The Devil's Breath
Written by David Gilman
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $16.99
WHEN AN ASSASSIN bursts from the shadows to try to kill him on the dark, windswept grounds of his boarding school in England, Max Gordon realizes his life is about to change forever.
After learning that his explorer father is missing, Max is determined to find him, no matter what dangers may...
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The Devil's Breath
Written by David Gilman
Read by David Thorn
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $22.00
“The start of an awesome adventure . . . fantastic.”
–National Geographic KidsHis father is missing.
He’s an assassin’s target.
He has one clue. And no time.
He’s Max Gordon. And someone wants him dead.
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Word Nerd
Written by Susin Nielsen
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $18.95
Twelve-year-old Ambrose is a glass-half-full kind of guy. A self-described “friendless nerd,” he moves from place to place every couple of years with his overprotective mother, Irene. When some bullies at his new school almost kill him by slipping a peanut into his sandwich — even though they know he has...
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Three Songs for Courage
Written by Maxine Trottier
Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $10.95
In this powerful novel for mature readers,
Maxine Trottier transports the reader to the summer of 1956, and the small town of Erie View, a haven for teenagers. Summer jobs are plentiful, and there’s always action on the beach or the main drag. Life is cool. But Erie View is a...
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Leepike Ridge
Written by N. D. Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $6.99
ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD THOMAS HAMMOND has always lived next to Leepike Ridge. He never imagined he might end up lost beneath it! What Tom finds underground will answer questions he hadn’t known to ask and change his life forever.
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Leepike Ridge
Written by N. D. Wilson
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $6.99
Eleven-year-old Thomas Hammond is in for the ride of his life when he's swept downstream and underground aboard a crumbling raft of Styrofoam. Washing up on a dark subterranean "beach," his only companions are an impulsive dog named Argus and a corpse, from which he takes a flashlight and an all-too-limited...
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Shadows in the Twilight
Written by Henning Mankell
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $15.99
JOEL WILL SOON be 12, and he thinks nothing is going on in the small community where he lives. But he’s wrong. One day, an incident that could easily have been a catastrophe turns into a miracle. Now Joel believes he owes the world a good deed, to prove that he...
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Maybe
Written by Brent Runyon
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $7.99
Maybe everything will be different here. Maybe I should drive away and never come back. Maybe my brother didn't mean to. Maybe my brother was right. Maybe I can get someone to have sex with me. Maybe no one will ever love me. Maybe I should be an actor. Maybe I...
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Maybe
Written by Brent Runyon
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $7.99
Maybe everything will be different here. Maybe I should drive away and never come back. Maybe my brother didn't mean to. Maybe my brother was right. Maybe I can get someone to have sex with me. Maybe no one will ever love me. Maybe I should be an actor. Maybe I...
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The Crossroads
A Haunted Mystery
Written by Chris Grabenstein
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $6.99
ZACK, HIS DAD, and new stepmother have just moved back to his father’s hometown, not knowing that their new house has a dark history. Fifty years ago, a crazed killer caused an accident at the nearby crossroads that took 40 innocent lives. He died when his car hit a tree in...
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Heroes United!/Attack of the Robot (DC Super Friends)
Written by Random House
Illustrated by DC Comics
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $4.99
JOIN SUPERMAN, BATMAN, THE FLASH, and all the DC SUPER FRIENDS as they battle an evil robot and use teamwork to save the day! This deluxe Pictureback features two action-packed stories, plus four pages of punchout characters and backgrounds for kids to create their very own DC SUPER FRIENDS adventures!
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Super Friends: Flying High (DC Super Friends)
Written by Random House
Illustrated by DC Comics
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 32 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $11.99
SOMETHING STRANGE HAS happened to the birds of GOTHAM CITY. Pigeons are causing traffic jams, seagulls are making trouble at a nearby beach, and ostriches have escaped from the zoo! THE PENGUIN has enlisted his fine feathered friends to distract the DC SUPER FRIENDS while he swoops in and plucks GOTHAM’s...
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Super Friends: Flying High (DC Super Friends)
Written by Random House
Illustrated by DC Comics
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $3.99
SOMETHING STRANGE HAS happened to the birds of GOTHAM CITY. Pigeons are causing traffic jams, seagulls are making trouble at a nearby beach, and ostriches have escaped from the zoo! THE PENGUIN has enlisted his fine feathered friends to distract the DC SUPER FRIENDS while he swoops in and plucks GOTHAM’s...
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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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Lost Boy
Written by Linda Newbery
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $10.99
New house, new school, new friends–but Matt Lanchester knows it won’t all be that easy when he moves to the town of Hay-on-Wye. Almost as soon as he arrives, he is drawn into a mystery when he sees a roadside memorial marked by a little wooden cross with the initials M.L...
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King Dork
Written by Frank Portman
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $8.99
Tom Henderson (a.k.a. King Dork, Chi-mo, Hender-fag, and Sheepie) is a typical American high school loser until he discovers the book, The Catcher in the Rye, that will change the world as he knows it. When Tom discovers his deceased father’s copy of the Salinger classic, he finds himself in the...
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King Dork
Written by Frank Portman
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $8.99
Tom Henderson (a.k.a. King Dork, Chi-mo, Hender-fag, and Sheepie) is a typical American high school loser until he discovers the book, The Catcher in the Rye, that will change the world as he knows it. When Tom discovers his deceased father’s copy of the Salinger classic, he finds himself in the...
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London Calling
Written by Edward Bloor
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $8.99
Martin Conway comes from a family filled with heroes and disgraces. His grandfather was a statesman who worked at the US Embassy in London during WWII. His father is an alcoholic who left his family. His sister is an overachieving Ivy League graduate. And Martin? Martin is stuck in between--floundering.
But during...
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London Calling
Written by Edward Bloor
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $8.99
Martin Conway comes from a family filled with heroes and disgraces. His grandfather was a statesman who worked at the US Embassy in London during WWII. His father is an alcoholic who left his family. His sister is an overachieving Ivy League graduate. And Martin? Martin is stuck in between--floundering.
But during...
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Spanking Shakespeare
Written by Jake Wizner
Read by Mike Chamberlain
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $17.50
SHAKESPEARE SHAPIRO HAS ALWAYS hated his name. His parents bestowed it on him as some kind of sick joke when he was born, and his life has gone downhill from there, one embarrassing incident after another. Entering his senior year of high school, Shakespeare has never had a girlfriend, his younger...
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House of the Red Fish
Written by Graham Salisbury
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $6.50
1943, one year after the end of
Under the Blood-Red Sun, Tomi’s Papa and Grandpa are still under arrest, and the paradise of Hawaii now lives in fear—waiting for another attack, while trying to recover from Pearl Harbor. As a Japanese American, Tomi and his family have new enemies everywhere, vigilantes...
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B for Buster
Written by Iain Lawrence
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $5.99
Nicknamed after his hometown of Kakabeka, Canada, Kak dreams of flying with the Allied bombers in World War II. So at 16, underage and desperate to escape his abusive parents, he enlists in the Canadian Air Force. Soon he is trained as a wireless operator and sent to a squadron in...
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Ball Don't Lie
Written by Matt de la Pena
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $7.99
Sticky is a beat-around-the-head foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street, and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in. He started out life so far behind the pack that the finish line seems nearly unreachable. He’s a white boy living and playing in...
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Finding Our Way
Written by Rene Saldana, Jr.
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $5.99
THESE STORIES TAKE the reader to meet mochos; cholos; Mr. and Mrs. Special; Manny with his mysterious phone calls; Melly, who dreams of being the first girl to take the Dive; Andy and Ruthie, who find that being “boyfriend-girlfriend” takes on new meaning the night of the prom; and Chuy, who...
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Night of the Howling Dogs
Written by Graham Salisbury
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $6.99
DYLAN'S SCOUT TROOP goes camping in Halape, a remote spot below the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. The only thing wrong with the weekend on a beautiful, peaceful beach is Louie, a tough older boy. Louie and Dylan just can't get along.
That night an earthquake rocks the camp, and...
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