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Night World No. 2: Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate (Night World)

Author: L.J. Smith
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Product Description
Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters — they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World.In Dark Angel, Gillian is saved from drowning by her guardian angel. [...]

A Smart Girls Guide to Boys: Surviving Crushes, Staying True to Yourself & Other Stuff (American Girl Library)

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Nancy Holyoke
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

Rating: (70 reviews)
Author: Michael Scott
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Product Description
He holds the secret that can end the world.
The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the [...]

A Young People’s History of the United States, Vol. 1: Columbus to the Robber Barons

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Seven Stories Press

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Praise for A People’s History of the United States:
“Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves. There are vivid [...]

Magic Tree House #37: Dragon of the Red Dawn (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Merlin the Magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone in Camelot. What can be done? The enchantress Morgan knows who to askfor help: young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania! The brother-and-sister team quickly head [...]

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (rpkg) (HarperClassics)

Rating: (406 reviews)
Author: Avi
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Product Description
A vicious captain, a mutinous crew – and a young girl caught in the middle
Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen [...]

The Next Place

Rating: (140 reviews)
Author: Warren Hanson
Publisher: Waldman House Press

The Neverending Story

Rating: (256 reviews)
Author: Michael Ende
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

The Seeing Stone (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 2)

Rating: (64 reviews)
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

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In the Spiderwick Chronicles’ second book, things get even more exciting–and kind of scary–for the Grace kids, as the strange faerie world hinted at in The Field Guide blooms to full life around them.
After making tentative peace with Thimbletack (a [...]

Magic Tree House #40: Eve of the Emperor Penguin (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
JACK AND ANNIE continue their quest for the secrets of happiness—secrets they need to save Merlin. This time, the Magic Tree House takes them to the one continent they haven’t visited before: Antarctica! What can they hope to learn about happiness in such [...]

The Giving Tree (Slipcased Mini Edition)

Rating: (581 reviews)
Author: Shel Silverstein
Publisher: HarperCollins

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To say that this particular apple tree is a “giving tree” is an understatement. In Shel Silverstein’s popular tale of few words and simple line drawings, a tree starts out as a leafy playground, shade provider, and apple bearer for a rambunctious little boy. Making the [...]

Swimmy (Knopf Children’s Paperbacks)

Rating: (23 reviews)
Author: Leo Lionni
Publisher: Dragonfly Books

Book Description
Illus. in color. “An exquisite picture book. A little fish, the lone survivor of a school of fish swallowed by a tuna, devises a plan to camouflage himself and his new companions.”–(starred) School Library Journal.  

Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You: Movie Tie-in Edition (The Spiderwick Chronicles)

Rating: (49 reviews)
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

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Spiderwick fans will adore this gorgeous guidebook to the fantastical creatures featured in Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi’s spectacular series. The superdeluxe, lavishly illustrated “field guide” features 142 information-packed pages, 41 full-color plates, 6 spectacular gatefolds, 6 watercolor landscapes, scores of [...]

Happy New Year! / Kung-Hsi Fa-Ts’ai!

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Demi
Publisher: Dragonfly Books

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“Happy Chinese New Year!” this lovely book exuberantly proclaims. Full of extraordinary, richly colorful illustrations resembling lacquered boxes, this book is as visually delicious as Demi’s previous books The Stonecutter and The Empty Pot. Children will love closely examining the flurry of activity associated with this [...]

Elijah Of Buxton (Newbery Honor Book)

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Scholastic Press

Book Description
Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. He’s best known in his hometown as the boy who made a memorable impression on Frederick Douglass. But things change [...]

Dark Day in the Deep Sea (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Book Description
Jack and Annie continue their quest for the secrets of happiness–secrets they need if they’re going to save Merlin. But when the magic tree house leads them to a tiny deserted island in the middle of the ocean, they’re not sure who needs [...]

Cajun Night Before Christmas (Night Before Christmas Series)

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Trosclair
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company

Book Description
More than twenty-five years after its first appearance, “Cajun Night Before Christmas” has become a modern classic that has sold more than 490,000 copies and has served as the model for Pelican’s ongoing, best-selling “Night Before Christmas series.” The formula [...]

A Scratch & Sniff Night Before Christmas (Scratch & Sniff)

Author: Clement C. Moore
Publisher: Sterling

Book Description
Peppermints, popcorn, and hot apple cider: with a scratch and a sniff, Clement C. Moore’s perennial holiday favorite comes deliciously alive as never before. Populated by animal characters (including a bear-y merry St. Nick), every brightly illustrated spread features a different delectable Christmas smell for kids to uncover: [...]

Magic Tree House #38: Monday with a Mad Genius (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Book Description
JACK AND ANNIE are on a mission to save Merlin from his sorrows! Charged with finding the second of four secrets of happiness, the brother-and-sister team travel back in the magic tree house to the period known as the [...]

Cajun Night Before Christmas (Miniature Edition)

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Trosclair
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company

Book Description
More than twenty-five years after its first appearance, “Cajun Night Before Christmas” has become a modern classic that has sold more than 490,000 copies and has served as the model for Pelican’s ongoing, best-selling “Night Before Christmas series.” The formula [...]

Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Rating: (133 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography is bizarre, abstruse (”a word which here means ‘cryptic’”), and truly entertaining. Would you expect anything less from the mystery man behind A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning, The Ersatz Elevator, etc.)? Virtually every [...]

Riding Freedom

Rating: (80 reviews)
Author: Pam Munoz Ryan
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Titanic

Author: Martin Jenkins
Publisher: Candlewick

Book Description
Unfold a spectacular 3-D model of the TITANIC — and read about her fateful rise and fall — in a gorgeous gift set including several novelty features.
On April 14, 1912, the largest and finest ocean liner of the age struck an iceberg and sank to the icy depths. Now [...]

The Chronicles of Narnia Pop-up: Based on the Books by C. S. Lewis (Narnia)

Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperCollins

Book Description
C. S. Lewis’s classic Narnia books spring to life in the hands of award-winning paper engineer Robert Sabuda. Each of the seven books in the series has its own pop-up spread rendered in spectacular detail with stunning special effects. Experience a different adventure from Narnia on every [...]

Dragons: A Pop-Up Book of Fantastic Adventures

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Keith Moseley
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers

Book Description
Dragons are popular as never before—and here they pop up in fire-breathing action!Five dramatic dragon stories from around the world, including Beowulf and the Firedrake, St. George and the Dragon, and those from ancient China and Japan come to life, [...]