Review

Brown, Peter. Wild Robot, The. Peter Brown, Illus. Fiction. Little, 04/2016. 279pp. $16.99. 978-0-316-38199-4. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 3-6. A newly manufactured robot named Roz washes up on the shore of an unpeopled island. Roz learns to [continue reading]

Frost, Helen. Applesauce Weather. Amy June Bates, Illus. Fiction. Candlewick, 08/2016. 104pp. $14.99. 978-0-7636-7576-9. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 2-7. When the first apple falls from the tree, Faith knows Uncle Arthur will be visiting soon. But will [continue reading]

Collins, Ross. There’s a Bear on My Chair. Ross Collins, Illus. Picture Book. Nosy Crow, 2015. [28]pp. $16.99. 978-0-7636-8942-1. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-K. Mouse finds his favorite chair occupied by Bear. The chair is not large [continue reading]

Gemeinhart, Dan. Some Kind of Courage. Fiction. Scholastic, 01/2016. 236pp. $16.99. 978-0-545-66577-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-7. In Washington State in 1890, 12-year-old Joseph Johnson—no stranger to loss after his mother and sister die by disease, and [continue reading]

O’Connell, Caitlin. Bridge to the Wild: Behind the Scenes at the Zoo. Timothy Rodwell, Photographer. Non-fiction. Houghton, 08/2016. 202pp. $18.99. 978-0-544-27739-7. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 3-8. Experience the zoo like never before with O’Connell’s Bridge to the [continue reading]

Anderson, John David. Ms. Bixby’s Last Day. Emma Yarlett, Illus. Fiction. Walden Pond/HarperCollins, 06/2016. 320pp. $16.99. 978-0-06-233817-4. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-7. With their favorite teacher in the hospital battling cancer and unable to make it back [continue reading]

Pimentel, Annette Bay. Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service. Rich Lo, Illus. Biography. Charlesbridge, 08/2016. 40pp. PLB $16.95. 978-1-58089-711-2. HIGH ADDITIONAL. GRADES [continue reading]