ASB Book of the Week

DK continues to publish the most amazing books!  Pictures always enhance the information being read about, and DK manages to exemplify this in any of their Eyewitness books.  In the ASB Library, we now have over two dozen new DK Eyewitness travel books to help plan any of your future trips.  These books help to demonstrate the culture, history, and highlights of any destination.  From Malaysia to Italy to China to India, we have many to choose from. 

Marissa Moss’ journals are addictive.  What started with Amelia’s notebook has continued into many books about Amelia’s life.  She writes about her family, about road trips, about notepassing, about babysitting, about just about anything.  The best part about these journals are the fun illustrations that accompany the entries.  You can see Amelia’s sister’s nose changed into a pig, or a flow chart on notepassing, or depictions of embarrassing moments.  No matter which Amelia journal you pick up, you’re sure to enjoy it–and also feel a little inspired to start a journal of your own.

This book is hilarious! First of all, I think you will be severely disciplined if you follow the tips in this book. But, on the other hand, if you want to be really, really naughty you should definitely follow the rules found in this book. David Greenberg writes a zany, fun book telling us all we should do to be “essentially misbehaviored!” This book is a hoot not to mentions totally tempting. I wish we could all get away by doing what he says!

If you had the choice to control magic, would you take it? Or would you rather stay locked up in your room to avoid it in any possible way? For Reason Cansino, this is no simple question. After her mother ran away from her grandmother, Sarafina is the caretaker and only parent left in Reason’s close family. Esmeralda is Reason’s grandmother. She is bewitched by the practice of black magic, the caretaker of evil, well at least it seems like that. Reason feels no joy in being captured by the police after her mother, Sarafina, goes stark mad. The fact that makes her most miserable is now she has to live with her grandmother until her mother gets better–if she does at all. After a while, the most important question echoes inside her head: what will she choose, Magic or Madness? Along with her friends, Jay Tee and Tom, she learns to trust in herself. Can she find the true magic within her? Magic or Madness is a wonderfully bewitching tale; it’s a must read!