Chasing Orion
Written by Kathryn Lasky
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $17.99
When a beautiful teen with polio enters their lives, a girl and her older brother find themselves drawn into a web of lies in this compelling novel by a best-selling author.Eleven-year-old Georgie loves science-fiction movies, but she won’t be going to the theater anytime soon. It’s a hot Indiana summer in...
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The Red Umbrella
Written by Christina Gonzalez
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $16.99
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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The Red Umbrella
Written by Christina Gonzalez
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
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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The Giant-Slayer
Written by Iain Lawrence
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $16.99
A girl’s imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world.The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine’s gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in the hospital. There she meets Carolyn and Chip, two other kids trapped inside...
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The Giant-Slayer
Written by Iain Lawrence
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $6.99
A girl’s imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world.The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine’s gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in the hospital. There she meets Carolyn and Chip, two other kids trapped inside...
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The Giant-Slayer
Written by Iain Lawrence
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 304 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $19.99
A girl’s imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world.The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine’s gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in the hospital. There she meets Carolyn and Chip, two other kids trapped inside...
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Macaroni Boy
Written by Katherine Ayres
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $6.99
Mike Costa has lived his whole life in The Strip, Pittsburgh’s warehouse and factory district. His father’s large Italian family runs a food wholesale business, and Mike is used to the sounds and smells of men working all night to unload the trains that feed the city. But it’s 1933, and...
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Let Freedom Sing!
Written by Vanessa Newton
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2009
Price: $16.99
On benches just for 'colored,'
black folks obeyed the rules.
Rosa Parks at the front of the bus,
she let her light shine.In the 1950's and 1960's, the struggle for civil rights forever changed the landscape of America. In her debut Blue Apple book, Vanessa Newton candid images illuminate anew the inequality that affected...
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Tennyson
Written by Lesley M. M. Blume
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $6.99
“Brilliant, unusual writing.”—Chicago Tribune
On the banks of the Mississippi River, Tennyson Fontaine and her sister, Hattie, play endless games of hide-and-seek and make up fantastical stories about the latest adventures of their wild dog, Jos. But when their mother doesn’t come home and their father sets off to find her, the...
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Leo and the Lesser Lion
Written by Sandra Forrester
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $16.99
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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Leo and the Lesser Lion
Written by Sandra Forrester
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
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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Born to Fly
Written by Michael Ferrari
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $6.99
Born to Fly tells the story of eleven-year-old tomboy Bird McGill. 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. But when a young Japanese American student named...
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Ringside, 1925
Written by Jen Bryant
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $6.99
Take a ringside seat at one of the most controversial trials in American history.
The year is 1925, and the students of Dayton, Tennessee, are ready for a summer of fishing, swimming, and drinking root beer floats at Robinson’s Drugstore. But when their science teacher, J. T. Scopes, is arrested for having...
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Mare's War
Written by Tanita S. Davis
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $16.99
Meet Mare, a grandmother with flair and a fascinating past.Octavia and Tali are dreading the road trip their parents are forcing them to take with their grandmother over the summer. After all, Mare isn’t your typical grandmother. She drives a red sports car, wears stiletto shoes, flippy wigs, and push-up bras...
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Mare's War
Written by Tanita S. Davis
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $9.99
Meet Mare, a grandmother with flair and a fascinating past.Octavia and Tali are dreading the road trip their parents are forcing them to take with their grandmother over the summer. After all, Mare isn’t your typical grandmother. She drives a red sports car, wears stiletto shoes, flippy wigs, and push-up bras...
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Mare's War
Written by Tanita S. Davis
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 352 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $19.99
Meet Mare, a grandmother with flair and a fascinating past.Octavia and Tali are dreading the road trip their parents are forcing them to take with their grandmother over the summer. After all, Mare isn’t your typical grandmother. She drives a red sports car, wears stiletto shoes, flippy wigs, and push-up bras...
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Kaleidoscope Eyes
Written by Jen Bryant
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $15.99
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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Kaleidoscope Eyes
Written by Jen Bryant
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
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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Kaleidoscope Eyes
Written by Jen Bryant
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 272 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $18.99
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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The Hope Chest
Written by Karen Schwabach
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $6.99
Violet’s older sister Chloe didn’t get married. She bought a car instead. And then she drove that car to New York City and never came home again. Violet’s parents said Chloe had turned into the Wrong Sort of Person, but Violet knew better. Now she’s determined to find her sister, and...
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Backtracked
Written by Pedro de Alcantara
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
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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Dancing in the Streets of Brooklyn
Written by April Lurie
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $5.99
For thirteen-year-old Judy Strand, summers in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, bustle with games of stickball played in the street, fun-filled outings to neighboring Coney Island, and her family’s yearly trip to the Catskill Mountains. But in July 1944, Judy’s carefree days and her innocence are shaken by a discovery: The man she’s...
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Eyes of the Emperor
Written by Graham Salisbury
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $6.99
Eddy Okubo lies about his age and joins the army in his hometown of Honolulu only weeks before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Americans see him as the enemy—even the U.S. Army doubts the loyalty of Japanese American soldiers.
Then the army sends Eddy and a small band of Japanese American...
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A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
Written by C. Coco De Young
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $5.99
Eleven-year-old Margo Bandini has never been afraid of anything. Her life in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, with Mama and Papa and her little brother, Charlie, has always felt secure. But it's 1933, and the Great Depression is changing things for families all across America.
One day the impossible happens: Papa cannot make the payments...
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Darkness Under the Water
Written by Beth Kanell
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $16.99
This gripping, ultimately hopeful tale of an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont explores a dark episode in New England history.Just as the waters of a river roar through her town, Molly Ballou's life is riding on a swift current, where change comes faster than a spring flood. As a half...
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