by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
When Lily of the Valley retirement home in Stockholm is sold to ghastly new owners and renamed Diamond House, the cloistered pensioners who reside there get fed up. Their food is "delivered and served under cellophane wrapping," and budget cuts curb their daily coffee consumption. Believing they would be better treated and have more freedom in prison, a group of five friends who, in their late 50s, decided to live together in old age, start a rebellion to test their theory. Banded together by 79-year-old,
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by Ace Atkins
After training an Afghani police force, Quinn Colson returns to Jericho, Miss., where Lillie Virgil is acting sheriff. Quinn's father has grand plans to turn Quinn's farm into a dude ranch. His girlfriend Anna Lee is moving to Memphis. And a teenager consumed by raging fire walks down the middle of the road in a desperate attempt to get help. The sixth in Ace Atkins's series may be his darkest yet.
Quinn thought he was finished policing in his hometown when the community voted him out as sheriff. But the gruesome
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by Lynne Rae Perkins
Newbery-winning author Lynne Rae Perkins (Criss Cross; All Alone in the Universe) paints a picture of a redheaded boy whose bad day turns around when he brings a friendly black dog home from the pound: "One day when Frank could not win for losing, he got Lucky."
Frank and Lucky Get Schooled is a story about a boy and his dog, yes, but it's also a funny, inventive exploration of the nature of learning and the interconnectedness of all things. Science, for instance: "Science is when you wonder about something,
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