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|  | The First Christmas by Tomie dePaola
dePaola's triptych book, with six tableaux, is a three-dimensional celebration of the story of Christ's birth. . . . As succeeding pages are folded down, parts of the story are illustrated with moving panels . . . an unusual presentation of the Christmas story, whose most obvious use would be in a Christmas display or in a holiday story hour .--School Library Journal. Full color. AUTHOR: Tomie dePaola
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | The Orphan Singer by Emily Arnold McCully
With MIRETTE ON THE HIGH WIRE, Emily McCully discovered an instinct for finding the true human story in an exotic setting long ago and far away. In this same tradition came BEAUTIFUL WARRIOR and now THE ORPHAN SINGER. Fascinated by a piece of information about a famous orphanage in Venice--the Pieta--where the great Vivaldi coached talented girls to the heights of musical achievement, McCully traveled to Venice to do research and to sketch among the canals. There the fictional story of one of those girls began to grow in her imagination. Nina, it seems, was not an orphan at all, but a girl from a desperately poor family that couldn't bear to see another child go uneducated and untrained. So Nina's family makes the agonizing decision to give their baby girl into the care of the Pieta, secretly watching over her as if they were any of the strangers and admirers who came to visit the famous foundling prodigies. Though she doesn't know they are family, a bond grows between Nina and the kind strangers, a bond that one day causes her to risk everything they've sacrificed in order to be by their side. AUTHOR: Emily Arnold McCully
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore, Graeme Malcolm
In the mid-19th century, the wife of a great French magician becomes involved with an army officer when her husband is asked to perform his magic tricks for Arab sheikhs in the rebellious province of Algeria. AUTHOR: Brian Moore, Graeme Malcolm
PUBLISHER: Dutton/Plume
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, Emilia Fox, Jenny Agutter
Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal during six turbulent months of 1934, filling three notebooks with sharply funny, yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined Suffolk castle, and her eccentric, penniless family. By the time the last diary is finished, great changes have occurred within the Mortmain household, and Cassandra is herself, deeply and hopelessly, in love. AUTHOR: Dodie Smith, Emilia Fox, Jenny Agutter
PUBLISHER: Audio Partners Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | Pumpkinhead by Eric Rohmann
A young boy faces the unique challenge of having a pumpkin for a head. Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Eric Rohmann
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Trend Friends Using Your Head and Common Scents by Amy Saidens, Lisa Schweitzer
Description not available.Gives step-by-step instructions for creating hairstyles such as braids and twists, offers tips and advice for better hair care, and suggests scents for aromatherapy use. AUTHOR: Amy Saidens, Lisa Schweitzer
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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