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  Benny Feldman's All-Star Klezmer...

  Allison Marks, Wayne Marks

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  Eleven-year-old Benny Feldman spends his days at Sieberling School obeying his number-one rule for surviving sixth grade: blend into the background. 
   
  So when he signs up his klezmer band to play in the school talent show, his classmates are shocked. Teased by guitar superstar and former friend Jason Conroy, Benny vows to win the trophy and erase the embarrassing nickname that has haunted him since his disastrous debut performance in an first-grade Sabbath play. 
   
  But, there is a problem. Benny Feldman's All-Star Klezmer Band is only a figment of Benny's imagination. He loves the traditional klezmer music of Eastern Europe, but how is he going to find other players to join him? 
   
  With the show a few months away, Benny, an accomplished fiddler, embarks on a quest to assemble a band that will beat Jason's rock group at the talent show. His search takes him to an arcade convention, a potato chip factory, an oddities shop, and a storage room stacked with cans of creamed corn and succotash. Along the way he meets Jennifer, a jazz-loving drummer; Royce, a bow-tie-wearing clarinet prodigy; and Stuart, a braggart accordion player from Cajun Country. He also learns a great deal about the joys and sorrows that lie at the heart of klezmer and discovers that being different can be wonderful. 
   
  Eventually, the ragtag and renamed "Klez Misfits" mount the stage and the tension-filled climax will have young readers wondering until the end if Benny and his band can pull off a miracle. 
   
  This fun, feel-good story shows how friends, family, history and culture can all build confidence. Benny learns to believe in himself and has fun and finds love along the way.

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  Firesong

  Vashti Hardy

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  Arthur and Maudie Brightstorm are back home in Lontown after their exhilarating—and secret—adventures in Erythea. Maudie’s sky-ak invention is a hit and Harriet Culpepper has just announced that she will freely share her skyship’s hydroelectric technology. Even Eudora Vane seems to have softened  
  toward them now that her memory has been erased. 
   
  Still, tensions are brewing. The existence of super-sapient creatures on other continents threatens how some Explorers see themselves in the natural order of the world. When Arthur and Maudie begin hearing a strange song summoning them north—a song only they can hear—they know there’s an adventure waiting  
  for them that may change the lives of everyone in the Wide. 
   
  But the Aurora’s not the only skyship journeying northward to uncover the region’s secrets. The North holds answers to the twins’ family history and is home to another legendary super-sapient creature: the earth-bear. And there is someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the Brightstorm name, someone  
  who is not above exploiting any person or creature to ensure her success. 
   
  Return to Vashti Hardy’s “marvelously imagined” world (Publishers Weekly) in this sweeping and propulsive conclusion to the Brightstorm Twins trilogy.

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  Little Ash Collection

  Ash Barty, Jasmin McGaughey

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  Little Ash Collection has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

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  The Dog Snatcher - A Children's...

  Phyllis Wheeler

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  *** An award-winner! This family-friendly book was designated a finalist for the prestigious Selah Award for Christian Fiction and received a Purple Dragonfly Award from Story Monsters Magazine ***The Dog Snatcher, a Christian Children’s Action AdventureGet ready for a thrilling adventure that will take you through time and space in this Christian high-action, illustrated series, perfect for readers ages 8 -11.Join 11-year-old twins Jake and Ava, as they race to save their beloved dog from a scruffy teen who snatched him away. But when the thief mysteriously disappears, the siblings stumble upon a time-travel key that can bring them to different places and eras. Can they use it to rescue their dog before it's too late?Follow Jake and Ava as they travel to historic Vienna and France and present-day St. Louis, all while learning valuable lessons about Christian living, such as dealing with lying, finding courage, getting along with siblings, and praying for guidance.This award-winning story is for you if you liked The Magic Tree House series and the Green Ember series, not to mention "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego." Enjoy 18 illustrations and a second-grade reading level of Lexile® 550L. Don't miss out on this action-packed journey through time and space."A totally magical time-travel adventure, and a thrilling beginning to an exciting series!"-John Hendrix, New York Times #1 bestselling author of The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien

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  Out of Time and Out of Place: A...

  Editors Charles River

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  “Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.” - Edward M. Lerner, physicist and author  
  	We take time for granted as it passes during every moment of our existence. Other things may change, but time remains constant and predictable. The past, the present, and the future exist within a harmonious, reliable, and never-changing system. Or at least that’s how it seems… 
  	It was Albert Einstein who, in 1905, first theorized that time might not be quite as straightforward as that. In one of the most influential papers on physics ever published[1], he proposed something called “time dilatation.” This suggested that time was neither fixed nor constant and that the passage of time was related to the relative speed of the observer. The closer an object approached the speed of light, the more notable this effect was. For example, if it were possible to build an interstellar craft capable of reaching speeds that approached the speed of light, the passengers on that ship might experience the passage of a single year during a voyage, but when they returned to Earth, they might find that dozens of years had passed on the planet. 
  	That was a truly revolutionary idea back in 1905, and it wasn’t until the 1960s that technology had advanced to the point that it was possible to conduct experiments to check Einstein’s theory by measurement. Those experiments and subsequent tests proved that he was entirely correct. Even in 1908, new theories proposed that time was the fourth dimension of spacetime and that it wasn’t fixed at all but governed by the same laws of relativity that applied to other aspects of physics. 
  	These were exciting developments, and current theories of physics have taken this idea even further, suggesting that both space and time are “emergent.”

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  The Curse of the Lost Cave

  Stephanie Bearce

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  It’s Outlaw Days in Sassafras Springs, and everyone in town has “treasure fever.” Can Raven and her friends discover a legendary treasure before it falls into the wrong hands? 
   
  When a mysterious book is unearthed at a nearby archaeological dig, Raven Gallows and her friends embark on a quest to uncover the rumored hidden treasure of the legendary outlaw Alf Bolin.   
   
  But they quickly discover they’re not the only ones chasing the prize. Dominion, a shadowy conglomerate with a suspicious history, is also on the hunt. Raven suspects that her mother and the elusive Dupin Society might also be investigating a deeper conspiracy tied to the corporation.  
   
  Facing rival treasure hunters, cryptic riddles, and potential betrayal, Raven must rely on her wits and courage, and her trust in her friends, to stay ahead of those who might steal the treasure for their own use. Along the way, she grapples with questions of morality, the preservation of history, and the sacrifices required to pursue the truth.   
   
  When the Truth Trackers’ journey leads them to a lost cave, they must survive a final test of honor and bravery to outsmart their adversaries and recover the treasure—before it’s too late.

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