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Split
Written by Swati Avasthi
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $16.99
Sixteen-Year-Old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother Christian with a re-landscaped face (courtesy of his father’s fist), $3.84, and a secret.
He tries to move on, going for new friends, a new school, and a new job, but all his changes can’t make him forget what he left... Read more >
Written by Swati Avasthi
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $16.99
Sixteen-Year-Old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother Christian with a re-landscaped face (courtesy of his father’s fist), $3.84, and a secret.
He tries to move on, going for new friends, a new school, and a new job, but all his changes can’t make him forget what he left... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover library binding and a
trade paperback.
Split
Written by Swati Avasthi
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $8.99
Sixteen-Year-Old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother Christian with a re-landscaped face (courtesy of his father’s fist), $3.84, and a secret.
He tries to move on, going for new friends, a new school, and a new job, but all his changes can’t make him forget what he left... Read more >
Written by Swati Avasthi
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $8.99
Sixteen-Year-Old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother Christian with a re-landscaped face (courtesy of his father’s fist), $3.84, and a secret.
He tries to move on, going for new friends, a new school, and a new job, but all his changes can’t make him forget what he left... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover,
hardcover library binding and a
trade paperback.
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Split
Written by Swati Avasthi
Read by Joshua Swanson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $19.00
Sixteen-Year-Old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother Christian with a re-landscaped face (courtesy of his father’s fist), $3.84, and a secret.
He tries to move on, going for new friends, a new school, and a new job, but all his changes can’t make him forget what he left... Read more >
Written by Swati Avasthi
Read by Joshua Swanson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $19.00
Sixteen-Year-Old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother Christian with a re-landscaped face (courtesy of his father’s fist), $3.84, and a secret.
He tries to move on, going for new friends, a new school, and a new job, but all his changes can’t make him forget what he left... Read more >
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Split
Written by Swati Avasthi
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 288 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $19.99
Sixteen-Year-Old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother Christian with a re-landscaped face (courtesy of his father’s fist), $3.84, and a secret.
He tries to move on, going for new friends, a new school, and a new job, but all his changes can’t make him forget what he left... Read more >
Written by Swati Avasthi
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 288 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $19.99
Sixteen-Year-Old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother Christian with a re-landscaped face (courtesy of his father’s fist), $3.84, and a secret.
He tries to move on, going for new friends, a new school, and a new job, but all his changes can’t make him forget what he left... Read more >
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I'm Number One
Written by Michael Rosen
Illustrated by Bob Graham
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: December 22, 2009
Price: $16.99
How do you deal with a bully? A stellar author-illustrator team shows that a touch of playfulness can go a long way.
Little wind-up soldier A-One is in charge. At least that’s what he tells the other toys: Sally, Maddy, and Sid. When he tells them to turn his key, they do... Read more >
Written by Michael Rosen
Illustrated by Bob Graham
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: December 22, 2009
Price: $16.99
How do you deal with a bully? A stellar author-illustrator team shows that a touch of playfulness can go a long way.
Little wind-up soldier A-One is in charge. At least that’s what he tells the other toys: Sally, Maddy, and Sid. When he tells them to turn his key, they do... Read more >
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The Last Exit to Normal
Written by Michael Harmon
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $6.99
*“An excellent read.”—School Library Journal, Starred
It's true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked... Read more >
Written by Michael Harmon
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $6.99
*“An excellent read.”—School Library Journal, Starred
It's true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked... Read more >
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Rage: A Love Story
Written by Julie Anne Peters
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $16.99
A National Book Award Finalist offers an intense portrait of an abusive relationship.
Johanna is steadfast, patient, reliable; the go-to girl, the one everyone can count on. But always being there for others can’t give Johanna everything she needs—it can’t give her Reeve Hartt.
Reeve is fierce, beautiful, wounded, elusive; a flame that... Read more >
Written by Julie Anne Peters
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $16.99
A National Book Award Finalist offers an intense portrait of an abusive relationship.
Johanna is steadfast, patient, reliable; the go-to girl, the one everyone can count on. But always being there for others can’t give Johanna everything she needs—it can’t give her Reeve Hartt.
Reeve is fierce, beautiful, wounded, elusive; a flame that... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Rage: A Love Story
Written by Julie Anne Peters
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $8.99
A National Book Award Finalist offers an intense portrait of an abusive relationship.
Johanna is steadfast, patient, reliable; the go-to girl, the one everyone can count on. But always being there for others can’t give Johanna everything she needs—it can’t give her Reeve Hartt.
Reeve is fierce, beautiful, wounded, elusive; a flame that... Read more >
Written by Julie Anne Peters
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $8.99
A National Book Award Finalist offers an intense portrait of an abusive relationship.
Johanna is steadfast, patient, reliable; the go-to girl, the one everyone can count on. But always being there for others can’t give Johanna everything she needs—it can’t give her Reeve Hartt.
Reeve is fierce, beautiful, wounded, elusive; a flame that... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Dreamrider
Written by Barry Jonsberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $8.99
An intense, frightening portrait of a boy driven to the edge . . . and over.
Michael Terny is at his seventh school in four years and he knows that whatever he does, he will be ridiculed and pushed around. Michael is the fat kid. But Michael is also a lucid dreamer—he... Read more >
Written by Barry Jonsberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $8.99
An intense, frightening portrait of a boy driven to the edge . . . and over.
Michael Terny is at his seventh school in four years and he knows that whatever he does, he will be ridiculed and pushed around. Michael is the fat kid. But Michael is also a lucid dreamer—he... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Watching Jimmy
Written by Nancy Hartry
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 10, 2009
Price: $8.99
A novel of danger, warmth, and dark humor — about a brain-damaged young boy and the friend who knows a terrible secret.
Watching Jimmy is an impossible-to-put-down novel full of danger, warmth, and dark humor. With shocking candor, young Carolyn relates the truth about what really happened to her best friend, Jimmy... Read more >
Written by Nancy Hartry
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 10, 2009
Price: $8.99
A novel of danger, warmth, and dark humor — about a brain-damaged young boy and the friend who knows a terrible secret.
Watching Jimmy is an impossible-to-put-down novel full of danger, warmth, and dark humor. With shocking candor, young Carolyn relates the truth about what really happened to her best friend, Jimmy... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Watching Jimmy
Written by Nancy Hartry
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $16.95
A novel of danger, warmth, and dark humor — about a brain-damaged young boy and the friend who knows a terrible secret.
Watching Jimmy is an impossible-to-put-down novel full of danger, warmth, and dark humor. With shocking candor, young Carolyn relates the truth about what really happened to her best friend, Jimmy... Read more >
Written by Nancy Hartry
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $16.95
A novel of danger, warmth, and dark humor — about a brain-damaged young boy and the friend who knows a terrible secret.
Watching Jimmy is an impossible-to-put-down novel full of danger, warmth, and dark humor. With shocking candor, young Carolyn relates the truth about what really happened to her best friend, Jimmy... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Madapple
Written by Christina Meldrum
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $16.99
THE SECRETS OF the past meet the shocks of the present.
Aslaug is an unusual young woman. Her mother has brought her up in near isolation, teaching her about plants and nature and language—but not about life. Especially not how she came to have her own life, and who her father might... Read more >
Written by Christina Meldrum
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $16.99
THE SECRETS OF the past meet the shocks of the present.
Aslaug is an unusual young woman. Her mother has brought her up in near isolation, teaching her about plants and nature and language—but not about life. Especially not how she came to have her own life, and who her father might... Read more >
Madapple
Written by Christina Meldrum
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $9.99
THE SECRETS OF the past meet the shocks of the present.
Aslaug is an unusual young woman. Her mother has brought her up in near isolation, teaching her about plants and nature and language—but not about life. Especially not how she came to have her own life, and who her father might... Read more >
Written by Christina Meldrum
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $9.99
THE SECRETS OF the past meet the shocks of the present.
Aslaug is an unusual young woman. Her mother has brought her up in near isolation, teaching her about plants and nature and language—but not about life. Especially not how she came to have her own life, and who her father might... Read more >
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The Last Exit to Normal
Written by Michael Harmon
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $15.99
It’s true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana... Read more >
Written by Michael Harmon
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $15.99
It’s true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana... Read more >
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The Last Exit to Normal
Written by Michael Harmon
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $6.99
It’s true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana... Read more >
Written by Michael Harmon
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $6.99
It’s true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana... Read more >
Runaway
Written by Wendelin Van Draanen
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $8.99
"It's a cold, hard, cruel fact that my mother loved heroin more than she loved me."
Holly is in her fifth foster home in two years and she's had enough. She's run away before and always been caught quickly. But she's older and wiser now--she's twelve--and this time she gets away clean.
Through... Read more >
Written by Wendelin Van Draanen
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $8.99
"It's a cold, hard, cruel fact that my mother loved heroin more than she loved me."
Holly is in her fifth foster home in two years and she's had enough. She's run away before and always been caught quickly. But she's older and wiser now--she's twelve--and this time she gets away clean.
Through... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Dreamrider
Written by Barry Jonsberg
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $8.99
Michael Terny is at his seventh school in four years and he knows that whatever he does, he will be ridiculed and pushed around. Michael is the fat kid. But Michael is also a lucid dreamer–he can recognize when he is dreaming and make the dream unfold exactly as he wants... Read more >
Written by Barry Jonsberg
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $8.99
Michael Terny is at his seventh school in four years and he knows that whatever he does, he will be ridiculed and pushed around. Michael is the fat kid. But Michael is also a lucid dreamer–he can recognize when he is dreaming and make the dream unfold exactly as he wants... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I
The Pox Party
Written by M.T. Anderson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2008
Price: $10.99
Now in paperback, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.
Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers -- but it is only after he opens a forbidden door that learns the hideous nature... Read more >
The Pox Party
Written by M.T. Anderson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2008
Price: $10.99
Now in paperback, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.
Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers -- but it is only after he opens a forbidden door that learns the hideous nature... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Claiming Georgia Tate
Written by Gigi Amateau
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $7.99
"It’s rare and exciting to discover a talented new writer like Gigi Amateau." — Judy Blume
Twelve-year-old Georgia Tate wishes she could stay home in Mississippi forever with her preacher granddaddy and her best friend Ginger. After losing her nana to a heart attack, she desperately wishes she could tell her granddaddy... Read more >
Written by Gigi Amateau
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $7.99
"It’s rare and exciting to discover a talented new writer like Gigi Amateau." — Judy Blume
Twelve-year-old Georgia Tate wishes she could stay home in Mississippi forever with her preacher granddaddy and her best friend Ginger. After losing her nana to a heart attack, she desperately wishes she could tell her granddaddy... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I
The Pox Party
Written by M.T. Anderson
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $17.99
A gothic tale becomes all too shockingly real in this mesmerizing magnum opus by the acclaimed author of FEED.
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by... Read more >
The Pox Party
Written by M.T. Anderson
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $17.99
A gothic tale becomes all too shockingly real in this mesmerizing magnum opus by the acclaimed author of FEED.
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Runaway
Written by Wendelin Van Draanen
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $15.95
"It's a cold, hard, cruel fact that my mother loved heroin more than she loved me."
Holly is in her fifth foster home in two years and she's had enough. She's run away before and always been caught quickly. But she's older and wiser now--she's twelve--and this time she gets away clean.
Through... Read more >
Written by Wendelin Van Draanen
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $15.95
"It's a cold, hard, cruel fact that my mother loved heroin more than she loved me."
Holly is in her fifth foster home in two years and she's had enough. She's run away before and always been caught quickly. But she's older and wiser now--she's twelve--and this time she gets away clean.
Through... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Claiming Georgia Tate
Written by Gigi Amateau
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2005
Price: $15.99
When her beloved grandmother dies, a young girl's minister grandfather unwittingly sends her to live with an abusive father in this rich, wrenchingly honest southern novel infused with humor and heart.
Twelve-year-old Georgia Tate wishes she could stay home forever with her no-nonsense nana, her preacher granddaddy, and her sassy friend Ginger... Read more >
Written by Gigi Amateau
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2005
Price: $15.99
When her beloved grandmother dies, a young girl's minister grandfather unwittingly sends her to live with an abusive father in this rich, wrenchingly honest southern novel infused with humor and heart.
Twelve-year-old Georgia Tate wishes she could stay home forever with her no-nonsense nana, her preacher granddaddy, and her sassy friend Ginger... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
