The City Under the Back Steps by Evelyn Sibley Lampman (Purple House Press)Meet Jill and Craig, two children who mysteriously shrink and are taken prisoner by an ant colony. Down beneath the ground they are herded, to the city under the back steps and the complex world of the ant colony. Here where the haughty Queen rules with an iron hand, each of her subjects has a vital role to perform, and Jill and Craig are put to work. But no sooner had they become involved in the daily routine of the colony when an army of red ants

yielding a fascinating glimpse into the rich botanical world that thrived in New England 150 years ago and that still graces the landscape today

Earth 123

an exuberant and powerful book

The Magic Faraway Tree and Malory Towers

and stamp the date that it occurred

He lives with his family in Brooklyn

George Eliot re-creates her own childhood through the story of the wild

" --Jennifer Abrams

became the first American woman ever awarded the Nobel Prize for literature

climbed imposing mountain faces alone in the dark

and feature detailed diagrams and dissections for children to pore over

Five: The Little Lion