Rating: (618 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
“Once there was a tree . . . and she loved a little boy.” So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein.
Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her [...]
Rating: (49 reviews)
Author: Tim McGraw, Tom Douglas
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Product Description
Ordinary days are magical when spent with those you love.
Dad and his little girl, along with their very large bloodhound, set off on an ordinary day and turn it into a wonderful adventure. From dancing by a duck pond to swinging [...]
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 [...]
Rating: (39 reviews)
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Product Description
When Jonas turns 12, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. Now, it’s time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis
Publisher: Joanna Cotler
Product Description
I know some Big Words. I’ll teach them to you. Although you are small, you can use Big Words too.
Big Words aren’t scary. They’re big fun to learn. I was taught once and now it’s your turn.
The [...]
Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Product Description
When Brother and Sister Bear accidentally break Mama’s favorite lamp, their little lie grows bigger and bigger, until Papa Bear helps them find the words that set everything right again.
Rating: (169 reviews)
Author: Max Lucado
Publisher: Crossway Books
Product Description
Every day the small wooden people called Wemmicks do the same thing: stick either gold stars or gray dots on one another. The pretty ones–those with smooth wood and fine paint–always get stars. The talented ones do, too. Others, though, who can do little [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: HarperFestival
Product Description
Papa Bear and the cubs are having some trouble with chores –– they don’t want to do them! When they decide to take a break from cleaning, Mama Bear plays along. But what will happen when the mess builds up . . . and up . [...]
Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Book Description
Raised in a religious — yet abusive — family, Pattyn Von Stratten starts asking questions — about God, a woman’s role, sex, love. She experiences the first stirrings of passion, but when her father catches her in a compromising position, events spiral out of [...]
Rating: (581 reviews)
Author: Shel Silverstein
Publisher: HarperCollins
Amazon.com
To say that this particular apple tree is a “giving tree” is an understatement. In Shel Silverstein’s popular tale of few words and simple line drawings, a tree starts out as a leafy playground, shade provider, and apple bearer for a rambunctious little boy. Making the [...]
Author: Steven Kroll
Publisher: CARTWHEEL BOOKS
Book Description
When Mrs. Mousely asks her class to make valentines, Clayton and Desmond decide to make one together and give it to their teacher as a surprise. But things don’t go as planned. First Clayton puts too much glitter on the card. Then Desmond puts on too many hearts. [...]
Rating: (25 reviews)
Author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Description
Everyone knows cookies taste good, but these cookies also have something good to say. Open this delectable book to any page and you will find out something about life. Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons is a new kind of dictionary, one that defines mysteries [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Patricia Mckissack
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Book Description
IT’S CHRISTMAS, AND NELLA is beside herself with excitement! She and her sisters have been given a real gift - a beautiful Baby Betty doll. But it’s hard to share something you’ve waited your whole seven-year-old life for, and Nella grabs the doll [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Stephanie Greene
Publisher: Greenwillow
Book Description
The pond at Stony Creek is perfect for ice skating, and a blanket of snow is on the ground. It’s almost Christmas. Pipsqueak wishes she could spend the days at the pond, then curl up in front of a glowing fire with her family. [...]
Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Book Description
Not everyone is lucky at Christmas. Some people would call 16-year-old Liz Kitchell and her family truly fortunate, but it doens’t feel that way to her. It seems that only a miracle can give 8-year-old Katie her holiday wish. She wants a family, [...]
Rating: (205 reviews)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Amazon.com
Playing on every teen’s passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The “New [...]
Rating: (38 reviews)
Author: Jay McGraw
Publisher: Fireside
Amazon.com
“Are you as tired as I am of books constantly telling you the same old Brady Bunch, Beaver Cleaver, goody-two-shoes BS about doing your best to understand your parents, doing your homework, making curfew, getting a haircut, dropping that hemline, and blah blah [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Carmela D’Amico
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Book Description
Ella the elephant is too little to slice the cake in her mother’s bakery, and the oven is absolutely off-limits. It feels like she can’t do ANYTHING important - until Ella’s mother needs help with an emergency cake delivery. Then Ella peddles [...]
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Betty G. Birney
Publisher: Aladdin
Book Description
Life in Sassafras Springs has always been predictable, boring even, but one afternoon that changes when Eben McAllister’s pa challenges him to find Seven Wonders in Sassafras that rival the real Seven Wonders of the World. The reward? An adventure that Eben’s been craving [...]
Rating: (32 reviews)
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis
Publisher: Joanna Cotler
Book Description
Is there really a human race?
Is it going on now all over the place?
When did it start?
Who said, “Ready, Set, Go”?
Did it start on my birthday?
I really must know.
With these [...]
Rating: (559 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: HarperCollins
Amazon.com
To say that this particular apple tree is a “giving tree” is an understatement. In Shel Silverstein’s popular tale of few words and simple line drawings, a tree starts out as a leafy playground, shade provider, and apple bearer for a rambunctious little boy. Making the boy [...]
Rating: (3023 reviews)
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Amazon.com
In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community’s Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he [...]