Samurai Kids #2: Owl Ninja
Written by Sandy Fussell
Illustrated by Rhian Nest James
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $15.99
The uniquely talented samurai kids are back — and ready to join forces with a ninja clan! — as the fast-paced martial arts series continues.Across the valley, a drumbeat echoes. For ten days, the drum will call the mountain ryus to war, including the samurai kids from the Cockroach Ryu. Only...
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Owning It
Stories About Teens with Disabilities
Edited by Donald R. Gallo
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $6.99
From an acclaimed anthologist, a stellar collection of stories about teens with disabilities — and the tenacity, spirit, and humor that drive them.Chris Crutcher takes us on a wild ride through the mind of a teen with ADD, while David Lubar’s protagonist gets a sobering lesson from his friends. In Gail...
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Samurai Kids #1: White Crane
Written by Sandy Fussell
Illustrated by Rhian Nest James
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $15.99
Can a one-legged boy become a great samurai warrior? Meet some unique aspiring champions in this kick-off to an exciting new martial arts series.
Niya Moto is the only one-legged samurai kid in Japan, famous for falling flat on his face in the dirt. The one school that will accept him is...
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Come Fall
Written by A.C.E. Bauer
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $15.99
Lu Zimmer's best friend moved away last summer. Salman Page is the new kid in school. Blos Pease takes everything literally. Three kids who are on the fringe of the middle school social order find each other and warily begin to bond, but suddenly things start going wrong. Salman becomes the...
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Come Fall
Written by A.C.E. Bauer
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $6.99
Lu Zimmer's best friend moved away last summer. Salman Page is the new kid in school. Blos Pease takes everything literally. Three kids who are on the fringe of the middle school social order find each other and warily begin to bond, but suddenly things start going wrong. Salman becomes the...
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Come Fall
Written by A.C.E. Bauer
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 240 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $18.99
Lu Zimmer's best friend moved away last summer. Salman Page is the new kid in school. Blos Pease takes everything literally. Three kids who are on the fringe of the middle school social order find each other and warily begin to bond, but suddenly things start going wrong. Salman becomes the...
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Kissing Doornobs
Written by Terry Spencer Hesser
Afterword by A.J. Allen
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2010
Price: $6.99
During her preschool years, Tara Sullivan lived in terror that something bad would happen to her mother while they were apart. In grade school, she panicked during the practice fire drills.
Practice for what?, Tara asked. For the upcoming disaster that was bound to happen?
Then, at the age of 11, it...
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The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin
Written by Josh Berk
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $8.99
Being a hefty, deaf newcomer almost makes Will Halpin the least popular guy at Coaler High. But when he befriends the only guy less popular than him, the dork-namic duo has the smarts and guts to figure out who knocked off the star quarterback. Will can’t hear what’s going on, but...
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The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin
Written by Josh Berk
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $16.99
Being a hefty, deaf newcomer almost makes Will Halpin the least popular guy at Coaler High. But when he befriends the only guy less popular than him, the dork-namic duo has the smarts and guts to figure out who knocked off the star quarterback. Will can’t hear what’s going on, but...
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Quit It
Written by Marcia Byalick
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $5.99
At a quick glance, Carrie looks just like everybody else in her seventh-grade class. She gets good grades, acts in school plays, kicks a pretty decent soccer ball, and is a sensational Game Boy champion. But watch her a little longer and Carrie looks very different. She shrugs her shoulder a...
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Mostly Monty
First Grader
Written by Johanna Hurwitz
Illustrated by Anik McGrory
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $5.99
A shy boy with asthma starts first grade — and comes into his own — in this appealing story for early chapter book readers.Six-year-old Monty doesn’t have a brother, a sister, or a pet. What he does have is asthma, which sometimes makes it hard to breathe and often makes him...
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The Middle of Somewhere
Written by J.B. Cheaney
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $6.99
VERONICA SPARKS IS hitting the road and she is going to shake the dust of her little town off her shoes and see the world!
Well, someday. For now, she’s hitting the road in an RV with her cantankerous grandfather and her hyperactive little brother. Ronnie’s grandfather is a wind prospector, and...
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The Middle of Somewhere
Written by J.B. Cheaney
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $6.99
VERONICA SPARKS IS hitting the road and she is going to shake the dust of her little town off her shoes and see the world!
Well, someday. For now, she’s hitting the road in an RV with her cantankerous grandfather and her hyperactive little brother. Ronnie’s grandfather is a wind prospector, and...
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Owning It
Stories About Teens with Disabilities
Edited by Donald R. Gallo
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $17.99
From an acclaimed anthologist, a stellar collection of stories about teens with disabilities — and the tenacity, spirit, and humor that drive them.Chris Crutcher takes us on a wild ride through the mind of a teen with ADD, while David Lubar’s protagonist gets a sobering lesson from his friends. In Gail...
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Small Steps
Written by Louis Sachar
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $9.99
SMALL STEPS is a hip young adult novel from Louis Sachar, the
New York Times bestselling author of the Newbery Award–winning smash hit phenomenon book and movie/DVD sensation HOLES.
Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it's...
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Sparrow
Written by Sherri L. Smith
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $5.99
Family sticks with family. That’s the golden rule G’ma taught Kendall. But once G’ma’s gone, Kendall has no family left—except for an aunt G’ma asked for at the end, who Kendall barely remembers. Only Aunt Janet knows what G’ma had in mind, but she never even shows up at the funeral...
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Zane's Trace
Written by Allan Wolf
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $16.99
A coming-of-age road story with a supernatural twist — and a compulsively readable poetic novel about identity and belonging.Zane Guesswind has just killed his grandfather, or so he believes. So he steals the 1969 Plymouth Barracuda his long-gone father left behind and takes off on a manic trip to his mother’s...
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Mostly Monty
First Grader
Written by Johanna Hurwitz
Illustrated by Anik McGrory
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $15.99
A shy boy with asthma starts first grade -- and comes into his own -- in this appealing story for early chapter book readers.Six-year-old Monty doesn’t have a brother, a sister, or a pet. What he does have is asthma, which sometimes makes it hard to breathe and often makes him...
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My Little Grandmother Often Forgets
Written by Reeve Lindbergh
Illustrated by Kathryn Brown
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $16.99
A child’s love for a grandmother with memory loss shines through in this deeply personal and lyrical tale from author Reeve Lindbergh.Sometimes Tom’s grandmother forgets the way home from the market, or that Tom’s name is Tom and not Roy. But Tom doesn’t mind. He loves to help his grandmother and...
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Dove Song
Written by Kristine L. Franklin
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $5.99
"Two young people take on more than they can handle in this anguished, reflective story set on the home front during the Vietnam War."
— KIRKUS REVIEWS
A Minnesota Book Award Winner
"Both a sensitive story of friendship and family problems and solid historical fiction." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
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Small Steps
Written by Louis Sachar
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 28, 2006
Price: $9.99
Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it’s hard when you have a record, and everyone expects the worst from you. The only person who believes in him is Ginny, his 10-year old disabled neighbor. Together...
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Hero of Lesser Causes
Written by Julie Johnston
Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $10.95
World War II has just been won, and everything seems possible to young Keely Connor. She sees herself as a hero on a white charger, able to conquer the world, even though in reality her charger is Lola, the placid horse that lives in the field behind her house.
One fateful...
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