Mr. Zinger's Hat
Written by Cary Fagan
Illustrated by Dusan Petricic
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $17.95
Cary Fagan is the award-winning author of several young adult novels and picture books. This wonderful new story is about stories, and story-telling, and is sure to enchant and instruct children at home and at school for years to come.
This is the story of a bored little boy, who meets a...
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Hubble Bubble, Granny Trouble
Written by Tracey Corderoy
Illustrated by Joe Berger
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $14.99
If your granny were a little bit, well, different from other grannies, would you want to change her, or would you love her just the way she is?In this rhyming text, a little girl whose granny is (shhhh!) a witch just wants her gran to be like all the other grans...
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The Scorpions of Zahir
Written by Christine Brodien-Jones
Illustrated by Kelly Murphy
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $17.99
Zagora Pym has always wanted to be a desert explorer. Her father, Charlie Pym, is exactly that, and she's always loved to look over his maps of far away exotic places. One day she'd be trekking through the deserts of Africa and China, discovering hidden treasures from lost tribes. But Zagora...
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The Scorpions of Zahir
Written by Christine Brodien-Jones
Illustrated by Kelly Murphy
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $10.99
Zagora Pym has always wanted to be a desert explorer. Her father, Charlie Pym, is exactly that, and she's always loved to look over his maps of far away exotic places. One day she'd be trekking through the deserts of Africa and China, discovering hidden treasures from lost tribes. But Zagora...
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The Scorpions of Zahir
Written by Christine Brodien-Jones
Illustrated by Kelly Murphy
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 384 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $20.99
Zagora Pym has always wanted to be a desert explorer. Her father, Charlie Pym, is exactly that, and she's always loved to look over his maps of far away exotic places. One day she'd be trekking through the deserts of Africa and China, discovering hidden treasures from lost tribes. But Zagora...
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Summer at Forsaken Lake
Written by Michael D. Beil
Read by Thomas Vincent Kelly
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $37.00
With their father en route to Africa for Doctors Without Borders, city-kids Nicholas and younger twin sisters Haley and Hetty are off to spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at his house on Forsaken Lake. Despite some initial doubts, Nicholas is right at home in the country: he learns to...
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Summer at Forsaken Lake
Written by Michael D. Beil
Read by Thomas Vincent Kelly
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $19.00
With their father en route to Africa for Doctors Without Borders, city-kids Nicholas and younger twin sisters Haley and Hetty are off to spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at his house on Forsaken Lake. Despite some initial doubts, Nicholas is right at home in the country: he learns to...
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Summer at Forsaken Lake
Written by Michael D. Beil
Illustrated by Maggie Kneen
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $16.99
With their father en route to Africa for Doctors Without Borders, city-kids Nicholas and younger twin sisters Haley and Hetty are off to spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at his house on Forsaken Lake. Despite some initial doubts, Nicholas is right at home in the country: he learns to...
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Summer at Forsaken Lake
Written by Michael D. Beil
Illustrated by Maggie Kneen
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $10.99
With their father en route to Africa for Doctors Without Borders, city-kids Nicholas and younger twin sisters Haley and Hetty are off to spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at his house on Forsaken Lake. Despite some initial doubts, Nicholas is right at home in the country: he learns to...
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You'll Like It Here (Everybody Does)
Written by Ruth White
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $6.99
While Meggie and David Blue are from another planet, they're a lot like Earth kids, with similar hopes and dreams, and can't wait to grow up. BUT they also have GROSSLY UNIQUE qualities, such as blue streaks in their hair that pop up randomly and language skills that sound like nothing...
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The Friendship Doll
Written by Kirby Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $6.99
I am Miss Kanagawa. In 1927, my 57 doll-sisters and I were sent from Japan to America as Ambassadors of Friendship. Our work wasn't all peach blossoms and tea cakes. My story will take you from New York to Oregon, during the Great Depression. Though few in this tale are as...
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The Paradise Trap
Written by Catherine Jinks
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $15.99
A boy . . . a witch . . . and a
totally sinister paradise: that’s what Marcus gets when his mom rents a scuzzy trailer and parks it near a dirty, noisy beach. Some vacation! Marcus would rather play video games anyway, but when he discovers a staircase underneath the...
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The Paradise Trap
Written by Catherine Jinks
Read by Chelsea Bruland
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $34.00
Eleven year old Marcus loves video games and hates the beach. So he is not happy when his mum Holly drags him to Diamond Beach, the place she loved as a child. Once there, Holly meets Coco, her friend from her childhood. She is there with her electronics-obsessed husband, Sterling Huckstepp...
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The Paradise Trap
Written by Catherine Jinks
Read by Chelsea Bruland
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $17.00
Eleven year old Marcus loves video games and hates the beach. So he is not happy when his mum Holly drags him to Diamond Beach, the place she loved as a child. Once there, Holly meets Coco, her friend from her childhood. She is there with her electronics-obsessed husband, Sterling Huckstepp...
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The Paradise Trap
Written by Catherine Jinks
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $15.99
A boy . . . a witch . . . and a
totally sinister paradise: that’s what Marcus gets when his mom rents a scuzzy trailer and parks it near a dirty, noisy beach. Some vacation! Marcus would rather play video games anyway, but when he discovers a staircase underneath the...
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Here Comes Hortense!
Written by Heather Hartt-Sussman
Illustrated by Georgia Graham
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $17.95
The feisty, irrepressible Nana we met in
Nana’s Getting Married is back. And what could be more fun for a six-year-old than having your nana and her new husband take you to a theme park? But the fun is spoiled when Nana and Bob announce that they’ve planned a surprise: they...
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How to Babysit a Grandpa
Written by Jean Reagan
Illustrated by Lee Wildish
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $16.99
This is a hilarious and accessible picture book about a child spending time with his grandpa. Written in a how-to style, the narrator gives important tips for "babysitting" a grandpa, including what to eat for snack (anything dipped in ketchup, ice cream topped with cookies, cookies topped with ice cream) what...
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How to Babysit a Grandpa
Written by Jean Reagan
Illustrated by Lee Wildish
Format: eBook, 32 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $10.99
This is a hilarious and accessible picture book about a child spending time with his grandpa. Written in a how-to style, the narrator gives important tips for "babysitting" a grandpa, including what to eat for snack (anything dipped in ketchup, ice cream topped with cookies, cookies topped with ice cream) what...
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How to Babysit a Grandpa
Written by Jean Reagan
Illustrated by Lee Wildish
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 32 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $19.99
This is a hilarious and accessible picture book about a child spending time with his grandpa. Written in a how-to style, the narrator gives important tips for "babysitting" a grandpa, including what to eat for snack (anything dipped in ketchup, ice cream topped with cookies, cookies topped with ice cream) what...
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Ladder to the Moon with CD
Written by Maya Soetoro-Ng
Illustrated by Yuyi Morales
Format: Hardcover, 48 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $19.99
"A lush, haunting story. . . . Soetoro-Ng, sister of Barack Obama, has written this story of compassion as a tribute to their mother." — Booklist (starred review)Little Suhaila wishes she could have known her grandma, who would wrap her arms around the whole world if she could, Mama says. And...
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Orchards
Written by Holly Thompson
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $9.99
Winner of the APALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature
An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults BookAfter a classmate commits suicide, Kana Goldberg—a half-Japanese, half-Jewish American—wonders who is responsible. She and her cliquey friends said some thoughtless things to the girl. Hoping that Kana will reflect on her behavior, her...
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The Way to Schenectady
Written by Richard Scrimger
Illustrated by Linda Hendry
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $6.99
Twelve-year-old Jane Peeler is about to embark on a summer ritual: the family car trip. Along with her two younger brothers, Bill and Bernie, Jane will endure traffic jams, singalongs, and fights over who gets the window on a two-day car trip to New England. With help from her Walkman, it...
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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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