Book Reviews 1

  1. Animals in the House by Sheila Keenan
  2. Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm by Laura Amy Schlitz
  3. Being Teddy Roosevelt by Claudia Mills
  4. Billy Hooten, Owlboy by Tom Sniegoski
  5. Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in it by Sundee Tucker Frazier
  6. A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
  7. Dragon's Egg by Sarah L. Thomson



Animals in the House by Sheila Keenan

Bright, active illustrations accompany amazing and unusual facts 
that highlight the importance of pets throughout history.  
Discover who let their snakes slither around the dinner table, 
and which First Lady let her birds fly around the White House.
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Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm by Laura Amy Schlitz

A soldier returns home and strikes a bargain with the devil for 
all the wealth he could want if he will wear a dead bear's 
rotting skin for seven years without telling anyone why.
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Being Teddy Roosevelt by Claudia Mills

As he begins his project on Teddy Roosevelt for the Fourth Grade 
Biography Tea, Riley O'Rourke, who wants a saxophone more than 
anything, learns lessons about perserverance and hard work.
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Billy Hooten, Owlboy by Tom Sniegoski

In the first of the Owlboy series, Billy Hooten is a nerdy kid 
who learns that his comic-book story is real and he is being 
called to summon super powers to save Monstos City by catching 
the evil Slovakian Rot-toother Hopping Monkey Demons.
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Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in it by Sundee Tucker Frazier

As a ten-year-old biracial boy interested in science, especially 
rocks and minerals, Brendan Buckley meets his white grandfather 
for the first time at a rock club meeting, then seeks to discover 
why his mother and her father have been estranged for so many 
years. 
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A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban

Ten-year-old Zoe dreams of playing the piano at Carnegie Hall but 
must settle for lessons on the Perfectone D-60 organ.  Her 
workaholic mother, agoraphobic father, and a boy from school all 
add to the humor that ensues when her organ teacher enters her in 
a contest.
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Dragon's Egg by Sarah L. Thomson

Young dragon keeper Mella learns that the legendary fire-
breathing dragons she dreams of do exist, when she is entrusted 
with the task of taking a dragon's egg to the fabled Hatching 
Grounds.
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