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Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Alan's Books

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Prisoner B-3087

Yanek Gruener is a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland when the Nazis invade. Everything he has and everyone he loves has been brutally taken from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner, his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087.

Suggested audience: Ages 10 and up
 
Starfleet Academy: The Assassination Game

When a terrorist attack rocks Starfleet Academy, it’s clear someone has a very serious—and very deadly—secret agenda. It's up to instructor Spock and cadets Kirk, McCoy, Uhura, Sulu, and Chekov to get to the bottom of it.

Suggested audience: Ages 12 and Up

 

Fantasy Baseball

A flying monkey in the outfield. A toad at short. Dorothy from
The Wizard of Oz on the mound. Alex thinks he’s dreaming, but the Oz Cyclones exist here in Ever After, where storybook characters live on as long as kids in the real world believe in them.

Suggested audience: Ages 8 to 12

The Brooklyn Nine 

The story of nine "innings," or nine generations, of Schneider children from 1845 to the present, and their enduring connections to Brooklyn, baseball, and American history.

Suggested audience: Ages 12 and Up



Something Wicked 

A Scottish Highland Fair turns foul when its beloved founder is found dead in his tent. Horatio Wilkes is on the case, but he'll need all his snark and all his smarts--and a little "Amazing Grace"--to bring the killer to justice.

Suggested audience: Ages 14 and Up



Something Rotten 

A stinking-rich family. A reeking paper plant. A murder most foul. Something is definitely rotten in Denmark, Tennessee, and only 17-year-old detective Horatio Wilkes can sniff out the killer.

Suggested audience: Ages 14 and Up



Samurai Shortstop 

Sixteen-year-old Toyo Shimada must blend baseball with bushido--the way of the warrior--to prove to his father there is still room for their family's samurai traditions in turn of the century Japan.

Suggested audience: Ages 12 and Up
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