Every Day After
Written by Laura Golden
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $15.99
Jennifer Holm's fans will root for Lizzie Hawkins. RUTA SEPETYS,
New York Times bestselling author of BETWEEN SHADES OF GREY, says: "A beautiful story of acceptance and determination. Lizzie Hawkins reminds us that in the mids of losing something precious we may find something equally important: ourselves."
It's been two months since...
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Every Day After
Written by Laura Golden
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $10.99
It's been two months since Lizzie's daddy disappeared due to the awful Depression. Lizzie's praying he'll return to Bittersweet, Alabama, for her birthday. It won't feel special without him, what with Lizzie's Mama being so sad she won't even talk and the bank nipping at their heels for a mortgage payment.
Daddy...
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Every Day After
Written by Laura Golden
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 224 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $18.99
It's been two months since Lizzie's daddy disappeared due to the awful Depression. Lizzie's praying he'll return to Bittersweet, Alabama, for her birthday. It won't feel special without him, what with Lizzie's Mama being so sad she won't even talk and the bank nipping at their heels for a mortgage payment.
Daddy...
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My Chemical Mountain
Written by Corina Vacco
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $16.99
In the vein of S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders, and in eco-warrior fierceness that will recall Erin Brockovich, comes My Chemical Mountain, a powerful, mesmerizing high-octane drama.
Rocked by his father's recent death and his mother's sudden compulsion to overeat, Jason lashes out by breaking into the abandoned mills and factories that plague his...
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My Chemical Mountain
Written by Corina Vacco
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $10.99
Rocked by his father's recent death and his mother's sudden compulsion to overeat, Jason lashes out by breaking into the abandoned mills and factories that plague his run-down town. Always by his side are his two best friends, Charlie, a fearless thrill junkie, and Cornpup, a geek inventor whose back is...
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My Daddy and Me
Written by Jerry Spinelli
Illustrated by Seymour Chwast
Format: eBook, 40 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2013
Price: $6.99
I can’t wait for my daddy to come home from work. There are so many things to do!
In a loving tribute to fathers and sons, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli and New Yorker artist Seymour Chwast join talents to celebrate the very best moment of the day: when daddy comes home.
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Paperboy
Written by Vince Vawter
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $16.99
For fans of To Kill a Mockingbird, The King's Speech, and The Help. A boy who stutters comes-of-age in the segregated South, during the summer that changes his life.
An 11-year-old boy living in Memphis in 1959 throws the meanest fastball in town, but talking is a whole different ball game. He...
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Paperboy
Written by Vince Vawter
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $10.99
An 11-year-old boy living in Memphis in 1959 throws the meanest fastball in town, but talking is a whole different ball game. He can barely say a word without stuttering, not even his own name. So when he takes over his best friend's paper route for the month of July, he...
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Paperboy
Written by Vince Vawter
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 240 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $19.99
An 11-year-old boy living in Memphis in 1959 throws the meanest fastball in town, but talking is a whole different ball game. He can barely say a word without stuttering, not even his own name. So when he takes over his best friend's paper route for the month of July, he...
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The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls
Written by Julie Schumacher
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $8.99
I'm Adrienne Haus, survivor of a mother-daughter book club. Most of us didn't want to join. My mother signed me up because I was stuck at home all summer, with my knee in a brace. CeeCee's parents forced her to join after cancelling her Paris trip because she bashed up their...
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Pirate Mom
Written by Deborah Underwood
Illustrated by Stephen Gilpin
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $3.99
Yo ho ho! Pete loves pirates, but his mom thinks they are rude and messy. Then Pete and his mom go to see the Amazing Marco, and Marco hypnotizes Pete’s mom into thinking
she’s a pirate! Now Pete’s mom won’t behave. She chases the neighbors. She steals underwear off other people’s...
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Giddy-Up, Daddy!
Written by Troy Cummings
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $16.99
Giddy-Up, Daddy! is the newest imaginative picture book from celebrated cartoonist Troy Cummings. When rootin'-tootin' Daddy the "horse" is eyeballed by some rotten rustlers, it's all the kids can do to keep him out of the big lugs' lasso. What follows is a quick detour through a rodeo, a trip across a...
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Giddy-Up, Daddy!
Written by Troy Cummings
Format: eBook, 40 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $10.99
Giddy-Up, Daddy! is the newest imaginative picture book from celebrated cartoonist Troy Cummings. When rootin'-tootin' Daddy the "horse" is eyeballed by some rotten rustlers, it's all the kids can do to keep him out of the big lugs' lasso. What follows is a quick detour through a rodeo, a trip across a...
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Giddy-Up, Daddy!
Written by Troy Cummings
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 40 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $19.99
Giddy-Up, Daddy! is the newest imaginative picture book from celebrated cartoonist Troy Cummings. When rootin'-tootin' Daddy the "horse" is eyeballed by some rotten rustlers, it's all the kids can do to keep him out of the big lugs' lasso. What follows is a quick detour through a rodeo, a trip across a...
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My Dad Thinks He's Funny
Written by Katrina Germein
Illustrated by Tom Jellett
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $14.99
The ideal gift book for anyone whose dad makes them laugh — or roll their eyes.When his son says "I’m hungry," Dad says, "Hello, Hungry. Pleased to meet you." Before slicing a cake for dessert, Dad announces, "There’s my piece. What’s everybody else having?" Tell Dad your foot hurts? "No problem...
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Revenge of a Not-So-Pretty Girl
Written by Carolita Blythe
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $10.99
Fans of Walter Dean Myers and Rita Williams-Garcia's One Crazy Summer will cherish this gripping story of an African American girl living in 1980s Brooklyn, who overcomes abuse and neglect in discovering real friendship, self-respect, and that pretty and mean don't always win.
Girls who are pretty have a way of...
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Revenge of a Not-So-Pretty Girl
Written by Carolita Blythe
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 336 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $19.99
Fans of Walter Dean Myers and Rita Williams-Garcia's One Crazy Summer will cherish this gripping story of an African American girl living in 1980s Brooklyn, who overcomes abuse and neglect in discovering real friendship, self-respect, and that pretty and mean don't always win.
Girls who are pretty have a way of...
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Revenge of a Not-So-Pretty Girl
Written by Carolita Blythe
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.99
Fans of Walter Dean Myers and Rita Williams-Garcia's One Crazy Summer will cherish this gripping story of an African American girl living in 1980s Brooklyn, who overcomes abuse and neglect in discovering real friendship, self-respect, and that pretty and mean don't always win.
Girls who are pretty have a way of...
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Small as an Elephant
Written by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $6.99
Jack’s mom is gone, leaving him all alone on a campsite in Maine. Can he find his way back to Boston before the authorities realize what happened?Ever since Jack can remember, his mom has been unpredictable, sometimes loving and fun, other times caught in a whirlwind of energy and "spinning" wildly...
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Happy Mother's Day! (Sesame Street)
Written by Deborah Hautzig
Format: eBook, 24 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2013
Price: $3.99
Illus. in full color. Grover feels like a failure because he can't think of the perfect present to give his mother on Mother's Day. What he doesn't realize is that he's already given her the best present: himself!
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My Mom Is the Best Circus
Written by Luciana Navarro Powell
Format: Board, 26 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $7.99
This humorous story celebrates mom as the best one-woman show on earth as she juggles everything that goes on during the day—she's a ringmaster, a wild beast tamer, a magician, and sometimes a clown. But her best stunt of all is the sandman show, when it's time for a good-night story.
Luciana...
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My Mom Is the Best Circus
Written by Luciana Navarro Powell
Format: eBook, 26 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $7.99
This humorous story celebrates mom as the best one-woman show on earth as she juggles everything that goes on during the day—she's a ringmaster, a wild beast tamer, a magician, and sometimes a clown. But her best stunt of all is the sandman show, when it's time for a good-night story.
Luciana...
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A Monster Calls
Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd
Written by Patrick Ness
Illustrated by Jim Kay
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $8.99
An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting-- he's been expecting the one from his nightmare...
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Scowler
Written by Daniel Kraus
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $16.99
Imagine your father is a monster. Would that mean there are monsters inside you, too? Nineteen-year-old Ry Burke, his mother, and little sister scrape by for a living on their dying family farm. Ry wishes for anything to distract him from the grim memories of his father's physical and emotional abuse...
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Scowler
Written by Daniel Kraus
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $10.99
Imagine your father is a monster. Would that mean there are monsters inside you, too? Nineteen-year-old Ry Burke, his mother, and little sister scrape by for a living on their dying family farm. Ry wishes for anything to distract him from the grim memories of his father's physical and emotional abuse...
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