Knopf/Random House.Knopf/Random House 1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019 1-800-726-0600 www.randomhouse.com/kids Three new titles provide intriguing plots for young leisure readers in advanced elementary grade levels. Wendelin Van Draanen's SHREDDERMAN: MEET THE GECKO gecko (gĕk`ō), small or medium-sized lizard of the family Gekkonidae. The more than 300 species are distributed throughout the warm regions of the world, mostly in the Old World. Despite folklore to the contrary, their bite is not poisonous. (0375823530, $12.95) presents the third in the 'Shredderman' series about a nerdy eleven-year-old who is an online superhero su·per·he·ro n. pl. su·per·he·roes A figure, especially in a comic strip or cartoon, endowed with superhuman powers and usually portrayed as fighting evil or crime. at night, exposing villains on the Internet. A new adventure pits him against a young film star's evil reporter. If Trixie Belden sounds familiar, she is - she's back with new covers for contemporary audiences and new releases, and adventure #10, THE MARSHLAND MYSTERY (0375830502, $6.99), presents a set of marshy marsh·y adj. marsh·i·er, marsh·i·est 1. Of, resembling, or characterized by a marsh or marshes; boggy. 2. Growing in marshes. mysteries involving a burned-out house, and a spooky story surrounding pirate treasure. Trixie first appeared over fifty years ago under the pen of Julie Campbell, who wrote the first six in the series before turning the books over to a variety of writers who wrote under Kathryn Kenny, producing over thirty adventures total. Modern audiences will relish the mystery. Grace Cavendish's CONSPIRACY (0385731531, $6.95) joins others in the 'Lady Grace' historical mysteries, telling of Lady Grace's struggle to foil the plot to murder Queen Elizabeth. CONSPIRACY is the third in the series and here the spunky spunk·y adj. spunk·i·er, spunk·i·est Informal Spirited; plucky. spunk  i·ly adv. young detective sniffs out who the perp perp n. Slang One who perpetrates a crime. perp Noun US & Canad Informal a person who has committed a crime [short for perpetrator] is in the Queen's murder plot. |
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