The Toadstool Bookshops of Keene, Milford, and Peterborough, NH

It is the North of Ireland in the 1980’s. Fergus McCann is a great kid ready to leave his little coastal town and break out on his own. He wants to pass the driving test, do well enough on his exams to qualify for university, have a couple of pints with his uncle at the pub while he sorts out his feelings for beautiful, wild Cora. Then there is the anguish of waiting for the phone to ring with news of his brother on hunger strike with other IRA prisoners.
When Fergus discovers the 2000-year-old body of a girl preserved in a peat bog she begins to tell her story through his restless dreams. Separations of time, geography, political allegiance, suddenly seem more like connections as the workings of larger events play into the lives of ordinary people.
Punctuated by the lyrics of John Lennon and The Clash, the edicts of Margaret Thatcher, the tense undercurrent of waiting for something or someone to explode, Bog Child is a fantastic story that describes one experience of the terrible beauty of living.

What did you do on your summer vacation? How about heading north of San Francisco to save a forest of old growth redwoods? Julian Carter-Li and his friends set out to do just that; but first they’ll need to do some creative scheming, exchange a lot of funny emails and learn to milk a goat named "Bunny."
This engaging read will also be a spark for lively discussion on an array of topics from tree houses to taking on the corporations.

It's wordy, it's loquacious, it's verbose! Mostly it's great fun: a rollicking read-aloud mini-thesaurus filled with colorful animals introducing and describing themselves. This book is sure to be a hit at story time. Young children will contribute to dramatic interpretations as the succession of animals captures their imaginations, winding down with the sleepy (somnolent, dreamy) bat at the end.