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Nicholas and the gang
René Goscinny & Jean-Jacques Sempé ; translated [from the French] by Anthea Bell.
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112 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Nicholas is invited to a birthday party by the girl next door, plays a very messy game of chess, and learns that walking on your hands is much harder than turning somersaults.
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Reaching for sun
by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer.
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181 p. ; 20 cm.
Josie, who lives with her mother and grandmother and has cerebral palsy, befriends a boy who moves into one of the rich houses behind her old farmhouse.
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There is a bird on your head!
by Mo Willems.
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57 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Gerald the elephant discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head-- two birds on your head! Piggie will try to help her best friend.
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Twelve rounds to glory : the story of Muhammad Ali
Charles R. Smith Jr. ; illustrated by Bryan Collier.
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80 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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Vulture view
April Pulley Sayre ; illustrated by Steve Jenkins.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
"Turkey vultures soar on the balmy air, looking for their next stinky feast. These birds don't hunt--they like their food to be already dead. Vultures are part of nature's cleanup crew"--Inside front dust jacket.
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The wall : growing up behind the Iron Curtain
Peter Sís.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., maps ; 32 cm.
In his most personal work to date, award-winning author Peter Ss offers a brilliant graphic memoir, taking readers on an extraordinary journey as he recalls his youth growing up in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, when his country was on the Communist side of the Iron Curtain.
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The Wednesday wars
by Gary D. Schmidt.
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264 p. ; 24 cm.
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
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