Tag Archives: Fiction

Need

Rating: (143 reviews)
Author: Carrie Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books

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Zara collects phobias the way other girls collect Facebook friends. Little wonder, since life’s been pretty rough so far. Her father left, her stepfather just died, and her mother’s pretty much checked out. Now Zara’s living with her grandmother in sleepy, cold Maine so that [...]

The Secret Circle: The Captive Part II and The Power (Secret Circle (Harper Teen))

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: HarperTeen

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Caught in the struggle between good and evil . . .
Cassie has joined the most alluring—and deadly—in-crowd imaginable. But power comes with a price, and it’s more dangerous than she knows. Torn between the dueling desires of the two leaders of the Secret Grcle, she must ultimately [...]

Awakening (Sweep, No. 5)

Rating: (25 reviews)
Author: Cate Tiernan
Publisher: Puffin

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For now, Morgan is safe from the dark wave that has been attacking witches. Betrayed by her first love, she is trying to come to grips with her Woodbane heritage and with Wicca—its thorn and its rose.

Jack: Secret Circles (Repairman Jack)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: F. Paul Wilson
Publisher: Tor Teen

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When his five-year-old neighbor goes missing, Jack can’t help feeling responsible. He should have taken Cody home when he found him riding his bicycle near the Pine Barrens. And then a lost man wanders out of the woods after being chased all night by…something. Jack knows, better [...]

Guess How Much I Love You

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Sam McBratney
Publisher: Candlewick

Product Description
Now in a deluxe new edition
Guess how much kids will love this! The original family classic is now available in a fresh new hardcover featuring embossing on the cover — and a new, larger trim size, making it perfect for lap sharing.

Monday with a Mad Genius (Magic Tree House, No. 38)

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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In Monday with a Mad Genius, travel with Jack and Annie to Italy in the Renaissance, a time when every new morning brought with it the promise of artistic and scientific wonder. There, they meet none other than Leonardo da Vinci! Now [...]

Morris Goes to School (I Can Read Book 1)

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: B. Wiseman
Publisher: HarperCollins

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Morris the moose has an exciting day in school learning the alphabet, counting, singing, spelling, and doing other things that make him a unique moose.

A Terrible Thing Happened – A story for children who have witnessed violence or trauma

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Margaret M. Holmes
Publisher: Magination Press

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Sherman Smith saw the most terrible thing happen. At first he tried to forget about it, but something inside him started to bother him. He felt nervous and had bad dreams. Then he met someone who helped him talk about the terrible thing, and made him [...]

The Flat Stanley Collection Box Set

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Jeff Brown
Publisher: HarperCollins

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Stanley Lambchop is an ordinary boy. At least he was, until the night his bulletin board fell off the wall and flattened him. At only half an inch thick, Stanley can slide under doors, mail himself across the country in an envelope, and fly like a kite!
And that’s [...]

Skippyjon Jones

Rating: (172 reviews)
Author: Judy Schachner
Publisher: Puffin

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My name is Skippito Friskito.
I fear not a single bandito.
My manners are mellow,
I’m sweet like the Jell-O,
I get the job done, yes indeed-o.
Skippyjon Jones is no ordinary kitten. Oh, no. . . .He’s actually El Skippito, a great sword-fighter ready to battle banditos the world over! With a [...]

Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!

Rating: (53 reviews)
Author: Dr Seuss
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Started by Seuss, finished by Prelutsky, and splendiferously illustrated by
Lane Smith, this is the children’s book publishing event of the year! Big–56
pages–and bursting with energy, here is a joyous ode to individuality,
starring an unsinkable teacher named Miss Bonkers and quirky little
Diffendoofer School, which must [...]

Magic Tree House Boxed Set, Books 1-28

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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“I WISH WE COULD GO THERE!”
When they are in the tree house, Jack and Annie only have to say those simple words and the tree house starts to spin, faster and faster. . . . And then, poof!—the kids find themselves flying [...]

Ranger’s Apprentice, Book 9: Halt’s Peril

Author: John Flanagan
Publisher: Philomel

Found (The Missing, Book 1)

Rating: (60 reviews)
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

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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 [...]

The Screwtape Letters: First Ever Full-cast Dramatization of the Diabolical Classic (Radio Theatre)

Rating: (24 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Tyndale Entertainment

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From the award-winning audio drama team that brought you Radio Theatre’s Amazing Grace and The Chronicles of Narnia. In his enduringly popular masterpiece The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis re-imagines Hell as a gruesome bureaucracy. With spiritual insight and wry wit, Lewis suggests that demons, laboring in a vast [...]

Warriors: Power of Three #5: Long Shadows

Rating: (39 reviews)
Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: HarperCollins

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The Clans are in turmoil. ShadowClan has turned its back on StarClan and pledged to follow the dark predictions of Sol, the strange cat who foretold the solar eclipse. But not all the cats have lost faith in their warrior ancestors. . . .
Jaypaw is convinced that StarClan [...]

The Con Artist of Catalina Island: A McAfee Twins Christmas Novel

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Jennifer Colt
Publisher: CreateSpace

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Spending Christmas on picturesque Catalina Island seems like the perfect idea for private investigators, Kerry and Terry McAfee. That is, until they learn that the hotel room they’ve checked into was recently occupied by a pair of feuding newlyweds, and that the bride and her rare green diamond [...]

The Berenstain Bears and the Golden Rule (Berenstain Bears®)

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Michael Berenstain
Publisher: Zonderkidz

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When Sister Bear receives a locket for her birthday with the Golden Rule inscribed on it, she wonders what the verse means. And although Mama Bear explains it, it isn’t until she befriends a lonely newcomer at school that she understands what the rule looks like in action.

The Five Ancestors Book 7: Dragon

Author: Jeff Stone
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Long, the dragon-style warrior, saw his temple burned, his brothers killed, and his novice siblings fleeing to the four winds. But that was many months ago. Now the five young warriors have reunited with Ying, the redeemed renegade who put all of these events in motion, [...]

A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Aurora Metro Press

Product Description
New imaginative adaptation with music. For use in schools, amateur groups, youth theater, etc.

How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: The Blue Sky Press

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Parents and children can never have enough ways to say “I love you”–and now, America’s favorite dinosaurs are giving families a funny book, perfect for bedtime, storytime, anytime. Even when little dinosaurs are naughty, it’s important to remind them that no matter what they do, [...]

A Crime for Christmas (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #2)

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Product Description
Nancy Drew teams up with the Hardy boys in New York to find a pair of big-time cat burglars who are expected to hit a museum next.

A Capeside Christmas (Dawson’s Creek)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: C.J. Anders
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment

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Stress Much?
Two days into rehearsal, the director of the Capeside Christmas Winter Follies drops out, so Dawson volunteers to direct the town show. But he’s finding out the hard way it’s easier to direct a small cast film than a giant Christmas pageant filled with friends, [...]

The Night Before the Night Before Christmas (Reading Railroad Books)

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Natasha Wing
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

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It’s December 23, and Christmas is just around the corner. But one family is having trouble getting its act together. Once again, Natasha Wing follows the rhythms and meter of Clement Moore’s classic Christmas poem, yet gives it her own entirely original twist.

Eclipse (The Twilight Saga)

Rating: (1888 reviews)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour the paperback edition Eclipse, the third book in Stephenie Meyer’s riveting vampire love saga. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, [...]

Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)

Author: Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Press

Product Description

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow [...]

Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 (The Twilight Saga)

Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Yen Press

Book Description
When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep [...]

Burned (House of Night Novels)

Author: P. C. Cast
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

Product Description

When friends stop trusting each other, Darkness is there to fan the flames….
 
Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbird’s soul has shattered. With everything she’s ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoey’s [...]

The Christmas Box

Rating: (129 reviews)
Author: Richard Paul Evans
Publisher: Pubs Wholesale

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“Whatever the reason, I find that with each passing Christmas the story of the Christmas box is told less and needed more. So I record it now for all future generations to accept or dismiss, as seems them good. As for me, I believe. And it [...]

The Christmas Day Kitten

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: James Herriot
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

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“Christmas can never go by without my remembering a certain little cat.”
So begins The Christmas Day Kitten, another true story from James Herriot’s rich experience as a country vet. As always, the tale includes a vivid group of characters on two legs and four: Mrs. Pickering [...]

Little Golden Book Christmas Favorites

Author: Jane Werner
Publisher: Golden Books

Product Description
Three beloved Christmas Little Golden Books are gathered together in this charming mini-treasury: The Night Before Christmas, The Christmas Story, and The Animals’ Christmas Eve. Perfect for gift-giving, and at the value Golden Books is known for!

The Night Fairy

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher: Candlewick

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From 2008 Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz comes an exhilarating new adventure — and a thoroughly original fairy who is a true force of nature.
What would happen to a fairy if she lost her wings and could no longer fly? Flory, a young night fairy no taller [...]

The 39 Clues: Book 8

Author: Gordan Korman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Product Description
This is the “New York Times” bestselling series. As the race to find the 39 Clues builds to its explosive finish, Amy and Dan must steal a Clue guarded by thousands of the world’s best soldiers. With their enemies closing in, the siblings are separated. Together, they almost have a [...]

Warriors: Omen of the Stars #2: Fading Echoes

Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description

After the sharp-eyed Jay and the roaring Lion, peace will come on Dove’s gentle wing.

Three ThunderClan cats, Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Dovepaw, are prophesied to hold the power of the stars in their paws. Now they must work together to unravel the meaning behind the ancient words of the prophecy.
As Jayfeather tackles [...]

A Little Snowflake (Christmas Foil Books)

Author: Charles Reasoner
Publisher: Price Stern Sloan

Product Description
Charles Reasoner, whose clever shaped board books for Halloween have sold nearly half a million copies, has now turned his talent to Christmas. These three foil-covered charmers have a bold, graphic look that will make them stand out from any other Christmas books in the store. Containing the same [...]

Christmas Is Love

Author: Joan Walsh Anglund
Publisher: Gulliver Books

Product Description
Candy canes and gingerbread, tinsel and toys, wreaths and ribbon and tins full of treats, brightly wrapped packages and carefully trimmed trees are all symbols of what is behind this special celebration. Full-color illustrations.

Mickey’s Christmas (Giant Lift the Flaps)

Author: Catherine McCafferty
Publisher: Mouse Works

Product Description
Mickey only has a few days to prepare for Christmas. Kids can help Mickey look for decorations, buy gifts for his friends, and bake to make this the best Christmas ever. Over 60 flaps. Full color. 5 spreads.

The Dachshunds That Saved Christmas

Author: Robert Bruce Ankrum
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing

Product Description
There is trouble at the North Pole. Christmas is just around the corner and the reindeer are restless. However, Santa does not find the cause until his reindeer go on strike. What will he do? Who will pull the sleigh? His search for help is fruitless until one evening, [...]

Miss Flora McFlimsey’s Christmas Eve

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Mariana
Publisher: Lothrop Lee & Shepard

Product Description
Having been abandoned in the attic for years, Flora McFlimsey is given new life on Christmas Eve.

The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Jean Van Leeuwen
Publisher: Dial

Product Description
In comfortable residence at Macy’s during the Christmas season, Merciless Marvin the Magnificent and his gang are convinced that the store’s Santa Claus has been kidnapped and determine to save him.

Mama Had to Work on Christmas

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Carolyn Marsden
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

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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 [...]

Wild Christmas

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Joshua Hodge
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.

Product Description
There was no escape. He was trapped, just like he was when he was in detention. Life was an enormous prison for Dan. He always found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Never had he believed that he was in the right place in [...]

Hourglass (Evernight Novels)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Claudia Gray
Publisher: HarperTeen

Product Description
Bianca will risk everything to be with Lucas.
After escaping from Evernight Academy, the vampire boarding school where they met, Bianca and Lucas take refuge with Black Cross, a fanatical group of vampire hunters. Bianca must hide her supernatural heritage or risk certain death at their hands. But when [...]

Kiss of Death (Morganville Vampires, Book 8)

Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Signet

A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Dover Publications

Product Description
This illustrated edition of the Yuletide classic features 12 full-color plates plus 18 black-and-white drawings. The timeless appeal of Rackham’s evocative illustrations form the perfect complement to the master storyteller’s wise and witty prose. Dickens’s immortal tale still sends a message that strikes the reader’s heart and soul.

The Sorcerer of the North: Book Five (Ranger’s Apprentice)

Rating: (38 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 Bells of Christmas

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Sandpiper

Product Description
Twelve-year-old Jason Bell waits impatiently for Christmas 1890. Set against the carefully researched background life of a middle-class black family in Ohio a century ago, “Hamilton’s story moves along at an elegant pace, giving readers time to savor the holiday preparations.”–School Library Journal

A Fairy Merry Christmas (Fairy School)

Author: Gail Herman
Publisher: Skylark

Product Description
It’s Christmas in Fairyland. What better time for a field trip to the North Pole? But bad news awaits the fairies–Santa isn’t planning to give out any toys on Earth-Below. He doesn’t think any Little Big People believe in him anymore. The fairies have to change his mind. With a little [...]

A Christmas Carol (Penguin Readers, Level 2)

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Pearson ESL

Product Description
Scrooge is a cold, mean man. He loves only money and is cruel to the people around him. Scrooge is visited by ghosts who show him his past, his life now and a possible future. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he change?

A LazyTown Christmas (Lazytown (8×8))

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Artful Doodlers
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon

Product Description
It’s Christmas Eve in LazyTown! But Robbie Rotten has a few tricks up his sleeve. He wants to make sure that no one has a merry Christmas. Will Robbie ruin Christmas for everyone?