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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Crouching Tiger
Written by Ying Chang Compestine
Illustrated by Yan Nascimbene
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: December 13, 2011
Price: $16.99
A Chinese-American boy gains a new understanding of his Chinese grandfather in this celebratory story of family, martial arts, and the Chinese New Year.Vinson is very excited when his grandfather comes from China for a visit. When Grandpa practices tai chi in the garden, Vinson asks to learn, hoping it will...
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The Red Umbrella
Written by Christina Gonzalez
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: December 13, 2011
Price: $6.99
The Red Umbrella is the moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan—an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro's revolution.
In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads...
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A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #5: The New Year Dragon Dilemma
Written by Ron Roy
Illustrated by John Steven Gurney
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $5.99
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are in San Francisco, home of the biggest Chinatown outside of Asia! Their tour guide, Holden, is going to take them to the famous Chinese New Year parade. Best of all, Holden's girlfriend, Lily, is Miss Chinatown. She gets to ride a giant float and wear...
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A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #5: The New Year Dragon Dilemma
Written by Ron Roy
Illustrated by John Steven Gurney
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $5.99
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are in San Francisco, home of the biggest Chinatown outside of Asia! Their tour guide, Holden, is going to take them to the famous Chinese New Year parade. Best of all, Holden's girlfriend, Lily, is Miss Chinatown. She gets to ride a giant float and wear...
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A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #5: The New Year Dragon Dilemma
Written by Ron Roy
Illustrated by John Steven Gurney
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 144 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $12.99
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are in San Francisco, home of the biggest Chinatown outside of Asia! Their tour guide, Holden, is going to take them to the famous Chinese New Year parade. Best of all, Holden's girlfriend, Lily, is Miss Chinatown. She gets to ride a giant float and wear...
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I Will Save You
Written by Matt de la Pena
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $8.99
Kidd is spending his summer at the beach. He'd do anything to get away from his group home and the dark memories there of his past.
He's working as a caretaker at the campsite, and he'd be blind if he didn't notice Olivia. Blond hair, blue eyes, rich dad. The prettiest...
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A New Year's Reunion
A Chinese Story
Written by Li Qiong Yu
Illustrated by Zhu Chen Liang
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2011
Price: $15.99
A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2011!
Maomao's dad works many miles away, but he is coming home for New Year!Little Maomao's father works in faraway places and comes home just once a year, for Chinese New Year. At first Maomao barely recognizes him, but before long the family...
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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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More Stories Julian Tells
Written by Ann Cameron
Illustrated by Ann Strugnell
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2011
Price: $4.99
"Reflecting incidents true to children (making a bet with a friend, sending a message in a bottle, attempting to be brave), these stories are the sort that will make children ask for more."--
School Library Journal,starred review
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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The Stories Julian Tells
Written by Ann Cameron
Illustrated by Ann Strugnell
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2011
Price: $4.99
Julian is a quick fibber and a wishful thinker. And he is great at telling stories. He can make people—especially his younger brother, Huey—believe just about anything. Like the story about the cats that come in the mail. Or the fig leaves that make you grow tall if you eat them...
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Alvin Ho: Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances
Written by Lenore Look
Read by Everette Plen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $8.00
Here's the fourth book in the hilarious Alvin Ho chapter book series, which is a
Kirkus Reviews Best Continuing Series."[E]ngaging and real, often laugh-out-loud funny...," raved
Kirkus in a starred review.
Everyone's favorite neurotic second grader is back, in the most touching Alvin Ho book to date. Alvin is facing something truly...
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Alvin Ho Collection: Books 3 and 4
Allergic to Birthday Parties, Science Projects, and Other Man-made Catastrophes and Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances
Written by Lenore Look
Read by Everette Plen
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $22.00
Everyone's favorite neurotic second grader is back, with a collection of the funniest and most touching Alvin Ho books to date. Allergic to Birthday Parties, Science Projects, and Other Man-made CatastrophesIn the third hilarious book about Alvin Ho, a boy who’s afraid of
everything, includes his fear of a birthday party. What...
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The Alvin Ho Super Collection: Books 1-4
Written by Lenore Look
Read by Everette Plen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $20.00
Everyone's favorite neurotic second grader is back, with a complete collection of the funniest and most touching Alvin Ho books to date.
Lenore Look’s touching, drop-dead-funny book about an Asian American second grader—with pictures by
New York Times bestselling illustrator LeUyen Pham—has tons of boy appeal and is great for reluctant...
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Alvin Ho: Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances
Written by Lenore Look
Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $6.99
Here's the fourth book in the hilarious Alvin Ho chapter book series, which is a
Kirkus Reviews Best Continuing Series."[E]ngaging and real, often laugh-out-loud funny...," raved
Kirkus in a starred review.
Everyone's favorite neurotic second grader is back, in the most touching Alvin Ho book to date. Alvin is facing something truly...
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Alvin Ho: Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances
Written by Lenore Look
Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 208 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $18.99
Here's the fourth book in the hilarious Alvin Ho chapter book series, which is a
Kirkus Reviews Best Continuing Series."[E]ngaging and real, often laugh-out-loud funny...," raved
Kirkus in a starred review.
Everyone's favorite neurotic second grader is back, in the most touching Alvin Ho book to date. Alvin is facing something truly...
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Alvin Ho: Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances
Written by Lenore Look
Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $15.99
Here's the fourth book in the hilarious Alvin Ho chapter book series, which is a
Kirkus Reviews Best Continuing Series."[E]ngaging and real, often laugh-out-loud funny...," raved
Kirkus in a starred review.
Everyone's favorite neurotic second grader is back, in the most touching Alvin Ho book to date. Alvin is facing something truly...
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