with mine which tend to be more pedestrian, I am afraid. I will
>> create a list and send it out to all -sharing is what we are all about.
>> Thanks so very much. Barbara
>>
>> Barbara Wall
>> Krieger Elementary School
>> Poughkeepsie, NY
>> bawall@northnet.org
>> bwall@poughkeepsieschools.org
>>
>> "Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one
>> becomes
>> rich." Sarah Bernhardt
>>
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