Tag Archives: Puffin

Just Listen

Rating: (121 reviews)
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Puffin

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when Annabel, the youngest of three beautiful sisters, has a bitter falling out with her best friend—the popular and exciting Sophie—she suddenly finds herself isolated and friendless. but then she meets owen—a loner, passionate about music and his weekly radio show, and always determined to [...]

Eagle Strike (Alex Rider)

Rating: (94 reviews)
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Puffin

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Sir Damian Cray is a philanthropist, peace activist, and the world’s most famous pop star. But still it’s not enough. He needs more if he is to save the world. Trouble is, only Alex Rider recognizes that it’s the world that needs saving from Sir [...]

The BFG

Rating: (330 reviews)
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Puffin

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Luckily for Sophie, the BFG is nothing like his neighbors, whose favorite pastime is guzzling little children.
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Evidently not even Roald Dahl could resist the acronym craze of the early eighties. BFG? Bellowing ferret-faced golfer? Backstabbing fairy godmother? Oh, oh … [...]

The Alex Rider Collection (Alex Rider)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Puffin

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The first three thrilling Alex Rider adventures, packaged together in a deluxe box set! Anthony Horowitz’s New York Times bestselling series is the gold standard for modern action-adventure novels, and these first three edge-of-your-seat novels— Stormbreaker, Point Blank, and Skeleton Key—are must-haves for every Alex [...]

Scorpia (Alex Rider Adventure)

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

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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, [...]

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 [...]

Snakehead (Alex Rider)

Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
When Alex Rider crash-lands off the coast of Australia, the Australian Secret Service recruits him to infiltrate one of the ruthless gangs operating across Southeast Asia. Known as snakeheads, the gangs smuggle drugs, weapons, and worst of all, people. Alex accepts the assignment, in part [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten (Miss Bindergarten Books)

Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Joseph Slate
Publisher: Puffin

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On the first day of kindergarten, Miss Bindergarten must prepare her classroom for her beloved students. This noble, whimsical teacher greets her dark, summertime-empty classroom with an explosion of color–a bouquet of fall leaves, a goldfish, rolled-up posters, and shoeboxes full of no-doubt-delightful surprises. Meanwhile, her [...]

Blueberries for Sal (Picture Puffins)

Rating: (86 reviews)
Author: Robert McCloskey
Publisher: Puffin

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Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk go the blueberries into the pail of a little girl named Sal who–try as she might–just can’t seem to pick as fast as she eats. Robert McCloskey’s classic is a magical tale of the irrepressible curiosity–not to mention appetite–of youth. Sal and her [...]

Heat

Rating: (65 reviews)
Author: Mike Lupica
Publisher: Puffin

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Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family’s escape from Cuba, Michael’s only family is his seventeen-yearold brother Carlos. If [...]

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Puffin

Book Description
The United States is at war, and sixteen-year-old Ned Begay wants to join the cause—especially when he hears that Navajos are being specifically recruited by the Marine Corps. So he claims he’s old enough to enlist, breezes his way through boot camp, and suddenly finds [...]

How to Lose All Your Friends (Picture Puffins)

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Nancy Carlson
Publisher: Puffin

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Rating: (163 reviews)
Author: Judy Blume
Publisher: Puffin

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Passed on from babysitters to their young charges, from big sisters to little brothers, and from parents to children, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and its cousins (Superfudge, Fudge-a-mania, and Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great) have entertained children since they first appeared in the [...]

Miss Rumphius

Rating: (56 reviews)
Author: Barbara Cooney
Publisher: Puffin

The Outsiders

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: SE Hinton
Publisher: Puffin

Ark Angel (Alex Rider)

Rating: (62 reviews)
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
The sniper’s bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive . . . just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has [...]

Bunny Cakes (Max and Ruby)

Rating: (18 reviews)
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Publisher: Puffin

The Ruins of Gorlan (The Ranger’s Apprentice, Book 1)

Rating: (80 reviews)
Author: John Flanagan
Publisher: Puffin

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Ranger’s Apprentice #1: Ruins of Gorlan by Penguin FUN

The Snowy Day

Rating: (73 reviews)
Author: Ezra Jack Keats
Publisher: Puffin

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The Snowy Day, a 1963 Caldecott Medal winner, is the simple tale of a boy waking up to discover that snow has fallen during the night. Keats’s illustrations, using cut-outs, watercolors, and collage, are strikingly beautiful in their understated color and composition. [...]

A Midnight Clear: Family Christmas Stories

Author: Katherine Paterson
Publisher: Puffin

The Wounded Buzzard on Christmas Eve #13 (Hank the Cowdog)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: John R. Erickson
Publisher: Puffin

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Rating: (140 reviews)
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Puffin

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“There has obviously been some kind of mistake,” writes Alexander T. Wolf from the pig penitentiary where he’s doing time for his alleged crimes of 10 years ago. Here is the “real” story of the three little pigs whose houses are huffed and puffed to [...]

Christmas City: A Look Again Book

Rating: (4 reviews)
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Publisher: Puffin

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On Christmas Eve, Tommy receives an invitation from his aunt Jeanne. Before long, he’s on his way to a bustling city where it’s Christmas every day of the year! Now Tommy has to follow his aunt’s rhyming notes through the streets and squares of Christmas City [...]