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Alto's Odyssey
Alto's Odyssey can provide a few minutes of fun, but it will also keep viewers intrigued and challenged for long stretches of play.
Heuristic Shakespeare—The Tempest
Gr 7 Up—On opening this app, the first in a new series from actor McKellen and professor Bate, viewers will be able to choose from which of three levels they would like to approach Shakespeare's text...
Arcadia
Gr 8 Up—Although readers may purchase this title as a conventional novel, an eBook, or as an audiobook, it's hard to imagine a better container for the complex story than the app format...
Think Like Churchill
Gr 5 Up—How do a lifetime of choices prepare a leader to guide a nation wisely in wartime? The app uniquely combines sound effects, music, text, art, a little animation, and viewer choice to dig deeply into deciphering the character of Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, during and after World War II...
Seamus Heaney: Five Fables
Gr 4 Up—For selection purposes, the most important words in this title are "Seamus Heaney...
War Horse
Gr 5–9—Transforming a book into an app begins with a solid story and War Horse (Egmont, 1982) is that...
Poems by Heart
Gr 7 Up—The stickiness of this app isn't in the modest selection of well-known poems, or the serviceable narrators who will read them aloud to you...
Frankenstein
Gr 8 Up—The ideal audience for this app would be readers who couldn't get enough of Darren Shan's horror series, moved on to Kenneth Oppel's This Dark Endeavor, were drawn to Rick Yancy's "Monstrumologist" books, and plan to read that classic horror touchstone, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein...
Skulls
Gr 6 Up—Skulls is an elegant, fascinating app, uniquely shaped by the strong essays of Simon Winchester, the stunning photographs of Nick Mann, and the quirky audio notes of skull collector Alan Dudley...
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