New Releases by Eve Bunting

Dad tries various activities to get Susie tired enough to take her nap, but they only exhaust him.

Haunted by the suicide of a gifted young black writer who was his best friend, Jed pursues the reason for it.

Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Peer pressure and the lack of a date for the seventh grade dance lead Janet Hamm to inventing a date, but she finds her dishonesty brings complications.

Brett''s illustrations show the love between a mother and her sons as three mouse brothers search to find their mom the perfect gift. Full color.

This spooky story captures the eerie feeling of Halloween with a surprise ending. Full-color illustrations.

When Crow, a seventeen-year-old loner, rescues a troubled young girl from the ocean, his jealously guarded solitary existence is threatened by his first awakening to love.

Mrs. Bear plans a surprise Valentine''s Day celebration for Mr. Bear despite their usual hibernating habits at that time of year.

This book details a striking political relationship between American Ambassador Frederic Sackett and German Chancellor Heinrich Brning and their attempts to save the Weimar Republic, achieve German nationalist goals, and thwart Adolf Hitler''s drive to power. Sackett believed that financial policy was at the heart of German problems and, unless resolved, could be the basis for Hitler''s success. Very early in his tenure in Berlin, Sackett saw Hitler and the Nazis as a serious danger to the Weimar Republic and to peace in Europe. The American thought that misrule by incompetent and inefficient Nazis would pave the way for a communist state. Although at first he saw the Nazis as harbingers of worse to come, in time he came to see Hitler as the real threat to democracy in Germany.

Milton and James, the skate patrol, figure out the surprising identity of the culprit who has been stealing pets from their apartment building.

Jamie seeks a way to prove that he is not too young to march in the big St. Patrick''s Day parade. "Detailed, warmly rounded pen-and-ink illustrations with shades of green and yellow complement this satisfying story for the 17th of March." -- School Library Journal

Little Rabbit learns the value of sticking together as the Terrible Things carry away the creatures of the forest clearing.

John begins to suspect that his girlfriend and several other Cloverdale citizens are really alien beings.

Maggie worries that there is no boy in her high school who won''t be put off by her athletic ability or her interest in cars.

When an asteroid threatens to destroy their space island, the sole survivors of the destruction of the Earth must find a new place to go to.

A fifteen-year-old girl realizes after she makes a fool of herself that there is no such thing as instant maturity.

To prevent discovery, the Martians hide themselves during the landing of a space ship from earth, but then one of the earth men has a serious accident.

Ellen dates the newest member of the Muir High School band, but her dreams are of the star football player.

Merida, one of a small number of sea people surviving after the destruction of the earth, conquers her fear of sharks during a crisis in the coral city.

A young boy is determined to break the hold that a demon has on a group of children.

A young girl is visited by a ghost who warns her of a theft and gives her some insight into her father''s remarriage.

The illustration on each subsequent page becomes increasingly crowded with zoo animals, but it is the skunk that makes all the animals decide they need a larger zoo.

A fight scheduled between the Irish giant and the Scottish giant leads to the construction of the Giant''s Causeway in the Irish sea.