From: Marsha Valance <Mvalan>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:37:14 -0600

Here are my juvenile & YA recommendations--

Fletcher, Susan. Alphabet of Dreams. NY: Atheneum, 2006. A 14-year-old Persian noblewoman and her psychic five-year-old brother join the Magi for their journey to Bethlehem. YA.

Funke, Cornelia C. When Santa Fell to Earth. New York : Scholastic, 2006. When his caravan comes crashing down to earth during a thunderstorm two weeks before Christmas, Santa is befriended by two children, Charlotte and Ben, who try to help him save the holiday from the moneymaking schemes of Gerold Geronimus Goblynch. YA.

Gideon, Melanie. Pucker: a novel. NY: Razorbill, 2006. A badly scarred teenager travels to his birthworld to retrieve his mother's seerskin in order to heal her. YA.

Mason, Sophie. Snow, Fire, Sword. NY: Eos, 2006. In a mythic Indonesia, a village healer's daughter and an apprentice sword-maker embark on a desperate quest for 3 talismans to deliver their land from a threatening evil. YA.

Yolen, Jane & Adam Stemple. Trollbridge: a Rock'n'Roll Fairy Tale. New York : Starscape, 2006. When a troll kidnaps the Minnesota Dairy Princesses, a young classical violinist and a boy band must join forces to rescue them. YA.




Marsha Valance Management Librarian Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped 813 West Wells St. Milwaukee, WI 53233-1436 1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
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