The Holders
Written by Julianna Scott
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $6.99
17-year-old Becca has spent her whole life protecting her brother – from their father leaving and from the people who say the voices in his head are unnatural. When two strangers appear with apparent answers to Ryland’s “problem” and details about a school in Ireland where Ryland will not only fit...
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Life: An Exploded Diagram
Written by Mal Peet
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $8.99
Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet ignites an epic tale of young love against the dramatic backdrop of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis.Can love survive a lifetime? When working-class Clem Ackroyd falls for Frankie Mortimer, the gorgeous daughter of a wealthy local landowner, he has no hope that it can...
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Rosie's Magic Horse
Written by Russell Hoban
Illustrated by Quentin Blake
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $15.99
If an ice-pop stick can dream of being a horse, what magic might follow? A fanciful tale by Russell Hoban, mischievously illustrated by Quentin Blake.Once its icy sweetness is gone, a discarded ice-pop stick is lonely until young Rosie comes by and lays it in a cigar box with others like...
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Beholding Bee
Written by Kimberly Newton Fusco
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $16.99
Bee is an orphan who lives with a carnival and sleeps in the back of a tractor trailer. Every day she endures taunts for the birthmark on her face—though her beloved Pauline, the only person who has ever cared for her, tells her it is a precious diamond. When Pauline is...
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Beholding Bee
Written by Kimberly Newton Fusco
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $10.99
Bee is an orphan who lives with a carnival and sleeps in the back of a tractor trailer. Every day she endures taunts for the birthmark on her face—though her beloved Pauline, the only person who has ever cared for her, tells her it is a precious diamond. When Pauline is...
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Beholding Bee
Written by Kimberly Newton Fusco
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 336 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $19.99
Bee is an orphan who lives with a carnival and sleeps in the back of a tractor trailer. Every day she endures taunts for the birthmark on her face—though her beloved Pauline, the only person who has ever cared for her, tells her it is a precious diamond. When Pauline is...
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Beholding Bee
Written by Kimberly Newton Fusco
Read by Ariadne Meyers
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $45.00
Bee is an orphan who lives with a carnival and sleeps in the back of a tractor trailer. Every day she endures taunts for the birthmark on her face—though her beloved Pauline, the only person who has ever cared for her, tells her it is a precious diamond. When Pauline is...
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Beholding Bee
Written by Kimberly Newton Fusco
Read by Ariadne Meyers
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $18.00
Bee is an orphan who lives with a carnival and sleeps in the back of a tractor trailer. Every day she endures taunts for the birthmark on her face—though her beloved Pauline, the only person who has ever cared for her, tells her it is a precious diamond. When Pauline is...
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Bessica Lefter Bites Back
Written by Kristen Tracy
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $6.99
"Will have readers laughing aloud," says Booklist of this funny novel set in middle school. Now that Bessica’s the half mascot at her middle school and made some new friends, she finally feels like she’s fitting in. But Alice, the other half mascot, hates her. And after some mean texts, Bessica’s...
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God Gave Us Two
Written by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Illustrated by Laura J. Bryant
Format: eBook, 40 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $9.99
Now that Mama polar bear has another baby in her tummy, Little Cub is bursting with curiosity. “Why do we need a new baby?” she asks. “If we don’t like the new baby, can we send it back?”
“Will you forget me when the new baby comes?”
Gently and lovingly, Mama and...
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Hattie Ever After
Written by Kirby Larson
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $16.99
After leaving Uncle Chester's homestead claim, orphan Hattie Brooks throws a lasso around a new dream, even bigger than the Montana sky. She wants to be a reporter, knowing full well that a few pieces published in the
Arlington News will not suffice. Real reporters must go to Grand Places, and...
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Hattie Ever After
Written by Kirby Larson
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $9.99
After leaving Uncle Chester's homestead claim, orphan Hattie Brooks throws a lasso around a new dream, even bigger than the Montana sky. She wants to be a reporter, knowing full well that a few pieces published in the
Arlington News will not suffice. Real reporters must go to Grand Places, and...
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Hattie Ever After
Written by Kirby Larson
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 240 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $19.99
After leaving Uncle Chester's homestead claim, orphan Hattie Brooks throws a lasso around a new dream, even bigger than the Montana sky. She wants to be a reporter, knowing full well that a few pieces published in the
Arlington News will not suffice. Real reporters must go to Grand Places, and...
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Hattie Ever After
Written by Kirby Larson
Read by Kirsten Potter and Kirby Larson
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $30.00
After leaving Uncle Chester's homestead claim, orphan Hattie Brooks throws a lasso around a new dream, even bigger than the Montana sky. She wants to be a reporter, knowing full well that a few pieces published in the
Arlington News will not suffice. Real reporters must go to Grand Places, and...
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Hattie Ever After
Written by Kirby Larson
Read by Kirsten Potter and Kirby Larson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $15.00
After leaving Uncle Chester's homestead claim, orphan Hattie Brooks throws a lasso around a new dream, even bigger than the Montana sky. She wants to be a reporter, knowing full well that a few pieces published in the
Arlington News will not suffice. Real reporters must go to Grand Places, and...
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Mama, I'll Give You the World
Written by Roni Schotter
Illustrated by S. Saelig Gallagher
Format: eBook, 40 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $7.99
Exquisite artwork and an exceptionally tender text showcase the special bond between a mother and her daughter. Every day after school, Luisa goes to Walter's World of Beauty to watch her mama work—cutting, coloring, and curling customers' hair. Before they go home, Mama puts her tip money in a special envelope...
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Mama, I'll Give You the World
Written by Roni Schotter
Illustrated by S. Saelig Gallagher
Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $7.99
Exquisite artwork and an exceptionally tender text showcase the special bond between a mother and her daughter. Every day after school, Luisa goes to Walter's World of Beauty to watch her mama work—cutting, coloring, and curling customers' hair. Before they go home, Mama puts her tip money in a special envelope...
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Shadow Girl
Written by Patricia Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $10.95
This novel for ages nine and up is the story of a resilient young girl who struggles as the daughter of an alcoholic father and an absentee mother. Left alone to fend for herself for days at a time, she is observed by a kind and compassionate saleswoman at the mall...
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eBook.
Shadow Girl
Written by Patricia Morrison
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $9.99
This novel for ages nine and up is the story of a resilient young girl who struggles as the daughter of an alcoholic father and an absentee mother. Left alone to fend for herself for days at a time, she is observed by a kind and compassionate saleswoman at the mall...
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Someone Else's Life
Written by Katie Dale
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $10.99
When 17-year-old Rosie's mother, Trudie, dies from Huntington's Disease, Rosie's pain is intensified by the knowledge that she has a 50 percent chance of inheriting the crippling disease herself. Only when Rosie tells her mother's best friend, "Aunt Sarah," that she is going to test for the disease does Sarah, a...
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Stink (Book #1)
The Incredible Shrinking Kid
Written by Megan McDonald
Illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $4.99
In honor of Judy Moody's younger "bother," the creators of the award-winning series have put themselves in a very Stink-y mood (Ages 5-8).Shrink, shrank, shrunk!
Every morning, Judy Moody measures Stink and it's always the same: three feet, eight inches tall. Stink feels like even the class newt is growing faster than...
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Stink and the Incredible Super-Galactic Jawbreaker (Book #2)
Written by Megan McDonald
Illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $4.99
Spurred by a newfound awareness of false advertising, Stink Moody becomes the proverbial kid in a candy store as his letter-writing campaign yields him heaps of free rewards (ages 5-8).When Stink buys a mammoth jawbreaker that doesn't break his jaw, he writes a letter of complaint to the manufacturer - and...
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The Whole Story of Half a Girl
Written by Veera Hiranandani
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $6.99
What greater praise than to be compared to Judy Blume!--"Each [Blume and Hiranandani] excels in charting the fluctuating discomfort zones of adolescent identity with affectionate humor."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred
After her father loses his job, Sonia Nadhamuni, half Indian and half Jewish American, finds herself yanked out of private school and thrown into...
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Song and Dance Man
Written by Karen Ackerman
Illustrated by Stephen Gammell
Format: eBook, 32 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2013
Price: $6.99
Illus. in full color. "In this affectionate story, three children follow their grandfather up to the attic, where he pulls out his old bowler hat, gold-tipped cane, and his tap shoes. Grandpa once danced on the vaudeville stage, and as he glides across the floor, the children can see what it...
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