Rating: (60 reviews)
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Product Description
Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he’s never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who’s also adoped, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, “You are one of the missing.” The [...]
Rating: (80 reviews)
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Product Description
Tell me again about the night I was born.
Tell me again how you would adopt me and be my parents.
Tell me again about the first time you held me in your arms.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell, author and illustrator of the best-selling When I Was Little: [...]
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Jeff Brown
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Product Description
Stanley Lambchop is just a normal boy, with a normal younger brother named Arthur, and two normal parents. That is, until a bulletin board falls on him during the night and flattens him to half an inch thick! From this point on, Stanley will never again be just [...]
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Valerie Tripp
Publisher: American Girl
Rating: (23 reviews)
Author: Jeff Foxworthy
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
In this hilarious collection of poems, comedian Jeff Foxworthy creates a neighborhood filled with fun, family, friends, and more. Here you’ll meet Cousin Lizzy, Uncle Ed and Aunt Foo Foo, cows with horns that don’t go beep, dads in sweaters, also sheep. From the thrill of flying to [...]
Rating: (204 reviews)
Author: Kate Dicamillo
Publisher: Candlewick
Product Description
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. . . .
Kate [...]
Rating: (138 reviews)
Author: Thomas Rockwell
Publisher: Yearling
Amazon.com
How to Eat Fried Worms has happily repulsed children since its original publication in 1973. Now youngsters can experience this classic story in a whole new yucky way, by listening to it on audiocassette. Narrator Jay O. Sanders gives extra kick and vitality to this already lively yarn. He [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
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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 . . . and up?
Ages [...]
Rating: (3279 reviews)
Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Yearling
Amazon.com
“If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.” Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no happy [...]
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Publisher: Poppy
Product Description
Alicia takes on Mission Spalfa: Spanish Alpha! Back in Spain to visit her relatives, Alicia discovers that Spain’s newest pop sensation ¡Ignacio! is searching for a true Spanish beauty to star in his new hit-single video. She can’t believe her luck! If Alicia is cast as a true Spanish beauty, Massie will never [...]
Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Product Description
Ruby, where is your mother?
Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past few months, shes been on her own in the yellow house, managing somehow, knowing that her mother will probably never return.
Thats how she comes to live with Cora, the sister she hasnt seen [...]
Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Mike Lupica
Publisher: Philomel
Book Description
For Hutch, shortstop has always been home. It’s where his father once played professionally, before injuries relegated him to watching games on TV instead of playing them. And it’s where Hutch himself has always played and starred. Until now. The arrival of Darryl “D-Will” Williams, the top shortstop [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Trenton Lee Stewart
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Product Description
The fabulous foursome readers embraced as The Mysterious Benedict Society is back with a new mission, significantly closer to home. After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are forced to go on an unexpected search–a search to find Mr. [...]
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Publisher: Poppy
Product Description
Kristen sets sail on the Love Boat… With the rest of the Pretty Committee scattered across the globe, Kristen is stuck in summer school at OCD, making good on her scholarship commitments. No sleepover horse camp, no Hawaiian spa, no Spanish vacation, not even a trip to Orlando. But when Kristen scores a [...]
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Product Description
Hope is the thing with feathers starts the poem Frannie is reading in school. Frannie hasnt thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more holy. There is a new boy in class everyone [...]
Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Jane O’connor
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Product Description
There’s a new boy in school, and he’s from Paris. Nancy cannot believe her luck. But this Parisian may not be as fancy as Nancy expects!
Rating: (795 reviews)
Author: Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Product Description
For ages women have come together over coffee, cocktails, or late-night phone chats to analyze the puzzling behavior of men.
He’s afraid to get hurt again.
Maybe he doesn’t want to ruin the friendship.
Maybe he’s intimidated by me.
He just got out of a relationship.
Greg Behrendt and [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Mercer Mayer
Publisher: HarperFestival
Product Description
Little Critter is on a mission! After watching a film about climate changes at school, Little Critter decides to do his part to slow down global warming. With the help of his family and friends, Little Critter begins to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Together they learn about the [...]
Rating: (123 reviews)
Author: Angie Sage
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Product Description
The seventh son of the seventh son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he is born by a midwife who pronounces him dead. That same night, the baby’s father, Silas Heap, comes across a bundle in the snow containing a new born girl with [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Meg Cabot
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Product Description
When nine-year-old Allie Finkle’s parents announce that they are moving her and her brothers from their suburban split-level into an ancient Victorian in town, Allie’s sure her life is over. She’s not at all happy about having to give up her pretty pink wall-to-wall carpeting for creaky [...]
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 control. Pattyn is [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Angie Sage
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Product Description
When Silas Heap unSeals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she’s still up to no good. Her diabolical plan to give herself [...]
Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: John Grogan
Publisher: Collins
Product Description
Make way for Marley!
When the Grogan family is ready for a dog, they choose Marley, a yellow furball of a puppy who quickly grows into a large, rowdy Labrador retriever. Marley has a zest for life, and as he grows, so does his enthusiasm. He has an appetite [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Megan Mcdonald
Publisher: Candlewick
Product Description
“Stink is a delightful protagonist, and McDonald cleverly imparts information on smells. . . . A funny book for almost any collection.” — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
When Stink Moody’s second-grade class goes on a field trip to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum, he learns that his very [...]
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Publisher: Poppy
Book Description
Massie gets BE-yoo-tiful: After getting thrown out of horse camp, Massie’s parents force her to take on a summer job. Not one to walk strangers’ dogs or babysit, Massie stumbles upon the perfect position while flipping through Teen Vogue poolside-she’ll be a sales rep for be pretty, the high-end cosmetics brand that preaches [...]
Author: Jane O’Connor
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Description
Fancy Words Are Simply Fascinating!
From everyone’s favorite fancy girl comes an alphabetical guide to enhancing vocabulary. Why say beautiful when there are fancy words like gorgeous and glamorous? Instead of hello, try bonjour, which is French and so much fancier. An umbrella will keep you dry, but a parasol will make [...]
Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Book Description
When Mama Bear decides her family spends too much time in front of the TV, she bans it for a week. Then the Bear family finds other ways to have fun and keep busy, so they watch less when TV is [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Book Description
“When Mama Bear’s efforts to improve her family’s manners are unsuccessful, she devises a Politeness Plan–a chart listing a chore as a penalty for each act of rudeness. Basic etiquette is presented in a practical way. Berenstain illustrations add humor and [...]
Rating: (23 reviews)
Author: Anna Godbersen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Description
Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn.
Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions.
White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups.
This is Manhattan, 1899.
Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan’s social scene. Or so it appears. When the girls discover their status among New York City’s elite [...]
Rating: (61 reviews)
Author: Lori Lite
Publisher: Lori Lite
Product Description
Indigo Dreams is a 60 minute CD/audio book designed to entertain your child while introducing them to relaxation and stress-management techniques. Four unique bedtime stories incorporate breathing, visualizations, muscular relaxation and affirmations. These are the same techniques recommended for adults but presented in a fun, interactive format [...]
Rating: (7 reviews)
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Publisher: HarperTrophy
Book Description
When Gilbert writes two not-so-nice valentines to his classmates, his prank quickly turns into pandemonium. But there’s always time for a change of heart on Valentine’s Day.
Rating: (54 reviews)
Author: Melissa De La Cruz
Publisher: Hyperion
Book Description
When the Mayflower set sail in 1620, it carried on board the men and women who would shape America: Miles Standish; John Alden; Constance Hopkins. But some among the Pilgrims were not pure of heart; they were not escaping religious persecution. Indeed, they were not even [...]
Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Carrie A. Kitze
Publisher: EMK Press
Book Description
Family connections are vitally important to children as they begin to find their place in the world. For transracial and transcultural adoptees, domestic adoptees, and for children in foster care or kinship placements, celebrating the differences within their families as well as the similarities that connect [...]
Rating: (23 reviews)
Author: Patti Henderson
Publisher: Golden Books
Book Description
Every night before she goes to sleep, a kangaroo prays under the stars for a baby to love and hold. One day, as she rests under a tree, a baby bird falls out of its crowded nest—plop!—right into her pouch!
Now, every night before they fall asleep, Momma-Roo [...]
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Craig Hatkoff, Juliana Hatkoff, Isabella Hatkoff, Dr. Gerald R. Uhlich
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Book Description
When Knut was born, the first polar bear cub at the Berlin Zoo in more than thirty years, he was no bigger than a snowball and unable to care for himself. His mother, a rescued East German circus bear, [...]
Rating: (179 reviews)
Author: Sean Covey
Publisher: Fireside
Amazon.com
Based on his father’s bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Sean Covey applies the same principles to teens, using a vivacious, entertaining style. To keep it fun, Covey writes, he “stuffed it full of cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all [...]
Rating: (71 reviews)
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis
Publisher: Joanna Cotler
Book Description
Tell me again about the night I was born . . Tell me again how you would adopt me and be my parents… Tell me again about the first time you held me in your arms . .
In asking her mother and father to tell her [...]
