5 Books Featuring…Magical Swords!

If you ever ended up in a fantasy world, what would be the one thing you would want to have? Potions from a wizard? A dragon companion? A unicorn to ride? How about a magical sword?

The kids in these books either have a magical sword, or are looking for one. If you’re a fan of fantasy books, you’ll know that they usually prove to be useful…if not right away, then eventually. If you love fantasy, one of these books is sure to fit your reading needs.

Our “5 Books…” lists include five books (usually with a couple extras) on a specific topic, with a short synopsis so you can decide if the story sounds like something you would like. Five Books–one old, one new, one popular with kids, one well-reviewed, and one staff favorite. (Can you guess which is which?)

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Nightingale by Deva Fagan

 Lark is determined to escape her squalid life at Miss Starvenger’s boarding house, but she needs to find the coin to do it. Her grand scheme? To steal her fortune from the Royal Museum.

Unfortunately, her heist goes off the rails, and Lark ends up stealing a magical sword right out from under the nose of Prince Jasper, who’s none too happy to have his plans thwarted. Lark soon discovers that the Sword has a mind of its own, and has chosen her to be the next Nightingale, a fabled hero who must vanquish an ancient evil that is waking after centuries of sleep.

Working alone has its limitations, but relying on others after a lifetime of disappointments feels impossible. Still, Lark will need the help of her boarding house roommates if she wants to defeat the villainous forces that threaten to dismantle everything she holds dear.

The Demon Sword Asperides by Sarah Jean Horwitz

For the past two hundred years, the demon sword Asperides has led a quiet life. While his physical form has been tasked with guarding the body of an evil sorcerer, the rest of his consciousness has taken a well-earned vacation. That constant need to trick humans into wielding him (at the price of their very souls, of course) was rather draining.

Nack Furnival, on the other hand, is far from satisfied with his existence. Nack has trained since birth to be a brave and noble knight–but, unfortunately, he isn’t especially good at it. Determined to prove his worth, Nack needs a quest. And to complete that quest, he’ll need the one thing no knight can do without: a sword.

When an attempt to resurrect the evil sorcerer throws Asperides into Nack’s path, the demon sword can’t help but trick the boy into making a contract to become his new owner. And with the newly undead (and very, very angry) sorcerer on their trail, Asperides and Nack find themselves swept up in a bigger adventure than either of them bargained for: saving the world.

The Invisible Tower by Nils Johnson-Shelton (The Otherworld Chronicles #1)

Part of the spell has already been broken. The first stones have begun to crumble.

In Artie Kingfisher’s world, wizards named Merlin, fire-breathing dragons, and swords called Excalibur exist only in legends and lore–until the day his video game Otherworld springs to life. You are special, Arthur, says the mysterious message in his game. In one week’s time you will come to me at the it.

Cryptic clues lead Artie to a strange place called the Invisible Tower, where he discovers that nothing in his life is as it seems. Artie is none other than King Arthur, brought to life in the twenty-first century. Artie has won the battle in the virtual Otherworld–now the key to saving the real Otherworld lies in his hands as well.

Green dragons, hungry wolves, powerful sorcerers–suddenly Artie must battle them all as he wields Excalibur and embarks on a quest worthy of the Knights of the Round Table. With his sister, Kay, by his side, Artie steps into the Otherworld–straight toward his destiny. Magical swords REALLY come into play in book two, The Seven Swords. But read the whole series!

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

Harry Crewe is a Homelander orphan girl, come to live in Damar from over the seas. She is drawn to the bleak landscape, so unlike the green hills of her Homeland. She wishes she might cross the sands and climb the dark mountains where no Homelander has ever set foot, where the last of the old Damarians, the Free Hillfolk, live.

Corlath is the golden-eyed king of the Free Hillfolk, son of the sons of the legendary Lady Aerin. When he arrives in Harry’s town to ally with the Homelanders against a common enemy, he never expects to set Harry’s destiny in motion: She will ride into battle as a King’s Rider, bearing the Blue Sword, the great mythical treasure, which no one has wielded since Lady Aerin herself.

Legends and myths, no matter how epic, no matter how magical, all begin somewhere.

The Witch, the Sword, and the Cursed Knights by Alexandria Rogers

Ellie can’t help that she’s a witch, the most hated member of society. Determined to prove her worth and eschew her heritage, Ellie applies to the Fairy Godmother Academy–her golden ticket to societal acceptance. But Ellie’s dreams are squashed when she receives the dreaded draft letter to serve as a knight of King Arthur’s legendary Round Table. She can get out of the draft–but only if she saves a lost cause. Enter Caedmon, a boy from Wisconsin struggling with the death of his best friend.

He first dismisses the draft as ridiculous; magic can’t possibly exist. But when Merlin’s ancient magic foretells his family’s death if he doesn’t follow through, he travels to the knights’ castle, where he learns of a wicked curse leeching the knights of their power. To break the curse, Ellie and Caedmon must pass a series of deathly trials and re-forge the lost, shattered sword of Excalibur. And unless Ellie accepts her witch magic and Caedmon rises to become the knight he’s meant to be, they will both fail–and the world will fall to the same darkness that brought King Arthur and Camelot to ruin.

Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind by Misa Sugiura

All Momo wants for her twelfth birthday is an ordinary life–like everyone else’s. At home, she has to take care of her absentminded widowed mother. At school, kids ridicule her for mixing up reality with the magical stories her mother used to tell her.

But then Momo’s mother falls gravely ill, and a death hag straight out of those childhood stories attacks Momo at the mall, where she’s rescued by a talking fox . . . and “ordinary” goes out the window. It turns out that Momo’s mother is a banished Shinto goddess who used to protect a long-forgotten passageway to Yomi–a.k.a. the land of the dead. That passageway is now under attack, and countless evil spirits threaten to escape and wreak havoc across the earth.

Joined by Niko the fox and Danny–her former best friend turned popular jerk, whom she never planned to speak to again, much less save the world with–Momo must embrace her (definitely not “ordinary”) identity as half human, half goddess to unlock her divine powers, save her mother’s life, and force the demons back to Yomi.

Talking to Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

Daystar has never seen his mother, Cimorene, actually perform magic. Nor has he ever known her to enter the Enchanted Forest in all the years they have lived on its edge. That is, not until a wizard shows up at their cottage the day after his birthday. Much to Daystar’s surprise, Cimorene melts the unsavory wizard. And the following day, she comes out of the Enchanted Forest carrying a sword. With that and a few supplies, she kicks him out of the house and into the Forest.

Two rules one must always remember when traveling in the Enchanted Forest: always be polite and never say yes to a favor until you know what you’re being asked to do. Daystar has no idea why he’s tromping around the forest fighting wizards and monsters with what is obviously a magical sword, but he keeps those rules in mind as he stumbles upon a quick-tempered firewitch and a baby dragon. Daystar realizes that the sword is leading him to adventures beyond what he ever imagined. This is a stand-alone conclusion to the Enchanted Forest Chronicles–although you might want to brush up on all Cimorene’s adventures before reading this one!

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And there you have it. A phalanx of swords–or sword books, anyway. If you’d like more, just type Excalibur into our Library Catalog, and see what else pops up. You’ll have enough reading to last you through the rest of the winter!

Check out these books, on display over the paperbacks, and see what catches your fancy.

As always, if you need help finding these or any other books, ask one of our librarians for help. We love pairing books and readers!

Happy Reading!
::kelly::

Old Favorites: Sam and Anastasia Krupnik

Did you know that there’s a book dedicated to the kids in Weston?  It’s true! Here’s how it happened:

In 1991, author Lois Lowry was visiting the Weston Public Schools. At the time, her series about Anastasia Krupnik was very popular, and Ms. Lowry had also written one book about Anastasia’s  little brother, Sam.  She told her audience that she was working on a second Sam book.  In explaining the difficulties of creating a book, she shared how she had most of the story plotted–she knew that Sam was trying to make a new perfume for his mother’s birthday, that he was collecting samples of all the things she loved (although maybe not quite in the way his mother would have expected) and that he was saving the smelly items in a jar in his room. The problem was, she explained to the group, she had a great build-up, but she wasn’t quite sure how to end the story.

As she was explaining her problem to the crowd of fourth and fifth graders, there was a lively discussion about possibilities, until one kid in the audience raised his hand and said “why doesn’t it just blow up?” Ms. Lowry got a thoughtful look as she smiled…and apparently, the writer’s dilemma was solved.

About a year later, Attaboy, Sam! came out, complete with the dedication:

For the kids in Weston–thanks

Pretty cool, huh?

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This week’s Old Favorite is actually a series, rather than one book.  Anastasia Krupnik (the first book) by Lois Lowry came out in 1984, and was about the ups and downs in the life of a ten-year-old girl. An only child, Anastasia loves keeping lists of important information in her green notebook. Upon discovering that her mother is pregnant, she instantly adds two new items to her “things I hate” list: “My parents” and “babies.” But as the year passes, Anastasia finds that the items on her lists keep moving around; by the time her baby brother Sam is born, the only thing left to hate is liver.  A very funny story that rings as true now as it did when it came out (gulp) 25 years ago.

Other titles about Anastasia include:

Anastasia Again!
Twelve-year-old Anastasia is convinced that her family’s move to the suburbs will be the beginning of the end. How can she possibly accept split-level houses with matching furniture, or mothers whose biggest worry is ring around collar? But her new home brings many surprises, not to mention a cute boy who lives down the street. Is it possible that surburbia has more to offer than Anastasia had expected?

Anastasia at Your Service
A long, boring summer–that’s what Anastasia has to look forward to. She’s thrilled when old Mrs. Bellingham answers her ad for a job as a Lady’s Companion. Anastasia is sure her troubles are over–she’ll be busy and earn money!  But she doesn’t expect to have to polish silver and serve at Mrs. Bellingham’s granddaughter’s birthday party as a maid! As if that isn’t bad enough, she accidentally drops a piece of silverware down the garbage disposal and must use her earnings to pay for it! Is the summer destined to be a disaster?

Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst
No one understands thirteen-year-old Anastasia, least of all her parents and her little brother, Sam,. They’re such an embarrassment. Why can’t they be normal, like Anastasia? Unless she’s the abnormal one?  Though her parents insist she’s normal and won’t send her to an analyst, that doesn’t stop Anastasia. What will happen if they find out that Anastasia is secretly telling her troubles to the most famous analyst in the world?

Anastasia On Her Own
Help! Anastasia’s mother must organize her chaotic life. So Anastasia and her father invent the solution: the Krupnik Family Nonsexist Housekeeping Schedule. But when Mrs. Krupnik goes to California on a ten-day business trip, Anastasia finds that the problem isn’t solved at all. It’s hard to stick to a schedule  when Sam comes down with the chicken pox and her father’s former girlfriend invites herself to dinner. How is Anastasia supposed to cope with these interruptions when she’s planning her first dream-date dinner for Steve Harvey? It’s a cinch. As long as she sticks to the Krupnik Romantic Dinner Week Schedule, what could possibly go wrong?

Anastasia Has the Answers
Humiliated. That’s how Anastasia Krupnik feels whenever she tries to climb the ropes in gym class. How come everyone else can climb up those hateful ropes? Since Anastasia has decided to become a journalist, it should be easy to answer most questions.  After some research, finally Anastasia thinks she has the answers! When a team of foreign educators comes to visit her school, she plans a big surprise that will amaze her classmates, Ms. Willoughby, and the visitors. What will she do when her big moment arrives?

Anastasia’s Chosen Career
Anastasia has exactly one week to work on her school assignment called “My Chosen Career.” Determined to be a bookstore owner, she must first develop poise and self-confidence. So Anastasia takes the plunge and spends her life savings on a modeling course. She has one week to interview a bookstore owner, write a report, and complete the course. Luckily her new friend Henry is with her most of the way. Is Anastasia destined to be a successful bookstore owner or a glamorous model? Only Anastasia has the answers!

Anastasia at This Address
When thirteen-year-old Anastasia sees an intriguing ad in a personal column, she decides to write back, even though it means stretching the truth more than a little bit.  (Like, she’s really not 26!) So what if her best friends have given up on boys. Anastasia is ready for romance. But is she ready for a pen pal who wants to meet her?

Anastasia, Absolutely
The trouble begins when Anastasia goes to the mailbox with two packages and her new dog, Sleuth. It’s there that she accidentally puts the bag of dog droppings into the mailbox instead of her mother’s package. When she realizes her mistake, Anastasia uses her school Values Class experience to help her decide what to do. But when the police take the corner mailbox, Anastasia’s sure she’s committed a crime that will land her in jail.

Books about Sam Krupnik:

All About Sam
Everyone knows Sam Krupnik. He’s Anastasia’s pesky but lovable younger brother. This is Sam’s big chance to tell things exactly the way he sees them.  He has his own ideas about haircuts, nursery school, getting shots, and not eating broccoli.  Sam thinks a lot about being bigger and stronger, about secret codes and show-and-tell. Make way for your little brother, Anastasia.  Here for the first time is Sam Krupnik’s life story.

Attaboy, Sam!
Sam is now a precocious preschooler.  Hearing that Mom wants only handmade birthday gifts AND that her favorite perfume is no longer available, Sam knows what to give her!  Ever-alert to what Mom says smells good, he keeps plastic bags at the ready and manages to combine a bit of sea water, one of Dad’s old pipes, chicken soup, tissues that have been used for cleaning up a baby (both ends), and some yeast. His concern over the increasingly noxious odor competes with his truly childlike hope that somehow it will all come right. It doesn’t. Still, in the end, Sam saves the day in a thoroughly satisfying conclusion.

See You Around, Sam
Sam is almost five, and he’s running away to Alaska, all because his mother won’t let him wear his plastic fangs in the house (she has fangphobia). He plans to lie around in piles with the walruses, who don’t mind fangs. Before he can go, he wants to visit the  neighborhood to say goodbye. Under the watchful eye of his mother and his loving neighbors, Sam aborts his plan after learning a few things about life.

Zooman Sam
Sam is all set for Future Job Day at school. He already knows that he wants to be a zookeeper when he grows up. Sam’s mother and Anastasia help him make a terrific costume to wear– so terrific Sam wants to wear it all the time. Luckily Sam’s teacher helps out by suggesting that he tell the class about a different animal each day. Sam likes being the center of attention, but can he keep on being Zooman Sam forever?

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Some old favorites aren’t adventures or mysteries or fantasies–they’re books that are like an old coat or a fuzzy blanket that feel comfortable to be around.  That’s what Sam and Anastasia are.  Like Fudge and Peter Hatcher, Beezus and Ramona Quimby or The Pain and The Great One, these siblings can make you laugh out loud…even when they’re learning how life works.

The Anastasia books are great for kids in grades four and up; as Anastasia gets older, so do the topics of the books.  The Sam books are perfect as read-alouds to first or second graders; for third grade and up to read to themselves or for fans of Anastasia who want the “other” side to the story.  Try one, and see what you think!

::Kelly::

Booklists: Horsing Around!

If you like horses, this booklist is for you!  The books on this list range from easy chapter books to middle grade fiction to teen fiction…the one thing they all have in common is a love of everything dealing with horses.

Doty, Jean. Can I Get There by Candlelight?
Gail and her pony, Candlelight, meet a young girl named Hilary who loves horses as much as Gail does. But Hilary is hiding a secret, which may change Gail’s life forever.

Farley, Walter. The Black Stallion
Young Alec Ramsay is shipwrecked on a desert island with a horse destined to play an important part in his life. Following their rescue, their adventure continues in America. A classic horse series

Findlay, Jamieson. The Blue Roan Child
Syeira flees the stables of King Hulvere of Haysele with Arwin, a wild Arva horse who communicates through smells and breath, in a mysterious quest to recover her two colts from Lord Ran of Stormsythe.

Ghent, Natale. No Small Thing
Nat and his sisters find that owning, training, and caring for a pony they acquired for free makes it easier to cope with the changes in their home life.

Gibson, Sarah. The Truth about Horses, Friends and My Life as a Coward
As she fearfully begins learning to ride and manage the horses she never wanted her family to own, Sophie Groves also begins to acquire friends on the Maine island she calls home.

Giff, Patricia Reilly. Wild Girl
When Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.

Grant, K.M. Blood Red Horse
A special horse named Hosanna changes the lives of two English brothers and those around them as they fight with King Richard I against Saladin’s armies during the Third Crusades.

Greene, Constance. Beat the Turtle Drum
Joss wants a horse more than anything, so when she saves enough money to rent one for her birthday, her sister Kate is happy for her. Then tragedy strikes, and Kate is left to deal with her life after everything changes.

Haas, Jessie. Beware the Mare
Gramps gets a good bargain on an apparently perfect bay mare for Lily, but because the horse is named Beware he suspects that there may be something wrong with her.  Series.

Haas, Jessie. Chase
In the coal mining region of mid-nineteenth century eastern Pennsylvania, Phin witnesses a murder and runs for his life, pursued by a mysterious man and a horse with the instincts of a bloodhound.

Henry, Marguerite. Justin Morgan Had a Horse
An unusual work horse raised in Vermont and known originally as “Little Bub” becomes the sire of a famous American breed and takes the name of his owner, Justin Morgan.

Henry, Marguerite. Misty of Chincoteague
Two youngsters’ determination to own a Chincoteague pony is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction. A classic horse series.

Hurmence, Belinda. Dixie in the Big Pasture
In 1902, Dixie’s new life on the Oklahoma frontier is complicated by a war of nerves between her and John Three, a young Kiowa Indian who insists that his pony was sold to her without his permission.

Kelly, Bernadette. Naughty Norton
Molly loves her pony Norton, even though he is chubby, unkempt, and only interested in eating, but when Molly tries to take him riding, Norton has other ideas.  Series.

Lawrence, Caroline. The Charioteer of Delphi
Flavia and her friends go to Rome to celebrate the Festival of Jupiter at Senator Cornix’s town house, where they befriend the young charioteer, Scopas, and quickly find themselves embroiled in a campaign to sabotage one of the rival racing factions.

Lester, Allison. The Silver Horse Switch
In a rural Australian town, best friends Bonnie and Sam, who share a mutual love of horses, watch in amazement as a farm horse and a wild horse, identical in appearance, trade places.  Series.

Moeri, Louise. The Devil in Ol’ Rosie
Sent into the wilderness of eastern Oregon in 1907 to roundup the family’s escaped horses, Wart struggles against great dangers before gaining his father’s respect.

Morgenroth, Barbara. Impossible Charlie
A horse that seemed ideal when Jackie got him turns out to have too much of a mind of his own.

Platt, Chris. Willow King
Katie, who is herself physically challenged, saves a crippled foal from euthanasia and nurses him back to health and eventual championships.

Ryan, Pam. Paint the Wind
After her grandmother has a stroke, Maya leaves her restricted life in California to stay with her mother’s family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.

Ryden, Hope. Wild Horse Summer
Alison spends her thirteenth summer on a ranch in Wyoming where she learns to ride a horse and makes a friend who helps her overcome an old fear.

Saunders, Susan. Lucky Lady
On a summer visit to her grandfather’s ranch in Texas, Jamie impulsively spends all her money on a wild filly and tries to figure out how to train her.

Savitt, Sam. Vicki and the Black Horse
The story of a surprising friendship between two horses begins when Vicki bought a half-starved pony. When the pony is accidentally sold, Vicki sets out on a year-long journey to track him down.

Smiley, Jane. The Georges and the Jewels
Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family’s California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley. Gib Rides Home
In 1909, after spending several months back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps to make him feel at home.

Snyder, Zilpha. Season of Ponies
Pamela found living with two old aunts dreadful until the moment a boy moved out of the mist with a flute and a herd of strangely beautiful ponies.

Thompson, Kate. Highway Robbery
On a cold day in eightheenth-century England, a poor young boy agrees to watch a stranger’s fine horse for a golden guinea but soon finds himself in a difficult situation when the king’s guard appears and wants to use him as bait in their pursuit of a notorious highwayman.

Wallace, Bill.  Beauty
Unhappy about his parents splitting up and moving with his mother to Grandpa’s farm, Luke finds comfort in riding and caring for a horse named Beauty.

Wedekind, Annie. A Horse of Her Own
At summer camp, Jane feels like an outsider among rich girls who board their horses. When the horse she has been riding is sold to another camper, she feels even worse until her teacher asks her to help train a beautiful but skittish new horse.

Wedekind, Annie. Wild Blue: The Story of a Mustang Apaloosa
After being captured by men, Blue the Appaloosa grabs a chance at freedom and tries to find her way home.

You might also try some of the Horse Series in the series section, by the Youth Services Desk. There you’ll find friends like Bella Sara, Keeker, the Thoroughbred horses, Pony Pals and The Saddle Club!

Kelly

Old Favorites: Spiderweb for Two, by Elizabeth Enright

Spiderweb for Two: a Melendy Maze, by Elizabeth Enright, is actually the final book in what’s now called The Melendy Quartet.  Originally published in 1951, ten years after the original book in the quartet,  it stands well on its own as a mystery, a family story, and a great treasure-hunting quest.

Randy and Oliver Melendy are the youngest children in a family of five. They’ve always participated in adventures with their older sister and brothers…but now, this winter is going to be the worst ever. Mona is gone to New York City to be an actress, and Rush and Mark are off to boarding school.  That leaves  eleven year old Randy and nine year old Oliver  rattling around in their big old house, the Four-Story Mistake, with just Cuffy their housekeeper and Isaac the handyman for company.

Artistic Randy is certain that she won’t survive the gloominess of  having only Oliver to talk to, while practical Oliver is as certain that being stuck with just Randy is going to be horrible.

But out of the blue, a mysterious envelope arrives in the mail, elegantly inscribed with their names. Inside is a verse:

I point a clue for you to find,
But find me first. Nearby I stand.
Among the tallest of my kind,
At four o’clock on a fine day
My shadow’s peak lies on the land
Where, if you spade the earth away,
A golden clue will come to hand
And speed you on the perilous way!

P.S. This clue must be uncovered before many days have elapsed. The sun changes each day, so–where my shadow falls this week, that is the spot where you must seek! And not a word to anyone!

Who could resist a challenge like that? Not Randy and Oliver! They’re positive  that solving the riddle will lead them to a dangerous and interesting treasure.  They try to figure out who could have left the clue, but decide that it will become clear once they find the treasure.  But when they find the right place to “spade the earth” they find…a second riddle?

Solving the riddles and following the clues leads the two through a spiderweb of connections as they meet new friends and learn more about old friends.  They also explore the countryside around their home as they try to decipher the mystery of  who is leaving the clues and figure out what will be the grand reward at the end.

I loved the Melendy books when I read them in elementary school;  although at first glance they seem timeless, they do have a specific time period. The first book was published  in 1941 and there are references to daily life during World War II throughout the series.  The children’s father works in Washington D.C, doing something related to the war, and their mother died when Oliver was a baby; the kids are pretty self-sufficient, relying mostly on Cuffy, their live-in housekeeper/nanny/surrogate grandmother to care for them.  Mona, the aspiring actress, wants to act in the movies (although she gets her start on radio dramas).  Rush is musical and a bit of a trouble-maker, while Randy is a tomboy who loves to dance. Oliver is very scientific and usually covered in dirt. Mark is a later addition to the family; a boy rescued from neglectful relatives and adopted. The kids roam both New York City and the countryside around their home on their own, and make friends easily with people (often strangers) as they meet them.

Although Spiderweb for Two is my favorite, I’m also fond of  Then There were Five, where Randy and Rush set out to find scrap metal for the war effort  only to find a new brother in Mark.  I wanted to move to a house in the country  as the Melendys  did in The Four Story Mistake, with a cupola on the top and a secret room in the attic. I even tried to convince my sisters to pool our allowances so that we could each have a more expensive adventure once a month, as they do in The Saturdays.  (MY sisters shot me down.)

This  series is called a quartet because  it doesn’t really matter in which order they’re read. Each book stands on its own, and can be enjoyed by kids of all ages. The books are great read-alouds, with rich language and descriptions.   I’d recommend them for readers in fourth through sixth grade, and as read-alouds to second grade and up.  The clues in Spiderweb for Two are tough, but it’s fun to see if the reader can solve them before Randy and Oliver do.

If you like these books, you might also try some of Enright’s other titles.  I think I’ll save them for another Old Favorites entry though.

Kelly