Tag Archives: People & Places

Guess How Much I Love You

Rating: (293 reviews)
Author: Sam Mcbratney
Publisher: Candlewick

Product Description
“Guess how much I love you,” says Little Nutbrown Hare. Little Nutbrown Hare shows his daddy how much he loves him: as wide as he can reach and as far as he can hop. But Big Nutbrown Hare, who can reach farther and hop higher, [...]

Milton’s Secret: An Adventure of Discovery through Then, When, and the Power of Now

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Eckhart Tolle, Robert S. Friedman
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing

Product Description
For the first time ever, bestselling author Eckhart Tolle brings the core of his teachings to children, ages 7 to 100. Beautifully illustrated and artfully expressed, this charming story will bring joy to children and their parents for decades to [...]

Crank

Rating: (108 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina — she’s fearless. Through a boy, [...]

The Demonata #7: Death’s Shadow (Demonata)

Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

Product Description
As the once-human beasts advance, I try draining magic from the air but there’s virtually nothing to tap into. In my own time, these creatures would have been simple to deal with. Here, it’s going to be difficult. The lead werewolf snaps at the female. With [...]

The Sorceress (Secrets Imrtl Nicholas Flamel)

Author: Michael Scott
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

The Story of the Nutcracker Ballet (Pictureback(R))

Rating: (4 reviews)
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Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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Illus. in full color. The magic of the beloved ballet is captured in this affordable edition. Art by a Caldecott Honor Book artist complements a succinct narration that is ideal for young children.  

Old Bear

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Kevin Henkes
Publisher: Greenwillow

Product Description
Snug and warm, curled and furry, Old Bear sleeps.
Red, orange, and brown leaves fly through the air, and it is snowing hard. Old Bear doesn’t notice.
Old Bear is dreaming about being a cub again. He is dreaming about the beauty [...]

Magic Tree House #34: Season of the Sandstorms (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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Jack and Annie travel back in time to a desert in the Middle East at the behest of Merlin who has given them a rhyme to help on their mission. There they meet a Bedouin tribe and learn about [...]

My Letter to the World and Other Poems (Visions in Poetry) (Visions in Poetry)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: Kids Can Press, Ltd.

Product Description
Visions in Poetry is an innovative and award-winning series of classic poems reinterpreted for today’s readers by outstanding contemporary artists in distinctively beautiful editions. This is My Letter to the World and Other Poems by Emily Dickinson is brilliantly illustrated by Isabelle [...]

If You Lived In Colonial Times (If You.)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Ann Mcgovern
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Product Description
Ann McGovern’s gay and informative book gives young readers a vivid picture of life in colonial New England from 1659 to 1730. The drawings help children imagine what it was really like to be a boy or girl in colonial days. [...]

The Dragon Princess (Tales of the Frog Princess)

Author: E.D. Baker
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books

Product Description
Meet Millie, the charming but somewhat cursed daughter of Princess Emma and Prince Eadric. Why cursed? You see, every time Millie gets mad (and she gets mad a little too often) she turns into a dragon. And not a cute little pink dragon either. She is [...]

What’s Going on Down There?: Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask

Rating: (44 reviews)
Author: Karen Gravelle, Nick Castro, Chava Castro, Robert Leighton, Walker & Co
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Why is my voice making such weird sounds? When will I be able to start shaving? Why do I keep getting pimples? What is a wet dream? Your body has been behaving very strangely [...]

Fablehaven

Rating: (102 reviews)
Author: Brandon Mull
Publisher: Aladdin

Product Description
For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite. Kendra [...]

The Night Before Christmas (Little Golden Book)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Clement C. Moore
Publisher: Golden Books

Impulse

Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Product Description
Sometimes you don’t wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same.Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act — suicide.Vanessa is beautiful and [...]

Chains

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Product Description

If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight…for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist [...]

The Sweet Smell of Christmas (Scented Storybook)

Rating: (107 reviews)
Author: Patricia M. Scarry
Publisher: Golden Books

Product Description
Christmas is almost here! Little Bear can smell it—and so can you! The air is filled with the aroma of gingerbread cookies, minty candy canes, the piney Christmas tree, and yummy hot apple pie. Celebrate the holiday season with this classic Golden [...]

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Margaret Mcnamara
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade

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“HOW MANY SEEDs in a pumpkin?” Mr. Tiffin asks his class as they gather around the big, medium, and small pumpkins on his desk. Robert, the biggest kid, guesses that the largest one has a million seeds; Elinor, sounding like she knows what [...]

Gingerbread Friends

Rating: (3 reviews)
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Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

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That popular little character is back looking for friends, in an adventure he’ll never forget.
Confident and cocky, the Gingerbread Baby happens upon a bakery, where he dances and prances in front of a sugar cookie girl, trying to make friends. But she just stares [...]

Love You Forever

Rating: (783 reviews)
Author: Robert N. Munsch
Publisher: Firefly Books

Product Description
A young woman holds her newborn sonAnd looks at him lovingly.
Softly she sings to him: “I’ll love you forever I’ll like you for always As long as I’m living My baby you’ll be.” [...]

Skeleton Hiccups

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Margery Cuyler
Publisher: Aladdin

Product Description
What’s the best way to help a skeleton get over his hiccups?
Amazon.com Review
Skeletons are a little less scary when they have the hiccups. This particular skeleton can’t seem to shake them–not in the shower (nice fuzzy bat slippers!), not while brushing [...]

Cybele’s Secret

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Juliet Marillier
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Product Description
FOR PAULA, ACCOMPANYING her merchant father on a trading voyage to Istanbul is a dream come true. They have come to this city of trade on a special mission to purchase a most rare artifact—a gift from the ancient goddess, Cybele, [...]

Where’s My Stuff?: The Ultimate Teen Organizing Guide

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Samantha Moss, Lesley Schwartz
Publisher: Orange Avenue Publishing

Product Description
Free time is great. Unless you spend all of it searching for your homework, your mobile phone, or a clean pair of shorts. Then free time is not so great. In fact, it’s non-existent. If chaos and disorganisation are swallowing all [...]

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 Thief Lord

Rating: (392 reviews)
Author: Cornelia Funke
Publisher: The Chicken House

Product Description
Prosper and Bo are orphans on the run from their cruel aunt and uncle. The brothers decide to hide out in Venice, where they meet a mysterious character who calls himself the “Thief Lord.” Brilliant and charismatic, the Thief Lord leads a ring [...]

The Tiger Rising

Rating: (78 reviews)
Author: Kate Dicamillo
Publisher: Candlewick

Product Description
The National Book Award finalist from the best-selling author of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE - now in paperback
Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger - a real-life, very large tiger - pacing back and forth [...]

Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born

Rating: (80 reviews)
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis
Publisher: HarperTrophy

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Tell me again about the night I was born.Tell me again how you would adopt me and be my parents.
Tell me again about the first time you held me in your arms. Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell, author and illustrator of the best-selling [...]

Shake Dem Halloween Bones

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: W. Nikola-Lisa
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Product Description
Bearsie Bear is just falling asleep when a very cold Moosie Moose knocks on the door and asks to sleep over in Bearsie Bear’s warm bed. Next knocks Cowsie Cow, then Piggie Pig, then Foxie Fox, then Goosie Goose . . . and the [...]

Bear Feels Scared

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Karma Wilson
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

Product Description
In the deep, dark woods by the Strawberry Vale,a big bear lumbersdown a small, crooked trail….

A Mother for Choco (Paperstar)

Rating: (69 reviews)
Author: Keiko Kasza
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Product Description
Choco was a little bird who lived all alone. He wished he had a mother, but who could his mother be? “Just right for the preschool group or beginning reader.”–Kirkus Reviews, pointer review. “Young listeners will be charmed by the book’s humor, warmth, and [...]

On the Day You Were Born: Book and Musical CD

Rating: (80 reviews)
Author: Debra Frasier
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books

Product Description
Debra Frasier’s modern classic On the Day You Were Born has been welcoming babies into the world for more than a decade–and has sold over a million copies. Now this favorite hardcover book comes to life with a musical CD featuring an original [...]