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Hello, Harvest Moon

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Ralph Fletcher
Publisher: Clarion Books

Product Description
While tired farmers and their families are in bed, the harvest moon silently climbs into the sky and starts working its magic. For some, it is the nightly signal to rise and shine. It is time to hunt, to work, or to play in the shadows. For [...]

The Sorcerer of the North: Book Five

Rating: (44 reviews)
Author: John Flanagan
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
Several years have passed since the apprentice and his master, Will and Halt, first met, and Will is finally a full-fledged Ranger with his own fief to look after. The fief seems sleepy-boring, even-until Lord Syron, master of a castle far in the north, is struck down by [...]

The Graveyard Book

Rating: (386 reviews)
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.
He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.
There [...]

The Black Stallion Returns

Rating: (29 reviews)
Author: Walter Farley
Publisher: Yearling

Product Description
In this, the second book in the series, the heart-stopping adventures of the Black Stallion continue as Alec discovers that two men are after the Black. One claims to be the Black’s rightful owner and one is trying to kill the beautiful steed. An Arab chieftain proves his [...]

Summer Bridge Activities: 7th to 8th Grades

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Hobbs Ann Julia
Publisher: Rainbow Bridge Publishing (UT)

Product Description
NEW and Improved Summer Bridge Activities for 2006!
This year the bestselling summer workbook features new covers, new activities, new reading lists, updated bonus sections, and a whole lot more to give kids a summer learning experience they won’t forget! Designed to keep kids busy, [...]

The City of Ember (Books of Ember)

Rating: (498 reviews)
Author: Jeanne DuPrau
Publisher: Yearling

Product Description
NOW A MAJOR motion picture starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Saoirse Ronan, and Harry Treadaway! This tie-in edition of The City of Ember features a movie-art cover and an 8-page photo insert. Jeanne DuPrau’s instant classic tells the story of the great, underground city of Ember, [...]

The Black Stallion’s Ghost (Black Stallion)

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Walter Farley
Publisher: Yearling

Product Description
While riding the Black in the Everglades one day, Alec meets a man astride a ghostly gray mare. Alec’s fascination with the man turns to fear as he realizes the man is dangerously close to insanity. Soon Alec and the Black are caught up in a deadly chase [...]

The Black Stallion’s Courage

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Walter Farley
Publisher: Yearling

Product Description
When Hopeful Farm burns down, Alec’s dreams for the future go up in smoke. How can he get the money to rebuild? To make matters worse, a strong young colt named Eclipse has taken the racing world by storm, threatening to replace the Black in the hearts of [...]

Stories: All-New Tales

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: William Morrow

Product Description

“The joy of fiction is the joy of the imagination. . . .”

The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: “And then what happened?” The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, [...]

The Fairy Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm, Book 1) (Bk. 1)

Rating: (81 reviews)
Author: Michael Buckley
Publisher: Amulet

Product Description
Nancy Drew meets Shrek in this funny, exciting new series of mysteries set in a community of fairy-tale characters. In the first book, The Sisters Grimm (Book One): The Fairy-Tale Detectives, we meet Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, two seeming orphans from New York City, who have been sent [...]

Perfect Chemistry

Rating: (89 reviews)
Author: Simone Elkeles
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers

Product Description

A fresh, urban twist on the classic tale of star-crossed lovers.
When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created “perfect” life is about to unravel before her eyes. She’s forced to [...]