Books published by publisher ALADDIN BOOKS, NEW YORK

3 Books By Lauren Myracle: ttyl, ttfn, & l8r,g8r. Lauren Myracle follows the friendship of three fifteen-year-old girls-Angela (SnowAngel), Maddie (mad maddie), and Zoe (zoegirl)-through the roller coaster ride of tenth grade, with its boy temptation, donut runs, driving lessons, math torture, and queen bee encounters. The winsome threesome handles it all...then life suddenly jumps the tracks.

Ever have a pumpkin vine go traveling into your neighbor's gardens and provide them with the pumpkins you expected to harvest for yourself? Well, that's what happened to unneighborly Mr. Miser of the rackety packety house. How the pumpkins disappeared almost under his nose, when he thought he had them spotted; how an accident almost made the neighbors take a hand; and how his pitiful attempts to make pumpkin pies out of the three he salvaged from the road finally won over the neighborhood cooks, makes an engaging story which has an absurdity in adult behavior that appeals to young listeners. The Anne Merriman Peck pictures in green and pumpkin yellow are in keeping with the text. Again, I'd question the placing of this book at the 8-12 level indicated. It seems definitely a read aloud book for 6 -- 8.

"Limited Edition For Teachers: Full Text including a Teacher's Guide" age and grieve-that's all Moqi can do against her terrible fate. Her own kin have banished her from all she's ever known-her homeland, the Folk, the moors-and sent her to live with humans! The man with his fearful, threatening iron, the woman who smothers her with embraces: Moql couldn't care less about them. All she wants is to go back home. But MoqI, called Saaski by the man and woman, will have to care, for though she isn't human, she isn't Folk either. She's half of both, making her not quite one nor the other. And the Folk have already rejected her once. Even if she could go back, they would surely do it again. Moql/Saaski must fit in with these people to survive, and this may be more difficult than she thinks. Because humans don't just banish others who are different from them, they fear them. And a fearful human can be very dangerous. * "Detailing Saaski's struggles with her nature, her memories, and the ties that bind her to both worlds, McGraw creates an unusual and absorbing story.... [This] engrossing novel will be an excellent choice to read aloud, beginning with its dedication: 'To all children who have ever felt different." -Booklist, starred review Changeling: an ugly, stupid or strange child superstitiously believed to have been left by fairies in place of a pretty, charming child. Random House Dictionary, Unabridged Ed. The fairies' normal method was to steal an unchristened child, who had not been given proper protection, out of the cradle and to leave a substitute in its place. . . . The true changelings are those fairy creatures who replace the stolen babies. An Encyclopedia of Fairies by Katharine Briggs