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Starred Reviews in Horn Book Magazine: March/April 2011

From Read Roger"

The following books will receive starred reviews in the March/April 2011 issue of The Horn Book Magazine:

Where’s Walrus? by Stephen Savage (Scholastic)


Chime by Franny Billingsley (Dial)

Recovery Road by Blake Nelson (Scholastic)

The Romeo and Juliet Code by Phoebe Stone (Levine/Scholastic)

Young Fredle by Cynthia Voigt; illus. by Louise Yates (Knopf)

Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade/Random)

Me…Jane by Patrick McDonnell (Little, Brown)

Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story by Thomas F. Yezerski (Farrar)

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