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|  | The Aliens Have Landed by Kenn Nesbitt, Margeaux Lucas
Ken Nesbitt is a brilliant new star in the poetry galaxy. He has the rhythmic genius of Jack Prelutsky and the humor of Bruce Lansky. Children will love the world of Ken Nesbitt, a world where he talks about mashed potatoes on the ceiling, kangaruplets, the pin of shots, awful brothers and sisters, skunks falling in love, anti-gravity machines and other funny, imaginative subjects. The poems selected for the book were tested by a panel of elementary and middle school students. AUTHOR: Kenn Nesbitt, Margeaux Lucas
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
Ray Midge goes in pursuit of his wife Norma, who has run away with her first husband, following her via her credit card receipts from Arkansas to Central America. There he meets the eccentric and visionary Dr. Reo Symes. Symes is seeking an elusive spiritual guru named John Selmer Dix, Ray is seeking his wife, and the two team up in a madcap road trip. AUTHOR: Charles Portis
PUBLISHER: Overlook Press, The
FORMAT: Other
CATEGORY: General
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 | Peter Benchley's Creature by Peter Benchley
Researchers at a marine biology lab in Connecticut discover a pregnant great white shark. They soon learn, though, that science has created a monster far more dangerous that lurks in the same waters. AUTHOR: Peter Benchley
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Bottoms by Alan M. Clark, Don Jellerson, Joe R. Lansdale
It's 1933 in a small town in East Texas, but 11-year-old Harry Collins has not yet been indoctrinated into the racism that pervades his community. His eyes are opened to ugly realities after he and his little sister find a murdered African-American prostitute in the bottom lands near the Sabine River. In Harry's childlike mind, the horrific injustices that follow in the wake of the discovery of the body become entwined with the dark, mysterious folk tales he has been hearing all his life. The result is an American murder mystery as it might have been imagined by the Brothers Grimm. AUTHOR: Alan M. Clark, Don Jellerson, Joe R. Lansdale
PUBLISHER: Warner Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Under the Beetle's Cellar by C. J. Critt, Mary Willis Walker
In Walker's second 'Molly Cates' novel, a school bus driver and 11 of his young charges are kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics and held underground at the group's highly fortified compound. Crime reporter Molly Cates steps in to help the authorities, and her ex-husband, negotiate with Samuel Mordecai, the cult's iron-willed leader. AUTHOR: C. J. Critt, Mary Willis Walker
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Memories of Ana Calderon by Graciela Limon
Ana`s idyllic childhood, romping among the dunes in a Mexican fishing village, is shattered when her mother dies in childbirth, and Ana must assume the duties of caring for the younger ones of the family. Not only must she assume adult responsibility, but she must challenge her community`s consensus about the role she has inherited as a female. In order to earn enough for his family to survive, Ana`s father takes the children and an adopted son to the United States. Here begins Ana`s long torturous odyssey towards self-fulfillment. On the way, she must face her father`s ever-increasing wrath, her sisters` envy and society`s rigidity as she becomes more independent. But what is in store for her is more pain than her father alone can inflict: a treacherous love affair that leaves her with child, banishment from the sisters she has raised, a prison term, grueling agricultural work. Ana overcomes all but fate itself in this novel of surprising plot twists and unforgiving destiny. AUTHOR: Graciela Limon
PUBLISHER: Arte Publico Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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