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Spring Break Treats
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For the car, for the plane,
for rainy-day afternoons... these new paperbacks will be pure pleasure for young
readers.
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MuggleNet.com's What Will Happen
in Harry Potter Seven by Ben Schoen & Company
(Ulysses Press, 1569755833, $13.95)
The final
Harry Potter book is due out in July, but until then, young wizards can use
this guide to predict how all the twisty-turny questions of the series will
be resolved. It's fun for eager readers--and required for all serious
Hogwart's students.
(All ages)
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The Penderwicks: A Summer
Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, & a Very Interesting Boy
by Jeanne Birdsall
(Random House Children's Books,
0440420474,
$6.50)
New to
paperback, this charming vacation story won a 2005 National Book Award. It
has great characters and great storytelling, and it tastes like summer
sunshine. It's a must-have for young girls who love sisters, soccer, books,
or brownies.
(Ages 8 to
13)
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These
chill-filled youth graphic novels are a big hit among young readers always
hungry for something spooky but not too grown-up for their age. The
comic-book style stories of weird beasties and deranged locations jump and
creep, and the excellent cartooning is a feast for the eyeballs.
(Ages 9 to 12)
Read Mark's
review
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Sleeping Freshmen
Never Lie by David Lubar (Puffin, 0142407801, $6.99)
New in paperback,
this novel straddles the divide between middle school and high school as it
shows Freshmen narrator Scott slowly discovering his love of reading and his
talent for creative writing. It's a great pick for bookworms--it will
introduce them to more books and to new favorite authors!
(Age 10 and older)
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Eldest
by Christopher Paolini (Knopf Books for Young Readers,
0375840400 , $12.99)
Brand-new in paperback, this
sequel to Eragon is another high-fantasy tale of dwarves, dragons,
elves, and hosts of fantastically creepy creatures. Young, inexperienced
Eragon, the last dragon-rider, must learn fast if he's to have any hope of
saving the land from the evil Emperor Galbatorix.
(Ages
10 and older)
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Breaking Up: A Fashion
High Graphic Novel
by Aimee Friedman &
Christine Norrie (Scholastic Graphix, 0439748674, $9.99)
This graphic novel is a teen
romantic comedy that follows the ups
and downs of four friends in a high school for the arts. They paint, they
date, and they have massive falling-outs. Together they learn that, in
friendship, honesty is by far the best policy.
(Ages 12 and older)
Read Mark's
review
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Are We There Yet? by David Levithan (Random House Children's Books,
0375839569, $8.99)
When two brothers with nothing
in common are tricked by their parents into going on vacation together to
Italy, only two outcomes are possible:
(1) They kill each other, or
(2) They remember that being family means laughing together and cutting each
other some slack. New in paperback, this excellent and funny teen novel is
great for travelers--reluctant or otherwise.
(Ages 14 and older)
Read Mark's
review
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