Come See What S New at All of Your FISD Libraries

Come See What’s New At All of Your FISD Libraries!!

November New Arrivals- Featured JLG Books by Campus Level

Elementary Level:

Who is more atlético? More inteligente? Whose tail is better at comunicación? Find out in this pet showdown between los perros and los gatos.

Long before The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter loved to paint the bunnies, mice, and other pets who populated her family home.

John Howland was an indentured servant on the Mayflower. In America, he played a vital role in settling Plymouth Colony and became one of its leading citizens.

When a fire divides the community, a new minister unfairly blames Judd, Marty’s dog’s former, abusive owner. Marty wonders why people can’t see that Judd has changed?

Middle School Level:

An imaginary friend who won’t let go; a recluse bird-hunter who kidnaps girls; and a magician with sinister tricks. A collection of suspenseful stories from eleven masterful children’s authors.

Vermont, 1969: The residents of Mimi’s predominantly white town are curious about her mixed ethnicity. She’d rather discuss her dream of becoming an astronaut—but that just makes them laugh. A novel in verse.

Feo loves her life—in the snowy Russian wilderness, she and her mother untame domesticated wolves. Then her mother is taken captive, and Feo must go to St. Petersburg to save her.

Suzy doesn’t believe that her former best friend Franny, a strong swimmer, could have drowned. After seeing a jellyfish exhibit, she sets out to prove her hypothesis: Franny was stung by a deadly Irukandji.

High School Level:

Peak, coming off his almost-ascension of Mount Everest, is tapped for a Peace Climb in the Hindu Kush Mountains. When most of the group—including Peak’s mom—is kidnapped, Peak and a former marine set out to rescue them. The sequel to Peak.

Petrel is orphaned and alone aboard a three-hundred-year-old ship that’s divided by tribes. When the crew rescues a strange boy, Petrel befriends him—but perhaps at dire cost.

In poems, Margarita Engle depicts her school years in California, summers in her mother’s native Cuba, and how the 1961 demise of U.S.-Cuban relations affected her family. Cold War time line. Author’s note.

Fourteen acclaimed YA authors each contribute an original gruesome story to this collection full of murder, revenge, ghosts, monsters, and other nightmare-inducing fare.

These are just a few highlighted titles of what is coming in for November. Your library receives many new titles every month. Please encourage your child to try out new books and ask their library facilitator to show them the new books displayat their campus library.