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Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who’s Boss

November 27, 2008 – 9:03 pm

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Danica McKellar
Publisher: Hudson Street Press

Product Description
From the author of the runaway bestseller Math Doesn’t Suck, the next step in the math curriculum– pre-Algebra. Last year, actress and math genius Danica McKellar made waves nationwide, challenging the “math nerd” stereotype—and giving girls the tools to ace tests and homework [...]

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Oh, David!

November 23, 2008 – 10:55 pm

Rating: (30 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Blue Sky Press

Product Description
Oh, David! What have you done now?! Whether it’s time to get dressed, eat breakfast, or go to sleep, this youngster can always find a way to make a little trouble. But no matter what David does, his mother truly loves him–and children will, [...]

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Old Bear

November 21, 2008 – 4:01 am

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Kevin Henkes
Publisher: Greenwillow

Product Description
Snug and warm, curled and furry, Old Bear sleeps.
Red, orange, and brown leaves fly through the air, and it is snowing hard. Old Bear doesn’t notice.
Old Bear is dreaming about being a cub again. He is dreaming about the beauty [...]

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Science Fair

November 18, 2008 – 6:08 am

Author: Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson
Publisher: Disney Editions

Product Description
Grdankl the Strong, president of Kprshtskan, is plotting to take over the American government. His plan is to infiltrate the science fair at Hubble Middle School, located in a Maryland suburb just outside Washington. The rich kids at Hubble cheat by buying their projects every year, [...]

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World of the Microscope (Science & Experiments Series)

November 17, 2008 – 8:56 pm

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Corinne Stockley, Chris Oxlade
Publisher: E.D.C. Publishing

Product Description
World of the Microscope [Book Series: Science Experiments] Educational Development Book A fascinating, hands-on introduction to using microscopes, this book is packed with exciting projects which reveal the amazing detail of the world around us. Illustrated, step-by-step instructions for techniques such as [...]

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What’s Going on Down There?: Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask

November 13, 2008 – 12:47 pm

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 [...]

By admin | Posted in Teens | Also tagged 4-for-3 Books, 4-for-3 Books Store, Abuse, Age Range (age_range), Ages 12-16, All 4-for-3 Deals, Binding (binding), Boys & Men, Chava Castro, Custom Stores, Dating & Intimacy, Education, Format (feature_browse-bin), General AAS, Health, Health, Mind & Body, Karen Gravelle, Mass Market, Maturing, Nick Castro, Nonfiction, Paperback, People & Places, Printed Books, Professional & Technical, Promotion (special_merchandising_browse-bin), Refinements, Robert Leighton, Social Issues, Specialty Stores, Teens, Trade, Walker & Co, Walker Books for Young Readers | Comments (5)

What the World Eats

November 12, 2008 – 2:10 pm

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 [...]

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

November 10, 2008 – 6:12 pm

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 [...]

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

November 5, 2008 – 1:15 pm

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 [...]

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

November 4, 2008 – 8:19 pm

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 [...]

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Where’s My Stuff?: The Ultimate Teen Organizing Guide

October 31, 2008 – 12:07 am

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 [...]

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Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden

October 24, 2008 – 5:22 pm

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: George Levenson
Publisher: Tricycle Press

Product Description
Tricycle Press is proud to present two new editions of the critically acclaimed Pumpkin Circle. Pumpkin seedlings grow, sprout, bud, and bloom, offering up their golden fruit, then break down into rich soil from which seeds sprout again—a circle without end. The skillfully translated [...]

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Fire Eternal (Dragon)

October 12, 2008 – 12:45 am

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Chris D’Lacey
Publisher: Orchard Books

Product Description
Five years have passed since David Rain, now a bestselling author, disappeared mysteriously in the Artic. Slowly the ice is changing; bears are starving; dragons are rising; and the spirit Gaia, goddess of the Earth, is restless, wanting to act upon these changes. But [...]

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40 Fabulous Math Mysteries Kids Can’t Resist (Grades 4-8)

October 11, 2008 – 4:47 pm

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Marcia Miller, Martin Lee
Publisher: Teaching Resources

Product Description
Humorous, reproducible math mystery stories will give your math sleuths a chance to have fun while practicing important math problem solving skills. They’re just perfect for classwork and homework and help you meet the NCTM standards. For use with Grades 4-8.

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The Way We Work

October 8, 2008 – 10:18 pm

Author: David Macaulay
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books

Product Description
In this comprehensive and entertaining resource, David Macaulay reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he could. In order to present this complicated subject in an accurate and entertaining way, he put in years of research. He sat in on anatomy classes, dissections, [...]

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Algebra 1: An Incremental Development

September 28, 2008 – 10:47 pm

Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: John H., Jr. Saxon
Publisher: Saxon Publishers

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Prentice Hall Mathematics: Algebra 2

September 21, 2008 – 5:58 pm

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Dan Kennedy, Randall I. Charles, Sadie Chavis Bragg
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall

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The Periodic Table

September 13, 2008 – 5:07 pm

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Adrian Dingle, Simon Basher
Publisher: Kingfisher

Product Description
The Periodic Table introduces budding chemists to the world of the elements as it’s never been seen before. Designed to resemble popular networking Web sites, the pages of this book feature “homepages” for each of the chemical elements — complete with witty and [...]

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Math Curse

August 26, 2008 – 2:14 am

Rating: (57 reviews)
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

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Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes till the bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of [...]

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The Construction Alphabet Book

August 23, 2008 – 1:59 am

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Jerry Pallotta
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing

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Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! (Bright & Early Books(R))

August 23, 2008 – 1:44 am

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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Oh, why won’t Marvin K. Mooney just please go now? In this 1972 classic for “beginning beginners,” Dr. Seuss devotes his rhymes to budging the reluctant young Marvin K.: “The time has come. The time is now. Just go. Go. [...]

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A Tree Is Nice

August 22, 2008 – 11:23 pm

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Janice May Udry
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Product Description
Trees are beautiful. They fill up the sky. If you have a tree, you can climb up its trunk, roll in its leaves, or hang a swing from one of its limbs. Cows and babies can nap in the shade of a tree. Birds [...]

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Measuring Penny

August 22, 2008 – 1:16 pm

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Loreen Leedy
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

Product Description
Lisa has an important homework assignment–to measure something in several different ways. She has to use standard units like inches and nonstandard units like paper clips to find out height, width, length, weight, volume, temperature, and time. Lisa decides to measure [...]

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar: board book & CD

August 22, 2008 – 1:04 pm

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Philomel

Product Description
Eric Carles The Very Hungry Caterpillar is now available for the first time in a new, oversized board book format, perfect for storytime or for playtime. Plus, as an added bonus, it includes a CD of Eric Carle reading his classic story. This fine audio production [...]

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Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail

August 17, 2008 – 8:33 am

Rating: (83 reviews)
Author: Danica McKellar
Publisher: Plume

Product Description
The runaway national bestseller, now in paperback

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Modern Biology

August 13, 2008 – 8:01 am

Author: Postlethwait and Hopson
Publisher: Holt Rinehart and Winston

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Geometry: Prentice Hall Mathematics

August 13, 2008 – 1:02 am

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Laurie E. Bass, Allan Bellman, Sadie Chavis Bragg, Randall I. Charles, David M. Davison, William G. Handlin, Art Johnson, Paul A. Kennedy, Landau, McCracken, Thompson
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall

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Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

August 5, 2008 – 9:48 am

Rating: (82 reviews)
Author: Nic Sheff
Publisher: Ginee Seo Books

Product Description
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able [...]

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Planes Board Book (Byron Board Books)

July 30, 2008 – 8:17 am

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: HarperFestival

Product Description
Children explore the many ways we use airplanes, from seaplanes to crop dusters to planes that write messages in the sky. This very simple picture book about transportation ‘will delight the youngest, and have enough meat for older preschoolers and beginning readers.’ — K.

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James Herriot’s Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small

July 23, 2008 – 1:43 am

Rating: (29 reviews)
Author: James Herriot
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Product Description
James Herriot’s Treasury for Children collects all of the beloved veterinarian’s delightful tales for young readers. From the springtime frolic of Oscar, Cat-About-Town to the yuletide warmth of The Christmas Day Kitten, these stories-radiantly illustrated by Peter Barrett and Ruth Brown-are perennial favorites, [...]

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Grapes Of Math (bkshelf) (Scholastic Bookshelf)

July 19, 2008 – 2:48 pm

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Greg Tang
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

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How is it possible to count a complicated pattern of strawberry seeds or grapes on a vine or camel humps–in a blink of an eye? If children can open their minds to new ways of perceiving math, anything is possible! Greg Tang [...]