New Book Tuesdays: Week 3
- ivylowerygardner
- Sep 10, 2015
- 2 min read
Wow! It's September already?!? This week's books will help you to hang on to the last little bit of summer before Autumn comes rolling in. Check out these warm weather titles.
New Picture Book:
Aqualicious by Victoria Kahn. This is a perfect end of summer read from the popular Pinkalicious series.
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New Chapter Book:
The Year of the Three Sisters by Andrea Cheng. This is the fourth book in the Anna Wang series. We added the third book to the Media Center last year - The Year of the Fortune Cookie. Both books are Junior Library Guild selections.
"In this fourth novel of the Anna Wang series, seventh-grader Anna can hardly believe her waitress friend from China is coming to America.
Through a cultural exchange program, Anna and Andee invite Fan to live in their Cincinnati neighborhood during the school year. While there, Fan will attend Fenwick High School to learn to speak English more fluently, which can help her get a better job back in Beijing. The plan calls for Fan to live with Andee, but Anna becomes concerned that the two won’t get along, given their backgrounds. Fan lives in an alley with other migrant families who cook on electric hot plates, while Andee lives with her well-to-do family in a big house with a stove sporting six burners. Anna’s fears are realized when Andee becomes distant and seems all too relieved to leave Fan at Anna’s house for the weekends. Emphasizing that she must get good grades for her family’s sake, Fan buries herself in her studies, which doesn’t leave time for much else. The threesome’s friendship feels genuinely complicated and endearing, with communication mishaps, cultural differences, and unmet, early teen expectations. A true understanding among the three starts to grow, as Fan begins to share her migrant life in both conversation and writing. One essay and poem, in particular, that she shares with Anna are memorable.
This unique sisterhood beats with a gentle heart. (pronunciation guide) (Fiction. 8-10)" -image and blurb from andreacheng.com
New Nonfiction:
Flight of the Honey Bee by Raymond Huber. I really love this book, and so do the reviewers.
One of the most informative picture books about honey bees, this is surely among the most beautiful as well. – Booklist
ALA Notable Children's Book 2014
NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book
"Flight of the Honey Bee is the story of a honey bee (Scout) on a journey to find food for her hive. The action is closely based on the life of real bees and includes science footnotes. This hardcover book is ‘lyrical non-fiction’, a mix of science and poetic narrative. The illustrations by Brain Lovelock also blend art and science, with accurate insects on expressive backgrounds." -image and blurb from raymondhuber.com
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