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|  | Squashed by C. J. Critt, Joan Bauer
16-year-old Ellie Morgan sets out to grow a huge, potentially prize-winning pumpkin--all the while trying to lose 20 pounds herself. AUTHOR: C. J. Critt, Joan Bauer
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Cartooning for Kids by Marge Lightfoot
Description not available.Describes the process of creating a cartoon, demonstrates how to draw people, clothing, animals, and movement, and shows how to use texture, color, scenery, visual gags, lettering, and speech balloons AUTHOR: Marge Lightfoot
PUBLISHER: Maple Tree Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | This Book Is Haunted by JoAnn Adinolfi, Joanne Rocklin
A collection of Halloween-themed poems and stories. Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: JoAnn Adinolfi, Joanne Rocklin
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Village School by Gwen Watford, Miss Read
The first novel in the beloved Fairacre series, VILLAGE SCHOOL introduces the remarkable schoolmistress Miss Read and her lovable group of children, who, with a mixture of skinned knees and smiles, are just as likely to lose themselves as their mittens. This is the English village of Fairacre: a handful of thatch-roofed cottages, a church, the school, the promise of fair weather, friendly faces, and good cheer -- at least most of the time. Here everyone knows everyone else's business, and the villagers like each other anyway (even Miss Pringle, the irascible, gloomy cleaner of Fairacre School). With a wise heart and a discerning eye, Miss Read guides us through one crisp, glistening autumn in her village and introduces us to a cast of unforgettable characters and a world of drama, romance, and humor, all within a stone's throw of the school. By the time winter comes, you'll be nestled snugly into the warmth and wit of Fairacre and won't want to leave. AUTHOR: Gwen Watford, Miss Read
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Will You, Won't You? by Jessie Haas
Mad Parker has just graduated from eighth grade, where she had nearly perfected the art of becoming invisible, unnoticed, gone-to teachers, to classmates, to her mother, almost to herself. Now she is spending the summer ( a summer of Three Rs: riding, reading, rotting) with her grandmother, the Powerful Chair of the Senate Finance Committee. The Powerful Chair thinks that dancing-Scottish country dancing, to be exact-will help Mad get over her shyness. Torture. That's what Mad thinks. Is she really any point in going to the Chair's weekly dance class?
In the meantime Mad has other things to worry about. Her horse has developed cow-phobia, e-mail indicates she may be losing her best friend, and being in her parents' hometown brings back thoughts of her father-L.G., he's called, for Long Gone, or G.R., for Good Riddance.
But when the Chair gets involved in a highly publicized environmental controversy, politics and, yes, Scottish dance show Mad the way courage grows. And the surprising places new-grown courage can take you. AUTHOR: Jessie Haas
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Swan by Frances Mayes
Italy-popularizer Frances Mayes, who usually writes about Tuscany, sets her first novel in Swan, Georgia, where the Mason family has ruled for generations. When the bones of a beautiful ancestress who committed suicide are dug up and old secrets surface, the family gathers in Swan to deal with the crisis. AUTHOR: Frances Mayes
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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