New Release: Highfire by Eoin Colfer
Are you familiar with Artemis Fowl? If not, I highly recommend you acquaint yourself, because if Disney does this right, the already international bestselling book series is going to be the next worldwide phenomenon à la Harry Potter. I have a distinct memory of picking up the first Artemis Fowl book when I was in the fifth grade--and promptly putting it back on the shelf. It didn't capture my interest. A year later, for whatever reason, I picked it up again, and this time magic struck . I was hooked. I devoured the rest of the series (up to book five, which was all that had been published at the time) and anxiously awaited the release of each subsequent book. The fifth Artemis Fowl book, The Lost Colony , was one of the few books I reread over and over again--and cried every time. In fact, Eoin Colfer has a bit of a track record for making me misty-eyed . I shed many a tear over the ending of The Supernaturalist , his stand alone (and frankly, incredibly clever) middle grad