title: Squirrel's Fun Day (Candlewick Readers (Hardcover))
author:  Lisa Moser 
description: K-Gr 2-Beginning readers will enjoy spending the day with "busy, busy, busy" Squirrel. Although Mouse intends to clean her nest, she sets off with Squirrel after he "sweeps, sweeps, sweeps" her nesting materials and food. As they are playing, she falls into a mud hole and Squirrel rescues her with a long blade of grass. He engages Turtle in a race around the pond, but becomes frustrated with Turtle's slow pace. Squirrel is surprised to discover that Turtle can swim faster than he can run. Next, he coaxes Rabbit to have "fun, fun, fun" on the way to the tree where he always eats lunch. Rabbit insists on leaving a pebble trail so he can find his way home, but his plan doesn't work this time. Later Squirrel picks flowers to present to his friends as a gesture of thanks for their company, but when they are nowhere to be found, he wonders if they may not have enjoyed the day's activities as much as he did. Readers will enjoy the surprise awaiting him. Squirrel's repetitive speech patterns reinforce his character and give newer readers some relief decoding this fun-filled drama. The expressive pen-and-watercolor illustrations in varied layouts are perfectly placed with the text. A great, great, great addition to delight fans of Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad Are Friends (HarperCollins, 1970) and Wong Herbert Yee's Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole (Houghton Mifflin, 2005).-Laura Scott, Farmington Community Library, MI(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
zlib_text: **Skinny-Dipping (The Au Pairs #2)**
  
   _ **Melissa De La Cruz**_
  
  This book is lovingly dedicated to Jennie Kim, because you can't write about
  best friends without having one of your own; Sara Shandler, editor
  extraordinaire, because this book is as much hers as it is mine; and Mike
  Johnston, just because.
  
   _"It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by
  them."_
  
  \--La Rochefoucauld
  
   _"It's gettin hot in herre."_
  
  \--Nelly
  
  eliza discovers
  
  fire & brimstone is a new cosmo flavor
  
   **IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE MUCH, BUT THEN THAT WAS PROBABLY** because it was three
  o'clock in the afternoon, and Seventh Circle, the newest, soon-to-be-hottest
  club in the Hamptons, wouldn't get going until after midnight. A potato barn
  in its former life, Seventh Circle was a large, brown-shingled, rambling wood
  building set back in the Southampton woods. Only a discreet sign off the
  highway (seven circles posted to a tree, natch) let the initiated know they
  had arrived at their destinati