New Children's Fiction
The blue ghost by Marion Dane Bauer.
At her grandmother's log cabin, nine-year-old Liz is led to make contact with children she believes may be her ancestors.
The Fran that time forgot by Jim Benton.
When her embarrassing middle name is revealed at school, mad scientist Franny K. Stein experiments with time in order to return to the past and give herself a more dignified name.