(2) YA It's 1941 in Argue, Saskatchewan. Nora, Jim Ran, and Addie are orphans unsure how to get through winter with no real survival skills beyond ghostly parents doing their best to watch over them. Porter's verse novel presents multiple voices acting as oral histories of characters recording moments in a desperate time. The siblings' concluding measure of hope is well earned and welcome.

Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2011

(3) PS Illustrated by Matt James. Stunning and highly original acrylic paintings depict a little girl's nightly rituals in this gentle and lyrical bedtime book. The incorporation of the lullaby "At the Gate of Heaven (A la puerta del cielo)" is a bit jarring but results in magical double-page spreads of angels soaring through the Milky Way and flying around the moon. Music for the lullaby is appended.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Mary Jane Gerber. When a flood washes away their Montana home on the edge of the Blackfeet Reservation, eleven-year-old Georgia and her grandparents are treated differently than the white people affected by the catastrophe. Georgia also struggles to tame a foal she rescues. Readers will be won over by Georgia's forthright personality and fresh, first-person voice.

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2005