The Friendship Doll
Written by Kirby Larson
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $15.99
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 Friendship Doll
Written by Kirby Larson
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
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 Friendship Doll
Written by Kirby Larson
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 208 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $18.99
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 Luck of the Buttons
Written by Anne Ylvisaker
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $15.99
In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family’s luck around, with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery.Tugs Esther Button was born to a luckless family. Buttons don’t presume to be singers or dancers. They aren’t athletes or artists, good listeners, or model citizens...
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Okay for Now
Written by Gary D. Schmidt
Read by Lincoln Hoppe
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $40.00
“The Dump” is what Doug Swieteck calls his new home in upstate New York. He lands there in the summer of 1968, when the Apollo space missions are under way, Joe Pepitone is slugging for the New York Yankees, and the Vietnam War is raging. At home he lives with a...
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Okay for Now
Written by Gary D. Schmidt
Read by Lincoln Hoppe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $20.00
“The Dump” is what Doug Swieteck calls his new home in upstate New York. He lands there in the summer of 1968, when the Apollo space missions are under way, Joe Pepitone is slugging for the New York Yankees, and the Vietnam War is raging. At home he lives with a...
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Down Sand Mountain
Written by Steve Watkins
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $7.99
In a tale full of humor and poignancy, a sheltered twelve-year-old boy comes of age in a small Florida mining town amid the changing mores of the 1960s.It's 1966 and Dewey Turner is determined to start the school year right. No more being the brunt of every joke. No more "Deweyitis."...
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Born to Fly
Written by Michael Ferrari
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $6.99
Ever since she can remember, Bird has loved flying in small propeller airplanes with her mechanic dad. When the local airstrip is turned into a military flight school, Bird is in heaven—and she manages to turn one young airman's interest in her older sister into some personal flight lessons.
Then a...
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Mare's War
Written by Tanita S. Davis
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $9.99
Meet Mare, a World War II veteran and a grandmother like no other. She was once a willful teenager who escaped her less than perfect life in the deep South and lied about her age to join the African American Battalion of the Women's Army Corps. Now she is driving her...
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Countdown
Written by Deborah Wiles
Read by Emma Galvin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $20.00
Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that’s hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things...
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The Hope Chest
Written by Karen Schwabach
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $6.99
Eleven-year-old Violet has one goal in mind when she runs away from home: to find her sister, Chloe, in New York City. But Chloe is no longer there. She's moved on to Tennesee where she's fighting for the right of women to vote. As Violet's journey grows longer, her single-minded pursuit...
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Backtracked
Written by Pedro de Alcantara
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $5.99
Tommy Latrella is haunted by the ghost of his “perfect” older brother, who died on 9/11. Unable to live up to Jimmy’s memory, Tommy spends countless hours riding the subway and “tagging” the stations with graffiti. But when Tommy plays a dangerous prank in the Times Square station, the subway turns...
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Leo and the Lesser Lion
Written by Sandra Forrester
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $6.99
A heartwarming family story set during the Depression that reads like a classic.Everyone's been down on their luck since the Depression hit. But as long as Mary Bayliss Pettigrew has her beloved older brother, Leo, to pull pranks with, even the hardest times can be fun. Then one day, there’s a...
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Vixen
Written by Jillian Larkin
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $17.99
If you love
The Great Gatsby, you'll want to read the Flappers series.
Jazz . . . Booze . . . Boys . . . It’s a dangerous combination.
Every girl wants what she can’t have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle—and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and music-filled nights that go with it. Now...
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Vixen
Written by Jillian Larkin
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $9.99
Jazz . . . Booze . . . Boys . . . It’s a dangerous combination.
Every girl wants what she can’t have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle—and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and music-filled nights that go with it. Now that she’s engaged to Sebastian Grey, scion of one of...
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Vixen
Written by Jillian Larkin
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 432 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $20.99
Jazz . . . Booze . . . Boys . . . It’s a dangerous combination.
Every girl wants what she can’t have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle—and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and music-filled nights that go with it. Now that she’s engaged to Sebastian Grey, scion of one of...
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Vixen
Written by Jillian Larkin
Read by Abby Craden
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $44.00
If you love
The Great Gatsby, you'll want to read the Flappers series.
Jazz . . . Booze . . . Boys . . . It’s a dangerous combination.
Every girl wants what she can’t have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle—and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and music-filled nights that go with it. Now...
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Vixen
Written by Jillian Larkin
Read by Abby Craden
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $22.00
If you love
The Great Gatsby, you'll want to read the Flappers series.
Jazz . . . Booze . . . Boys . . . It’s a dangerous combination.
Every girl wants what she can’t have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle—and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and music-filled nights that go with it. Now...
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Kaleidoscope Eyes
Written by Jen Bryant
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $6.99
Will Lyza’s 1968 summer mystery lead to . . . pirate treasure?When Lyza helps her dad clean out her late grandfather’s house, a mysterious surprise brightens the sad task. In Gramps’s dusty attic, Lyza discovers three maps, carefully folded and stacked, bound by a single rubber band. On top, an envelope...
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Moon Over Manifest
Written by Clare Vanderpool
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $16.99
Winner of the 2011 Newbery Award.
The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen only in Gideon’s stories:
Manifest—A Town with a rich past and a bright future. Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her...
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Moon Over Manifest
Written by Clare Vanderpool
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $7.99
Winner of the 2011 Newbery Award.
The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen only in Gideon’s stories:
Manifest—A Town with a rich past and a bright future. Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her...
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Moon Over Manifest
Written by Clare Vanderpool
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 368 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $19.99
Winner of the 2011 Newbery Award.
The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen only in Gideon’s stories:
Manifest—A Town with a rich past and a bright future. Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her...
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The Wonder of Charlie Anne
Written by Kimberly Newton Fusco
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $6.99
Charlie Anne is devastated when her father must go north to build roads after the Depression hits. She and her siblings are left with their rigid cousin, Mirabel, and a farm full of chores. The only solace Charlie Anne finds is by the river, where the memory of her mother is...
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The Wonder of Charlie Anne
Written by Kimberly Newton Fusco
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $16.99
Charlie Anne is devastated when her father must go north to build roads after the Depression hits. She and her siblings are left with their rigid cousin, Mirabel, and a farm full of chores. The only solace Charlie Anne finds is by the river, where the memory of her mother is...
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