October’s roundup of New in Paperback titles includes MIRACLE ON 49th STREET, a sports and holiday novel from Mike Lupica in which a basketball superstar finally may have met his match; THE GREAT AMERICAN MOUSICAL by Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton, a humorous tale about a group of mice whose rehearsals for their own musical come to an abrupt halt when their theater is threatened by demolition and the leading lady mouse disappears; Jules Feiffer’s A ROOM WITH A ZOO, the story of a nine-year-old girl who manages to assemble living creatures large and small in her room while waiting for the one animal she wants more than anything in the world; and the continuation of Alexander McCall Smith’s Harriet Bean and Akimbo chapter book series.
THE GREAT AMERICAN MOUSICAL written by Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton
illustrated by Tony Walton
HarperTrophy
ISBN: 9780060579203
Ages 8-up
176 pages
AKIMBO AND THE SNAKES written by Alexander McCall Smith
illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books
ISBN: 9781599900346
Ages 7-9
80 pages
THE COWGIRL AUNT OF HARRIET BEAN written by Alexander McCall Smith
illustrated by Laura Rankin
Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books
ISBN: 9781599900551
Ages 7-9
96 pages
THE RACE OF THE BIRKEBEINERS written by Lisa Lunge-Larsen
illustrated by Mary Azarian
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
ISBN: 9780618915996
Ages 6-10
32 pages
THE GIRL WITH THE BROKEN WING
THE GREAT AMERICAN MOUSICAL
MIRACLE ON 49th STREET
MY NAME IS SALLY LITTLE SONG
ON CHRISTMAS EVE
A ROOM WITH A ZOO
THREE GOOD DEEDS
WIND TAMER
AKIMBO AND THE SNAKES
GOLDEN & GREY: THE NIGHTMARES THAT GHOSTS HAVE
THE COWGIRL AUNT OF HARRIET BEAN
ESCAPE FROM CASTLE CANT
