A Faraway Island
Written by Annika Thor
Translated by Linda Schenck
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $16.99
Torn from their homeland, two Jewish sisters find refuge in Sweden.It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna—12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old Nellie—are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go...
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A Faraway Island
Written by Annika Thor
Translated by Linda Schenck
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $16.99
Torn from their homeland, two Jewish sisters find refuge in Sweden.It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna—12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old Nellie—are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go...
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A Faraway Island
Written by Annika Thor
Translated by Linda Schenck
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 256 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $19.99
Torn from their homeland, two Jewish sisters find refuge in Sweden.It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna—12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old Nellie—are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go...
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The Book of the Maidservant
Written by Rebecca Barnhouse
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $16.99
“A funny and wise book about friendship, loyalty, and love.”—Karen Cushman
Johanna is a servant girl to Dame Margery Kempe, a renowned medieval holy woman. Dame Margery feels the suffering the Virgin Mary felt for her son but cares little for the misery she sees every day. When she announces that Johanna...
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The Book of the Maidservant
Written by Rebecca Barnhouse
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $16.99
“A funny and wise book about friendship, loyalty, and love.”—Karen Cushman
Johanna is a servant girl to Dame Margery Kempe, a renowned medieval holy woman. Dame Margery feels the suffering the Virgin Mary felt for her son but cares little for the misery she sees every day. When she announces that Johanna...
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The Book of the Maidservant
Written by Rebecca Barnhouse
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 240 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $19.99
“A funny and wise book about friendship, loyalty, and love.”—Karen Cushman
Johanna is a servant girl to Dame Margery Kempe, a renowned medieval holy woman. Dame Margery feels the suffering the Virgin Mary felt for her son but cares little for the misery she sees every day. When she announces that Johanna...
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War Games
Written by Audrey Couloumbis and Akila Couloumbis
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $16.99
Based on a true story of World War II.
For 12-year-old Petros, World War II feels unreal and far away. What’s real is working in his papa’s garden. Playing marbles with his friends. Fighting with his older brother, Zola. Zola, who must always be first. Who must always be best. But when...
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War Games
Written by Audrey Couloumbis and Akila Couloumbis
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $16.99
Based on a true story of World War II.
For 12-year-old Petros, World War II feels unreal and far away. What’s real is working in his papa’s garden. Playing marbles with his friends. Fighting with his older brother, Zola. Zola, who must always be first. Who must always be best. But when...
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War Games
Written by Audrey Couloumbis and Akila Couloumbis
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 240 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $19.99
Based on a true story of World War II.
For 12-year-old Petros, World War II feels unreal and far away. What’s real is working in his papa’s garden. Playing marbles with his friends. Fighting with his older brother, Zola. Zola, who must always be first. Who must always be best. But when...
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A Brief History of Montmaray
Written by Michelle Cooper
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $16.99
“There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.”
Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday, Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on the...
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A Brief History of Montmaray
Written by Michelle Cooper
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $16.99
“There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.”
Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday, Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on the...
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A Brief History of Montmaray
Written by Michelle Cooper
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 304 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $19.99
“There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.”
Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday, Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on the...
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Moby-Dick
Candlewick Illustrated Classic
Written by Herman Melville
Retold by Jan Needle
Illustrated by Patrick Benson
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $12.99
Welcome two new Candlewick Illustrated Classics!
These collectible editions bring treasured stories to life with lavish full-color interior illustrations and elegant French flaps.Jan Needle abridges Herman Melville’s epic to focus on the intensely dramatic story of Captain Ahab’s ill-fated quest for the white whale, while Patrick Benson’s powerful illustrations evoke the lost...
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Good-bye Marianne
A Story of Growing Up in Nazi Germany
Written by Irene N.Watts
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2009
Price: $7.95
A heartbreaking story of loss and love.As autumn turns toward winter in 1938 Berlin, life for Marianne Kohn, a young Jewish girl, begins to crumble. First there was the burning of the neighbourhood shops. Then her father, a mild-mannered bookseller, must leave the family and go into hiding. No longer allowed...
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Tears of the Salamander
Written by Peter Dickinson
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2009
Price: $7.95
Alfredo, a choir boy in 18th-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, and his mysterious Uncle Giorgio spirits him away to their ancestral home below a volcano. There he learns that Uncle Giorgio is the Master of the Mountain; he can control the volcano. He is also an alchemist, able...
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Hidden Voices
The Orphan Musicians of Venice
Written by Pat Lowery Collins
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $17.99
While studying under Vivaldi, three girls in a Venice orphanage forge their own notions of love in a sensuous, engrossing novel told in three narrative voices.It is a longing and search for love that motivates three girls living in the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage renowned for its extraordinary musical program...
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Finding Sophie
Written by Irene N.Watts
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2009
Price: $6.95
Selected by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association as one of the PSLA YA Top Forty Fiction Titles 2003
Nominated in the fiction category for the 2004/2005 Red Cedar Book Awards (British Columbia's Young Reader's Choice book award)Sophie Mandel was only seven years old when she arrived in London on the first Kindertransport...
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The Legend of Lady Ilena
Written by Patricia Malone
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $5.50
Ilena, daughter of Moren and Grenna, has lived in the Vale of Enfert for all of her 15 years, but it is not her true home. Her parents refused to speak about the place they came from or their lineage. After the deaths of both of her parents, her questions remain...
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The Orange Trees of Versailles
Written by Annie Pietri
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2009
Price: $15.95
When Marion Dutilleul enters the service of the Marquise de Montespan, she never imagines that her ability to recognize scents and to blend them into perfumes will win her the favor of Louis XIV’s mistress. But the marquise quickly has the young girl creating new perfumes for her. Eager to please...
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Nory Ryan's Song
Written by Patricia Reilly Giff
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $6.99
Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage...
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Bloodline
Written by Katy Moran
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $16.99
Warring kingdoms, bloody feuds, and a boy’s battle for survival. Step back into the Dark Ages with this riveting epic adventure.In the wilds of Dark Age Britain, a bard abandons his son, Essa, in a village trapped between two feuding kingdoms. As the once-nomadic boy grows rooted in the life of...
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Hana in the Time of the Tulips
Written by Deborah Noyes
Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline
Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $7.99
"Children (and adults) will thrill to the beauty of the pictures and the tender
concern of a child for her father." — Kirkus ReviewsHana and her father used to love to walk in the garden and play their favorite game. But ever since tulip fever struck Holland, Hana’s father has been consumed...
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The Playmaker
Written by J.B. Cheaney
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $6.50
The year is 1597. Elizabeth is queen. Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain’s Men are packing London’s Globe Theatre. And the severed heads of Catholic insurgents are impaled on the Tower’s gates. One 14-year-old boy should arouse no one’s interest.
But within a week of his arrival, Richard Malory is robbed, beaten...
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Babylonne
Written by Catherine Jinks
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $18.99
Exotic and exciting, this unflinching coming-of-age tale featuring a headstrong heroine weaves a vivid tapestry of life in the Middle Ages.Early thirteenth-century Languedoc is a place of valor, violence, and persecution. At age sixteen, Babylonne has survived six bloody sieges. She's tough, resourceful, and — now that her strict aunt and...
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