School Library Journal
: Starred Review. Gr 7–10—In this first novel for young people set outside of Discworld, Pratchett again shows his humor and humanity. Worlds are destroyed and cultures collide when a tsunami hits islands in a vast ocean much like the Pacific. Mau, a boy on his way back home from his initiation period and ready for the ritual that will make him a man, is the only one of his people, the Nation, to survive. Ermintrude, a girl from somewhere like Britain in a time like the 19th century, is on her way to meet her father, the governor of the Mothering Sunday islands. She is the sole survivor of her ship (or so she thinks), which is wrecked on Mau's island. She reinvents herself...More
School Library Journal
: PreS-Gr 1-A simple story about Rabbit and Mouse, who, despite Rabbit's penchant for trouble, are friends. When Rabbit launches his toy airplane (with Mouse in the pilot seat at takeoff) and it gets stuck in a tree, he convinces his friend that he will come up with a plan to get it down. He does so by stacking animals on top of one another (beginning with an elephant and a rhinoceros) until they are within reach of the toy. The double-page, hand-colored relief prints with heavy black outlines are magnificent, and children will enjoy the comically expressive pictures of the animals before and after their attempt to extract the plane. The text is minimal; it's the illustrations that ar...More
Library Journal
: Starred Review. Lisbeth Salander, the antisocial but brilliant computer hacker who helped journalist Mikael Blomkvist uncover a serial killer on a remote Swedish island in Larsson's acclaimed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, takes center stage in this second volume of his "Millenium" trilogy. Opening 18 months after the events of the first book, the novel finds our heroine lounging by the pool at a Caribbean hotel, reading a math textbook, and watching a woman who may be a victim of domestic abuse, while in Sweden, Blomkvist, bewildered by Salander's abrupt disappearance from his life, is set to publish a magazine exposé on the sex trade. Impatient readers m...More
Publishers Weekly
: The Newbery Medal-winning, Caldecott Honor book about an imaginary inn belonging to William Blake, where remarkable guests are attended by an even more remarkable staff. Ages 4-8.
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Library Journal
: YA-Set in Georgetown, this poignant coming-of-age story begins with the drowning death of six-year-old Clara Bynum. Johnnie May, at 12, was supposed to be minding her the morning the children went down to the river, knowing they were not allowed to play near it, much less swim in it. The Bynums had come to Washington, DC, from North Carolina looking for a better life, and life for the colored in Georgetown in the 1920s was better: plenty of work and good schools for the children. But Johnnie May's independent spirit causes trouble from the beginning. She is always asking why-why couldn't she swim in the pool on Volta Place, right across from Aunt Ina's house? Why does she always have to mi...More
Library Journal
: Berg, whose biographies of Max Perkins and Sam Goldwyn are central texts in their fields, restores some luster to complicated aviator hero Charles Lindbergh by presenting his very full life--from his lonely rural childhood to the enormity of his Spirit of St. Louis accomplishment; the kidnapping of his baby son, which led to the "Trial of the Century"; his enthusiastic state visits to Hitler's Germany; and his Pulitzer Prize and later conservation work. For the generation that has mostly known Lindbergh through his child's murder and a profoundly stupid speech he later made, this big, thoroughly researched book is a fine work of restorative storytelling.
As Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, prepares to be charged with Jackson's death, Dateline brings you the latest developments and the inside story of the superstar and his doctor. Read the transcript.
A Texas police officer's wife is killed in what the cop claims is an accident. Seven years later, the case seems like it will never be solved until a complete stranger, a reporter, takes interest in finding justice.
A mother of four disappears, vanishing in the night. The next morning, her car is found at the foot of the driveway, but nothing else: no body, no weapon. What could have happened? A trial reveals an ugly secret lurking at home. Read the transcript here.
The other passengers did not know it, but the polite young man sitting next to the window in seat 19A had left a trail of clues that American spies and analysts had missed for at least a month. On Christmas Day, Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit was hurtling at 500 knots right through what, in essence, was a huge gap in Americas security system.
Chris Hansen is back with the Las Vegas undercover police operations, and this time, alleged pimps, car thieves, and shoplifters are confronted by Dateline NBC's hidden-camera footage and stopped in their tracks.
It was a journey of thousands of miles, through five harrowing years, as an American father battled to reclaim his kidnapped son from Brazil. But 9-year-old Sean Goldman is finally back in the United States, reunited with his father. Get the full story here.
See photos of David and 9-year-old Sean Goldman's homecoming from Brazil, five years after the American dads international custody battle for his son began.
It's a deadly puzzle in paradise: A beloved headmaster from a private school heads to the Caribbean for a diving and sailing vacation with her husband. But she would never return alive. A tragic accident at a scuba site, her family was told. Was that the truth?
The inside story of how it all began -- what happened before Tiger Woods' accident and before the headlines. Plus, one of Tiger's alleged 'other women' speaks out. NBC's Josh Mankiewicz reports.
