Max Disaster #3: Alien Eraser Reveals the Secrets of Evolution
Written by Marissa Moss
Illustrated by Marissa Moss
Format: Hardcover, 56 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $15.99
Max grapples with the outrageousness of divorced parents beginning to date — and other mysteries of evolution — in his third quirky notebook.Welcome to Max’s book of inventions, experiments, comic strips, and random thoughts about school, the universe, evolution, and parents who definitely don’t act the way parents are supposed to...
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Max Disaster #3: Alien Eraser Reveals the Secrets of Evolution
Written by Marissa Moss
Illustrated by Marissa Moss
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $6.99
Max grapples with the outrageousness of divorced parents beginning to date — and other mysteries of evolution — in his third quirky notebook.Welcome to Max’s book of inventions, experiments, comic strips, and random thoughts about school, the universe, evolution, and parents who definitely don’t act the way parents are supposed to...
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Max Disaster #1: Alien Eraser to the Rescue
Written by Marissa Moss
Illustrated by Marissa Moss
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $6.99
Welcome to Max’s secret collection of inventions, comic strips, and random thoughts about school, family breakups, and the power of Alien Eraser.Pimply older brothers. Good parents who get into bad fi ghts. Lucky for Max, he has a place to jot down his mixed-up thoughts and brilliant ideas. In a quirky...
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Max Disaster #2: Alien Eraser Unravels the Mystery of the Pyramids
Written by Marissa Moss
Illustrated by Marissa Moss
Format: Hardcover, 56 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $15.99
Welcome to Max’s secret collection of inventions, comic strips, and random thoughts about school, family breakups, and the power of Alien Eraser.Did aliens build the pyramids? Will a magic love potion bring Mom and Dad back together? And what do school science, mummified apples, and alien erasers have to do with...
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Love Me Tender
Written by Audrey Couloumbis
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $6.50
Love doesn’t always look like it does on television. . . .
Elvira's family has never been the warm, fuzzy type. Most of the time, Elvira can’t stand the sight of her little sister, Kerrie. Elvira and her mother, Mel, fight more often than not. Mel hasn’t spoken to her own family...
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How to Get Married ... by Me, the Bride
Written by Sally Lloyd-Jones
Illustrated by Sue Heap
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 40 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $19.99
Our know-it-all narrator is at it again, in this hilarious companion to the
New York Times bestselling
How to Be a Baby . . . by Me, the Big Sister. Take it from the six-year-old “bride-to-be”: No one will marry you if you don’t
ever brush your hair and it looks...
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How to Get Married ... by Me, the Bride
Written by Sally Lloyd-Jones
Illustrated by Sue Heap
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $16.99
Our know-it-all narrator is at it again, in this hilarious companion to the
New York Times bestselling
How to Be a Baby . . . by Me, the Big Sister. Take it from the six-year-old “bride-to-be”: No one will marry you if you don’t
ever brush your hair and it looks...
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The Girl Who Wanted to Dance
Written by Amy Ehrlich
Illustrated by Rebecca Walsh
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $17.99
The call to self expression haunts a delicate, poignant tale about family and art, love and longing — and the ineffable tie between parent and child.Clara lives with her father and grandmother in a little village. More than anything, Clara loves to dance, but her father has had too much sadness...
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The Lime Green Secret
Written by Georgia Graham
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $19.95
Not
every flower girl enjoys “her” wedding day quite the way Gloria does!
Nothing has made Gloria happier than being chosen as flower girl for sister Fran’s wedding. Thrilled with her beautiful satin gown, long white gloves, shiny white shoes, lace socks, and sparkling tiara, Gloria dreams of donning her wedding finery...
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Two Old Potatoes and Me
Written by John Coy
Illustrated by Carolyn Fisher
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $7.99
One day at her dad’s house, a young girl finds two old potatoes in the cupboard. “Gross.” But before she can throw them away, her dad suggests they try to grow new potatoes from the old ones, which have sprouted eyes. Told from May to September, the potato-growing season, the story...
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Lucy Rose: Busy Like You Can't Believe
Written by Katy Kelly
Illustrated by Adam Rex
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $5.99
I'm Lucy Rose, and here's the thing about 4th: that grade is busy like you can't believe! Especially if you are a person who is already PLENTY busy on account of having RESPONSIBILITIES and I am that kind exactly. I am already collecting a vocabulary, plus I have to think up...
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Catcall
Written by Linda Newbery
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $15.99
JOSH’S FAMILY IS used to changes—but now they are hurtling into even more. Although Josh has always had an affinity with animals, it’s his younger brother Jamie who falls under the all-pervading wild cat spell.
“Leo” seems to have taken over Jamie’s life. He eats when and what he wants, speaks only...
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Catcall
Written by Linda Newbery
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $15.99
JOSH’S FAMILY IS used to changes—but now they are hurtling into even more. Although Josh has always had an affinity with animals, it’s his younger brother Jamie who falls under the all-pervading wild cat spell.
“Leo” seems to have taken over Jamie’s life. He eats when and what he wants, speaks only...
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Catcall
Written by Linda Newbery
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 192 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $18.99
JOSH’S FAMILY IS used to changes—but now they are hurtling into even more. Although Josh has always had an affinity with animals, it’s his younger brother Jamie who falls under the all-pervading wild cat spell.
“Leo” seems to have taken over Jamie’s life. He eats when and what he wants, speaks only...
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Lucy Rose: Working Myself to Pieces and Bits
Written by Katy Kelly
Illustrated by Peter Ferguson
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $5.99
I'M LUCY ROSE and here's the thing about friends: I am lucky in them. And here's the thing about that: sometimes they are in need, indeed, especially when one of them buys a plumbing store and needs to diva it up so it can turn into a bakery. That is one...
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Lucy Rose: Working Myself to Pieces and Bits
Written by Katy Kelly
Illustrated by Peter Ferguson
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $5.99
I’M LUCY ROSE and here’s the thing about friends: I am lucky in them. And here’s the thing about that: sometimes they are in need indeed, especially when one of them buys a plumbing store and needs to diva it up so it can turn into a bakery. That is one...
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A Friend at Midnight
Written by Caroline B. Cooney
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $8.99
Lily has settled into life in Connecticut after her parent's divorce but it's been harder on her eight-year-old brother Michael. After their mother remarries, her brother chooses to go live with his father in Washington, D.C., until the day he calls home from the Baltimore-Washington Airport where his father has abandoned...
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A Friend at Midnight
Written by Caroline B. Cooney
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $8.99
Lily has settled into life in Connecticut after her parent's divorce but it's been harder on her eight-year-old brother Michael. After their mother remarries, her brother chooses to go live with his father in Washington, D.C., until the day he calls home from the Baltimore-Washington Airport where his father has abandoned...
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A Friend at Midnight
Written by Caroline B. Cooney
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $8.99
Lily has settled into life in Connecticut after her parent's divorce but it's been harder on her eight-year-old brother Michael. After their mother remarries, her brother chooses to go live with his father in Washington, D.C., until the day he calls home from the Baltimore-Washington Airport where his father has abandoned...
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The Twin Giants
Written by Dick King-Smith
Illustrated by Mini Grey
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $16.99
When twin giants set out in search of happiness, the result is a comedy of errors that is doubly clever and enormously funny."Isn’t he e-nor-mous!" says the giant father when his first twin son is born. "There’s a-lot-uv-’im!" notes the giant mother when the second twin boy arrives. And as Normus...
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A Day with Dad
Written by Bo R. Holmberg
Illustrated by Eva Eriksson
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $15.99
A child’s visit with Dad is a day full of quiet pleasures in a genuine, tender story many young readers will relate to.Tim lives with his mom. His dad lives in another town. But today, Tim’s dad is coming on the train so the two can spend the whole day together...
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Love Me Tender
Written by Audrey Couloumbis
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $16.99
Elvira’s family has never been the warm, fuzzy type. Most of the time, Elvira can’t stand the sight of her little sister, Kerrie. Elvira and her mother, Mel, fight more often than not. Mel hasn’t spoken to her own family in years. And when Mel announces she’s pregnant again, Elvira’s daddy...
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Love Me Tender
Written by Audrey Couloumbis
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $6.50
Elvira’s family has never been the warm, fuzzy type. Most of the time, Elvira can’t stand the sight of her little sister, Kerrie. Elvira and her mother, Mel, fight more often than not. Mel hasn’t spoken to her own family in years. And when Mel announces she’s pregnant again, Elvira’s daddy...
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Love Me Tender
Written by Audrey Couloumbis
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 224 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $19.99
Elvira’s family has never been the warm, fuzzy type. Most of the time, Elvira can’t stand the sight of her little sister, Kerrie. Elvira and her mother, Mel, fight more often than not. Mel hasn’t spoken to her own family in years. And when Mel announces she’s pregnant again, Elvira’s daddy...
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