Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Kandy Radzinski
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Product Description
Proving that cats dont have the last word when it comes to making Christmas lists, author and artist Kandy Radzinski returns this holiday season with the canine companion book to last years favorite, What Cats Want for Christmas.
Using witty poems and winsome illustrations, What Dogs Want [...]
Author: Irene Smalls
Publisher:
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Anticipating the wonderful Johnkankus parade on Christmas day, a young slave girl, Irene Jennie, is saddened that she cannot share the festivities with her parents, who have been loaned to another plantation master.
Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Julie Stiegemeyer
Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
Product Description
Many parents and teachers struggle with how to approach the Saint Nicholas/Santa Claus dilemma. Many deal with this by telling children that the legends surrounding Santa Claus are based on a real, hi
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc.
Product Description
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the reader fully appreciate the beauty and humor of Dickens’s work.
In his “Ghostly little book,” Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world’s most adapted [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Carolyn Marsden
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Product Description
Gloria always spends Christmas with Papi, Mama, and Nana. But this Christmas, Papi is away picking oranges and Mama has to work at the hotel where she is a maid. Gloria is miserable when Mama makes her go with her-until they get to the hotel with its [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Pat Mora
Publisher: Clarion Books
Product Description
An award-winning author and a rising star artist have put a festive Latino twist on “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” populating it with piñatas in place of partridges, plus burritos bailando (dancing donkeys), lunitas cantando (singing moons), and much more, all displayed in the most vivid colors [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: The College Board
Publisher: College Board
Product Description
The College Board–maker of the SAT (R)–provides the only pager-per-day calendar with Official SAT practice questions. Every day, students can practice with a question just like the ones on the SAT and PSAT/NMSQT (R). The calendar features 365 questions (one per page); critical reading, writing, and [...]
Author: Jessica Blatt
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Product Description
Suze Orman advises women on how to handle their money–and now Jessica Blatt advises the women of tomorrow on how to handle theirs. The newest addition to the Teen Girl’s Gotta-Have-It series empowers girls by showing them why money matters. From making money, to saving money, to investing money, to spending [...]
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 always cold. His [...]
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 Cracking the SAT [...]
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 in every world region. [...]
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 his past.
Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven [...]
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 informative profiles written [...]
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 the fairy families [...]
Rating: (90 reviews)
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Vision
Product Description
There’s one last chance to save the world in the third book in the Maximum Ride series, SAVING THE WORLD AND OTHER EXTREME SPORTS. The time has arrived for Max and her winged “flock” to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover [...]
Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Product Description
Set in North Dakota at a time in this century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust between people erode [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Miriam Cohen
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
Library of Congress Children’s Book of the Year
When Pa was taking Jim to school for the first time, Jim said, “Will I have a friend at school?” “I think you will,” said Pa.
But even his father’s gentle reassurance doesn’t make Jim feel any better. The other children in [...]
Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Patricia Maclachlan
Publisher: Joanna Cotler
Product Description
Within the sanctuary of a loving family, baby Eli is born and, as he grows, “learns to cherish the people and places around him, eventualy passing on what he has discovered to his new baby sister, Sylvie: ‘All the places to love are here . . . [...]
Rating: (47 reviews)
Author: Harry Allard
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Product Description
Where is Miss Nelson, and Who is Miss Viola Swamp. This delightful story answers the questions.
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Karen Gedig Burnett
Publisher: GR Publishing
Book Description
Simon is having a bad day; a bad hair day. First his sister gives him a strange hair cut, then his friends tease him. Simon doesn’t know what to do. Lucky for him he runs into Grandma Rose. After listening to his sorrowful story she helps [...]
Rating: (28 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth Verdick
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Book Description
TEETH ARE NOT FOR BITING Board Book by Elizabeth Verdick, illustrated by Marieka Heinlen. “Crunch crunch crunch. Teeth are strong and sharp. Crunch crunch crunch. Teeth can help you chew. But teeth are not for biting. Ouch! Biting hurts.” Sooner or later, almost all young children [...]
Rating: (34 reviews)
Author: Ellen Stoll Walsh
Publisher: Voyager Books
Product Description
Ellen Stoll Walsh. The humor and beautifully simple design of this educational book will appeal to children who know the joy of splashing about in paint–and to their parents, who will appreciate the lighthearted presentation of a lesson in color. Paperback.
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Jeff Kurtti
Publisher: Disney Editions
Product Description
Fifty years ago, Walt Disney utterly transformed the concept of outdoor entertainment venues from tawdry carnivals and seedy amusement piers called “amusement parks,” to an entirely new destination that would come into common vernacular as the “theme park.”
Although Disneyland was the inspiration of one man, Walt did [...]
Rating: (23 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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“Don’t jump on your bed!” “Don’t bite your nails!” Parents sure seem to have a lot of rules. To make matters worse, the reasons behind the rules often don’t seem to make any sense. Could there be other, secret purposes behind these perpetual parental pleadings? Such is the premise of David [...]
Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Xinran
Publisher: Barefoot Books
Product Description
This beautiful poem celebrates the bond between parent and child in a special way. Through the exchanges between a little Chinese girl and her mother, Motherbridge of Love offers a poignant and inspiring message to parents and children all over the world.
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
Book Description
This accessible, lighthearted look at language introduces homonyms and homophones. Playful rhymes and comical cartoons make both concepts memorable. Each corresponding pair of homonyms and homophones is printed in color for easy identification. At the end, readers are challenged to apply what they’ve learned – [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: Voyager Books
Product Description
A little boy must come to terms with being teased and ostracized because he’d rather read books, paint pictures, and tap-dance than participate in sports. “There is a good balance between the simple text . . . and the expressive pictures . . . an attractive little [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
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Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston
Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Book Description
`A favorite author uses an actual incident from 1609 to base a story of three impoverished children left alone in London who make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father. . . . Fine engrossing historical fiction.’ —TE.
Notable 1981 Children’s Trade Books in [...]
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 makes a great listen, [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Product Description
Merlin the Magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone in Camelot. What can be done? The enchantress Morgan knows who to ask
for help: young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania! The brother-and-sister team quickly head off in the [...]
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Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston
Rating: (51 reviews)
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
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Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House books. With The Birchbark House, award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s first novel for young readers, this same slice of history is seen through the eyes of the spirited, 7-year-old Ojibwa [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Rating: (234 reviews)
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Product Description
Characters based on James Patterson’s international bestsellers When the Wind Blows and The Lake House are re-invented in Maximum Ride and are launched on the ultimate action-packed adventure full of humor and suspense.
Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it’s like to soar [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Julia Cook
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
Product Description
All of Louis thoughts are very important to him. In fact, his thoughts are so important to him that when he has something to say, his words begin to wiggle, and then they do the jiggle, then his tongue pushes all of his important [...]
Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: Sandra Boynton
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Product Description
What a perfect gift. Perfect for baby showers. Irresistible for a newborn, or for a one-, two-, even a three-year-old’s birthday. Ideal as a set that grandparents, aunts and uncles, in-laws, and close personal friends of the baby (babies have close personal friends?) will find particularly [...]
Rating: (83 reviews)
Author: Danica McKellar
Publisher: Plume
Product Description
The runaway national bestseller, now in paperback
Author: Postlethwait and Hopson
Publisher: Holt Rinehart and Winston
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: George R. R. Martin, Ben Avery, Mike S. Miller
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Product Description
Adapting New York Times best-selling author George R. R. Martin’s The Sworn Sword The long-awaited sequel to The Hedge Knight tells the story of the adventures of Ser Duncan and his squire one year after their initial meeting at the [...]
Rating: (80 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paolini
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Product Description
Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy—until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and [...]
Rating: (34 reviews)
Author: Melissa De La Cruz
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Book Description
Schuyler Van Alen wants an explanation for the mysterious deaths of young vampires. With her best friend, Oliver, Schuyler travels to Italy in the hope of finding the one man who can help–her grandfather. Meanwhile, back in New York, preparations are feverishly underway for [...]
Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Barbara V. Swovelin
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Product Description
Your complete guide to a higher score on the *AP English Language and Composition exam
Why CliffsAP Guides?
Go with the name you know and trust
Get the information you need–fast!
Written by test prep specialists
About the contents:
Part I: Introduction
* Review of the format and scoring of the recent exam
Part [...]
Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Joseph Slate
Publisher: Puffin
Amazon.com
On the first day of kindergarten, Miss Bindergarten must prepare her classroom for her beloved students. This noble, whimsical teacher greets her dark, summertime-empty classroom with an explosion of color–a bouquet of fall leaves, a goldfish, rolled-up posters, and shoeboxes full of no-doubt-delightful surprises. Meanwhile, her young students get [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Carlin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Rating: (94 reviews)
Author: Phillip E., Ph.D. Pack
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Product Description
Your complete guide to a higher score on the *AP Biology exam
About the contents:
Introduction
* A review of the AP exam format and scoring
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Proven strategies for answering multiple-choice questions
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Hints for tackling the essay questions
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A list of 14 specific must-know principles
Part I: Subject Area Reviews
* Covers 14 [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Joseph Stoutzenberger, Maurice O’Connell
Publisher: Harcourt Religion Pub
Rating: (397 reviews)
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
Luke has never been to school. He’s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend’s house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend.
Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He’s lived his entire [...]
