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|  | Franklin Has a Sleepover by Brenda Clark, Paulette Bourgeois
Ages 3-7 AUTHOR: Brenda Clark, Paulette Bourgeois
PUBLISHER: Kids Can Press, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain
Unlike the movie, the Cain novel features no murder. Spanning the Depression era, it is the story of a suburban California wife and mother. At the beginning of the book, Mildred turns out her husband Bert, who is jobless and philandering. In order to support her two children and herself, she begins working as a waitress, which she finds abhorrent. Eventually, after different profitable liaisons, she starts a restaurant chain. She is subsumed in her work, obsessed by it, defined by it--as she is by her relationship to her daughter Veda. She draws Veda's heightened resentment, because the girl loves her father deeply, and Veda ultimately betrays Mildred. AUTHOR: James M. Cain
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Skeleton Dance
Description not available.Located in a small French village with an unusual concentration of prehistoric bones, the Institut de Prehistoire is taxed to its limits when a dog uncovers some suspicious skeletal remains and fresh bodies begin piling up in the town as a result. Reprint.
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The True-or-False Book of Horses by Patricia Lauber, Rosalyn Schanzer
This book, written in a question-and-answer format, invites readers to learn interesting and cool facts about horses. With color illustrations. AUTHOR: Patricia Lauber, Rosalyn Schanzer
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Sword Song by Rosemary Sutcliff
Banished from his country for a murder he didn't commit, a 16-year-old Viking named Bjarni begins a new life as a mercenary. Bjarni's adventures take him from England to Dublin and eventually to Scotland, where he gets caught up in conflicts between feuding clans. AUTHOR: Rosemary Sutcliff
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Girl with 500 Middle Names by Janet Hamlin, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Hoping to give their daughter a better education, Janie's parents move the family to a new neighborhood. To raise extra money to buy Janie new school clothes, Janie's mother designs sweaters with children's names knitted into them--but when they don't sell, Janie is reduced to wearing the sweaters to school herself. This situation doesn't help Janie fit in at her new school where almost all the kids seem rich and snobby and are now always asking her why she is wearing sweaters with someone else's name on them. AUTHOR: Janet Hamlin, Margaret Peterson Haddix
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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