Tag Archives: Refinements

The Chronicles of Narnia

Rating: (1014 reviews)
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil — what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 [...]

Summer of the Monkeys

Rating: (113 reviews)
Author: Wilson Rawls
Publisher: Yearling

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The last thing a fourteen-year-old boy expects to find along an old Ozark river bottom is a tree full of monkeys. Jay Berry Lee’s grandpa had an explanation, of course–as he did for most things. The monkeys had escaped from a traveling circus, and there [...]

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 [...]

ARTLAB: Car Design Studio (Artlab)

Author: Frank M. Young
Publisher: Smart Lab

Product Description
This all-inclusive art kit puts young gearheads behind the wheel of their dream car! Kids will learn how to illustrate customized cars using a light table, colored pencils, acetate overlays printed with simple traceable outlines of car silhouettes and 95 traceable “cling” accessory add-ons. Includes instructions for [...]

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. [...]

Decorative Tile Designs Coloring Book

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Marty Noble
Publisher: Dover Publications

Product Description
The decorative richness and structure of tiles make them ideal coloring subjects. These striking renderings, adapted from Spanish, Islamic, and other cultures from around the world, burst with elegant florals, geometrics, and intricate, repeating patterns. 30 illustrations.

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 [...]

The Doll People

Rating: (70 reviews)
Author: Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin, HPFC
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

Product Description
Annabelle Doll is eight years old-she has been for more than a hundred years. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the dollhouse, with the same doll family, day after day, year after year. . . [...]

Felicity Mini Doll (American Girl Collections)

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc

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 [...]

CLEP Official Study Guide 2009 (Clep Official Study Guide)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: The College Board
Publisher: College Board

Product Description
Every year, students save countless hours and dollars through the College-Level Examination Program (R) (CLEP (R)).  CLEP examinations allow students to demonstrate college-level knowledge, for which they can earn credit at more than 2,900 colleges and universities.  The CLEP Official Student Guide 2009, [...]

What the World Eats

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Peter Menzel, Faith D’Aluisio
Publisher: Tricycle Press

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Book Description
Every day, millions of families around the world gather–at the table or on the floor, in a house or outdoors–to eat together. Ever wondered what a typical meal is like on the other side of the world? Or next door? Cultural [...]

The Moon Shines Down

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Margaret Wise Brown
Publisher: Thomas Nelson

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The Moon Shines Down
by Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrated by Linda Bleck 
Forgotten for decades in a dusty, tucked-away trunk, The Moon Shines Down brings to life once more the unmistakable voice of Margaret Wise Brown. This soon-to-be classic allows a whole new generation of children [...]

The Night Before Christmas (Little Golden Book)

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

Everyone Poops (My Body Science Series) (My Body Science Series)

Rating: (205 reviews)
Author: Taro Gomi
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Pub

Product Description
“Everyone Poops by Taro Gomi is part biology textbook, part sociological treatise and all celebration of a very natural process. Both my daughters begged me to read the book over and over again. They marveled at the enormity of the elephant’s poop and [...]

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.