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|  | Imani's Music by Jude Daly, Sheron Williams
Every once in awhile, Grandfather would tell a story about the land of Used-to-Be. This was how his story began: Used to be a time when there was no music on the planet. Only one tiny creature, a grasshopper named Imani, was blessed with the gift of music. Imani sang his beautiful songs alone, all the while praying, Please, Ancestors, give music to the world. Answering his prayer, they shook music out of the sky, pouring song on Africa's mountain ranges, on the grasslands, all the way to the shore. But when Imani is swept onto a slave ship and taken across the ocean, he doesn't know where to turn, and music is his only guide. Sheron William's rich story of a grasshopper's special gift -- complemented by Jude Daly's stunning depictions of Africa and the New World, Heaven and Earth -- is a testament to the universal language of music. AUTHOR: Jude Daly, Sheron Williams
PUBLISHER: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Maizon at Blue Hill by Jacqueline Woodson
In this sequel to Last Summer with Maizon , Maizon accepts a scholarship to a predominantly white boarding school, leaving her grandmother and best friend Margaret behind on Madison Street. Although Blue Hill offers her much, Maizon finds the white students make her uncomfortable, and the four other black students seem threatening. What is it that is missing in this wonderful opportunity for Maizon? AUTHOR: Jacqueline Woodson
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Water Cycle by Gail Saunders-Smith, Helen Frost
Description not available.Simple text and photographs describe the stages of the water cycle AUTHOR: Gail Saunders-Smith, Helen Frost
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Where Do Polar Bears Learn? by Giulio Maestro
Where do polar hears learn their ABCs.The chilly students go to a cool school! Beginning readers will have a ton of fun guessing the rhyming answers to these twenty-two original riddles about school.Marco and Giulio Maestro's first I Can Read Book, What Do You Hear When Cows Sing?: And Other Silly Riddles, won this praise from Booklist: Puns and wordplay are a great way to show new readers that books can be joyful nonsense. The questions are as entertaining as the answers, and the overblown pictures pick up the playful connections. These jokes need sharing. AUTHOR: Giulio Maestro
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Man Who Fell to Earth by George Guidall, Walter Tevis
Searching for a stable planet, an alien arrives on Earth in a badly damaged spaceship. Using his advanced knowledge of science, he sets himself up as the head of a corporation with the intention of privately building a spaceship with which to ferry his people from their dead world to Earth. As he struggles to understand human nature and complete his task, he runs afoul of human greed, corruption, and vice, and becomes embroiled in the decadence and wastefulness of a society bent on self-destuction. A classic novel of science fiction by the author of THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT and THE HUSTLER. AUTHOR: George Guidall, Walter Tevis
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Mastering Math Skills by Stephanie Smith
Description not available.Covers basic mathematical concepts and offers related exercises and practice problems. AUTHOR: Stephanie Smith
PUBLISHER: Peterson's
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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