Yes! It's Wednesday! Once again, I can share with you the latest children's e-book titles that NCLS has added to our Overdrive collection.
West of the Moon, by Margi Preus.
In West of the Moon, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author
Margi Preus expertly weaves original fiction with myth and folktale to
tell the story of Astri, a young Norwegian girl desperate to join her
father in America. After being separated from her sister and sold to a
cruel goat farmer, Astri makes a daring escape. She quickly retrieves
her little sister, and, armed with a troll treasure, a book of spells
and curses, and a possibly magic hairbrush, they set off for America.
With a mysterious companion in tow and the malevolent "goatman" in
pursuit, the girls head over the Norwegian mountains, through field and
forest, and in and out of folktales and dreams as they steadily make
their way east of the sun and west of the moon.
Boys of Blur, by ND Wilson.
Fans of Jerry Spinelli's
Maniac Magee and Louis Sachar's
Holes
will enjoy this story about a boy and the ancient secrets that hide
deep in the heart of the Florida everglades near a place called Muck
City.
When Charlie moves from Palm Beach to the small town of
Taper, Florida, he discovers a different world. Pinned between the
everglades and the swampy banks of Lake Okeechobee, the small town
produces sugar cane . . . and the fastest runners in the country. Kids
chase muck rabbits in the fields while the cane is being burned and
harvested. Dodging flames and blades and breathing smoke, they run down
the rabbits for three dollars a skin. And when they can do that, running
a football is easy.
But there are things in the swamp, roaming
the cane at night, that cannot be explained, and they seem connected to
sprawling mounds older than the swamps. Together with his step-second
cousin Herman "Cotton" Mack, the fastest boy on the muck, Charlie hunts
secrets in the glades and on the muck flats where the cane grows secrets
as old as the soft earth, secrets that haunted, tripped, and trapped
the original native tribes, ensnared conquistadors, and buried runaway
slaves. Secrets only the muck knows.
At Home in Her Tomb: Lady Dai and the Ancient Chinese Treasures of Mawangdui, by Christine Liu Perkins.
This middle-grade chapter book unearths the mysteries of the Mawangdui
(mah-wahng-dway) tombs, one of China's top archaeological finds of the
last century. Miniature servants, mysterious silk paintings, scrolls of
long-lost secrets, and the best preserved mummy in the world (the body
of Lady Dai) are just some of the artifacts that shed light upon life in
China during the Han dynasty.
Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey, by Loree Griffin Burns.
Some farms grow vegetables or grains, and some raise cows, sheep,
chickens, or pigs. But have you ever heard of a butterfly farm? How do
you raise a butterfly?
On a farm in Costa Rica, workers care for
these delicate, winged creatures as they change from eggs to
caterpillars to pupae. Like any other crop, the butterflies will
eventually leave the farm. But where will they go? And just how do you
ship a butterfly?
Very carefully! To discover how it works, follow these butterflies on a remarkable journey!
Check in again next week for out newest children's e-book titles! (All descriptions from Overdrive.)
