See You at Harry's
Written by Jo Knowles
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $16.99
Starting middle school brings all the usual challenges — until the unthinkable happens, and Fern and her family must find a way to heal.Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible. It seems as though everyone in her family has better things to do than pay attention to her: Mom (when she’s not meditating) helps...
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The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls
Written by Julie Schumacher
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $16.99
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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The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls
Written by Julie Schumacher
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
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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The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls
Written by Julie Schumacher
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 240 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $19.99
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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Wanda and the Frogs
Written by Barbara Azore
Illustrated by Georgia Graham
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $7.95
Blue-eyed, freckle-faced Wanda is back, and with her comes spring, puddles, and wriggling black tadpoles. Wanda is enchanted. On the way to school one morning, Wanda scoops some tadpoles into her sand pail. When she presents them to her teacher, the teacher agrees to let the class take care of them...
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Wanda and the Wild Hair
Written by Barbara Azore
Illustrated by Georgia Graham
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $7.95
Blue-eyed freckle-faced Wanda has a problem: she loves her wild hair dearly, but it drives all the adults in her life to distraction. She loves the way it feels when she touches it. She loves the way it looks when she pats it in front of the mirror. But her mother...
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Mr. Reaper
Written by Tatsuya Miyanishi
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $14.95
A hungry wolf searches the forest for a long-awaited meal, when his senses find something. At first he is not certain if his mind is playing tricks on him, but before him is a young piglet resting in a clearing. His wish has come true! He can eat again!
But there...
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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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Ask Amy Green: Bridesmaid Blitz
Written by Sarah Webb
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $6.99
Amy’s mom’s wedding is fast approaching — and where better to find the perfect bridesmaid dresses than on a spontaneous trip to Paris?It seems that nobody has time for thirteen-year-old Amy these days! Her boyfriend, Seth, is preoccupied with his mom’s health. Amy’s dad barely knows she exists after her half-sister...
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Ask Amy Green: Summer Secrets
Written by Sarah Webb
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $6.99
Amy is trapped in family vacation hell- until she and Clover, her teenage aunt, get a chance to interview a hot U.S. movie star with a secret.Could this summer be any worse? Thirteen-year-old Amy’s dreamy boyfriend, Seth, is off to Rome, while she gets to spend two weeks on a tiny...
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Calli Be Gold
Written by Michele Weber Hurwitz
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $6.99
Eleven-year-old Calli Gold is the quiet third child in a family of loud overachievers. In fact, the family motto is Be Gold. Calli's sister is on an ice-skating team, and her brother's a basketball star. Her parents are sure she has a hidden gift for something. They just have to figure...
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Child of the Mountains
Written by Marilyn Sue Shank
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $16.99
"Unfolds in pitch-perfect regional dialect. . . . For fans of Ruth White's and Kerry Madden's Appalachian-inspired fiction."--Kirkus Reviews
It's about keeping the faith.
Growing up poor in 1953 in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia doesn't bother Lydia Hawkins. She treasures her tight-knit family. There's her loving mama, now widowed; her whip-smart younger...
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Child of the Mountains
Written by Marilyn Sue Shank
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $6.99
"Unfolds in pitch-perfect regional dialect. . . . For fans of Ruth White's and Kerry Madden's Appalachian-inspired fiction."--Kirkus Reviews
It's about keeping the faith.
Growing up poor in 1953 in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia doesn't bother Lydia Hawkins. She treasures her tight-knit family. There's her loving mama, now widowed; her whip-smart younger...
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Child of the Mountains
Written by Marilyn Sue Shank
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 272 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $19.99
"Unfolds in pitch-perfect regional dialect. . . . For fans of Ruth White's and Kerry Madden's Appalachian-inspired fiction."--Kirkus Reviews
It's about keeping the faith.
Growing up poor in 1953 in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia doesn't bother Lydia Hawkins. She treasures her tight-knit family. There's her loving mama, now widowed; her whip-smart younger...
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Dear George Clooney
Please Marry My Mom
Written by Susin Nielsen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $10.95
Violet's TV-director dad has traded a job in Vancouver for one in Los Angeles, their run-down house for a sleek ranch-style home complete with a pool, and, worst of all, Violet's mother for a trophy wife, a blonde actress named Jennica. Violet's younger sister reacts by bed-wetting, and her mother ping-pongs...
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The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
Written by Joanne Rocklin
Read by Georgette Perna
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $12.00
In this warmhearted middle-grade novel, Oona and her brother, Fred, love their cat Zook (short for Zucchini), but Zook is sick. As they conspire to break him out of the vet’s office, convinced he can only get better at home with them, Oona tells Fred the story of Zook’s previous lives...
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The Floating Islands
Written by Rachel Neumeier
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $9.99
When Trei loses his family in a tragic disaster, he must search out distant relatives in a new land. The Floating Islands are unlike anything Trei has ever seen: stunning, majestic, and graced with kajurai, men who soar the skies with wings.
Trei is instantly sky-mad, and desperate to be a kajurai...
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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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The Obsidian Blade
Written by Pete Hautman
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $16.99
Kicking off a riveting sci-fi trilogy, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman plunges us into a world where time is a tool — and the question is, who will control it?The first time his father disappeared, Tucker Feye had just turned thirteen. The Reverend Feye simply climbed on the roof to...
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