Old Yeller
by Fred Gipson

Travis befriends a clever stray dog.

 

National Velvet
by Enid Bagnold

A fourteen-year-old girl is determined to turn her untamed horse into a champion.

 

Magyk
by Angie Sage

How would you like to discover when you are 10 years old that the Heap family you’ve grown up in is not your real family and you are actually a Princess? Jenna isn’t sure how she feels to suddenly be royalty, which means moving to a palace where she will be supervised by the bossy ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand. But this is only one of her problems. Jenna has a secret enemy determined to make sure she won’t live to become Queen. And who is that strange Boy 412?

From the Ground Up: Building Silicon Valley
by Goodwin Steinberg
Architect Goodwin Steinberg has been actively involved in changing the Silicon Valley landscape since the 1950's. He has designed many prominent buildings in the San José and Santa Clara County including the Tech Museum, the Children's Shelter and the renovated County Court House across from St. James Park. From the Ground Up is both a memoir and a retrospective survey of his architectural work, containing photos of his many imaginative designs.

Reviewed by Faith Mason

My Kindergarten
by Rosemary Wells

Emily takes a month-by-month look at the kindergarten year.

Mouse's First Day of School
by Lauren Thompson

Mouse finds a world of new objects and new friends at school.