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David
Almond
David Almond
is the winner of the 2001 Michael L. Printz Award
for Kit's
Wilderness , which has also been named
best book of the year by School Library Journal,
Booklist , and Publishers Weekly. His first book
for young readers, Skellig,
is a Printz Honor winner. David's newest novel,
Raven
Summer, is available November
10th!
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Raven
Summer
David Almond
After Liam and his
best friend Max find
an abandoned baby girl in
the woods beyond his
house, his peaceful world
and idyllic childhood is
shaken as he is forced to
confront the existence of
human brutality: in the
world, in those who were
once his friends, and
within his own heart.
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The
Berenstain Bears and the In-Crowd
by Stan Berenstain and Jan
Berenstain
Once there were two color kittens with
green eyes, Brush and Hush . . .So goes the rollicking
tale of two pouncy kittens who make all the colors
in the world. First published more than 50 years
ago, this much-requested title is now available
as a Little Golden Book Classic, with its original
cover!
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The
Bear Essentials of Character Education
Welcome
to the Preschool Booknook, an informative place
invoking those book-filled, cozy corners in classrooms
and libraries.
It's
never too early to teach character education!
Here are a few ideas for using the Berenstain
Bears books . . .
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Night
Lights
by Susan Gal
Susan Gal tells the story of a child's
evening routine through all the different kinds
of lights that shine in the night. From the porch
light by the front door, to the firelight (and firefly
light!) of a backyard cookout, and the candles on
a cake, everything seems to glow in this warm and
cozy book. When the lightning of a sudden summer
storm sends the action inside, there is light there
too - a bedside light to read by, a flashlight to
make shadows with, a night-light to keep you company,
and the moonlight for sweet dreams.
How
the Grinch Stole Christmas Anniversary Edition
by Dr. Seuss
Inside this very special anniversary edition
of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, you'll
find the complete, original text and illustrations
by Dr. Seuss, along with 32 fascinating pages of
commentary, footnotes and archival images - written
and compiled by renowned collector and Seuss scholar
Charles D. Cohen.
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A
Library for Juana
by Pat Mora; illustrated
by Beatriz Vidal
Juana Ines was just a little girl in a
village in Mexico when she decided that the thing
she wanted most in the world was her very own collection
of books. When she found out that she could learn
to read in school, she begged to go. And when she
later discovered that only boys could attend university,
she dressed like a boy to show her determination
to attend. Word of her great intelligence soon spread,
and eventually, Juana Ines was considered one of
the best scholars in the Americas.
Celebrate
National American Indian Heritage Month!
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Zigazak!
by
Eric A. Kimmel; illustrated by Jon Goodell
On the first night of Hanukkah, two tricky devils
arrive in the town of Brisk to cause mischief. They
use a magic word - Zigazak! - to make
dreidels dance and latkes fly. The good citizens
of Brisk panic and appeal to their wise rabbi for
help. He triumphs over the devils in a contest of
wits, and soon sends them packing. But his real
triumph is the ability to see the good in all things,
even devils' tricks, helping the townsfolk enjoy
their most magical Hanukkah ever.
Snow
by P.D. Eastman
"Joyful verse relates the many ways to enjoy snow.
First graders will love it."-- Chicago Tribune.
Perfect for winter!
Rainbow
Crow
by Nancy Van Laan
Illus. in full color. This story
of how the Rainbow Crow lost his sweet voice and
brilliant colors by bringing the gift of fire to
the other woodland animals is "a Native American
legend that will be a fine read-aloud because of
the smooth text and songs with repetitive chants.
The illustrations, done in a primitive style, create
a true sense of the Pennsylvania Lenape Indians
and their winters."-- School Library Journal.
Celebrate
National American Indian Heritage Month!
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Nate
the Great and the Hungry Book Club
by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and Mitchell
Sharmat; illustrated by Jody Wheeler
Rosamond has started a book club called Rosamond's
Ready Readers. But she claims there's an evil page
monster on the loose. Nate the Great and his dog,
Sludge, go to the next meeting of the book club
. . . as undercover detectives. All the members
are there. They are reading a book when one of Rosamond's
Ready Readers discovers that a page is missing.
Has the evil page monster struck again?
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the Nate the Great Classroom Club!
Shampoodle
by Joan Holub; illustrated
by Tim Bowers
It's picture day at the dog park. But before the
first photo can be taken, an exuberant pack of pups
needs a bit of grooming. So they're off to Shampoodle,
the local pet salon, where the eager dogs simply
cannot sit still. And when some curious cats stop
by, things go from messy to mayhem.
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the Step into Reading site!
The
Green Ghost
by Marion Dane Bauer; illustrated
by Peter Ferguson
In 1938, a girl named Lillian
knows that the most beautiful pine tree in the forest
is the one thing that will make her Christmas special.
In 2008, Kaye's family's car slides off the road
in a Christmas Eve blizzard and they have to seek
out shelter in the snowy woods. Seventy years separate
them, but Lillian and Kaye's paths are ready to
cross when Kaye looks out the car window and spots
a ghostly face glowing brightly through the falling
snow.
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the Step into Reading site!
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There's No Place Like Space
by Tish Rabe illustrated by Aristides
Ruiz
Au revoir, Pluto! In this newly
revised, bestselling backlist title, beginning readers
and budding astronomers are launched on a wild trip
to visit the now eight planets in our solar
system, along with the Cat in the Hat, Thing One,
Thing Two, Dick, and Sally. It's a reading adventure
that's out of this world!
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the Educators Guide!
Horse
Diaries #3: Koda
by Patricia Hermes; illustrated
by Ruth Sanderson
Independence, Missouri, 1846.
Koda is a bay quarter horse with a white blaze.
He loves to explore the countryside and run free
with his human friend Jasmine nearby. But after
Koda sets out with Jasmine's family on a long and
dusty wagon train journey on the Oregon Trail, he
finds out what is truly important to him. Here is
Koda's story. . . in his own words.
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Skating
Shoes
by Noel
Streatfeild
It's a stroke of great luck when Harriet
Johnson's doctor prescribes skating after an illness
that has left her feeling frail and listless. For
on her very first day at the rink, Harriet meets
orphaned Lalla Moore, who is being brought up by
her wealthy aunt Claudia to be a skating champion.
Although they have little in common, the girls form
a fast friendship.But just as Lalla's interest in
skating starts to fade, Harriet's natural talent
begins to emerge. Suddenly Lalla and Harriet seem
headed in two very different directions. Can their
friendship survive?
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The
Giant-Slayer
by Iain Lawrence
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
the breathing machines. Laurie's first impulse is
to flee, but Dickie begs her to tell them a story.
And so Laurie begins her tale of Collosso, a rampaging
giant, and Jimmy, a tiny boy whose destiny is to
become a slayer of giants.
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The
Fairy Godmother Academy #2: Kerka's Book
by Jan Bozarth; illustrated
by Andrea Burden
Kerka
loves a challenge, but how can she find something
that is invisible? In this second Fairy Godmother
Academy book, Kerka begins the dangerous journey
that will determine not only her future as a fairy
godmother but also the fate of her sisters.
Visit
the Fairy Godmother Academy!
Noisy
Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things
That Aren't As Scary
by McSweeney's; edited
by Ted Thompson and Eli Horowitz
A collection of stories for wise young people
and immature old people, written by today’s best
authors spinning new tales. Each story features
fullcolor illustrations by artists including Barry
Blitt, Lane Smith, David Heatley, and Marcel Dzama.
The collection includes previously unpublished children's
stories from Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything
Is Illuminated), Nick Hornby (High Fidelity),
Neil Gaiman (Sandman), George Saunders
(CivilWarLand in Bad Decline), Kell Link
(Stranger Things Happen), and Jon Scieskza
( The Stinky Cheese Man).
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A
Faraway Island
by Annika Thor; translated
by Linda Schenck
It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from
Vienna - 12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old
Nellie - are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis.
They expect to stay there six months, until their
parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will
go to America. But as the world war intensifies,
the girls remain, each with her own host family,
on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden.
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The
Ever Breath
by Julianna Baggott
In a world where locust fairies flutter and firebreathers
burst from snowbanks, two children are having the
adventure of their lives. Truman and his twin sister,
Camille, have just met their grandmother . . . .
and she's a little strange. She whispers a tale
about something called the Ever Breath, an amber
orb that maintains the balance between our world
and a dreamy one of imagination - and evil.
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Grk
Smells a Rat
by Joshua Doder
Tim Malt; his parents; his dog, Grk; and his friends
Natascha and Max Raffifi have just arrived in India.
They are all set to see the famous sights and watch
Max compete in a tennis tournament. But after meeting
a boy named Krishnan, they learn about the Blue
Rat Gang, a group that enslaves children. Krishnan
needs help to rescue his sister from a cruel life
of forced labor, and Tim and Grk are up to the challenge.
Racing against time, Tim and Grk are chased through
dark alleys only to find themselves face-to-face
with the infamous leader inside the Blue Rats' headquarters.
Can they foil his evil plans before it's too late?
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Fallen
by Lauren Kate
There's something achingly familiar about Daniel
Grigori. Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce
Price's attention from the moment she sees him on
her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding
school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. Even though
Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce--and goes out
of his way to make that very clear--she can't let
it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she
has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep
secret . . . even if it kills her.
Coming this December!
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Sphinx's
Princess
by Esther Friesner
Nefertiti may be the dutiful daughter
of a commoner, but her inquisitive mind often gets
her into situations that are far from ordinary,
like receiving secret lessons from a scribe. But
she is also extraordinarily beautiful. And news
of her striking beauty and impulsive behavior attracts
the attention of her aunt, the manipulative Queen
Tiye, who sees Nefertiti as an ideal pawn in her
desire for power.
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Change-up:
Mystery at the World Series
by John Feinstein
Bestselling author, journalist, and Edgar
Award winner John Feinstein is back with another
high-stakes sports mystery. Teen reporters Stevie
Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are covering baseball's
World Series, and during the course of an interview
with a new hot pitcher, they discover more than
a few contradictions in his life story. What's he
hiding? An embarrassing secret? A possible crime?
Let the investigation begin!
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Powerless
by Matthew Cody
Twelve-year-old Daniel, the new kid in
town, soon learns the truth about his nice -- but
odd -- new friends: one can fly, another can turn
invisible, yet another controls electricity. Incredible.
The superkids use their powers to secretly do good
in the town, but they're haunted by the fact that
the moment they turn thirteen, their abilities will
disappear--along with any memory that they ever
had them. Is a memory-stealing supervillain sapping
their powers?
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The
Pricker Boy
by Reade Scott Whinnem
He was human once, or so they say. The son of a
fur trapper, he was taunted by his peers and tricked
into one of his own father's traps. By the time
anybody found it, the trap's vicious teeth were
empty, pried open and overgrown. It was said the
brambles themselves had reached out and taken pity
on that boy; that his skin had hardened to bark
as thorns grew over every inch of his body. Maybe
it's true and maybe it isn't. But anyone who knows
anything stays out of the woods beyond the Widow's
Stone.
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Scurvy
Goonda
by Chris McCoy
In Book One of this two-part story, an endearing
misfit embarks on an amazing adventure in search
of his friend Scurvy Goonda, an outrageous invisible
pirate with an insatiable love for bacon. Part friendship
story, part madcap adventure, readers who love stories
in which almost-ordinary kids travel to fantastical
lands and become heroes will revel in the imaginative
landscape and characters featured in this original
debut.
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Raven
Summer
by David Almond
After Liam and his
best friend Max find
an abandoned baby girl in the woods beyond his
house, his peaceful world and idyllic childhood
is shaken as he is forced to confront the existence
of human brutality: in the world, in those who were
once his friends, and within his own heart.
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the Teachers Guide!
Legacy
by Tom Sniegoski
What if you found out your deadbeat father is a
superhero? Would you leave your small-town life
to take up the mantle of a father you never knew?
For 18-year-old Lucas, the choice is an easy one:
he's not going to leave behind his mother and his
comfortable life for a father who's never shown
any interest in him. But his father--known officially
as billionaire Clayton Hartwell, and secretly as
the vigilante superhero The Raptor--tells Lucas
that as he is dying, evil is growing, and the world
needs Lucas to become the new Raptor.
Girl
to the Core
by Stacey Goldblatt
Molly O'Keefe's boyfriend, Trevor, is moving too
fast, but when she catches him kissing his ex, Molly
thinks it might be her own fault. Despite Trevor's
apologies and Vanessa's attempts to hook her up
with rebound guys, Molly is utterly heartbroken.
Then she finds comfort in a most unusual place:
Girl Corps, a club Claire belongs to. As a fifteen-yearold,
Molly hardly fits the Girl Corps profile. Still,
she can't deny that being with the little girls
in the group gives her a sense of confidence and
identity.
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Kit's
Wilderness
Written Almond
The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal-mining
town, to care for Kit's recently widowed grandfather.
When Kit meets John Askew, another boy whose family
had both worked and died in the mines, Askew invites
Kit to join him to play a game called Death. As
Kit's grandfather provides stories of the mine's
past and the history of the Watson family, the boys
search the mines to find the childhood ghosts of
their long-gone ancestors.
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out the Readers Guide!
Anniversary/Printz Award Winner!
Rosie and Skate
by Beth Ann Bauman
It's off-season at the Jersey shore, when the boardwalk
belongs to the locals. Rosie is 15 and her sister
Skate is 16. Their dad, an amiable drunk, is spending
a few weeks in jail while their cousin Angie looks
after them in their falling-down Victorian on the
beach. Skate and her boyfriend Perry are madly in
love, inseparable--until now, when Perry goes off
to Rutgers. Rosie is shyer than Skate, but she's
drawn to Nick, a boy in their Alateen group. What
happens to Rosie and Skate in a few tumultuous weeks
is deftly shaded, complex, and true.
Rage:
A Love Story
by Julie Anne Peters
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 draws Johanna's fluttering moth. Johanna is
determined to get her, against all advice, and to
help her, against all reason. But love isn't always
reasonable, right?
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