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Her Mother’s Face

By Roddy Doyle

Siobhán is a beautiful girl who looks in the mirror a lot — every morning, in fact. Everyone thinks it’s because she likes what she sees, and it’s true that she is pretty. But that’s not why Siobhán spends so much time looking at her own reflection. It’s because Siobhán’s mother died when she was very young, and after a while she couldn’t even remember what her mom looked like. Then she met a mysterious woman in the park, and that woman told her that to see her mother’s face, all she had to do was look in the mirror.

Looking for Miza

By Isabella Hatkoff, Juliana Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, Dr. Paula Kahumbu

Have you read the books about Knut, the polar bear cub rejected by his mother and raised by zookeepers, or the books about Owen and Mzee, a hippo and turtle that became great friends? Miza has a similar story, and it’s been captured in this lush book filled with adorable and fascinating photos. Baby gorilla Miza was orphaned in the African country of Congo when her mother was killed. Usually, that means the end for a baby gorilla, because it’s very rare for another gorilla to adopt an infant. But in this real-life case, a young male gorilla named Kabirizi and his family of 27 gorillas adopted Miza and took care of her.

Inkdeath

By Cornelia Funke

Just before the movie version of Inkheart comes to a theatre near you this January, author Cornelia Funke releases this third and final book in the Inkheart trilogy, the ominously titled Inkdeath. In the first book, a girl named Meggie discovers that when her father Mo reads a book out loud, the characters spring to life and into the real world. Which isn’t always a good thing, since those characters don’t always want to be here. In the sequel, Inkspell, Meggie has figured out how to read herself into the books. And in this third book Meggie and Mo are in more peril than ever as they try to bring Dustfinger to life and rewrite all the things that have gone wrong.