Featured Books: April 2009

	Math Attack! By Joan Horton & Kyrsten Brooker “The rhyming text is well cadenced, with carefully chosen words that flow easily. Rich paint and collage illustrations combine textures and colors with numbers spilling over the pages.” —School Library Journal

	Darling Jim By Christian Moerk “Will a diary found in the dead-letter bin solve the mystery behind three dead women discovered in a locked house? Set in a small Irish village, Darling Jim is a dark, erotic, and bloody tale. Shivers.” —Becky Milner, Vintage Books, Vancouver, WA

	All the Living By C. E. Morgan “The quiet tension and powerful, exquisite writing transport the reader deeply into the lives of people struggling with love, loss, and life. The work reminds us of the value of literature and its meaning to our psyche.” —Ed Conklin, Chaucer's Books, Santa Barbara, CA

	Shadow and Light By Jonathan Rabb “I loved Shadow and Light. Viciously imaginative, chillingly plausible, Rabb's novel re-awakens Berlin in the 1920s—a city of aged youth and weary sin, where decency is as fragile as celluloid.” —Jason Goodwin, author of The Bellini Card

	The 39 Clues: The Sword Thief By Peter Lerangis ATTENTION! Amy and Dan Cahill have been located once again, this time in the company of the notoriously unreliable Alistair Oh. Could they have been foolish enough to make an alliance? Spies report that Amy and Dan seem to be tracking the life of one of the most powerful fighters the world has ever known. If this fearsome warrior was a Cahill, his secrets are sure to be well-guarded . . . and the price to uncover them just might be lethal.

	Say Cheese - And Die Screaming! By R. L. Stine GONE in a FLASH! A picture is worth a thousand screams-if it's taken with an evil camera that has a nasty vision of the future. Julie's future doesn't look pretty. And neither does anyone else's after they're caught in her lens! Things start looking up when Julie gets to HorrorLand. That is, until she starts falling down...into the Tunnel of Screams.

	Best Friends and Drama Queens By Meg Cabot “Meg Cabot's Allie Finkle books are great, funny stories built around important topics like bullying and peer pressure in the middle grades. This newest book shows how our plucky Allie deals with a prima donna classmate who's trying to make everyone follow her bad example.” —Mark David Bradshaw, Watermark Books, Wichita, KS