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|  | Daddy Long-Legs by Flo Gibson, Jean Webster
The mysterious Daddy-long-legs promises to send Jerusha Abbot to college...provided she follows his rules. AUTHOR: Flo Gibson, Jean Webster
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | The Bear Went over the Mountain by Rosemary Wells
A version of the popular children's song, illustrated with watercolor and ink drawings. AUTHOR: Rosemary Wells
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | The House That Dracula Built by Judy Sierra, Will Hillenbrand
Who lives in the house that Drac built? One by one, a bat, a cat, a werewolf, a monster, a mummy, a zombie, and other frightful creatures emerge from their hiding places. They chase, wrestle, and roar until the doorbell rings, and in walks a group of fearless trick-or-treaters who know exactly what to do. Destined to become a Halloween classic. Full color. AUTHOR: Judy Sierra, Will Hillenbrand
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Dare Say by Tod Marshall
Eschewing irony for direct statement, the poems in Tod Marshall's first collection imagistically, musically, and passionately articulate a faith in human transcendence. From the mud of our formation ( Choir ) to the dust of our dying ( After Kandinsky ), Marshall's poems lyrically obsess over how the broken and violated can envision and speak a heaven of which we know. Three long poems that shape the book are formative in this process. From the structured order of Bach's Goldberg Variations looming behind the opening poem, Eclipse, to the clash of pagan beauty and traditional religiosity in Botticelli, to the Modernist meditation on form in After Kandinsky, the poems return again and again to the idea of anagogical presence and how it can be best rendered in art to inspire a celebratory ethos of living. Are the violent and shocking events those that best slap us awake? Or are the gentle, lyrical moments the times when we are most keenly aware of the song that is Being? In After Kandinsky, Marshall writes, like syntax a poem that fixes the body to a specific place of points and lines and planes and yet moves to celestial music a poem that tests on fifteenth century truth Whoever loves much does much a poem that glistens with an unmatched insistence a poem that arrives on time and demands everyone nail it to the wall. Here is a declaration that one could nail manifesto-like to the wall as a pronouncement of the need to see, to hear, and to speak of divinity in the world. AUTHOR: Tod Marshall
PUBLISHER: University of Georgia Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola
This vivid retelling of an old Texas legend reveals how the Indian paintbrush, the state flower of Wyoming, first bloomed, and how a young brave dreams of creating a painting that will capture the beauty of a sunset. A handsome retelling .--Booklist, starred review. An American Bookseller Pick of the List Book. A NCSS Notable Children's Trade Book. Full color. AUTHOR: Tomie dePaola
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Paul Auster's noirish trilogy emphasizes the fragility and mysteriousness of identity. In each short novel, a detective figure haunts a man caught up in a web of strange events which he may or may not have orchestrated himself. AUTHOR: Paul Auster
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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