{"id":47,"date":"2008-07-16T17:55:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T21:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/?p=47"},"modified":"2008-09-28T12:45:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T16:45:31","slug":"great-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/2008\/07\/16\/great-new-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Great New Books!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading… But that’s not news! I am always reading, but since I am on this Notable Books For Children Committee, I HAVE to read. Fortunately, there are so many great new books for kids published in 2008, I am having a BLAST reading them. Here are just some titles that I gave four or five stars to on my goodreads.com account<\/a>. The numbers in the parentheses are the grades that I think most suited to enjoy each title.<\/p>\n

100 Cupboards<\/em> by N.D. Wilson (4-6)
\n Airman <\/em>by Eoin Colfer (5-8)
\n The Battle of the Labyrinth<\/em>by Rick Riordan (4-6)
\n Chicken Feathers<\/em> by Joy Cowley (3-5)
\n The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets: An Enola Holmes Mystery<\/em> by Nancy Springer (4-6)
\n Diamond Willow<\/em> by Helen Frost (4-6)
\n Forever Rose<\/em> by Hilary McKay (4-7)
\n Horse Song: The Naadam of Mongolia<\/em> by Ted and Betsy Lewin (3-5)
\n Hunger Games<\/em> by Suzanne Collins (5-8)
\n Keeping Score<\/em> by Linda Sue Park (5-7)
\n Keeping the Night Watch<\/em> by Hope Anita Smith (5-8)
\n The London Eye Mystery <\/em>by Siobhan Dowd (5-7)
\n Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit<\/em> by Nahoko Uehashi (5-8)
\n The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy<\/em> by Diane Stanley (4-6)
\n The Mysterious Universe: Supernovae, Dark Energy, and Black Holes<\/em> by Ellen Jackson (4-7)
\n Runemarks <\/em>by Joanne Harris (5-8)
\n Six Innings <\/em> by James Preller (4-6)
\n Sunrise over Fallujah<\/em> by Walter Dean Myers (6-8)
\n Surprises According to Humphrey<\/em> by Betty G. Birney (4-5)
\n We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball<\/em> by Kadir Nelson (5-8)
\n The Willoughbys<\/em> by Lois Lowry (4-8)
\n The Year of the Rat<\/em> by Grace Lin (4-5)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading… But that’s not news! I am always reading, but since I am on this Notable Books For Children Committee, I HAVE to read. Fortunately, there are so many great new books for kids published in 2008, I am having a BLAST reading them. Here are just some titles that I gave four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}