Nolte's News from the IMC
December 3, 2014
New Books Have Arrived!
There are new titles in the IMC waiting to be checked out. You can find them on the red cart in the fiction section.
The Farmer and the Clown by Marla Frazee
A wordless picture book in which a farmer rescues a baby clown who has bounced off the circus train and reunites him with his clown family.
Take Away the A by Michael Escoffier and Kris Di Giacomo
Text and illustrations look at how subtracting a single letter from a word can make an entirely different word.
Fox's Garden
One snowy night, a fox loses its way, entering a village and sheltering in a greenhouse. A young boy sees the fox from his window and brings a basket of food to the greenhouse, where he leaves it for the fox.
Paula Danziger's Amber Brown horses around written by Bruce Coville and Elizabeth Levy ; illustrated by Anthony Lewis.
Amber is excited to be spending the summer after fourth grade with her friends at Camp Cushetunk, but things start getting complicated when she learns that her worst enemy, Hannah Burton, is one of her bunkmates.
Disappearance At Hangman's Bluff: A Felony Bay Mystery by J.E. Thompson
"When Abbey and Bee's neighbor's dog, Yemassee, is kidnapped, they decide it's their job to find the men who took him."
The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye
When Aref, a third-grader who lives in Muscat, Oman, refuses to pack his suitcase and prepare to move to Michigan, his mother asks for help from his grandfather, his Sidi, who takes Aref around the country, storing up memories he can carry with him to a new home.
The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney
After her tribal village is attacked by militants, Amira, a young Sudanese girl, must flee to safety at a refugee camp, where she finds hope and the chance to pursue an education in the form of a single red pencil and the friendship and encouragement of a wise elder.
Try This: 50 Fun Experiments for the Mad Scientist in You by Karen Romano Young
Provides background information and instructions for fifty science projects involving plants, insects, microbes, human behavior, animals, water, physics, machinery, and other topics, and suggests further ideas to pursue.
The right word : Roget and his thesaurus by Jen Bryant
A picture book biography of Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget's Thesaurus, one of the most widely used reference books ever published.