Tag Archives: People & Places

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

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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

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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

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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

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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 [...]

Go Long! (Kickoff)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Ronde Barber, Tiki Barber
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

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It’s Tiki and Ronde’s second year on their junior high school football team, the Hidden Valley Eagles. The eighth-grade season is here, and the boys have come together as a team. Now key starters, Tiki and Ronde are ready [...]

Nate The Great And The Halloween Hunt (Nate The Great, paper)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Publisher: Yearling

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It is Halloween night and all the kids are dressed in scary and funny costumes.  Their Trick or Treat bags are getting heavier.
Nate’s good friend Rosamond needs his help.  Her cat, Little Hex, is missing.  Little Hex hates Halloween, so maybe he’s hiding.  Or is he lost?  Nate and [...]

Skeleton Key (Alex Rider)

Rating: (96 reviews)
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Puffin

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Working as a secret agent for Britain’s most exclusive agency, Alex Rider has seen it all. He’s been shot at by international terrorists, stood face-to-face with pure evil, and saved the world—twice. But fifteen-year-old Alex is about to face something more dangerous than he can [...]

Identical

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

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Do twins begin in the womb?Or in a better place?Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family — on the surface. Behind the facade each sister [...]

The Teen Girl’s Gotta-Have-It Guide to Money: Getting Smart About Making It, Saving It, and Spending It! (Teen Girl’s Gotta-Have-It Guides)

Author: Jessica Blatt
Publisher: Watson-Guptill

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Suze Orman advises women on how to handle their money–and now Jessica Blatt advises the women of tomorrow on how to handle theirs. The newest addition to the Teen Girl’s Gotta-Have-It series empowers girls by showing them why money matters. From making money, to saving money, to investing money, [...]

I Am the Messenger

Rating: (64 reviews)
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Meet Ed Kennedy—underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted dog, the Doorman, and he’s hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence, until [...]

The Giver

Rating: (39 reviews)
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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When Jonas turns 12, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. Now, it’s time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.

How to Steal a Dog

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Barbara O’Connor
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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Half of me was thinking, Georgina, don’t do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. The other half of me was thinking, Georgina, you’re in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out [...]

Al Capone Does My Shirts

Rating: (184 reviews)
Author: Gennifer Choldenko
Publisher: Puffin

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Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are not your average neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz. It’s 1935 and twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved to the infamous island that’s home to criminals like notorious [...]

Kickoff!

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber
Publisher: Aladdin

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“Hut! Hut! Go long, Tiki!”Tiki and Ronde’s twelfth summer is winding down — the nights are gettingshorter and the evenings cooler. That means two things: The first day of junior high is just a few days away, and it’s almost the start of [...]

America : A Patriotic Primer

Rating: (69 reviews)
Author: Lynne Cheney
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Amazon.com Review
Written by Lynne Cheney, author and wife of Vice President Richard Cheney, to honor this “beautiful land made more beautiful still by our commitment to freedom,” America: A Patriotic Primer is a proud celebration of [...]

Listen!

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Stephanie S. Tolan
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Product Description
Learning to walk again is the easy part.
For twelve-year-old Charley, recovering from the accident that shattered her leg is nowhere near as difficult as facing the solitude of a summer without her best friend and with a father who does nothing, now, but work. [...]

Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Richard M. Hannula
Publisher: Canon Press

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“Thus says the LORD: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls“(Jer. 6:16). Christianity is a faith in love with history. God [...]

The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (Landmark Books)

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth Payne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was a great civilization that thrived along the banks of the Nile River. But when its cities crumbled to dust, Egypt’s culture and the secrets of its hieroglyphic writings were also lost. The Pharaohs [...]

The Rules of Survival

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Nancy Werlin
Publisher: Puffin

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For Matt and his sisters, life with their cruel, vicious mother is a day-to-day struggle for survival. But then Matt witnesses Murdoch coming to a child’s rescue in a convenience store, and for the first time, he feels a glimmer of hope. When, amazingly, Murdoch [...]

My Dad, John McCain

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Meghan McCain
Publisher: Aladdin

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Born the son and grandson of military men, Senator John McCain from Arizona was destined for a life serving his country in the armed forces. Like many great men, he occasionally struggled with authority, but once he found his true calling — flying naval aircraft [...]

Rules (Apple Signature)

Rating: (71 reviews)
Author: Cynthia Lord
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

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Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She’s spent years trying to teach David the rules from “a peach is not a funny-looking apple” to [...]

Big Words for Little People

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis
Publisher: Joanna Cotler

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I know some Big Words. I’ll teach them to you. Although you are small, you can use Big Words too.
Big Words aren’t scary. They’re big fun to learn. I was taught once and now it’s your turn.
The [...]

The Clique Summer Collection #2: Dylan (Clique Series)

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Poppy

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Game, Set, Match… Dylan? Dylan and her TV-host mom are off to Hawaii’s Aloha Tennis Open. While Merri-Lee interviews tennis’s wild child Svetlana “Tennis the Menace” Slootskyia, Dylan lets the tropical sun melt away the memory of getting dumped by two guys at the [...]

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Workbook

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Sean Covey
Publisher: Franklin Covey

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This hands-on personal workbook companion to the bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens provides engaging activities to help teens understand and apply the power of the 7 Habits. Sean Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens has sold more than 2 [...]

1-2-3 Magic for Kids: Helping Your Children Understand the New Rules

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Thomas W. Phelan, Tracy M. Lewis
Publisher: Parentmagic, Inc.

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By presenting the popular 1-2-3 Magic parenting program from a child’s point of view, this innovative guide provides kids with a thorough understanding of the disciplinary system—from the counting and time-out methods parents will be using to how better behavior [...]

Will I Have a Friend?

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Miriam Cohen
Publisher: Aladdin

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Library of Congress Children’s Book of the YearWhen Pa was taking Jim to school for the first time, Jim said, “Will I have a friend at school?” “I think you will,” said Pa.But even his father’s gentle reassurance doesn’t make Jim feel any better. The [...]

I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed (Charlie and Lola)

Rating: (27 reviews)
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Publisher: Candlewick

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It’s bedtime for Charlie and Lola, the hilarious siblings from I WILL NEVER NOT EVER EAT A TOMATO.
Night owl Lola likes to stay up coloring and scribbling and wriggling and bouncing and chattering. Lola never gets tired. How can big brother Charlie convince her it’s time [...]

All the Places to Love

Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Patricia Maclachlan
Publisher: Joanna Cotler

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Within the sanctuary of a loving family, baby Eli is born and, as he grows, “learns to cherish the people and places around him, eventualy passing on what he has discovered to his new baby sister, Sylvie: ‘All the places to love are here [...]