false 328151 6502733 0375863362 9780375863363 0 <![CDATA[Five Children and It]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6502733-five-children-and-it 5.00 1 25352 3.92 4425 391 55825 4.00 9 1 328151 3.67 180 82 1902 2433893 0375847197 9780375847196 28 <![CDATA[Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1207354995m/2433893.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1207354995s/2433893.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2433893.Up_and_Down_the_Scratchy_Mountains 3.49 71 328151 3.67 180 82 2008 4628647 0375855602 9780375855603 32 <![CDATA[Any Which Wall]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255888564m/4628647.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255888564s/4628647.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4628647.Any_Which_Wall 3.79 53 Four kids, a mysterious wall, and a good helping of common magic!

If you had a magic wall that could take you to any place and any time, where would you go? Would you want to visit castles and desert islands? Would you want to meet famous wizards, terrible pirates, beautiful queens, and dastardly outlaws? If so, then you are just like Henry and Emma, and Roy and Susan—and you will probably like this story a lot. In fact, you might even wish something similar would happen to you!

In Any Which Wall, author Laurel Snyder proves that you don’t have to be an orphan, know a dragon, or even be a child to get a taste of magic. You just have to keep your mind open and willing to let it happen. And when you do find magic (like Henry, Emma, Roy, and Susan), you might be surprised that along with all the fun, you also find out new things about your friends, your family, and maybe even a little bit about who you really want to be.]]> 328151 3.67 180 82 2009 245795 1933368241 9781933368245 7 <![CDATA[Half/Life: Jew-Ish Tales from Interfaith Homes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173100577m/245795.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173100577s/245795.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245795.Half_Life_Jew_Ish_Tales_from_Interfaith_Homes 3.62 21 Half/Life explore the experience of being raised in a half-Jewish home. Though each essay is distinct, and the experiences are vastly different, each describes growing up without a streamlined identity, unsure of community or religious direction. From Jenny Traig, whose experiences led her to extreme devotion in the form of religious-obsessive compulsion (scrupulosity) to Thisbe Nissen, who finally felt Jewish after discovering a rosary in her boyfriend’s sock drawer, these authors examine the complicated relationships they felt with the Jewish community and the world at large. By turns tragic and funny, religious and heartbreaking, angry and surprisingly familiar, Half/Life represents the altogether diverse memories and reflections of a handful of men and women who have spent a lifetime grappling with how to define themselves, or not. Resulting from that struggle is a complex exploration, and some truly brilliant prose. </div>]]> 328151 3.67 180 82 2006 604920 1582461872 9781582461878 10 <![CDATA[Inside the Slidy Diner]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1207442486m/604920.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1207442486s/604920.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/604920.Inside_the_Slidy_Diner 3.26 19 Inside The Slidy Diner, everyone shouts and coughs. Clatter and Din! Hullabaloo!
Inside The Slidy Diner, the noise is always. But there's no music.
Inside The Slidy Diner, the floors all slant and the tables tilt.
When a sticky bun rolls onto the floor, Ethelmae sweeps it up and serves it again. To you.

Meet Edie, who resides--permanently--at The Slidy Diner. She'd really like it if you would join her. With Edie as your guide you'll have no trouble avoiding the wigglepedes, and she'll steer you away from the pumpkin asparagus pie with crunchy-bit topping (nobody knows what the crunchy bits are).

In her first picturebook, author Laurel Snyder teams with artist Jaime Zollars to give readers the ultimate greasy spoon experience, and leaves them wondering: Do the creepy goings-on at The Slidy Diner really exist or are they the product of a lonely girl's imagination?

]]> 328151 3.67 180 82 2007 2116092 0615161324 9780615161327 4 <![CDATA[The Myth of the Simple Machines]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2116092.The_Myth_of_the_Simple_Machines 4.64 11 328151 3.67 180 82 2007 6490353 1 <![CDATA[Daphne and Jim: a choose-your-own-adventure biography in verse]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6490353-daphne-and-jim 4.33 3 328151 3.67 180 82