Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: John C. Norcross, Michael A. Sayette, Tracy J. Mayne
Publisher: The Guilford Press
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With more than 100,000 copies in print, this bestseller is the resource students rely on to find graduate clinical and counseling psychology programs that meet their needs–and gain admission to them. The 2008/2009 edition includes:
*The most current data on [...]
Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Barrie Trinkle, Carolyn Andrews, Paige Kimble
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
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Be all over “minuscule.” Score big with “curvaceous.” Hit “trireme” out of the park. From the authorities behind the Scripps National Spelling Bee comes a comprehensive illustrated book on the endangered art of spelling.
Written for ages 9 and up, How to Spell [...]
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: The College Board
Publisher: College Board
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The best way to practice for the SAT Subject Tests in Mathematics
Every year more than 230,000 high school students take a SAT Subject Test in Mathematics. The Official SAT Subject Tests in Mathematics Levels 1 & 2 Study Guide is the only source of official questions [...]
Rating: (28 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth Verdick
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
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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: (7 reviews)
Author: Xinran
Publisher: Barefoot Books
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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.
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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
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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 [...]
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Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston
Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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`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 [...]
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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: (93 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth George Speare
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by only one passion: to avenge his father’s death by crucifixion by driving the Roman legions from his land of Israel. He joins an outlaw band and leads a dangerous life of spying, plotting, and impatiently [...]
Rating: (234 reviews)
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
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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
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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: (83 reviews)
Author: Danica McKellar
Publisher: Plume
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The runaway national bestseller, now in paperback
Author: Postlethwait and Hopson
Publisher: Holt Rinehart and Winston
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Author: George R. R. Martin, Ben Avery, Mike S. Miller
Publisher: Marvel Comics
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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 [...]
Author: Kaplan
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Product Description
Includes everything students need to score higher on the PSAT exam with:
3 full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations
A diagnostic exam with targeted feedback for students to customize and focus their study schedule
Effective tips and strategies for every section of the PSAT exam
Valuable student resources including a list of the most [...]
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?
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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
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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 [...]
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Author: Joseph Stoutzenberger, Maurice O’Connell
Publisher: Harcourt Religion Pub
Rating: (397 reviews)
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Aladdin
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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 [...]
Rating: (37 reviews)
Author: Joss Whedon, Andy Owens
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Product Description
Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers – newly legion – have gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not everything’s fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears and Dawn experiences some serious growing pains. Meanwhile, one of the [...]
Rating: (82 reviews)
Author: Nic Sheff
Publisher: Ginee Seo Books
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Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and [...]
Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Joss Whedon
Publisher: Marvel Comics
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Strap yourselves in, folks! It’s Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s final arc on Astonishing X-Men! After the shocking and brain-smashing events of recent issues, the X-Men are off to protect the Earth from its destruction at the hands of the Breakworld. And when it’s all over, nothing [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
Do not panic.
Lord Thistlebottom’s Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them has taught Roxie Warbler how to handle all sorts of situations. If Roxie’s ever lost in the desert, or buried in an avalanche, or caught in a dust storm, she knows just what to do. [...]
Rating: (406 reviews)
Author: Avi
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Product Description
A vicious captain, a mutinous crew –
and a young girl caught in the middle
Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, [...]
Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: School Specialty Publishing
Publisher: American Education Publishing
Product Description
Offering an entire Preschool curriculum, this best-selling Comprehensive Curriculum workbook features educational activities and instruction. Containing 544 pages organized by subject area with lessons in reading, writing, spelling, math, citizenship, and science.
Perfect as a home schooling resource or as a supplement to school-based learning, this [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Peter Howe
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
He is nameless.
He is homeless.
He is friendless.
He is lost.
Until he is found . . . by a team of mutts who shelter him and teach him how to survive the wilds of the city park.
And so he becomes Waggit, the best hunter and tracker in the pack, and [...]
Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Wendy Mass
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
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Jeremy Fink has been obsessed with the meaning of life ever since a box from his father arrived at his house five years after his father was killed in a car accident. Jeremy is determined to find the missing keys that will open the box [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Linda Carnevale M.A., Roselyn Teukolsky M.S.
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
Product Description
Even the brightest and most hard-working students arent expected to score a perfect 2400 on their SAT college entrance tests, but students who approach perfection with scores of 2100 or higher are virtually guaranteed acceptance at the countrys most prestigious colleges. The [...]
Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Greg Tang
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
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How is it possible to count a complicated pattern of strawberry seeds or grapes on a vine or camel humps–in a blink of an eye? If children can open their minds to new ways of perceiving math, anything is possible! Greg Tang shows readers creative ways to use [...]
Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Joseph Bharat Cornell
Publisher: Dawn Publications (CA)
Book Description
As Joseph Cornell’s classic book reached its 20th anniversary, Cornell drew upon a wealth of experience in nature education to significantly revise and expand his book. New nature games—favorites from the field – and Cornell’s typically insightful commentary makes the second edition of this special [...]
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
Product Description
The Story of the World CD audiobook is a collaboration between Jim Weiss, whose voice is “liquid gold” (CNN TV), and Susan Wise Bauer, whose writing has been described as “timeless and intelligent” (Publishers Weekly). These spirited readings of the first volume in Bauer’s history [...]
Rating: (65 reviews)
Author: Mike Lupica
Publisher: Puffin
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Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the familys escape from Cuba, Michaels only family is his seventeen-yearold brother Carlos. If Social Services hears [...]
Author: Eoin Colfer
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Product Description
Artemis’s mother has contracted a deadly disease–and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save [...]
Rating: (152 reviews)
Author: Beverly Cleary
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Product Description
Although her books have been enjoyed by generations of kids, Beverly Cleary herself didn’t enjoy reading as a child at least not at first. In first grade she was grouped with the slowest readers in her class. Amazon.com
When, in second grade, Leigh writes to an author to tell [...]
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he’s the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians’ time as well as their timely ghostly teachings-like the ability to Fade.
Can a boy [...]
Rating: (46 reviews)
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Vintage
Author: The College Board
Publisher: College Board
Product Description
This is the only guide that contains objective information on every accredited college in the United States–2,150 four-year colleges and universities, and 1,650 two-year community colleges and technical schools. With its clearly laid-out entries and more than 40 indexes, the College Handbook 2009 is also the fastest, easiest way [...]
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Erin Hunter, Dan Jolley
Publisher: TokyoPop
Product Description
When kittypet Tiny crosses paths with some wild forest cats defending their territory, he is left with scars—and a bitter, deep-seated grudge. As his reputation grows among the strays and loners that live in the dirty brick alleyways of Twolegplace, he changes his name to Scourge [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Angie Sage
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Product Description
Enter the world of Septimus Heap
With heart-stopping action, humor, and endearing characters, Septimus Heap is an internationally bestselling fantasy sesries
Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Sara Pennypacker
Publisher: Hyperion
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Natasha Wing
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Book Description
It’s the night before the Big Day—first grade. Penny is excited to start the year with her best friend right beside her in the same classroom. This humorous take on Clement C. Moore’s classic tale has a perfect twist ending that will surprise readers—as well as [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Scholastic Books
Publisher: Skills Books
Book Description
For classroom or at home, this super-fun resource provides engaging practice and reinforcement for all the essential math skills that kids need to succeed – in school and on the tests. Includes counting, shapes and patterns, addition, subtraction, problem-solving, and more! Packed with brain-teasing puzzles, games and [...]
Rating: (69 reviews)
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Publisher: HarperTrophy
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Until Chrysanthemum started kindergarten, she believed her parents when they said her name was perfect. But on the first day of school, Chrysanthemum begins to suspect that her name is far less than perfect, especially when her class dissolves into giggles upon hearing her name read aloud. That evening, Chrysanthemum’s parents [...]
