Crow
Written by Barbara Wright
Read by J.D. Jackson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $23.00
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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Mirandy and Brother Wind
Written by Patricia McKissack
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Format: eBook, 32 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2013
Price: $6.99
Illus. in full color."Mirandy is sure she'll win the cake walk if she can catch Brother Wind for her partner, but he eludes all the tricks her friends advise. This gets a high score for plot, pace, and characterization. Mirandy sparkles with energy and determination. Multi-hued watercolors fill the pages with...
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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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Brendan Buckley's Sixth-Grade Experiment
Written by Sundee T. Frazier
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $6.99
Brendan Buckley's headed to middle school, and he has some big questions! Can he keep his new pet anole, Einstein, alive? Will his tough-as-rock Grandpa Ed and sharp-witted grandma, Gladys, butt heads or become friends? Most importantly, what will he propose for the national science competition his class is entering?
Then Brendan's...
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Piano Starts Here
The Young Art Tatum
Written by Robert A. Parker
Illustrated by Robert A. Parker
Format: eBook, 40 pages
On Sale: December 19, 2012
Price: $10.99
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...
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Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!
A Sonic Adventure
Written by Wynton Marsalis
Illustrated by Paul Rogers
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $15.99
The creators of Jazz ABZ are back for an encore! With infectious rhythm and rhyme, musical master Wynton Marsalis opens kids’ ears to the sounds around us.What’s that sound? The back door
squeeeaks open, sounding like a noisy mouse nearby —
eeek, eeeek, eeeek! Big trucks on the highway
rrrrrrrumble, just...
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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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Kizzy Ann Stamps
Written by Jeri Watts
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $15.99
Taking things in stride is not easy for Kizzy Ann, but with her border collie, Shag, stalwart at her side, she sets out to live a life as sweet as syrup on cornbread.In 1963, as Kizzy Ann prepares for her first year at an integrated school, she worries about the color...
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Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose
Written by Jane Kendall
Illustrated by Astrid Sheckels
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $6.99
Alabama, 1856. Tennessee Rose is a dark bay Tennessee Walking Horse with a rose-shaped marking on her forehead. She loves dashing around the plantation in the running walk that her breed is famous for, then coming back to her comfortable stall and her friend Levi, the slave boy who is her...
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Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose
Written by Jane Kendall
Illustrated by Astrid Sheckels
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $6.99
Alabama, 1856. Tennessee Rose is a dark bay Tennessee Walking Horse with a rose-shaped marking on her forehead. She loves dashing around the plantation in the running walk that her breed is famous for, then coming back to her comfortable stall and her friend Levi, the slave boy who is her...
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Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose
Written by Jane Kendall
Illustrated by Astrid Sheckels
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 160 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $12.99
Alabama, 1856. Tennessee Rose is a dark bay Tennessee Walking Horse with a rose-shaped marking on her forehead. She loves dashing around the plantation in the running walk that her breed is famous for, then coming back to her comfortable stall and her friend Levi, the slave boy who is her...
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145th Street: Short Stories
Written by Walter Dean Myers
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $7.99
A salty, wrenchingly honest collection of stories set on one block of 145th Street. We get to know the oldest resident; the cop on the beat; fine Peaches and her girl, Squeezie; Monkeyman; and Benny, a fighter on the way to a knockout. We meet Angela, who starts having prophetic dreams...
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Hoops
Written by Walter Dean Myers
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $7.99
All eyes are on seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson while he practices with his team for a city-wide basketball Tournament of Champions. His coach, Cal, knows Lonnie has what it takes to be a pro-basketball player, but warns him about giving in to the pressure. Cal knows because he, too, once had the...
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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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Brendan Buckley's Sixth-Grade Experiment
Written by Sundee T. Frazier
Read by Mirron Willis
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $39.00
Brendan Buckley is headed to sixth-grade and he has lots of big questions. Will he be able to keep his anole, Einstein, alive? Why won’t new girl Morgan Belcher leave him alone? And what project will he propose for the national science competition his class is entering?
Readers will welcome the return...
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Brendan Buckley's Sixth-Grade Experiment
Written by Sundee T. Frazier
Read by Mirron Willis
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $20.00
Brendan Buckley is headed to sixth-grade and he has lots of big questions. Will he be able to keep his anole, Einstein, alive? Why won’t new girl Morgan Belcher leave him alone? And what project will he propose for the national science competition his class is entering?
Readers will welcome the return...
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Brendan Buckley's Sixth-Grade Experiment
Written by Sundee T. Frazier
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $6.99
Brendan Buckley is headed to sixth-grade and he has lots of big questions. Will he be able to keep his anole, Einstein, alive? Why won’t new girl Morgan Belcher leave him alone? And what project will he propose for the national science competition his class is entering?
Readers will welcome the return...
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Brendan Buckley's Sixth-Grade Experiment
Written by Sundee T. Frazier
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 288 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $19.99
Brendan Buckley is headed to sixth-grade and he has lots of big questions. Will he be able to keep his anole, Einstein, alive? Why won’t new girl Morgan Belcher leave him alone? And what project will he propose for the national science competition his class is entering?
Readers will welcome the return...
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Brendan Buckley's Sixth-Grade Experiment
Written by Sundee T. Frazier
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $16.99
Brendan Buckley is headed to sixth-grade and he has lots of big questions. Will he be able to keep his anole, Einstein, alive? Why won’t new girl Morgan Belcher leave him alone? And what project will he propose for the national science competition his class is entering?
Readers will welcome the return...
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Crow
Written by Barbara Wright
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $16.99
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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Crow
Written by Barbara Wright
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2012
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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Crow
Written by Barbara Wright
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 304 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $19.99
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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Teenie
Written by Christopher Grant
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $8.99
High school freshman Martine (Teenie for short) is a good student, with a bright future ahead of her. She's desperate to be accepted into a prestigious study abroad program in Spain so that she can see what life is like beyond the streets of Brooklyn. She wouldn't mind escaping from her...
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Zora and Me
Written by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Price: $6.99
Winner of the 2011 John Steptoe New Talent (Author) Award!
Racial duplicity threatens an idyllic African American community in the turn-of-the-century South in a dazzling debut inspired by the early life of Zora Neale Hurston.
Whether she’s telling the truth or stretching it, Zora Neale Hurston is a riveting storyteller. Her latest creation...
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Julian's Glorious Summer
Written by Ann Cameron
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2011
Price: $4.99
Bicycles–shiny, whizzing, wobbly bicycles–scare Julian more than lions or tigers. But how can he tell that to his best friend, Gloria? She can already ride with no hands. So instead of telling the truth, Julian makes up a little fib. And he almost gets away with it–until his fib backfires and...
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