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Calder Game
Calder Game

By Blue Balliett
0-439-85207-2;
$17.99;
Scholastic Press;
Grades 9–12
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Magic Pickle and the Planet of the Grapes
Magic Pickle and the Planet of the Grapes

By Scott Morse
0-439-87995-7;
$9.99;
Graphix;
Ages 7–10

spacer The Fish Who Cried Wolf
The Fish Who Cried Wolf

By Julia Donaldson
0-439-92825-7;
$15.99;
Arthur A. Levine Books;
Ages 3–5
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Blue Balliett Blue Balliett grew up in New York City, where she often visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim. She studied art history at Brown University. Balliett and her family lived year-round on Nantucket Island for many years, and now live in Chicago, within walking distance of Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House. She taught at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools before becoming a full-time writer. In The Calder Game, Balliett celebrates Alexander Calder's sculpture, and in the process draws the reader into thinking about art and its context, and what it means for a piece of art -- or a person -- to be "foreign." As in the first two in the series, Balliett uses setting that she knows first-hand. While Chasing Vermeer and The Wright 3 are set in her neighborhood of Chicago, The Calder Game takes place in a small community in England, a 1,000 year-old-town that Balliett visited while on a book tour. She states, "I had a wonderful time writing this book I had to do lots of eavesdropping, poking-around, tip-toeing through graveyards, and climbing walls, and then there was all the Cadbury chocolate I had to eat."
Jim Arnosky Jim Arnosky began his career in children's books as a response to the time when fears of Lyme disease took over the media and families were being discouraged from spending time outdoors. Determined to share his enthusiasm for nature with kids, he began writing and illustrating the books that have proved so popular ever since, including All About Rattlesnakes, All About Deer, and other “All About” books for Scholastic. Arnosky advises sensible precautions when exploring outdoors – boots and a hat, for example – but emphasizes that curiosity and a spirit of discovery are the most important traits of young adventurers. His “All About” series is back, and better than ever!
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Hotlanta
By Denene Millner and Mitzi Miller

The Duke twins, Sydney and Lauren, live the life: They attend the fanciest school in Atlanta, they live in Buckhead, the most exclusive neighborhood, and they only date the hottest guys. And their secrets? Are the darkest of all. When their estranged father is released from prison and a murder is committed... Read more
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