The Big Wet Balloon by Ricardo Liniers

 

Saturday, Matilda's favorite day of the week, turns out to be a rainy, wet day. Matilda must convince her little sister, Clemmie, that it is fun to go outside to play and get wet. This graphic easy reader is a great way to engage beginning readers. Enjoy the story and the adorable art work by Liniers. Can you spot the rain drops on the page? Recommended for Grades K-1 

Miss Roberta

Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo

 

How can a relationship that begins with 10-year-old Flora giving CPR to an injured squirrel, Ulysses, be anything but odd and funny? Illustrations by K.G. Campbell, winner of an Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Honor, bring this story to life and show how one cynic and one superhero can make a formidable team!

Recommended for Grades 3-5 

Miss Roberta

When Did You See Her Last? by Lemony Snicket

Fans of the mysterious Mr. Snicket will enjoy learning more about his apprenticeship to a strange investigator in an odd little town called Stain'd-By-The-Sea.  Snicket and his boss are asked to look into the disappearance of a young chemist whose parents are being drugged by their doctor.  With the help of several characters who were introduced in the first book in this series, Who Could That Be At This Hour?, young Lemony helps solve the case.  Funny, adventurous, and full of vocabulary words, this is a must-read for fans of A Series of Unfortunate Events!

Recommended for grades 4-7.

--Miss Rose

Odessa Again by Dana Reinhardt (Audiobook also available)

 

Everyone has a bad day occasionally.  What if you could go back in time and fix your mistakes? Odessa Green-Light discovers that she can go twenty-hours back in time when she stomps through her bedroom floor.  Although Odessa tries to change the recent past, her efforts are not always successful.  She is also struggling to accept her father's upcoming remarriage.  In Odessa's mind, the word remarriage indicates that he should remarry her mother. What happens when you run out of do-overs? 

Recommended for 3rd-5th graders.

Whizz! Pop! Granny, Stop! by Tracey Corderoy

Grandmothers come in all shapes and sizes but the little girl in this story has a granny that creates magic.  You might think that having a magical grandmother would be fun but sometimes granny's spells get out of control.  She changes her granddaughter's hair color to pink with a wave of her star-shaped wand.  Illustrator Joe Berger creates scenes filled with pink and violet colors with a whimsical feel.  What would you do if your grandmother performed magical spells?
Recommended for ages 3-6.

 

Halloween Hustle

by Charlotte Gunnufson

illustrated by Kevan J. Atteberry

                    Skeleton is dancing his way to a Halloween party - but as he grooves across town, he keeps stumbling, tumbling, and falling apart! Can Skeleton stay in one piece long enough to make it to the party?

For grades K-2

- Miss Alka

Secret Pizza Party by Adam Rubin

In this humorous picture book, a pizza-loving raccoon keeps getting chased away before he can get ahold of his favorite food.   If a secret pizza party is thrown in his honor, maybe he will finally be able to enjoy his fill of "gooey chessy-ness, salty pepperoni-ness, sweet, sweet tomato-ness, and crispity, crunchity crust."  The party does not go quite as expected.  A funny, silly story that kids will get a kick out of.

Recommended for grades K-2. 

--Miss Rose