Thursday, April 24, 2008

New Books

The Calder Game - Blue Balliett
When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.

Trainstop - Barbara Lehman
In this wordless picture book, a young girl takes a train and makes a stop at a most unusual place where she has an important task to perform.

Autopsies: Pathologists at Work - Gary Jeffrey
Pathologists interpret what the dead are saying using post-mortem examinations. Three stories of actual crimes solved via autopsies are presented here in comic form. Includes overviews of how a crime is investigated and of how a post-mortem exam is conducted.

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