Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Go Beneath the Surface this summer

In 1899 on an island off the coast of Maine, fifteen-year-old May learns why she has always felt different from the other girls in her small town, but must keep hidden that she is a mermaid or risk attracting the attention of a dangerous hunter, and losing a boy for whom she cares  Request title here   



This is the story of how a boy, a dog, a scientist, and Google Earth found a nearly two-million-year-old fossil from a skeleton that just may rewrite the story of human evolution. Chronicles the story behind one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of all time, explaining its significance for understanding human evolution and how it is shaping the thinking of the scientific community.  Request title here

Raised underground by a robot, twelve-year-old Eva Nine finally finds all she ever wanted in the human colony of New Attica, but something very bad is going on there and unless Eva and her friends stop it, it could mean the end of life on Orbona.  Request title here