Title: The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas Author: David Almond Publisher: Candlewick Publication Date: August 2013 ISBN: 978-0763661694 Audience: Grades 5-8 Summary: Stanley Potts’s uncle and guardian, Ernie, is obsessed with canning fish, but when Uncle Ernie’s obsession takes...

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C:  October 20, 2013 First Reading: Jeremiah 31:27-34 The Three Questions by Jon J. Muth (Written for ages 5-9) Comment: “I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts… No longer shall they teach one another, or say to...

Title: Piglet and Papa Author:  Margaret Wild Illustrator:  Stephen Michael King Publisher:  Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007 ISBN:  9780810914766 Audience:  Ages 3-8 Summary:  After a misunderstanding with Papa, Piglet sets out to find someone else in the farmyard who loves...

Title:  Hold Fast Author:  Blue Balliett Publisher:  Scholastic Press Publication Date:  March 1, 2013 ISBN:  9780545299886 Audience:  Ages 8 and up Summary: The Pearl family-Dashel, Summer, Early, and Jubilation-live in a one room apartment and dream and save for the day when...

28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C:  October 13, 2013 First Reading: Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 This Is Our House by Hyewon Yum (Written for ages 5-9) Comment: “Build houses and live in them… have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage,...

Name of Book:  Missing Mommy Author:  Rebecca Cobb Illustrator:  Rebecca Cobb Publisher:  Henry Holt and Company ISBN:  9780805095074 Audience:  Ages 3-8 Summary:  The youngest member of the family tells of his bewilderment, anger, and grief after the death of his mother....

Title: The Carrot Seed Author:  Ruth Krauss Illustrator:  Crockett Johnson Publisher:  HarperCollins Publication Date:  Reprint, December 2004 (60th Anniversary Edition) ISBN:  9780064432108 Audience:  Ages 4 – 8 Summary: A young boy plants a carrot seed, marks the place,...

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C:  October 6, 2013 First Reading: Lamentations 1:1-6 Why Do You Cry? Not a Sob Story by Kate Klise (Written for ages 4-8) Comment: “She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks…” This text serves to remind us that part of the...