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The Storm Before Atlanta
Written by Karen Schwabach
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $6.99
At a time when most people have grown weary of the war between the states, two young children are desperate to find their way to the battlefields. Jeremy DeGroot wants nothing more than to join a troop as a drummer boy. For Dulcie, a runaway slave, freedom means she must head... Read more >
Written by Karen Schwabach
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $6.99
At a time when most people have grown weary of the war between the states, two young children are desperate to find their way to the battlefields. Jeremy DeGroot wants nothing more than to join a troop as a drummer boy. For Dulcie, a runaway slave, freedom means she must head... Read more >
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The Storm Before Atlanta
Written by Karen Schwabach
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 320 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $19.99
At a time when most people have grown weary of the war between the states, two young children are desperate to find their way to the battlefields. Jeremy DeGroot wants nothing more than to join a troop as a drummer boy. For Dulcie, a runaway slave, freedom means she must head... Read more >
Written by Karen Schwabach
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 320 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $19.99
At a time when most people have grown weary of the war between the states, two young children are desperate to find their way to the battlefields. Jeremy DeGroot wants nothing more than to join a troop as a drummer boy. For Dulcie, a runaway slave, freedom means she must head... Read more >
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Zora and Me
Written by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $16.99
Winner of the 2011 John Steptoe New Talent (Author) Award!
Racial duplicity threatens an idyllic African American community in the turn-of-the-century South in a dazzling debut inspired by the early life of Zora Neale Hurston.
Whether she’s telling the truth or stretching it, Zora Neale Hurston is a riveting storyteller. Her latest creation... Read more >
Written by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $16.99
Winner of the 2011 John Steptoe New Talent (Author) Award!
Racial duplicity threatens an idyllic African American community in the turn-of-the-century South in a dazzling debut inspired by the early life of Zora Neale Hurston.
Whether she’s telling the truth or stretching it, Zora Neale Hurston is a riveting storyteller. Her latest creation... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Monsters of Men
Chaos Walking: Book Three
Written by Patrick Ness
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $18.99
In the riveting conclusion to the acclaimed dystopian series, a boy and girl caught in the chaos of war face devastating choices that will decide the fate of a world.
As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have... Read more >
Chaos Walking: Book Three
Written by Patrick Ness
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $18.99
In the riveting conclusion to the acclaimed dystopian series, a boy and girl caught in the chaos of war face devastating choices that will decide the fate of a world.
As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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The Other Half of My Heart
Written by Sundee T. Frazier
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $6.99
The close relationship of a pair of biracial twins is tested when their grandmother enters them in a pageant for African American girls in this new story from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner Sundee T. Frazier.
When Minerva and Keira King were born, they made headlines: Keira is black... Read more >
Written by Sundee T. Frazier
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $6.99
The close relationship of a pair of biracial twins is tested when their grandmother enters them in a pageant for African American girls in this new story from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner Sundee T. Frazier.
When Minerva and Keira King were born, they made headlines: Keira is black... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Other Half of My Heart
Written by Sundee T. Frazier
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $16.99
The close relationship of a pair of biracial twins is tested when their grandmother enters them in a pageant for African American girls in this new story from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner Sundee T. Frazier.
When Minerva and Keira King were born, they made headlines: Keira is black... Read more >
Written by Sundee T. Frazier
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $16.99
The close relationship of a pair of biracial twins is tested when their grandmother enters them in a pageant for African American girls in this new story from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner Sundee T. Frazier.
When Minerva and Keira King were born, they made headlines: Keira is black... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Riot
Written by Walter Dean Myers
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $8.99
As the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines.
During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft–a draft... Read more >
Written by Walter Dean Myers
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $8.99
As the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines.
During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft–a draft... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover,
hardcover library binding and a
trade paperback.
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Alligator Bayou
Written by Donna Jo Napoli
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $8.99
An unforgettable novel, based on a true story, about racism against Italian Americans in the South in 1899.
Fourteen-year-old Calogero, his uncles, and his cousins are six Sicilians living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, miles from any of their countrymen. They grow vegetables and sell them at their stand and... Read more >
Written by Donna Jo Napoli
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $8.99
An unforgettable novel, based on a true story, about racism against Italian Americans in the South in 1899.
Fourteen-year-old Calogero, his uncles, and his cousins are six Sicilians living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, miles from any of their countrymen. They grow vegetables and sell them at their stand and... Read more >
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Alligator Bayou
Written by Donna Jo Napoli
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $8.99
Talullah, Louisiana. 1899.
Calogero, his uncles, and cousins are six Sicilian men living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana. They work hard, growing vegetables and selling them at their stand and in their grocery store.
To 14-year-old Calogero, newly arrived from Sicily, Tallulah is a lush world full of contradictions, hidden rules... Read more >
Written by Donna Jo Napoli
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $8.99
Talullah, Louisiana. 1899.
Calogero, his uncles, and cousins are six Sicilian men living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana. They work hard, growing vegetables and selling them at their stand and in their grocery store.
To 14-year-old Calogero, newly arrived from Sicily, Tallulah is a lush world full of contradictions, hidden rules... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Grease Town
Written by Ann Towell
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $17.95
A heartbreaking history of prejudice, family ties, and the loss of innocence.When twelve-year-old Titus Sullivan decides to run away to join his Uncle Amos and older brother, Lem, he finds an alien and exciting world in Oil Springs, the first Canadian oil boomtown of the 19th century.
The Enniskillen swamp is slick... Read more >
Written by Ann Towell
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $17.95
A heartbreaking history of prejudice, family ties, and the loss of innocence.When twelve-year-old Titus Sullivan decides to run away to join his Uncle Amos and older brother, Lem, he finds an alien and exciting world in Oil Springs, the first Canadian oil boomtown of the 19th century.
The Enniskillen swamp is slick... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Grease Town
Written by Ann Towell
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $10.99
A heartbreaking history of prejudice, family ties, and the loss of innocence.When twelve-year-old Titus Sullivan decides to run away to join his Uncle Amos and older brother, Lem, he finds an alien and exciting world in Oil Springs, the first Canadian oil boomtown of the 19th century.
The Enniskillen swamp is slick... Read more >
Written by Ann Towell
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $10.99
A heartbreaking history of prejudice, family ties, and the loss of innocence.When twelve-year-old Titus Sullivan decides to run away to join his Uncle Amos and older brother, Lem, he finds an alien and exciting world in Oil Springs, the first Canadian oil boomtown of the 19th century.
The Enniskillen swamp is slick... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Exposure
Written by Mal Peet
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $18.99
Winner of the 2009 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet takes a searing look at the world of soccer and pop-celebrity culture — and the lives of three street kids caught in its glare.
When a black South American soccer star signs on to a team in the country's racist... Read more >
Written by Mal Peet
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $18.99
Winner of the 2009 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet takes a searing look at the world of soccer and pop-celebrity culture — and the lives of three street kids caught in its glare.
When a black South American soccer star signs on to a team in the country's racist... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Riot
Written by Walter Dean Myers
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $16.99
As the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines.
During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft–a draft... Read more >
Written by Walter Dean Myers
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $16.99
As the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines.
During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft–a draft... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover library binding and a
trade paperback.
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Riot
Written by Walter Dean Myers
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 192 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $19.99
Read more >
Written by Walter Dean Myers
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 192 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $19.99
Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet
Written by Sherri L. Smith
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $6.99
Ana Shen has what her social studies teacher calls a “marvelously biracial, multicultural family” but what Ana simply calls a Chinese American father and an African American mother. And on eighth-grade graduation day, that’s a recipe for disaster. Both sets of grandparents are in town to celebrate, and Ana’s best friend... Read more >
Written by Sherri L. Smith
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $6.99
Ana Shen has what her social studies teacher calls a “marvelously biracial, multicultural family” but what Ana simply calls a Chinese American father and an African American mother. And on eighth-grade graduation day, that’s a recipe for disaster. Both sets of grandparents are in town to celebrate, and Ana’s best friend... Read more >
Kanada
Written by Eva Wiseman
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 12, 2009
Price: $8.99
Kanada. The name meant untold riches and promise to Jutka, a young Hungarian girl who was captivated by stories of a vast, majestic country where people were able to breathe free of hatred and prejudice. Freedom was in short supply, but hatred was everywhere in Hungary as hundreds of thousands of... Read more >
Written by Eva Wiseman
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 12, 2009
Price: $8.99
Kanada. The name meant untold riches and promise to Jutka, a young Hungarian girl who was captivated by stories of a vast, majestic country where people were able to breathe free of hatred and prejudice. Freedom was in short supply, but hatred was everywhere in Hungary as hundreds of thousands of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
No One Must Know
Written by Eva Wiseman
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2009
Price: $8.99
Chosen for inclusion in the reading list for the 2006 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award
It is 1957 and Alexandra’s immigrant family is living the North American dream. Her father is a respected doctor, and she has a warm circle of good friends from church, from girl guides, and from school. Perhaps... Read more >
Written by Eva Wiseman
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2009
Price: $8.99
Chosen for inclusion in the reading list for the 2006 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award
It is 1957 and Alexandra’s immigrant family is living the North American dream. Her father is a respected doctor, and she has a warm circle of good friends from church, from girl guides, and from school. Perhaps... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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A Heart Divided
Written by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $5.99
Is the Confederate battle flag a racist symbol—or a proud reminder of Southern heritage?
When Kate’s liberal-minded family moves from the suburbs of New York City to a small town near Nashville, Kate is convinced her life is over. Redford lives up to Kate’s low expectations. The Confederate battle flag waves... Read more >
Written by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $5.99
Is the Confederate battle flag a racist symbol—or a proud reminder of Southern heritage?
When Kate’s liberal-minded family moves from the suburbs of New York City to a small town near Nashville, Kate is convinced her life is over. Redford lives up to Kate’s low expectations. The Confederate battle flag waves... Read more >
Puppet
Written by Eva Wiseman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2009
Price: $8.99
A heartbreaking episode in history, explained through the story of a young servant girl in the late 1800s.
The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the ‘blood libel’ — the centuries-old calumny that... Read more >
Written by Eva Wiseman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2009
Price: $8.99
A heartbreaking episode in history, explained through the story of a young servant girl in the late 1800s.
The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from the village of Tisza Eszvar face the ‘blood libel’ — the centuries-old calumny that... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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... Read more >
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Alligator Bayou
Written by Donna Jo Napoli
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $16.99
Talullah, Louisiana. 1899.
Calogero, his uncles, and cousins are six Sicilian men living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana. They work hard, growing vegetables and selling them at their stand and in their grocery store.
To 14-year-old Calogero, newly arrived from Sicily, Tallulah is a lush world full of contradictions, hidden rules... Read more >
Written by Donna Jo Napoli
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $16.99
Talullah, Louisiana. 1899.
Calogero, his uncles, and cousins are six Sicilian men living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana. They work hard, growing vegetables and selling them at their stand and in their grocery store.
To 14-year-old Calogero, newly arrived from Sicily, Tallulah is a lush world full of contradictions, hidden rules... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Who I Am
Diary Number 3
Written by Melody Carlson
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $9.99
It's challenging enough to be a normal high school senior -- but Caitlin O'Conner has a host of new difficulties to deal with in the third book of Melody Carlson's widely popular and fascinating teen series.
Time is critical to help the orphans in Mexico, missions-minded Caitlin believes, but Mom and... Read more >
Diary Number 3
Written by Melody Carlson
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $9.99
It's challenging enough to be a normal high school senior -- but Caitlin O'Conner has a host of new difficulties to deal with in the third book of Melody Carlson's widely popular and fascinating teen series.
Time is critical to help the orphans in Mexico, missions-minded Caitlin believes, but Mom and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Confessional
Written by J.L. Powers
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $6.99
When longtime animosities between a Mexican and a white American student at a Texas high school finally flare into violence, one ends up in the hospital with a broken arm and a fractured ego. A few hours later, the other ends up dead. In the reverb, friends and enemies alike are... Read more >
Written by J.L. Powers
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $6.99
When longtime animosities between a Mexican and a white American student at a Texas high school finally flare into violence, one ends up in the hospital with a broken arm and a fractured ego. A few hours later, the other ends up dead. In the reverb, friends and enemies alike are... Read more >
