Long ago, in Ireland, there lived an man know as Old Pat. Old Pat was a very good harpist, he was also very kind and very generous. In the same village lived a man known as Young Tom. Tom learned to play the harp from Old Pat, but Tom was boastful and shelfish. The two traveled together to the King's Harping Contest. On the way, they come across a leprechaun in trouble. Will Old Pat's generosity get him in trouble with the little people or will it win him the leprechauns' gold?

Reviewed by: caroll

Date read: 4/20/2010

ISBN-10: 0066239745

ISBN-13: 9780066239743

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Sent to Camp Happy Harmony to learn how to get along with each other, pairs of brothers and sisters chronicle how they come to suspect the dubious intentions of the family running the camp in letters home.

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 3/27/2009

ISBN-10: 0380975394

ISBN-13: 9780380975396

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Commenter: St. Charles Reader, grade 0

Aleksander Ferdinand is the son of the Arch-Duke of Austro-Hungary whose assassination was the spark that started the Great War (World War I). But, Alek's Great War is a battle between the Clankers, who build steam-driven war machines, and the Darwinists, who develop fighting and flying animals never seen before, by controlling their lifethreads. Alek must go into hiding in an abandoned castle so that the Germans will not find him and stop him from ending the war, as his pacifist father would have done. Soon after his arrival, he meets Deryn, an Irish commoner and a girl who is pretending to be a boy so that she can fly in the Leviathan. The Leviathan is a mix of the lifethreads of a whale and a hundred other species to produce the flying animal that inspired the Clankers to devise their zeppelins. These unlikely friends will combat the Clankers and their allies, in the hope of bringing a peaceful end to the war.

Similar books: Airman by Eoin Colfer

Awards nominated: Rebecca Caudill Award Nominee 2012

Reviewed by: vverscaj

Date read: 5/19/2011

ISBN-13: 9781416987062

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Zoe Bent thinks she has to make things up to be interesting. She makes up so many stories that none of the kids in her class believe anything she says anymore. Can her friends convince her that she does not have to lie to be special?

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 3/27/2009

ISBN-10: 0590271423

ISBN-13: 9780590271424

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When Kepi's father comes home after being maimed while working on the pharaoh's tomb, she wonders why the pharaoh hasn't done more for him. Her father plans to earn a new living baking special herb bread. Kepi's pet baboon, Babu, is stolen while she is searching for the herbs and Kepi follows the boy-thieves as they pole down the river to the next town. A friendly stranger who offers to help turns out to have designs of his own on Babu and Kepi finds herself kidnapped and on a boat traveling to Ineb Hedj, the largest city in Egypt and home of the pharaoh. Kepi decides to seek out the pharaoh and tell him of the injustice of ignoring his injured subjects. Along her way to Ineb Hedj, she finds new friends who join her on her quest, which will have an unexpected and magical end.

Similar books: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

Reviewed by: vfv

Date read: 2/16/2012

ISBN-13: 9780061667930

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