Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder

Meeting an eccentric professor after moving to a new home in Norway, 11-year-old Nilly learns about the professor's gaseous invention that is powerful enough to send people into outer space, an innovation that Nilly and his friend Lisa must keep out of evil hands

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Kinetic Contraptions: Build a Hovercraft, Airboat, and More With a Hobby Motor

Provides step-by-step instructions for building two dozen hobby motor projects using readily available materials, in a guide for budding engineers that includes such examples as a mechanical bubble maker, a double paddle-wheeler and a waterless snow globe.

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Letters to a Soldier

When Mrs. Julie Hutt's fourth-grade class in Roslyn, New York, wrote letters to soldiers abroad to thank them for their service and ask them what it is like to be a U.S. soldier, First Lieutenant Falvey, a military police officer serving in Baghdad with the Army National Guard, answered their questions and shares his own personal photographs and words along with the children's letters.

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The Blessing of the Beasts

Francesca the cockroach and her good friend Martin the skunk, whom she met some time ago in a trash can, live in a soup kitchen on the poor side of town. When three uptown roaches bring word of a blessing of the animals to be held at the cathedral across town, Francesca decides that she and Martin should go. (She was after all, named after Francis the good human, who loved the unlovable). The lowly but determined friends manage to cross town - Francesca in Martin's left ear - and join all manner of creatures great and small for a glorious celebration and blessing. Ethel Pochocki is the author of several previous children's books and is a former librarian at the New York Public Library. Engravings by Barry Moser are almost haunting in their beauty, even - and maybe especially - the ones of the animal outcasts. Both text and pictures are witty and elegant. Readers of any age will be reminded that God's love is for all, even the least of these.

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Dweeb: Burgers, Beasts, and Brainwashed Bullies

	After being framed for stealing bake sale money, the five smartest boys in the eighth grade are imprisoned in a small room beneath their junior high school in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, and must use their nerdish powers to expose a conspiracy involving fast f ood, standardized testing, and a school full of overachieving zombies.
	When weird things start happening at their junior high, 8th-graders Denton, Wendell, Eddie, Elijah, and Bijay, better known as DWEEB, know they are the only ones who have the smarts to solve the mystery, but with Vice Principal Snodgrass on their case, the challenge to do so becomes even greater.

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Newbery winner When You Reach Me By Rebecca Stead

As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.

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Caldecott winner The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney

In award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from a poacher's trap. With vivid depictions of the landscape of the African Serengeti and expressively-drawn characters, Pinkney makes this a truly special retelling, and his stunning pictures speak volumes.

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