New Trade Books

Recently added:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Ballpark: The Story of America’s Baseball Fields – Lynn Curlee (796.357 C975B)
Bears – Ruth Krauss (813.69 K915B)
Beyond the Great Mountains – Ed Young (813.69 Y97B)
Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery – Kevin O’Malley (813.69 O54C)
The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali – Tonya Bolden (796.83 A398B)
Come to My Party and Other Shape Poems – Heidi B. Roemer (811.7 R715C)
Diary of a Spider – Doreen Cronin (813.69 C947D3)
Dinosaurs: Encyclopedia Prehistorica – Robert Sabuda (567.91 S118D) – popup book
Earl the Squirrel – Don Freeman (813.69 F855E)
Good King Wenceslas – John M. Neale (782.28 N346G)
The Great Blue House – Kate Banks (813.69 B217G)
Happy Feet – Richard Michelson (813.69 M623H)
If You Give a Pig a Party – Laura Numeroff (813.69 N971I65
The Jesse Tree – Geraldine McCaughrean (823.91 M123J)
The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence – Judith St. George (973.313 S139J)
Leaf Man – Lois Ehlert (813.69 E33L)
The Little Engine That Could – Watty Piper (813.5 P665L3)
Lucky Leaf – Kevin O’Malley (813.69 O54L)
Mary Engelbreit’s Mother Goose – Mary Engelbreit (398.8 M918E)
The Milkman – Carol Foskett Cordsen (813.7 C796M)
Mommies Say Shhh! - Patricia Polacco (813.69 P762M)
Mortimer’s Christmas Manger – Karma Wilson (813.7 W749M)
Music for the End of Time – Jen Bryant (780.92 M58B8)
Music from Our Lord’s Holy Heaven – Gloria Jean Pinkney (782.27 P655M)
Mystery Fish – Sally M. Walker (597.39 W184M)
A Play’s the Thing – Aliki (813.69 A411P)
Ride Like the Wind: A Tale of the Pony Express – Bernie Fuchs (813.69 F951R)
Santa Claus, the World’s Number One Toy Expert – Marla Frazee (813.7 F848S)
Sleeping Bobby – Will Osborne (398.21 O81S)
Snowmen at Christmas – Caralyn Buehner (813.69 B929S)
The Song of Francis and the Animals – Pat Mora (813.69 M827S)
SuperCroc Found – Sally M. Walker (567.98 W184S)
Volcanoes Inside and Out – D.M. Souza (551.21 S729V)
Wiggling Worms at Work – Wendy Pfeffer (592.64 P524W)
Winter’s Tale: An Original Pop-Up Journey – Robert Sabuda (813.69 S111W)
A Wreath for Emmett Till – Marilyn Nelson (811.608 N428W)

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

Not Exactly Normal – Devin Brown (813.7 B877N)
A sixth-grader at St. Luke's Episcopal School sets out to have a mystical experience and learns valuable lessons about himself and the world along the way.

Pakistan: A Primary Source Cultural Guide – Marian Rengel (954.91 R412P)
An overview of the history and culture of Pakistan and its people including the geography, myths, arts, daily life, education, industry, and government, with illustrations from primary source documents.

Teens and Suicide – Hal Marcovitz (362.280835 M321T)
Using data from the Gallup Youth Survey and other sources, examines the issue of teenage suicide.

New books

The following new trade books have been added:

Children's Books

American Moments – Robert Burleigh (973 B961A)
And Then It Rained…and Then the Sun Came Out – Crescent Dragonwagon (813.69 D759A
Madlenka’s Dog – Peter Sis (813.69 S622M)
The Mission of Addition – Brian P. Cleary (513.211 C623M)
Nicaragua – Adriana Dominguez (972.85 D671N)
Pakistan – Kathleen W. Deady (954.91 D278P)
Sing-Along Song – JoAnn Early Macken (813.7 M155S)
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems – Joyce Sidman (811.7 S568S)
Teeth, Tails, & Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book – Christopher Wormell (513.211 W928T)
Thanksgiving Is… - Gail Gibbons (394.2649 G441T)
Wiggle – Doreen Cronin (813.69 C947W)

Young Adult Books

Catalogue of the Universe – Margaret Mahy (823.92 M216C)
Determined to satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father, eighteen-year-old Angela May embarks on an emotional journey that shapes and forever alters the way she looks at herself, her unconventional mother, and her devoted friend Tych.

Eldest – Christopher Paolini (813.7 P211E2)
After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire. Sequel to Eragon.

Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth – James Giblin (792.028 B725G)
Most people know the name John Wilkes Booth, but few likely have heard of his elder brother Edwin. Find out about the brothers through first-hand accounts. Learn how alike and how different they were, and how each made a lasting impression on American history.

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow – Susan Campbell Bartoletti (943.086 B292H)
The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power, and the youths that resisted the Nazi movement. "I begin with the young. We older ones are used up. But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world."-Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg,1933. By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler Youth. It would become the largest youth group in history. Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people. Her research includes telling interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members.

Invisible Allies – Jeanette Farrell (579 F245I)
Usually, microbes are equated with disease, but in fact most microbes are actually our allies. Learn how the microbes that are everywhere around us help us to survive every day.

A Nation Torn – Delia Ray (973.7 R263N)
Nonfiction book about the American Civil War.

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy – Jeanne Birdsall (813.7 B618P)
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.

Sleeping Freshman Never Lie – David Lubar (813.7 L926S)
While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.

A Thief in the House of Memory – Tim Wynne-Jones (813.69 W989T)
The death of an apparent stranger in the Steeple family's old home triggers troubling questions for sixteen-year-old Declan as he tries to make sense of his fragmented dreams, random memories, and unexplained coincidences, hoping to learn the truth about the mother who suddenly left when he was ten

October newsletter

The October CMC Newsletter is now available.

New trade books

These new trade books have recently been added to the CMC collection:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

My Teacher for President – Kay Winters (813.69 W788M)

The Night Eater – Ana Juan (813.7 J91N)

No Dogs Allowed – Sonia Manzano (813.7 M296N)

Oh, David! – David Shannon (813.69 S527O)

Oops! – David Shannon (813.69 S527O2)

Poles Apart: Why Penguins and Polar Bears Will Never Be Neighbors – Elaine Scott (998 S425P)

The Shot Heard ‘Round the World – Phil Bildner (813.7 B595S)

Tadpole’s Promise – Jeanne Willis (823.92 W734T)

That’s What Friends Are For – Valeri Gorbachev (813.69 G661T)

Walking the Bible – Bruce S. Feiler (915.60454 F297W2)

Zoo-ology – Joëlle Jolivet (Big book – 590 J75Z)

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

Permanent Rose – Hilary McKay (823.91 M153P)

While trying to reconnect with her friend Tom, who has returned to the United States without leaving a forwarding address, eight-year-old Rose inadvertently discovers the identity of her adopted sister Saffy’s father. This is a sequel to Saffy’s Angel and Indigo’s Star.

Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver – retold by Martin Jenkins (827.52 G92J)

My Guardian Angel – Sylvie Weil (843.93 W424M)

In 11th century Troyes, France, Elvina, the unusual granddaughter of renowned Jewish rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, who prefers studying and writing to activities considered respectable for girls, takes a great risk by helping a young boy who has run away from a group of Christian Crusaders. Feisty and smart, Elvina is not your average 12-year-old. She adores reading, writing, and studying like the boys. And she detests silly girls' chores, like keeping chicken eggs warm until they hatch. But she is also skilled in the art of healing, a skill that ultimately gets her into trouble. It's the 11th Century in France, and the Crusades are on a campaign to rid France of the Jews. The Jews live in terror and are on high alert that danger is drawing near to their town. One night, while Elvina is alone in her house, she hears a rap on the door. Can her guardian angel keep her safe?

My Travels with Capts. Lewis and Clark by George Shannon – Kate McMullan (813.69 M168M)

A fictional journal recounting the travels--from Pittsburgh to the Pacific Ocean--of sixteen-year-old George Shannon, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.

The Schwa Was Here – Neal Shusterman (813.69 S564S)

A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone

The Widow and the King – John Dickinson (823.93 D553W)

When the hooded prince of the evil "undercraft" is released from a magical prison, young Ambrose, the last descendant of a great king, flees for his life, not knowing who his friends or enemies are. Sequel to The Cup of the World.

A Wreath for Emmett Till – Marilyn Nelson (811.608 N428W)

In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of the murder, the open- casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men charged with the crime drew wide media attention. Nelson’s sonnets are a reminder of that event and its underlying causes.