Katana is the fourth story in Lisa Yee's popular Super Hero High series. Even though Katana is training to be a super hero, she is trying very hard to maintain her Samurai ways.
Katana is met with many of the same challenges as the other super hero students: Wonder Woman, Batgirl and Super Girl. She is trying to balance her classes, be a good fencing team captain, and unravel a mystery of some ancient Samurai swords!
Have you ever had to choose between what your parents want you to do and what you want to do? Trish, the main character in Trish’s Team, the first book in the Lady Tiger’s Series by Dawn Brotherton, often finds herself at odds with her parents.
Sirius de Soum de Gaia was born, along with two sisters and four brothers, to two of the best show dogs in history and has always been told to keep his head high, regardless of anything that might happen.
Going Too Far is the third installment in the Kylxon Chronicles series, and so far, we have found that Mr. Memmer and Mrs. Wamdoffer are working together to steal Kanata’s (Mrs. Wamdoffer’s adopted granddaughter’s) inheritance. Pack and Sydney have been successful up until now helping Kanata, and they are ready for a little break.
Spurt is about a boy named Jack Sprigley who hasn't gone through puberty yet. He thinks his friends completely forgot about him and moved on to other people because he is the last in the ninth grade to go through puberty. They are busy getting girlfriends and dating, but he still looks like a little kid. He decides to fake puberty to try and win his friends back.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School by Jeff Kinney is yet another funny Greg Heffley book! Greg’s mom thinks everyone in the community should give up electronics, gets involved volunteering for a Park Clean Up Day, and has crazy new plans to potty-train Manny. Greg’s Dad always seems ready to criticize, and Roderick is working as a mascot at Old Timey Ice Cream, which isn’t turning out to be the kind of job he expected. The family pig is back, and now that Leisure Towers’ rent has gone up, Grandpa has moved in with the Heffley family.
The story of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagewea, is almost non-existent. Until now. In Ms. McCully's reproduction of his story, she gives him the ambition of a scholar, the confusion of a child, and a crockpot of questions. With Native American blood that runs in his veins, Baptiste must find his way through a childhood in St. Louis and an adolescence in Germany. Throughout his life he tries to figure out why the world must be so focused on divisions when they are trying to promote progression and democracy.
Lynne is facing a lot of disappointments in the world of ballet. She's short on money, and she's losing her friends. Lynne has no one to lean on. This isn't the life she expected.
Artistic director of the ballet studio, Damien Black, suggests she helps fellow dancers. Getting an opportunity to perform across France during the summer rests on how well that goes and her attitude. Damien even asks her to present his new ballet, An American in Paris, in France. But the cost of the trip is more than she can afford. However, Uncle Leo might be able to help.
