Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Neal Shusterman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
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In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would “unwind” themConnor’s parents want to be rid of him because he’s a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to [...]
Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Barbara O’Connor
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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Half of me was thinking, Georgina, don’t do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. The other half of me was thinking, Georgina, you’re in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out [...]
Rating: (101 reviews)
Author: Deborah Howe, James Howe
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
BEWARE THE HARE!Is he or isn’t he a vampire?Before it’s too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household — a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits…and fangs!
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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 [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
“Hut! Hut! Go long, Tiki!”Tiki and Ronde’s twelfth summer is winding down — the nights are gettingshorter and the evenings cooler. That means two things: The first day of junior high is just a few days away, and it’s almost the start of [...]
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Linda Ward Beech
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Product Description
Teachers can build word power with these 24 ready-to-reproduce, 3-page lessons. Each lesson is packed with fun, research-based activities that help students to explore roots, prefixes, and suffixes; use students’ prior knowledge for greater understanding.
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Michael Buckley
Publisher: Amulet Books
Product Description
The Grimms take Manhattan in the fourth book in the New York Times bestselling series! When fairy-tale detectives Sabrina and Daphne Grimm venture back to the big city to help a friend, they land in the middle of a big mystery. Puck’s father, King [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Stephanie S. Tolan
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Product Description
Learning to walk again is the easy part.
For twelve-year-old Charley, recovering from the accident that shattered her leg is nowhere near as difficult as facing the solitude of a summer without her best friend and with a father who does nothing, now, but work. [...]
Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Richard M. Hannula
Publisher: Canon Press
Product Description
“Thus says the LORD: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls“(Jer. 6:16). Christianity is a faith in love with history. God [...]
Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth Payne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Product Description
For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was a great civilization that thrived along the banks of the Nile River. But when its cities crumbled to dust, Egypt’s culture and the secrets of its hieroglyphic writings were also lost. The Pharaohs [...]
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 childs rescue in a convenience store, and for the first time, he feels a glimmer of hope. When, amazingly, Murdoch [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Dan Kennedy, Randall I. Charles, Sadie Chavis Bragg
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Alfaguara
Product Description
Legions of readers entranced by the New York Times bestseller Twilight won’t be disappointed by this gripping sequel. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. Passionate, riveting, and deeply moving, this vampire love saga is [...]
Author: Christopher Paolini
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Product Description
WITH THE HIGHLY anticipated publication of Book Three in the Inheritance cycle, the hardcover editions of all three books will be available in a handsome boxed set!
Rating: (71 reviews)
Author: Cynthia Lord
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
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Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She’s spent years trying to teach David the rules from “a peach is not a funny-looking apple” to [...]
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: TokyoPop
Product Description
Sasha has everything she wants: kind housefolk who take care of her during the day and the freedom to explore the woods beyond Twolegplace at night. But when Sasha is forced to leave her home, she must forge a solitary new life in the forest. [...]
Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: James Thurber
Publisher: NYR Children’s Collection
Product Description
Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn’t go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
Product Description
The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SAT Literature Subject Test is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about literature–only the techniques and information you’ll need to maximize your score. In [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books
Product Description
Combines full-color maps and data sets to introduce students to the importance of the connections between geography and other areas of study. The thematic atlas gives students a clear picture of the recent agricultural, industrial, demographic, environmental, economic and political changes [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Product Description
Praise for A People’s History of the United States:
“Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves. There are vivid [...]
Rating: (12 reviews)
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Publisher: Poppy
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Game, Set, Match… Dylan? Dylan and her TV-host mom are off to Hawaii’s Aloha Tennis Open. While Merri-Lee interviews tennis’s wild child Svetlana “Tennis the Menace” Slootskyia, Dylan lets the tropical sun melt away the memory of getting dumped by two guys at the [...]
Rating: (32 reviews)
Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: HarperTeen
Product Description
Elena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants.
Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt [...]
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 [...]
Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Fiona Watt
Publisher: Usborne Books
Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Brandon Mull
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Product Description
In the third volume, the peril escalates as an unexplained darkness infects the creatures of Fablehaven.
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Eoin Colfer
Publisher: Miramax
Product Description
Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilization underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. All [...]
Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Sean Covey
Publisher: Franklin Covey
Product Description
This hands-on personal workbook companion to the bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens provides engaging activities to help teens understand and apply the power of the 7 Habits. Sean Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens has sold more than 2 [...]