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Twelve-year-old Claire loves skating on the cow pond in her yard. She doesn't like competing if a judge is anywhere in the building. She's good at math and knows she's needed to help run the family farm and maple sap business. So how can she accept a scholarship to train at Lake Placid? Claire enters the world of competitive skating and learns some surprising truths about herself.
Reviewed by: donna
Date read: 4/19/2011
ISBN-10: 0802720811
ISBN-13: 9780802720818
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Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel
Patricia Storace (2007), 48 pages
Illustrated by Raul Colon
Audience: 1st Grade - 5th Grade
The illustrations drawn by Raul Colon enhance the beauty and love in this retelling of the Rapunzel story. Sugar Cane is taken from her parents at one year old by the island sorceress, Madame Fate. She is nasty and envious. She builds a tower for Sugar Cane without any entrance or exit. Sugar Cane's dark hair grows and grows while she is in the tower with a pet green monkey, Callaloo. With the help of Callaloo and the King of Music, Sugar Cane is finally able to escape and end up in the capital of the island. Eventually, will she find her true love, King?
Reviewed by: cj
Date read: 7/12/2010
ISBN-10: 0786807911
ISBN-13: 9780786807918
Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian
Margarita Engle (2010), 32 pages
Illustrated by Julie Paschkis
Audience: Preschool - 2nd Grade
What does a thirteen-year-old girl growing up in the Middle Ages know about butterflies? PLENTY! In this easy to read and beautifully illustrated book 'Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian' by Margarita Engle, we learn about a little girl who had the courage to disagree. In the Middle Ages, scientists believed that 'summer birds'(butterflies) were born from mud. Maria set out to prove that this theory was wrong. By observing caterpillars and documenting their activities with her vibrant paintings, Maria was able to disprove a theory that had existed since the ancient Greeks. Read this unique book about a young girl's bravery and determination to discover the truth.
Similar authors: Rachel Rodriquez
Similar books: Pricilla and the Hollyhocks by Anne Broyles;
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Cathryn Falwell;
The Butterfly House by Eve Bunting;
Arabella Miller's Tiny Caterpillar by Clare Jarett;
The Things With Wings by Gregory J. Holch;
The Poet Slave of Cuba by Margarita Engle
Reviewed by: mb
Date read: 7/28/2010
ISBN-10: 0805089373
ISBN-13: 9780805089370
Sasha Silver is accepted to Canterwood Crest Academy. Can she prove to the school bullies that she belongs there? Join Sasha and her horse Charm to find out!
Book Series: Canterwood Crest
Reviewed by: St. Charles Reader
Date read: 10/22/2009
ISBN-10: 1416958401
ISBN-13: 9781416958406
Jamilah just wants to blend in at her school in Australia, so she changes her name to Jamie and dyes her hair blond, hoping her Lebanese-Muslim background will not be discovered. Her new email friend John is the one person she can open up to, but will she be able to when she actually meets him? When her Arabic-music band is hired to play at her school dance, she needs to decide who she is ' Jamie or Jamilah?
Similar books: Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Reviewed by: donna
Date read: 6/29/2010
ISBN-10: 0545050553
ISBN-13: 9780545050555
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