An ancient sword hilt draws fourteen-year-old Claudia back through time to the nineteenth-century Orkney Islands.

The Forespoken

Levin, Betty

Children's Books

Macmillan Pub. Co.

The peculiar bronze object of an old Maine fisherman introduces two twentieth-century children to Iron Age Ireland.

The Sword of Culann

Macmillan

From School Library Journal\nGrade 4-8-Border collie Moss returns in his third book, which does not stand alone. Diane is baby-sitting for the summer for the Pragers, who have taken the dog in. When rabies is found in the area, they must kill their lambs, which might have been exposed. Upset, one of their sons runs away. When Diane and Moss locate him, they see that he is injured, and she goes for help. In the meantime, one of the neighbors finds him and severely hurts the dog because he defends the boy so aggressively. While the human characters and dialogue are realistic, Moss never comes to life. The fact that the searcher slams and nearly kills him with a pipe seems gratuitous and shocking. The incident appears to exist only so that Diane can then take responsibility for Moss, thus making him "her dog." If readers of the earlier titles can stand seeing him hurt again so that another child can learn to trust herself, they will read this one. Others can pass on it. 
Sally Bates Goodroe, formerly at Harris County Public Library, Houston, TX 
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\nDuring the summer that Diane lives with a family as their babysitter, she works to establish rapport with the border collie Moss as everyone tries to cope with several crises.\nFrom Booklist\nGr. 4-6. Though the ominous opening portends calamity, readers follow Diane as she trudges to her weekend job at Prager farm. Waiting at the farm is Moss, the collie introduced in Levin's Away to Me, Moss (1994) and Look Back, Moss (1998). But here, the dog is subdued. Is he pining for his previous caregivers? Diane suspects he's bored and needs to get back to herding. She would like to work with him, but her job babysitting the Pragers' sons consumes most of her time, and her employers are busy farming and establishing their new business. Then rabies intrudes, threatening the Pragers' livestock and possibly their lives. An adept storyteller, Levin engages readers in the everyday activities on the farm as she tells a story about people drawn together by need, responsibility, love, and even fear, which shackles some of the characters and forces them to act without thinking. A wrenching, thoughtful read for more mature elementary schoolers. Ellen Mandel 
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That'll Do, Moss

Animals

Greenwillow Books

After being injured in a coyote attack, the owners of Moss the border collie seemed to have given up on him, yet Diane, their baby-sitter, sees things differently and works with the kind creature to give him a second chance at a good life.

Greenwillow

Shoddy Cove

While working with her family at Cosset Island Village, an historical replica for tourists of an early nineteenth-century village in New England, Clare helps two young runaways and learns about a mystery from the past.

Mysteries & Detectives

Clare's summer has been ruined. With Dad away, Clare is forced to accompany her mother to the Cossit Island Village living historical museum. Every day she has to wear long, awkward 1830s-style dresses and card wool in the hot, gloomy Grimes homestead.Then two children appear -- a boy who knows how to spin wool without even using a spindle and his little sister who throws a fit in the middle of a funeral reenactment. They are not ordinary tourists. Clare sees them day after day.Who are these strange children? What are they doing at Cossit Island Village? As Clare tries to unravel their story, she stumbles upon a second mystery, nearly two hundred years old, and just as intriguing and suspenseful as the first...

Literature & Fiction

Island Bound

Chris Fossett can't resist a dare to spend a week alone on rocky, isolated Fowlers Island off the coast of Maine. He expects to spend his time hunting for food--not ghosts. But there's no denying an eerie presence in the fog, and Chris recalls his grandfather's tales of a girl who was left behind on the island. A fierce girl...who may still be there. 
 Joellen Roth, who comes to the island's bird cliffs with her scientist father and his new girlfriend, wants nothing to do with Chris--nor he with her. But when the two stumble upon a hidden journal, the pages reveal a story strikingly similar to one that Joellen is writing. Together, Chris and Joellen set out to solve the

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Beast on the Brink

AVON.

Matt dreams of owning a horse, but when his great-uncle sends him one, he discovers that a dream come true can sometimes turn life upside down. His parents explain that having a horse in a suburban community is filled with obstacles, but Matt is determined to keep Loki. A moving story that examines the complex emotions that govern parent-child relationships.

Gift horse

scholastic

Fire in the Wind

Teen & Young Adult

Demco Media

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The Forespoken

The Sword of Culann

That'll Do, Moss

That'll Do, Moss

Shoddy Cove

Shoddy Cove

Island Bound

Beast on the Brink

Gift horse

Fire in the Wind