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  Whispers from the Elder Tree's...

  Hang Nguyen

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  From the elder tree's roots in Sylvandar's heartwood, where ent's ancient whispers guide the forest's pulse and nymphs blossom in petal-kissed springs, ent Thorne imparts wisdom to nymph Lirael, whose romance unfolds like vines in his timeless embrace. Their blossoming love, rooted in bark oaths and root-shared secrets, nurtures the wood—or stirs a blight from encroaching axes. As they wander root labyrinths and canopy-shaded groves, guarded by thorn sentinels and logger spirits, Thorne's ent wisdom entwines with Lirael's floral vitality, revealing an elder prophecy of rooted harmony. When a felled branch summons rot creepers, they must whisper renewal to heal the tree. In the depth of root whispers, where every bark holds history and every petal sighs with new life, their romance becomes the bloom that sustains the ancient wild.

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  Tyrannosaurus Rex and...

  Editors Charles River

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  The massively popular 1990 novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton and its subsequent movie adaptations led to a huge resurgence in interest in dinosaurs and the prehistoric world. That interest continues to the present day, even though most of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park weren’t actually from the Jurassic period. Triceratops, Velociraptor, Tyrannosaurus Rex and the huge sauropods such as Brachiosaurus that feature in the book and movies all actually belong to the Late Cretaceous period, more than 40 million years after the end of the Jurassic. Regardless, certain kinds of dinosaurs remain instantly recognizable, and among them, the “king” is undoubtedly the Tyrannosaurus.  
  The first discovery of a Tyrannosaurus was made in 1902 and the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever found at the time quickly gripped the popular imagination. Even its name was dramatic - Tyrannosaurus Rex means “King of the Tyrant Lizards.” The T-Rex as it quickly became known didn’t appear until the last age of the Late Cretaceous period, the Maastrichtian, but when it did, it was the biggest and most terrifying of all the theropod predators.  
  	Thanks to the movie, there has been some unwitting confusion over the identity of the Velociraptor, and this confusion was due in large part to the fact the name sounds far more scary than the creature to which the name originally belonged. Moreover, the creature to which the label was applied in the novel and movie was actually a distant cousin named Deinonychus, but as the story goes, the author, Michael Crichton, thought “Velociraptor” sounded “more dramatic.” The actual Velociraptor lived not in the badlands of North America, but in the badlands of central-eastern Asia, and it was not nearly as intimidating as Deinonychus. In fact, the main species of genus Velociraptor - Velociraptor mongoliensis - was no bigger than a turkey.

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  Crimson Twill: Witch in the City

  Kallie George

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  Crimson Twill is a little witch, but you might not know it. She wears boots instead of pointy shoes and a polka-dotted dress instead of a plain black one. On her hat, she wears a big bow. And the hat is crimson, just like her name. 
   
  Crimson lives in the country, but tonight she is going to New Wart City to go shopping at Broomingdale’s for the very first time! Broomingdale’s has everything a witch could itch for, but does it have what Crimson wants most of all? And is Broomingdale’s ready for a witch as unique as Crimson?

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  Life in the Neck: New Friends

  Diane Davies

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  Welcome to life in the Neck, a beautiful place where animals form unbreakable connections. In this book, Delaney, Rocket, and Cardinal Red meet and learn about friendship, cooperation, and the busy world around them. But when danger comes to the Neck, will their bond be strong enough to beat it?

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  Second Sleep

  Anonyme

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  The time by the lake is everything perfect about a childhood summer…and maybe it also holds the answers Max needs. Give this tender middle grade novel to readers who love the mystery, friendships, and touches of magic in novels by Rebecca Stead and Laurel Snyder!  
  To get Max and Rosie’s minds off their mother’s mysterious disappearance, their grandmother, Mozelle, suggests that they visit the old log cabin where their mom spent her summers as a child. This is a place where, when it gets dark, you go to bed. But according to Mozelle, their mother had her happiest dreams during her nights at the lake.    
  That first night, Max and Rosie travel in their dreams to an almost impossibly beautiful place where they meet a wonderful new group of friends. But was it really just a dream? Or is there something extraordinary and magical about this compound by the lake?   
  As Max slowly grasps what is really going on, he wonders if he might have found the key to the mystery of his mother’s disappearance—and how to bring her safely home.

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  Florence Price

  Joanne Mattern

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  Florence Price (1887–1953), an American composer and pianist, was a trailblazer as the first African American woman to gain recognition in classical music. 
  Her compositions, blending traditional Western styles with African American influences, include symphonies, chamber works, and the acclaimed Symphony No. 1. Price’s legacy continues to inspire diversity in classical music.

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