Tag Archives: Printed Books

Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Product Description
Goodnight monsters everywhere, in this parody romp with its own special twist!
“Goodnight tomb. Goodnight goon. Goodnight Martians taking over the moon.”
It’s bedtime in the cold gray tomb with a black lagoon, and two slimy claws, and a couple of jaws, and a skull [...]

Irresistible Attraction: Secrets of Personal Magnetism

Rating: (54 reviews)
Author: Kevin Hogan, Mary Lee Labay
Publisher: Network 3000

Product Description
People form their first impression of you in three to four seconds! This book reveals to you the hidden secrets of attraction and charisma. You will learn to maximize your hidden and natural attributes to create an instant [...]

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 [...]

Cracking the SSAT & ISEE, 2009 Edition (Private Test Prep)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SSAT and ISEE exams is very different from getting straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about English and math–only what you’ll need to score higher on the exam. [...]

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 [...]

I Can Draw People (Usborne Playtime)

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Ray Gibson, Fiona Watt
Publisher: Usborne Books

Kaplan 12 Practice Tests for the SAT, 2009 Edition (Kaplan 12 Practice Tests for the Sat)

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Kaplan
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing

Product Description
Includes the most SAT practice available with:*12 full-length practice exams*Over 600 math grid-ins and multiple-choice questions*Over 800 sentence completion and reading comprehension questions*Over 500 writing multiple-choice questions*Complete answer explanations*12 essay prompts, model essays, and a guide to self-grading

Crime and Punishment

Rating: (37 reviews)
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher: Vintage

Product Description
With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky’s classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. “The best (translation) [...]

Final Battle (Bionicle Legends)

Author: Greg Farshtey
Publisher: Scholastic

Product Description

When this final battle is over, everything in the BIONICLE universe will have changed forever.
The Toa Nuva face off against the Brotherhood of Makuta in a final battle to awaken the Great Spirit Mata Nui. But when the battle is over, the Toa make a terrible discovery: Makuta [...]

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 [...]

Fire Star (Dragon Trilogy)

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Chris D’lacey
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Product Description
In the thrilling third book in Chris d’Lacey’s popular series, David Rain is faced with a perilous task. ICEFIRE’s evil sibyl Gwilanna is back, this time determined to resurrect the dragon Gawain on the ice cap of the Tooth of Ragnar. Can David and [...]

Multiplication 0 to 12 Flash Cards (Brighter Child Flash Cards)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: School Specialty Publishing
Publisher: Brighter Child

Product Description
Brighter Child Multiplication 0 to 12 Flash Cards offer children a fun and easy way to practice their multiplication skills. Featuring [...]

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?

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

Product Description
“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 [...]

Leaf Man (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Younger Readers (Awards))

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Lois Ehlert
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books

Product Description
Fall has come, the wind is gusting, and Leaf Man is on the move. Is he drifting east, over the marsh and ducks and geese? Or is he heading west, above the orchards, prairie meadows, and spotted cows? No one’s quite sure, but [...]

My Big Dinosaur Book (My Big Board Books)

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Roger Priddy
Publisher: Priddy Books

Product Description
Series sold over 3 million. Big board book ideal for babies and toddlers. Stunning large format brings images to life. Helps build a child’s vocabulary.

Gingerbread Friends

Rating: (3 reviews)
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Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Product Description
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.” [...]

Sugar Plum Ballerinas #1: Plum Fantastic (Sugar Plum Ballerinas)

Author: Whoopi Goldberg, Deborah Underwood
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

Product Description
Alexandrea Petrakova Johnson does not want to be a beautiful ballerina, and she does not want to leave her friends in Apple Creek. Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop her ballet-crazy mother from moving them to Harlem, or from enrolling Al at the Nutcracker School of [...]

The Diamond of Darkhold: The Fourth Book of Ember (Books of Ember)

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Jeanne Duprau
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
It’s been several months since Lina and Doon escaped the dying city of Ember and, along with the rest of their people, joined the town of Sparks. Now, struggling through the harsh winter aboveground, they find an unusual book. Torn [...]

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, [...]

Scorpia (Alex Rider Adventure)

Rating: (108 reviews)
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
Alex Rider, teen spy, has always been told he is the spitting image of the father he never knew. But when Alex learns that his father may have been an assassin for the most lethal and powerful terrorist organization in the world, [...]

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 [...]

Presidential Material Flipbook: Barack Obama and John McCain (Presidential Material)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Andrew Helfer, Jeff Mariotte, Stephen Thompson, Tom Morgan
Publisher: Idea & Design Works Llc

Product Description
In the vein of great biography comics from years past (Pope John Paul?II,?St. Francis of Assisi), come two biographies of the 2008 Presidential candidates. This year?s presidential primary season was historic for many reasons, and?Barack [...]

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 Alchemy of Animation: Making an Animated Film in the Modern Age

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Don Hahn
Publisher: Disney Editions

Product Description
The Alchemy of Animation: Making an Animated Film in the Modern Age is a step-by-step introduction to animated filmmaking from one of the foremost producers of animated features. By drawing (sorry!) upon more than seven decades of Disney’s classic and beloved animated films, this [...]

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 Usborne Book of Face Painting (How to Make)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Chris Caudron, Caro Childs, Cheryl Evans
Publisher: Usborne Books

Product Description
With the tips in this book, children can transform people into animals, monsters, clowns and vampires, or decorate their faces with beautiful flowers or exotic scenes. Easy-to-follow instructions and helpful techniques mean that even beginners can achieve impressive results.

Samantha: An American Girl (The American Girls Collection/Boxed Set)

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Susan S. Adler
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc

Product Description
The American Girls Collection. This is Samantha. There are 6 books about Samantha and her family and friends.

How to Do Homework Without Throwing Up

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Trevor Romain
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Product Description
“Everybody who goes to school does homework. You are not alone. And they feel just as sick as you do when they have to do it.” Trevor Romain knows how horrible homework can be, and kids will see this right away as they [...]

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 [...]

Untamed: A House of Night Novel (House of Night Novels)

Rating: (30 reviews)
Author: PC Cast, Kristin Cast
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

Product Description
Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you. Just ask Zoey Redbird – she’s become an expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a close group of friends [...]