Display - Book Covers

In this display are different examples of covers for foreign editions of some rather popular chapter book series. See if you can figure out which covers match up with which titles in the English version of the series. See if you can guess which country each cover represents.

Harry Potter series
By J.K. Rowling

Bartimaeus Trilogy
By Jonathan Stroud

Leviathan series

By Scott Westerfeld

Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
By Rick Riordan

The Kane Chronicles

By Rick Riordan

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Review: Faker

Faker By Gordon Korman New York: Scholastic Press, 2024. Fiction. 214 pages. 12-year-old Trey is used to starting over at a new school -- he has the routine perfectly memorized: make new friends, introduce his dad to the wealthy parents of his new friends, and "Houdini" themselves out of there before they get caught running their latest scam. Trey's dad is a master con artist, and Trey has just been promoted to full-partner. Their new scheme for the next big score brings them to the affluent suburb of Boxelder, TN where Trey's dad has cooked up a fake electric car company for investors to buy into. The only problem is that Trey is starting to grow tired of moving around and never putting down roots, especially after forming a fast friendship with Logan and developing a crush on Kaylee, a socially conscious girl in his class. As Trey longs for a normal life, is there any way he can convince his dad to get out of the family business? Gordon Korman is a perennial favorit...

Review: The Mythmakers

The Mythmakers By John Hendrix New York: Abrams Fanfare, 2024. Informational. 217 pages. Before C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien had ever published world-renowned literature, they were friends. This book starts with the boyhood of each author, discussing how each lost their parents and the toll that took on them. It moves on to talk about the experience of each man in the trenches of World War I, and their eventual meeting at Oxford. It further chronicles their "fellowship" through the writing of many of their notable works, as well as their eventual falling out. This book is an interesting mix of comic and narrative nonfiction, flipping back and forth between chapters. A lion and wizard appear in the comic portions (in a nod to Aslan and Gandalf) to explain background information about mythology, the time period, and other pertinent information about the two. The author makes use of a limited color palette, using mostly greens, purples, and yellows, to draw the reader i...

Books That Take You There: Birthday Parties

I know quite a few people who have birthdays during the December/January holidays. For some of them it can be a struggle, since everyone is focused on the holidays and their birthdays can be skipped over. For others, they like having a birthday when all the family is together and celebrating so many things. Either way, here is a list of picture books that can take you to a birthday celebration and help brighten any birthday, even those that happen during the holidays. A Crown for Corina Written by Laekan Zea Kemp Illustrated by Elisa Chavarri New York: Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group, 2023. Picture Book. Corina is having a birthday, and that means that she can pick some flowers from Abuela’s garden to make a flower crown to wear at the fiesta. Abuela helps Corina pick special flowers that have meaning in Corina’s life. Then Abuela puts la corona on Corina’s head, so that she can remember all the things that have meaning—both of Corina’s life ...

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