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Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid
Written by Walter Dean Myers
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $6.99
An ALA Notable Children's Book.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by Walter Dean Myers
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $6.99
An ALA Notable Children's Book.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Sweet Thang
Written by Allison Whittenberg
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $5.99
Growing up in Philadelphia in 1975, 14-year-old Charmaine Upshaw is obsessed with justice. Unfortunately, she gets none of it in her life: not from her parents, who make her share a room with her tap-dancing brother Leo; not at school, where light-skinned, Barbie-doll-haired Dinah Coverdale steals all the boys’ attention and... Read more >
Written by Allison Whittenberg
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $5.99
Growing up in Philadelphia in 1975, 14-year-old Charmaine Upshaw is obsessed with justice. Unfortunately, she gets none of it in her life: not from her parents, who make her share a room with her tap-dancing brother Leo; not at school, where light-skinned, Barbie-doll-haired Dinah Coverdale steals all the boys’ attention and... Read more >
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Hollywood and Maine
Written by Allison Whittenberg
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $15.99
With a new boyfriend, her own room (finally!), and a modeling agency trying to convince her to sign with them, Charmaine Upshaw’s life is just about perfect. But a surprising face appears at the dinner table: ex-con Uncle E. Uncle E skipped town a few months ago after Charmaine’s parents put... Read more >
Written by Allison Whittenberg
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $15.99
With a new boyfriend, her own room (finally!), and a modeling agency trying to convince her to sign with them, Charmaine Upshaw’s life is just about perfect. But a surprising face appears at the dinner table: ex-con Uncle E. Uncle E skipped town a few months ago after Charmaine’s parents put... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Hollywood and Maine
Written by Allison Whittenberg
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $10.99
With a new boyfriend, her own room (finally!), and a modeling agency trying to convince her to sign with them, Charmaine Upshaw’s life is just about perfect. But a surprising face appears at the dinner table: ex-con Uncle E. Uncle E skipped town a few months ago after Charmaine’s parents put... Read more >
Written by Allison Whittenberg
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $10.99
With a new boyfriend, her own room (finally!), and a modeling agency trying to convince her to sign with them, Charmaine Upshaw’s life is just about perfect. But a surprising face appears at the dinner table: ex-con Uncle E. Uncle E skipped town a few months ago after Charmaine’s parents put... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Stealing Freedom
Written by Elisa Carbone
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $6.99
Twelve-year-old Ann Maria Weems works from sunup to sundown, wraps rags around her feet in the winter, and must do whatever her master or mistress orders--but she has something that many plantation slaves don't have. She has her wonderful family around her. To Ann, her teasing brothers, her older sister, and... Read more >
Written by Elisa Carbone
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $6.99
Twelve-year-old Ann Maria Weems works from sunup to sundown, wraps rags around her feet in the winter, and must do whatever her master or mistress orders--but she has something that many plantation slaves don't have. She has her wonderful family around her. To Ann, her teasing brothers, her older sister, and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Storm Warriors
Written by Elisa Carbone
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $6.99
Driven from his home by the Ku Klux Klan and still reeling from the death of his mother, Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to the desolate Pea Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina to start a new life. Fortunately, life on Pea Island at the end of... Read more >
Written by Elisa Carbone
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $6.99
Driven from his home by the Ku Klux Klan and still reeling from the death of his mother, Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to the desolate Pea Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina to start a new life. Fortunately, life on Pea Island at the end of... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Darnell Rock Reporting
Written by Walter Dean Myers
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $6.99
DARNELL ROCK IS not the kind of kid who volunteers to write for the newspaper—it sounds too much like homework. But this is Darnell’s last chance to pull himself together and make a positive contribution to his school. At first, Darnell would rather be hanging out with his sister and his... Read more >
Written by Walter Dean Myers
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $6.99
DARNELL ROCK IS not the kind of kid who volunteers to write for the newspaper—it sounds too much like homework. But this is Darnell’s last chance to pull himself together and make a positive contribution to his school. At first, Darnell would rather be hanging out with his sister and his... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Porch Lies
Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and other Wily Characters
Written by Patricia McKissack
Illustrated by Andre Carrilho
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $10.99
Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this companion to a Newbery Honor–winning anthology The Dark Thirty is filled with bad characters who know exactly how to charm.
From the author's note that takes us back to McKissack's own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch... to the captivating... Read more >
Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and other Wily Characters
Written by Patricia McKissack
Illustrated by Andre Carrilho
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $10.99
Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this companion to a Newbery Honor–winning anthology The Dark Thirty is filled with bad characters who know exactly how to charm.
From the author's note that takes us back to McKissack's own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch... to the captivating... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Stitchin' and Pullin'
A Gee's Bend Quilt
Written by Patricia McKissack
Illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera
Format: Hardcover, 48 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $17.99
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, grandmother and granddaughter, aunt and niece, friend and friend. For a hundred years, generations of women from Gee’s Bend have quilted together, sharing stories, trading recipes, singing hymns—all the while stitchin’ and pullin’ thread through cloth. Every day Baby Girl listens, watches, and waits, until she’s called to... Read more >
A Gee's Bend Quilt
Written by Patricia McKissack
Illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera
Format: Hardcover, 48 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $17.99
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, grandmother and granddaughter, aunt and niece, friend and friend. For a hundred years, generations of women from Gee’s Bend have quilted together, sharing stories, trading recipes, singing hymns—all the while stitchin’ and pullin’ thread through cloth. Every day Baby Girl listens, watches, and waits, until she’s called to... Read more >
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II
The Kingdom on the Waves
Written by M.T. Anderson
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $22.99
Volume II of the National Book Award Winner and NEW YORK TIMES bestseller — a stunning resolution to the epic tale that "fascinates, appalls,
condemns, and enthralls."
Fearing a death sentence, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, escape through rising tides and pouring rain to find shelter in British-occupied Boston. Sundered from all... Read more >
The Kingdom on the Waves
Written by M.T. Anderson
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $22.99
Volume II of the National Book Award Winner and NEW YORK TIMES bestseller — a stunning resolution to the epic tale that "fascinates, appalls,
condemns, and enthralls."
Fearing a death sentence, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, escape through rising tides and pouring rain to find shelter in British-occupied Boston. Sundered from all... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Full, Full, Full of Love
Written by Trish Cooke
Illustrated by Paul Howard
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $3.99
Warm, welcoming illustrations spice up this rhythmical ode to the joys of family and food - full, full, full of pleasures for all.
For the youngest member of an exuberant extended family, Sunday dinner
at Grannie’s can be full indeed - full of hugs and kisses, full of tasty dishes, full to... Read more >
Written by Trish Cooke
Illustrated by Paul Howard
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $3.99
Warm, welcoming illustrations spice up this rhythmical ode to the joys of family and food - full, full, full of pleasures for all.
For the youngest member of an exuberant extended family, Sunday dinner
at Grannie’s can be full indeed - full of hugs and kisses, full of tasty dishes, full to... Read more >
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So Much!
Written by Trish Cooke
Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $6.99
Mom and baby are home alone when—DING DONG!—Auntie and then Uncle and Nannie and Gran-Gran and the cousins come to visit. And they all want to hug and kiss and squeeze and eat the baby right up—because everybody loves the baby SO MUCH! With Helen Oxenbury lending her characteristic warmth and... Read more >
Written by Trish Cooke
Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $6.99
Mom and baby are home alone when—DING DONG!—Auntie and then Uncle and Nannie and Gran-Gran and the cousins come to visit. And they all want to hug and kiss and squeeze and eat the baby right up—because everybody loves the baby SO MUCH! With Helen Oxenbury lending her characteristic warmth and... Read more >
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Jackson Jones and the Curse of the Outlaw Rose
Written by Mary Quattlebaum
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $5.99
JACKSON JONES CAN’T get away from roses. First his mother got him a plot at Rooter’s, a community garden where Jackson planted a rosebush of thorns and no blooms. Now Mr. K., a fellow gardener, enlists Jackson’s help to rustle up some rare old-time roses. The kind that grow in cemeteries!... Read more >
Written by Mary Quattlebaum
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $5.99
JACKSON JONES CAN’T get away from roses. First his mother got him a plot at Rooter’s, a community garden where Jackson planted a rosebush of thorns and no blooms. Now Mr. K., a fellow gardener, enlists Jackson’s help to rustle up some rare old-time roses. The kind that grow in cemeteries!... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A la Carte
Written by Tanita S. Davis
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $15.99
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD LAINEY DREAMS of becoming a world famous chef one day and maybe even having her own cooking show. (Do you know how many African American female chefs there aren’t? And how many vegetarian chefs have their own shows? The field is wide open for stardom!) But when her best friend—and... Read more >
Written by Tanita S. Davis
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $15.99
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD LAINEY DREAMS of becoming a world famous chef one day and maybe even having her own cooking show. (Do you know how many African American female chefs there aren’t? And how many vegetarian chefs have their own shows? The field is wide open for stardom!) But when her best friend—and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
A la Carte
Written by Tanita S. Davis
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $8.99
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD LAINEY DREAMS of becoming a world famous chef one day and maybe even having her own cooking show. (Do you know how many African American female chefs there aren’t? And how many vegetarian chefs have their own shows? The field is wide open for stardom!) But when her best friend—and... Read more >
Written by Tanita S. Davis
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $8.99
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD LAINEY DREAMS of becoming a world famous chef one day and maybe even having her own cooking show. (Do you know how many African American female chefs there aren’t? And how many vegetarian chefs have their own shows? The field is wide open for stardom!) But when her best friend—and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Not Norman
A Goldfish Story
Written by Kelly Bennett
Illustrated by Noah Z. Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $6.99
"A sweet story that could be used as a springboard to discussion of the pitfalls of making snap judgments about pets — or people." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
Norman the goldfish isn’t what this little boy had in mind. He wanted a different kind of pet — one that could run and... Read more >
A Goldfish Story
Written by Kelly Bennett
Illustrated by Noah Z. Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $6.99
"A sweet story that could be used as a springboard to discussion of the pitfalls of making snap judgments about pets — or people." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
Norman the goldfish isn’t what this little boy had in mind. He wanted a different kind of pet — one that could run and... Read more >
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I
The Pox Party
Written by M.T. Anderson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2008
Price: $10.99
Now in paperback, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.
Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers -- but it is only after he opens a forbidden door that learns the hideous nature... Read more >
The Pox Party
Written by M.T. Anderson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2008
Price: $10.99
Now in paperback, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.
Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers -- but it is only after he opens a forbidden door that learns the hideous nature... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Piano Starts Here
The Young Art Tatum
Written by Robert A. Parker
Illustrated by Robert A. Parker
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $17.99
Regardless of whether they’ve heard of jazz or Art Tatum, young readers will appreciate how Parker uses simple, lyrical storytelling and colorful and energetic ink-and-wash illustrations to show the world as young Art Tatum might have seen it. Tatum came from modest beginnings and was nearly blind, but his passion for... Read more >
The Young Art Tatum
Written by Robert A. Parker
Illustrated by Robert A. Parker
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $17.99
Regardless of whether they’ve heard of jazz or Art Tatum, young readers will appreciate how Parker uses simple, lyrical storytelling and colorful and energetic ink-and-wash illustrations to show the world as young Art Tatum might have seen it. Tatum came from modest beginnings and was nearly blind, but his passion for... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The People Could Fly Picture Book and CD
Written by Virginia Hamilton
Illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon, Ph.D.
Format: Package, 32 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $17.99
LEO AND DIANE DILLON'S award-winning picture book interpretation of Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton's beloved tale now includes an unforgettable word-for-word CD narration by James Earl Jones and Virginia Hamilton. This tale of slaves who could fly to freedom offered hope in the darkly brutal times of slavery. "That is what Virginia... Read more >
Written by Virginia Hamilton
Illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon, Ph.D.
Format: Package, 32 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $17.99
LEO AND DIANE DILLON'S award-winning picture book interpretation of Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton's beloved tale now includes an unforgettable word-for-word CD narration by James Earl Jones and Virginia Hamilton. This tale of slaves who could fly to freedom offered hope in the darkly brutal times of slavery. "That is what Virginia... Read more >
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The Patchwork Path
A Quilt Map to Freedom
Written by Bettye Stroud
Illustrated by Erin Susanne Bennett
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $7.99
"An exciting story about a girl and her father who escape slavery. . . . Works well as a story and also as a lesson in African-American history." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
Now that Hannah’s papa has decided to make the run for freedom, her patchwork quilt is not just a precious... Read more >
A Quilt Map to Freedom
Written by Bettye Stroud
Illustrated by Erin Susanne Bennett
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $7.99
"An exciting story about a girl and her father who escape slavery. . . . Works well as a story and also as a lesson in African-American history." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
Now that Hannah’s papa has decided to make the run for freedom, her patchwork quilt is not just a precious... Read more >
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Mr. George Baker
Written by Amy Hest
Illustrated by Jon J Muth
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $6.99
"An upbeat, hopeful tale that speaks compellingly to intergenerational friendship." — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
George Baker and Harry don’t seem the likeliest of friends. Yet, sitting side by side on George’s porch, waiting for the school bus to come, the two have plenty in common, this hundred-year-old musician with the crookedy fingers going... Read more >
Written by Amy Hest
Illustrated by Jon J Muth
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $6.99
"An upbeat, hopeful tale that speaks compellingly to intergenerational friendship." — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
George Baker and Harry don’t seem the likeliest of friends. Yet, sitting side by side on George’s porch, waiting for the school bus to come, the two have plenty in common, this hundred-year-old musician with the crookedy fingers going... Read more >
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Darby
Written by Jonathon Scott Fuqua
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $7.99
"Darby's first-person narrative is frank and immediate . . . expressing what it's like for an ordinary white kid who suddenly discovers evil — and courage — where she lives." — BOOKLIST
A Book Sense 76 Top Ten Pick
A National Council for the Social Studies Notable Trade Book for Young People
An International... Read more >
Written by Jonathon Scott Fuqua
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $7.99
"Darby's first-person narrative is frank and immediate . . . expressing what it's like for an ordinary white kid who suddenly discovers evil — and courage — where she lives." — BOOKLIST
A Book Sense 76 Top Ten Pick
A National Council for the Social Studies Notable Trade Book for Young People
An International... Read more >
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I
The Pox Party
Written by M.T. Anderson
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $17.99
A gothic tale becomes all too shockingly real in this mesmerizing magnum opus by the acclaimed author of FEED.
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by... Read more >
The Pox Party
Written by M.T. Anderson
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $17.99
A gothic tale becomes all too shockingly real in this mesmerizing magnum opus by the acclaimed author of FEED.
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Porch Lies
Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and other Wily Characters
Written by Patricia McKissack
Illustrated by Andre Carrilho
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: August 22, 2006
Price: $19.99
Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this companion to a Newbery Honor–winning anthology The Dark Thirty is filled with bad characters who know exactly how to charm.
From the author's note that takes us back to McKissack's own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch... to the captivating... Read more >
Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and other Wily Characters
Written by Patricia McKissack
Illustrated by Andre Carrilho
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: August 22, 2006
Price: $19.99
Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this companion to a Newbery Honor–winning anthology The Dark Thirty is filled with bad characters who know exactly how to charm.
From the author's note that takes us back to McKissack's own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch... to the captivating... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
Written by Christopher Paul Curtis
Read by LeVar Burton
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $19.95
Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, Kenny, and Byron, Kenny's older brother, who, at thirteen, is an "official juvenile delinquent."
When Momma and Dad decide it's time for a visit to Grandma, Dad comes home... Read more >
Written by Christopher Paul Curtis
Read by LeVar Burton
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $19.95
Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, Kenny, and Byron, Kenny's older brother, who, at thirteen, is an "official juvenile delinquent."
When Momma and Dad decide it's time for a visit to Grandma, Dad comes home... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download.
