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The Thief Lord

October 30, 2008 – 11:22 am

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 [...]

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What Would You Do? (American Girl Library)

May 21, 2008 – 7:34 pm

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Patti Kelley Criswell
Publisher: American Girl

By admin | Posted in Ages 9-12 | Also tagged Abuse, Ages 9-12, All 4-for-3 Deals, American Girl, Archive, Binding (feature_browse-bin), Children's Books: Ages 9-12: General, Children's Books: People & Places: Social Issues: G, Classics, Custom Stores, Death & Dying, Dysfunctional Relationships, Emigrants & Immigrants, Format (binding), Homelessness & Poverty, Look Inside Children's Books, Mass Market, New Experiences, Paperback, Patti Kelley Criswell, People & Places, Prejudice & Racism, Printed Books, Promotion (special_merchandising_browse-bin), Series, Social Issues, Special Needs, Specialty Stores, Staff Favorites, Trade, Trip, Violence | Comments (5)

Words Are Not for Hurting

April 7, 2008 – 2:12 pm

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth Verdick
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Book Description
The older children get, the more words they know and can use-including hurtful words. This book teaches children to think before they speak, then choose what to say and how to say it. They learn that there is a connection between hurtful words [...]

By admin | Posted in Baby-3 | Also tagged Abuse, Administration, Adult & Continuing Education, Aging, Alternative Medicine, Archive, Asia, Africa & Pacifica, Audiobooks, Baby-3, Barney, Basic Concepts, Beauty & Fashion, Bedtime & Dreaming, Bilingual, Blue's Clues, Board Books, Boynton, Sandra, By Level, Canada & Mexico, Cancer, Carle, Eric, Children's Books: Baby-3: General, Children's Literature Guides, Classics, College & University, Conversation, Counseling, Curricula, Custom Stores, Death & Dying, Death & Grief, Diets & Weight Loss, Disorders & Diseases, Dysfunctional Relationships, Education, Education Theory, Elementary School, Elizabeth Verdick, Emigrants & Immigrants, Emotions & Feelings, Etiquette, Europe & Eurasia, Exercise & Fitness, Format (binding), Free Spirit Publishing, Funding, Goodnight Moon, Guess How Much I Love You, Health, Mind & Body, Health, Mind & Body: General, High School, Hoban, Tana, Homelessness & Poverty, Homeschooling, Instruction Method, Language Instruction, Large Print, Lesson Planning, Literacy, Manners, Mass Market, Men's Health, Mental Health, Middle Schools, Multicultural, New Experiences, Nonfiction, Nonfiction: Education: General, Nursery Rhymes, Nutrition, Paperback, Parent Participation, Pedagogy, People & Places, Personal Health, Peter Rabbit, Picture Books, Policy, Pop-Up & Movable, Prejudice & Racism, Preschool & Kindergarten, Professional & Technical, Professional & Technical: Education: General, Professional Development, Psychology & Counseling, Reading, Recovery, Reference, Relationships, Religious Education, Safety & First Aid, Scarry, Richard, Secondary School, Self-Help, Sesame Street, Sex, Social Issues, Social Situations, Special Education, Special Needs, Specialty Stores, Specific Skills, Standards, Study Skills, Technology & Distance Learning, Teletubbies, Theory, Thomas the Tank Engine, Trade, United States, Violence, Vocational, Winnie-the-Pooh, Women's Health | Comments (5)

Have You Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids

March 23, 2008 – 11:35 pm

Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Carol McCloud
Publisher: Ferne Press

Product Description
Through simple prose and vivid illustrations, this heartwarming book encourages positive behavior as children see how rewarding it is to express daily kindness, appreciation, and love. Bucket filling and dipping are effective metaphors for understanding the effects of our actions and words on the [...]

By admin | Posted in Ages 4-8 | Also tagged Abuse, Action & Adventure, Ages 4-8, All 4-for-3 Deals, Archive, Arthur, Books on Cassette, Carol McCloud, Children's Books: Ages 4-8: General, Children's Books: Literature: General, Children's Books: People & Places: Social Issues: G, Children's Literature Guides, Classic Books on CD, Classics, Custom Stores, Death & Dying, Dr. Seuss, Dysfunctional Relationships, Early Reader Series, Emigrants & Immigrants, Emotions & Feelings, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths, Ferne Press, Fiction, Format (binding), Friendship, Homelessness & Poverty, Humorous, Literary Criticism & Collections, Mass Market, New Experiences, Nonfiction, Paperback, People & Places, Picture Books, Poetry, Pokémon, Popular Culture, Prejudice & Racism, Promotion (special_merchandising_browse-bin), Read-Aloud, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror, Short Story Collections, Social Issues, Social Situations, Special Needs, Specialty Stores, Staff Favorites, Trade, Values, Violence | Comments (5)

Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie

November 14, 2007 – 7:41 am

Rating: (54 reviews)
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she’s trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system.But there’s something eerily beguiling [...]

By admin | Posted in Teens | Also tagged All 4-for-3 Deals, Drug Use & Abuse, Drugs, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Folk Tales & Myths, Holly Black, Issues, Literature & Fiction, Magic, Mystery & Horror, Mythology, Other, People & Places, Science Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Simon Pulse, Social Issues, Stores, Teens, World Literature | Comments (5)

Bud, Not Buddy

November 9, 2007 – 6:24 pm

Rating: (451 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Amazon.com
“It’s funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they’re just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then… woop, zoop, sloop… before you can say Jack Robinson, they’ve gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they [...]

By | Posted in Ages 9-12 | Also tagged Action & Adventure, Ages 9-12, All 4-for-3 Deals, Beverly, Carle, Carroll, Christopher, Christopher Paul, Christopher Paul Curtis, Cleary, Cole, Cooper, Cousins, Craig, Curtis, Eric, Family Life, Fiction, Helen, Joanna, Laurel Leaf, Lewis, Lucy, Matt, Paperback, Parents, People & Places, Social Issues, Stores, Susan | Comments (5)

My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics)

November 8, 2007 – 12:16 pm

Rating: (507 reviews)
Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: Puffin Books
Amazon.com
Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another; few get farther than the end of the block. Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going–all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There [...]

By admin | Posted in Ages 4-8 | Also tagged Action & Adventure, Ages 9-12, All 4-for-3 Deals, Fiction, George, Jean Craighead, Jean Craighead George, Nature, Nature & How It Works, People & Places, Puffin Books, Science, Social Issues, Stores | Comments (5)

The Runaway Bunny

November 6, 2007 – 9:21 pm

Rating: (119 reviews)
Author: Margaret Wise Brown
Publisher: HarperFestival
Product Description
This profoundly comforting story of a bunny’s imaginary game of hide-and-seek and the lovingly steadfast mother who finds him every time, has pictures redrawn by Clement Hurd for this new edition book. Author: Margaret Wise Brown Illustrator: Clement Hurd Publisher: Harper Collins
Amazon.com
Since its [...]

By | Posted in Baby-3 | Also tagged Ages 0-3 (Board Books), All 4-for-3 Deals, Animals, Baby-3, Board Books, Brown, Clement, Eric, Family Life, Fiction, HarperFestival, Henkes, Hill, Hoban, Howe, Hughes, Hurd, James, Kevin, Lillian, Margaret Wise, Margaret Wise Brown, Monica, Parents, People & Places, Rabbits, Social Issues, Stores | Comments (5)