Precious Bones
Written by Mika Ashley-Hollinger
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $7.99
Meet ten-year-old Bones, whose playground is the Florida swamps, brimming with mystical witches, black bears, alligators and bobcats. Bones' father, Nolay, a Miccosukee Indian, is smart and mischievous. Her Mama, practical as corn bread, can see straight into Bones' soul.
It's summer, and Bones is busy hunting and fishing with her best...
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Crow
Written by Barbara Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $7.99
The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's teaching...
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The Freedom Maze
Written by Delia Sherman
Read by Robin Miles
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $20.00
Set against the burgeoning Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and then just before the outbreak of the Civil War, The Freedom Maze explores both political and personal liberation, and how the two intertwine.
In 1960, thirteen-year-old Sophie isn’t happy about spending the summer at her grandmother’s old house...
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Come August, Come Freedom
The Bellows, The Gallows, and The Black General Gabriel
Written by Gigi Amateau
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $16.99
An 1800 insurrection planned by a literate slave known as "Prosser’s Gabriel" inspires a historical novel following one extraordinary man’s life.In a time of post-Revolutionary fervor in Richmond, Virginia, an imposing twenty-four-year-old slave named Gabriel, known for his courage and intellect, plotted a rebellion involving thousands of African- American freedom seekers...
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Burning Up
Written by Caroline B. Cooney
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2012
Price: $6.99
Fifteen-year-old Macey Clare loves her Connecticut hometown, where her mother grew up and her grandparents still live, and she likes visiting her grandparents even more now that their neighbors’ handsome grandson, Austin, has moved in.
But when Macey decides to research the history of a burned-out barn across the street from her...
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Jump into the Sky
Written by Shelley Pearsall
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $16.99
Levi Battle's been left behind all his life. His mother could sing like a bird and she flew away like one, too. His father left him with his grandmother so he could work as a traveling salesman—until Levi's grandmother left this world entirely. Now Levi's staying with his Aunt Odella while...
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Jump into the Sky
Written by Shelley Pearsall
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $10.99
Levi Battle's been left behind all his life. His mother could sing like a bird and she flew away like one, too. His father left him with his grandmother so he could work as a traveling salesman—until Levi's grandmother left this world entirely. Now Levi's staying with his Aunt Odella while...
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Jump into the Sky
Written by Shelley Pearsall
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 352 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $19.99
Levi Battle's been left behind all his life. His mother could sing like a bird and she flew away like one, too. His father left him with his grandmother so he could work as a traveling salesman—until Levi's grandmother left this world entirely. Now Levi's staying with his Aunt Odella while...
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Jump into the Sky
Written by Shelley Pearsall
Read by J. B. Adkins
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $40.00
Levi Battle's been left behind all his life. His mother could sing like a bird and she flew away like one, too. His father left him with his grandmother so he could work as a traveling salesman—until Levi's grandmother left this world entirely. Now Levi's staying with his Aunt Odella while...
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Jump into the Sky
Written by Shelley Pearsall
Read by J. B. Adkins
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $20.00
Levi Battle's been left behind all his life. His mother could sing like a bird and she flew away like one, too. His father left him with his grandmother so he could work as a traveling salesman—until Levi's grandmother left this world entirely. Now Levi's staying with his Aunt Odella while...
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Minnie McClary Speaks Her Mind
Written by Valerie Hobbs
Read by Tara Sands
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $30.00
Minnie McClary’s life was turned upside down when her family moved from the big city to a small town, and now she has nothing but problems. Miss Marks, her new language arts teacher, thinks that the way to solve problems is to start by asking questions. But Minnie has so many...
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Suck It Up and Die
Written by Brian Meehl
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $17.99
Nearly two years after
Suck It Up, all Morning McCobb wants is to complete his training at the NY Fire Academy and to stay head over heels in love with Portia for as long as the chronology-crossed lovers can, given that she's now eighteen and he's stalled at sixteen.
It's nearly the...
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Suck It Up and Die
Written by Brian Meehl
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $10.99
Nearly two years after
Suck It Up, all Morning McCobb wants is to complete his training at the NY Fire Academy and to stay head over heels in love with Portia for as long as the chronology-crossed lovers can, given that she's now eighteen and he's stalled at sixteen.
It's nearly the...
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Suck It Up and Die
Written by Brian Meehl
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 416 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $20.99
Nearly two years after
Suck It Up, all Morning McCobb wants is to complete his training at the NY Fire Academy and to stay head over heels in love with Portia for as long as the chronology-crossed lovers can, given that she's now eighteen and he's stalled at sixteen.
It's nearly the...
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Minnie McClary Speaks Her Mind
Written by Valerie Hobbs
Read by Tara Sands
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.00
Minnie McClary’s life was turned upside down when her family moved from the big city to a small town, and now she has nothing but problems. Miss Marks, her new language arts teacher, thinks that the way to solve problems is to start by asking questions. But Minnie has so many...
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You Don't Know About Me
Written by Brian Meehl
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $9.99
Sixteen-year-old Billy Allbright is about to bust out of his sheltered cocoon and go on a gonzo road trip. He just doesn't know it yet. His ticket to freedom? A mysterious Bible containing two resurrection stories. The second is about a man Billy's never met, and who is supposedly dead: his...
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Precious Bones
Written by Mika Ashley-Hollinger
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $7.99
Meet ten-year-old Bones, whose playground is the Florida swamps, brimming with mystical witches, black bears, alligators and bobcats. Bones' father, Nolay, a Miccosukee Indian, is smart and mischievous. Her Mama, practical as corn bread, can see straight into Bones' soul.
It's summer, and Bones is busy hunting and fishing with her best...
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Precious Bones
Written by Mika Ashley-Hollinger
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 352 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $19.99
Meet ten-year-old Bones, whose playground is the Florida swamps, brimming with mystical witches, black bears, alligators and bobcats. Bones' father, Nolay, a Miccosukee Indian, is smart and mischievous. Her Mama, practical as corn bread, can see straight into Bones' soul.
It's summer, and Bones is busy hunting and fishing with her best...
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The Last Song
Written by Eva Wiseman
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $17.95
Spain had been one of the world’s most tolerant societies for eight hundred years, but that way of life was wiped out by the Inquisition. Isabel’s family feels safe from the terrors, torture, and burnings. After all, her father is a respected physician in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. Isabel...
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The Last Song
Written by Eva Wiseman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $10.99
Spain had been one of the world’s most tolerant societies for eight hundred years, but that way of life was wiped out by the Inquisition. Isabel’s family feels safe from the terrors, torture, and burnings. After all, her father is a respected physician in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. Isabel...
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Jasper Jones
Written by Craig Silvey
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $9.99
A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor BookCharlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate...
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Jasper Jones
Written by Craig Silvey
Read by Matt Cowlrick
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $50.00
A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor BookCharlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate...
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Jasper Jones
Written by Craig Silvey
Read by Matt Cowlrick
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $25.00
A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor BookCharlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate...
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Puppet
Written by Eva Wiseman
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $9.95
A heartbreaking episode in history, explained through the story of a young servant girl in the late 1800s.
The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the ‘blood libel’ — the centuries-old calumny that...
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Just as Good
How Larry Doby Changed America's Game
Written by Chris Crowe
Illustrated by Mike Benny
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $16.99
Batter up for the first-ever children's book about Larry Doby, the first African-American player to hit a home run in the World Series.The year is 1948, and Homer and his daddy are baseball crazy. Ever since last season, when their man Larry Doby followed Jackie Robinson across baseball's color line and...
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