An enjoyable elementary school novel, Seaglass Summer features eleven-year-old Poppy, whose parents are visiting relatives in India while she spends the summer with her uncle on an island in the state of Washington. Poppy has always longed for a pet and imagined a career as a veterinarian, but her mother has severe allergies, so she has had little experience with animals. Her uncle Sanjay is a veterinarian, so Poppy is happily anticipating her trip and envisions a wonderful summer working with animal.... Click here for more of the curledupkids.com review of Anjali Banerjee's Seaglass Summer. Picture books: Barbara Bottner and Michael Emberley's Miss Brooks Loves Books (and I Don't) Young readers: Anjali Banerjee's Seaglass Summer Young adult: Tom Leveen's Party Pregnancy & parenting: Bump It Up: Transform Your Pregnancy into the Ultimate Style Statement   Her desk and chair are piles of books, and she can stuff over twenty books in a child’s schoolbag. Miss Brooks, the librarian, believes there is a book out there for everyone - even for a first-grader who has given up on books. Missy, who resembles a tomboy, finds fairy books too flowery, train books too clickety and dog books too furry. She can’t even complete a classroom assignment properly because she doesn’t find a poem she likes enough to share. Miss Brooks is an inspiration for all those people who like to introduce books to others... Click here for more of the curledupkids.com review of Barbara Bottner and Michael Emberley's Miss Brooks Loves Books (and I Don't).   web reviews For grown-up fiction, nonfiction and speculative fiction book reviews, visit our sister site Curled Up With a Good Book (www.curledup.com)