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From: Publishers WeeklyPicking up where The Merlin Effect left off, this patchy tale [The Seven Songs of Merlin] opens when young Merlin is summoned by the Great Council of Fincayra to heal their wounded land. The boy decides instead to follow...
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From: Publishers Weekly[(review date 7 November 1986) In the following review, the critic considers this five-volume set of Dick's short fiction to be both "wonderful reading" and "a publishing event."] Even before his untimely death in...
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From: Publishers WeeklyThat irrepressible lamb Pearl is back [in Pearl's Marigolds for Grandpa], though her spirit is understandably dampened, in Zalben's (Pearl Plants a Tree) thoughtful exploration of death and the grieving process. After...
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From: Publishers WeeklyPoor Buster. Just weeks before this dinosaur's birthday, Dr. Orville (graduate of Cretaceous University) announces that Buster needs braces. His orthodontia also brings on jeers from his kid sister and, worse still,...
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From: Publishers WeeklyThe title tells all: slightly pompous, no slouch when it comes to vocabulary, and with a gift for dry humor, Houdini relates the story of his acquisition by a family and the trials runs and trouble spots that turn him...
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From: Publishers WeeklyA brother and sister alternate as narrators in Newbery Medalist Park's (A Single Shard) well-constructed novel [When My Name Was Keoko], which takes place from 1940-1945 in Japanese-occupied Korea. The Japanese...
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From: Publishers WeeklyLiberally studded with sophisticated paintings and miniatures, this comprehensive trove of Arthuriana [The World of King Arthur and His Court] will delight young readers with a taste for history. Crossley-Holland (Storm)...
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From: Publishers WeeklyOnly die-hard fans will want to enter this fifth series installment [The Key to the Indian] of the adventures that began with The Indian in the Cupboard. Newcomers will find it too confusing to penetrate (the artful...
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From: Publishers WeeklyRael's (Marushka's Egg) memories of childhood in a tenement on Manhattan's Lower East Side inspire this atmospheric picture book [What Zeesie Saw On Delancey Street]. As a treat for her seventh birthday, Zeesie is...
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From: Publishers WeeklyAfter a train carrying bolts of precious silk derails [in Emma And The Silk Train], a girl, obsessed with longing for a silk blouse, spends weeks combining the nearby river for fabric. She finally finds a length of...
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From: Publishers WeeklyFollowing up on The Lost Years of Merlin and The Seven Songs of Merlin comes T.A. Barron's further exploration of the Arthurian sorcerer's history, The Fires of Merlin. In this third of a projected five-book series,...
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From: Publishers Weekly[Turtle Island ABC] is not so much a collection of "Native American symbols" as a smattering of watered-down motifs from Native American cultures, this ABC adds up to not much. A lot of the information here seems empty:...
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From: Publishers WeeklyRendered in oil pastels, [Harvey] Chan's (Music for the Tsar of the Sea) softly focused, shadowy paintings at once capture a Victorian sensibility and the ethereal, romantic tenor of Dickens's lyrical parable [The...
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From: Publishers WeeklyThis poignant picture book [Visiting Day] chronicles a joyful girl narrator's hard-to-bear anticipation and special preparations for a journey with her grandmother to see her father. Both text and artwork keep the...
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From: Publishers WeeklyThe characters introduced here [in Ruby Holler]--two abandoned children, their villainous guardians and a kindly country couple--might nave stepped out of a Dickens novel, but as Creech (Love that Dog) probes beneath...
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From: Publishers WeeklyThirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle--Sal for short--has had a difficult time ever since her mother walked out on the family a year ago [in Walk Two Moons]. Things have been equally tough on her father, who has rented...
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From: Publishers WeeklyGiven current battles over standardized testing and summer sessions, this timely story [A Fine, Fine School] about extended schooling touches a nerve with a kindly delivery. The tale centers on Mr. Keene, a...
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From: Publishers WeeklyNewbery Medalist DiCamillo (The Tale of Despereaux) once again displays her versatility with this jaunty debut to an early chapter-book series. The tale [Mercy Watson to the Rescue] stars Mercy, a pig with personality...
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From: Publishers WeeklyVictoriana reigns in Schwartz's illustrated excerpt from the 1867 classic, The Peterkin Papers. In this story [The Lady Who Put Salt in Her Coffee], Mrs. Peterkin unthinkingly puts salt into her coffee, instead of sugar....
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From: Publishers WeeklyAllard and Marshall are more than ever in tune with their Stupid characters [in The Stupids Take Off]. Using their plane, the loopy family take off on an early vacation to escape a visit from boring Uncle Carbuncle....