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Bledsoe, Lucy Jane
4 Reviews
(3)
4-6
Bledsoe relies on her experience during three trips to Antarctica to write this chatty, informative view of life on the remote, unforgiving continent. In short chapters, text boxes, and black-and-white photos, she describes Antarctica's natural history, tells stories of her adventures, and discusses survival skills. Without an index, the book is more suited to armchair explorers than researchers. Timeline. Glos.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth
(4)
4-6
Twelve-year-old Victoria, an aspiring astrophysicist, wins a trip to Antarctica in a contest sponsored by a land development company disguised as a kids' science website. Victoria is an independent, strong-willed protagonist in this contrived adventure story, which features some humorous e-mail exchanges with the runner-up in the contest and facts about the South Pole.
Reviewer: Sam Bloom
(4)
4-6
Sixth-grader River dreams of playing for the WNBA. Her dream, however, is curtailed when she makes the B-Team rather than the preferred A-Team. Yet River rallies her "Hoop Girlz" through leadership, teamwork, and laughter--and a little help from her older brother. The thin story line is a bit too convenient, but the characters entertain, and the basketball practices and the drama of being "cut" ring true.
Reviewer: Charlotte S. Huck
(3)
4-6
While thirteen-year-old Isabel Ramirez is working at her summer job weeding the garden of a house in Oakland, California, she realizes that neighbors want to kill a cougar that lives in the hills. Izzie and her cousins try to protect the cougar, and she learns about the complexity of human nature. The novel is peopled with colorful and sympathetic characters.
Reviewer: Patricia Riley
4 reviews
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