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NONFICTION Betty Crocker Cookbook for Women: The Complete Guide to Women’s Health and Wellness at Every Stage of Life, by Betty Crocker editors. This collection not only addresses women’s health concerns, but also has family appeal with 130 recipes that meet guidelines for reduced fat, calories, cholesterol and sodium while being high in fiber, calcium, iron and vitamins A and C. Tips throughout the book include how to cut calories, fat and portion sizes; how to make healthy ingredient substitutions; and how to tailor food to individual tastes.

look beneath the surface of their lives. Barbara Delinsky captures the workings of the human heart in a way that few writers can.

ion about whether the town will benefit or suffer. Should they keep the traditions of the past, or should they reach out for the

promises of the future? Father Flynn is especially concerned about the fate of St. Ann’s Well, where for generations people have brought their hopes, fears and prayers. Is it a magnet for superstition or a sacred place?

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More Than Friends, by Barbara Delinksy. Friendship, love and forgiveness are the themes masterfully explored in this moving story. The Maxwells and the Popes have been friends forever; the men are business partners, the women were college roommates. The families share everything—until a terrible accident forces these close neighbors to

The Far Country, by Daniel ^{Philip Hawley Jr.} Mason. Following the success of The Piano Tuner, Mason once again tells the tale of a journey of discovery. Born with the gift of “seeing farther, hearing better,” 14-year-old Isabel lives in an unnamed Third World country. Circumstances have laid her village low, so her parents send her to her brother and cousin in the city in hopes of a better life. But her brother is missing, the city is shabby and polluted, and she fears for her life. Isabel attempts to find her brother, meeting both contempt and pity, but never losing her sense of self-worth.

 

Whitethorn Woods, by Maeve Binchy. When a highway threatens to bypass the town of Rossmore, everyone has a passionate opin-

Stigma, by Philip Hawley Jr. This thriller from a debut author who writes as if he’s been writing forever is sure to keep readers up, racing to the end. It’s the beginning of a series featuring Luke McKenna, a former top-secret special-ops member who is now a Los Angeles pediatrician. His prior life still haunts him, and when a boy arrives in his clinic from Guatemala he is right back in that life— except this time nothing is what it seems.

—Valerie Ryan

Big winners for little kids

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ON JANUARY 19, at th e The winner of the Michael L. American Library Association’s Printz Award for excellence in lit-midwinter meeting, winners of erature written for young adults is several prestigious children’s American Born Chinese, by Gene book prizes were announced. Luen Yang.

The winner of the John The four Printz Honor Books Newbery Medal for the most are: outstanding contribution to The Astonishing Life of Octavian children’s literature is The Nothing, by M. T. Anderson Higher Power of Lucky, by An Abundanceof Katherines, by Susan Patron. John Green

Three Newbery Honor Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett Books were named: The Book Thief, by Markus Penny from Heaven, by Zusack

Jennifer L. Holm Check next month’s Book Look for Hattie Big Sky, by Kirby Larson more award winners. C

Rules, by Cynthia Lord

The winner of the Randolph Caldecott

^{Medal for the most distinguished American} picture book for children is the wordless book _{Flotsam, illustrated by David Wiesner.} signings

Two Caldecott Honor Books were named:

Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal

Alphabet, written and illustrated by

David McLimans

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her

People to Freedom, illustrated by Kadir

Nelson and written by Carole Boston

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