by Kate Di Camillo
Recalling the fiction of Harper Lee and Carson McCullers, here is a funny, poignant, and utterly genuine first novel from a major new talent.
An unforgettable first novel about coming of age one sweet summer–and learning to love what you have.
Discussion notes, trailer, teacher lesson plans & more => http://bit.ly/TwLZCR
Louis Beside Himself
Anna Fienberg
When a burglar jumps through the kitchen window one night, Louis knows he should get him in a wrestling-hold while he has the advantage, but his heart is hammering and his legs feel like wobbly air... A larger-than-life story from Anna Fienberg, author of the classic Tashi series and Horrendo's Curse.
Watch the author discussing her book http://bit.ly/NJ1VGx
Anna Fienberg
When a burglar jumps through the kitchen window one night, Louis knows he should get him in a wrestling-hold while he has the advantage, but his heart is hammering and his legs feel like wobbly air... A larger-than-life story from Anna Fienberg, author of the classic Tashi series and Horrendo's Curse.
Watch the author discussing her book http://bit.ly/NJ1VGx
Anna Fienberg
When a burglar jumps through the kitchen window one night, Louis knows he should get him in a wrestling-hold while he has the advantage, but his heart is hammering and his legs feel like wobbly air... A larger-than-life story from Anna Fienberg, author of the classic Tashi series and Horrendo's Curse.
Watch the author discussing her book http://bit.ly/NJ1VGx
Sing You Home
Jodi Picoult
After Zoe and Max's last attempt to conceive fails tragically, their marriage breaks apart. When Zoe falls in love again and considers having a family, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that were never used. But who do they really belong to? An honest and moving story of contemporary relationships and the consequences when love and desire collide with science and the law.
More (plus the trailer) here => http://bit.ly/oREe9n
I have just put together a page for Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer - with this synopsis, a trailer and a package of links to more than 20 fiction activities for the book. You can visit it here => http://bit.ly/luVDdz 
Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he's taking on more than he bargained for when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Unit). For a start, leprechaun technology is more advanced than our own. Add to that the fact that Holly is a true heroine and that her senior officer Commander Root will stop at nothing to get her back and you've got the mother of all sieges brewing!
Finally we will get to to see the movie that has been made of the old favourite "There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake". It is showing at the St Kilda Film Festival on 28th May. You an have a sneek peak at the trailer here => http://bit.ly/jjjXT0
by Harlan Coben
Edgar-winner Coben's 10th Myron Bolitar novel (after Long Lost) is a perfect 10: providing readers with new information about the past of the former athlete turned agent and owner of MB Reps; a satisfyingly complex mystery; and the always entertaining, sometimes shocking exploits of Bolitar's partner and friend, Windsor Horne Lockwood III (aka Win).
The Wonders Of Science Movie was created by Mariela Kleiner, the author of the new children's book "Meet Einstein" check it out at http://bit.ly/hmpKs1
