Knopf/Random House.Knopf/Random House 1745 Broadway, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of NY 10019 www.randomhouse.com/kids Five new titles are top picks for middle to high school leisure readers, offering superior plots and diverse scenarios. Tobias Druitt's Corydon & The Island Of Monsters (037583382X, $15.95) is set on an island in an old world here the son of Zeus leads an army, Medusa and the Sphinx sphinx (sfĭngks), mythical beast of ancient Egypt, frequently symbolizing the pharaoh as an incarnation of the sun god Ra. The sphinx was represented in sculpture usually in a recumbent position with the head of a man and the body of a lion, prepare for battle, and a lonely shepherd is in the middle of it all. His actions will change a world as he bonds to monsters. William Durbin's El Lector (0385746512, $15.95) tells of a teen who dreams of being a lector like her learned grandfather who reads novels and news to workers as they roll their cigars; but life during the Depression is one of hard work and Bella must work in a factor instead of going to school. It takes a factory strike to change her life in this story of Florida in the early 1930s. Tanya Lee Stone's A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl (0385747020, $14.95) tells of three very different girls who meet the same desirable bad boy. Add an unusual poetry-like presentation and you have a very readable read·a·ble adj. 1. Easily read; legible: a readable typeface. 2. Pleasurable or interesting to read: a readable story. plot without the complex phrasing of most young adult reads. Laura & Tom McNeal's Crushed (0375831053, $15.95) tells of three best friends who arrive at high school from the one-room private school where they spent their career performing Gilbert and Sullivan 1. William Schwenk Gilbert erson> and Sir Arthur Sullivan erson>, who collaborated on a number of light operas. See Gilbert. Noun 1. Gilbert and Sullivan - the music of Gilbert and Sullivan; "he could sing all of Gilbert and Sullivan" musicals. The attention of a handsome new boy leads to trouble not only in their close circle but when an underground school paper threatens to expose a dangerous truth. Suspense SUSPENSE. When a rent, profit a prendre, and the like, are, in consequence of the unity of possession of the rent, &c., of the land out of which they issue, not in esse for a time, they are said to be in suspense, tunc dormiunt, but they may be revived or awakened. Co, Litt. 313 a. and romance blend well in an absorbing story filled with twists and turns. Cassandra Golds' Clair De Lune clair de lune n. 1. A pale, grayish-blue glaze applied to various kinds of Chinese porcelain. 2. The color of such a glaze. (0375833951, $15.95) tells of a girl who loves to dance. She's mute mute (my  t), in music, device designed to diminish uniformly the loudness of a musical instrument. , but when she dances her body language speaks. When she meets an
extraordinary mouse who dreams of founding a dancing school for mice,
the two pair up to explore different worlds. A gentle story of dancing
and dreaming proves absorbing.
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