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Morris Goes to School (I Can Read Book 1)

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

Product Description
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

Product Description
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 [...]

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 [...]

A Capeside Christmas (Dawson’s Creek)

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

Product Description
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, [...]

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 [...]

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.

My Weird School Daze #8: Miss Laney Is Zany!

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Dan Gutman
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
The weirdness never stops!
A.J. has to go see Miss Laney, the speech teacher, which makes no sense at all because he already knows how to talk. Miss Laney has him say weird tongue twisters and forces him to be the lead in the third-grade play, Romeo & Juliet. [...]

Stand Up for Yourself and Your Friends: Dealing with Bullies and Bossiness and Finding a Better Way

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Patti Kelley Criswell
Publisher: Amer Girl

Product Description
This book helps girls learn how to spot bullying and stand up and speak out against it. Quizzes, quotes from real girls, and “what would you do?” scenarios give readers lots of ideas for dealing with bullies, including clever comebacks and ways to ask adults for [...]

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)

Rating: (2689 reviews)
Author: J. K. Rowling
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Product Description
In one of the most hotly anticipated sequels in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left with Harry’s second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girl’s bathroom, [...]

Max’s Christmas Stocking (Max Board Books)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Rosemary Wells
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

Product Description
Everybody’s favorite bunnies celebrate Christmas and Valentine’s Day in two adorable shaped board books just right for toddlers. When Santa mixes up their stockings, Max and Ruby are in for a big surprise on Christmas morning! And when Ruby uses all the candy to make her Valentine [...]

A Christmas Carol

Rating: (197 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Dial

Product Description
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

Horrible Harry and the Christmas Surprise

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Suzy Kline
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
It’s Christmastime, but with Miss Mackle in the hospital, no one feels much like celebrating. Maybe Harry can think of a way to cheer up Miss Mackle and put the holiday spirit back in Room 2B.

The New Baby at Your House

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Joanna Cole
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
It’s natural for children to be concerned about the arrival of a new baby at their house. Most big brothers and sisters feel loving and tender one minute, angry or jealous the next. With over forty vivid full-color photographs and a clear, supportive textby award-winning author Joanna Cole, [...]

Kit’s Surprise: A Christmas Story, 1934 (The American Girls Collection, Book 3)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Valerie Tripp
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc

Product Description
THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In 1934, Kit faces a very different Christmas because of her family’s financial problems and allows her pride to estrange her from her best friend.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever CD

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Barbara Robinson
Publisher: HarperChildrensAudio

Product Description
When the Herdmans storm Sunday school and take over the annual Christmas pageant, everyone braces for the worst. But no one is prepared for what really happens when the rottenest kids in the world take over the greatest story ever told. It’s a pageant full of surprises for [...]

A Christmas Carol (Puffin Classics)

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
On Christmas Eve, Scrooge sits in his house with not a kind word for anyone; he just wants to be left alone until the “humbug” of Christmas is over. But four ghostly visitors—his former business partner, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come—show him [...]

Molly’s Surprise: A Christmas Story, Book Three (The American Girls Collection)

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Valerie Tripp
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc

Product Description
Even though he is away serving in an English hospital during World War II, Molly’s father finds a way to make the family Christmas very special.

The Christmas Rat (Aladdin Fantasy)

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Avi
Publisher: Aladdin

Product Description
A boy, a rat, and an exterminator –
three players in a game of survival.
Christmas vacation is supposed to be a blast. Or so Eric thinks. But with all his friends either sick in bed or out of town, Eric’s getting more bored by the hour.
Then he meets Anje Gabrail, [...]

Fancy Nancy: The Show Must Go On (I Can Read Book 1)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Jane O’connor
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
Nancy and her partner for the talent show are very different. They don’t have any of the same talents. How will they ever come up with an act?

Vampire Academy Collection

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill

Product Description
Tear into the utterly addictive Vampire Academy series this holiday season!
Now you can have the first three novels in the New York Times Bestselling VAMPIRE ACADEMY series in a special edition box set! Find out where it all began for Guardian Rose Hathaway and her bloodthirsty best friend [...]

Beware, The Snowman (Goosebumps)

Rating: (30 reviews)
Author: R L Stine
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Product Description
No melting allowed! Jaclyn used to live with her aunt Greta in Chicago. But not anymore. They’ve moved to a place called Sherpia. It’s a tiny village on the edge of the Arctic Circle. Jaclyn can’t believe she’s stuck out in Nowheresville. No movie theaters. No [...]

Junie B., First Grader: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May)

Rating: (33 reviews)
Author: Barbara Park
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
It’s holiday time, and Room One is doing lots of fun things to celebrate.
Like making elf costumes! And singing joyful songs! Only, how can Junie B. enjoy the festivities when Tattletale May keeps ruining her holiday glee? And here is the worst part [...]

The Crazy Christmas Angel Mystery (The Cul-de-Sac Kids #3) (Book 3)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Beverly Lewis
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers

Product Description
It’s almost Christmas, and Eric Hagel is spying on the new neighbor. What’s going on next door? Why is the house always flickering with candlelight? And what about the eerie flute music every morning at 6:00?
When Mr. Tressler puts up a Christmas tree, Eric’s eyes nearly [...]

Tempted (House of Night Novels)

Rating: (130 reviews)
Author: P. C. Cast
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

Product Description

So…you’d think after banishing an immortal being and a fallen High Priestess, saving Stark’s life, biting Heath, getting a headache from Erik, and almost dying, Zoey Redbird would catch a break.  Sadly, a break is not in the House of Night school forecast for the [...]

When You Reach Me

Rating: (55 reviews)
Author: Rebecca Stead
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books

Product Description
Four mysterious letters change Miranda’s world forever.
By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it’s safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid, like the crazy guy [...]

The Maze Runner (Maze Runner Trilogy (Hardback))

Rating: (105 reviews)
Author: James Dashner
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Product Description
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open [...]

Goldilicious (Pinkalicious)

Rating: (25 reviews)
Author: Victoria Kann
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
Being Pinkalicious is pinkatastic, especially when she’s accompanied by her pet unicorn, Goldilicious. Goldie is a roller-skating, kite-flying, high-jumping unicorn who will protect Pinkalicious from the evil wizardry of her little brother, Peter. Together, Pinkalicious and Goldilicious can conquer anything!
This enchanting follow-up to the New York Times bestselling [...]

The Magic Christmas (Sweet Valley Twins Magna Editions)

Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Francine Pascal
Publisher: Sweet Valley

Product Description
Given a pair of antique dolls by their grandparents, Jessica and Elizabeth learn that the dolls are a family legacy from a past generation of twins and that they have magical powers.

Million-Dollar Throw

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Mike Lupica
Publisher: Philomel

Product Description
What would you do with a million dollars, if you were 13?
Nate Brodie is nicknamed “Brady” not only for his arm, but also because he’s the biggest Tom Brady fan. He’s even saved up to buy an autographed football. And when he does, he wins the chance for [...]

It Girl #9: Devious

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Cecily von Ziegesar
Publisher: Poppy

Product Description
The ninth engrossing novel in the #1 bestselling It Girl series. Popular Gossip Girl character Jenny Humphrey never goes looking for trouble; but trouble always seems to find her. What Waverly Academy mischief will Jenny, Tinsley, and Callie stir up now?
It’s January, and a new semester at [...]

The Wave

Rating: (170 reviews)
Author: Todd Strasser
Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Book Description
The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.
The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a [...]

Don’t Feed the Monster on Tuesdays!: The Children’s Self-Esteem Book

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Adolph Moser
Publisher: Landmark Editions

Cirque Du Freak #12: Sons of Destiny: Book 12 in the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak: the Saga of Darren Shan (Mass Market))

Rating: (37 reviews)
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Time seemed to collapse… There was a sharp stabbing sensation in my stomach… Steve crowed, “Now I have you! Now you’re gonna die!”
Dead if he loses – damned if he wins. The time has finally come for Darren to face his archenemy, Steve [...]

Fancy Nancy: Pajama Day (I Can Read Book 1)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Jane O’connor
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
Nancy is all set to wear something special for Pajama Day at school. But when Bree and Clara show up in matching outfits, Nancy feels left out. Will this Pajama Day be as fun as she thought?

How The Pops Stole Christmas (How I Survived Middle School Super Speci)

Author: Nancy Krulik
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Product Description Winter Break is approaching, and everyone at Joyce Kilmer Middle School is in the holiday spirit. Everyone except the Pops, that is! Jenny can’t wait for the holidays, but her good mood quickly evaporates when she picks Dana as her “Secret Snowflake” in English class and finds out that [...]

A Christmas Surprise (Magic Kitten)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Sue Bentley
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Product Description
Molly is so excited to spend Christmas with her family. . . she can’t wait for the snow, food, and presents! But Molly just can’t seem to keep herself out of trouble. Luckily, she finds a distraction in Flame, the snow white kitten. With his magical [...]

The Night Before the 100th Day of School (Reading Railroad)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Natasha Wing
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Product Description
The 100th day of school is almost here and one student is desperate to find 100 of anything to bring to class. Then all of sudden inspiration strikes, and he comes up with a surprise that makes the 100th day celebration one to remember! This hilarious [...]

Big Sister Dora! (Dora the Explorer)

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon

Product Description
Someone new is going to join Dora’s family! It’s someone who sleeps in a cradle, drinks from a bottle, wears diapers, and likes to be rocked to sleep. Can you guess who it might be?

Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope

Rating: (29 reviews)
Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Product Description
Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Kenya, he has held on to Hope. Even as a boy, Barack knew he [...]

Stink: The Super-Incredible Collection: Books 1-3

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Megan Mcdonald
Publisher: Candlewick

Product Description
What is way cooler than a story about Stink? Three of them — all tucked together in one hilarious boxed set. No lie!
Judy Moody’s pesky younger “bother” — encyclopedia in hand, zany schemes in mind, and comical comebacks at the ready — has totally come into his own [...]

Speak

Rating: (1186 reviews)
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won’t talk to her, and people she doesn’t even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that’s not safe. Because there’s [...]

The 7 Habits of Happy Kids

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Sean Covey
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Product Description
For the Seven Oaks friends, there is always something to do. Whether they’re singing along with Pokey Porcupine’s harmonica or playing soccer with Jumper Rabbit, everyone is having fun and learning all sorts of things. These seven stories show how practicing the 7 Habits [...]

Great Brain,The

Rating: (79 reviews)
Author: John D. Fitzgerald
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day. Whether it’s saving the [...]

Just Listen

Rating: (121 reviews)
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
when Annabel, the youngest of three beautiful sisters, has a bitter falling out with her best friend—the popular and exciting Sophie—she suddenly finds herself isolated and friendless. but then she meets owen—a loner, passionate about music and his weekly radio show, and always determined to tell the truth. [...]

Winter’s Gift

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Jane Monroe Donovan
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press

Product Description
Illustrated by Jane Monroe Donovan
It may be Christmastime but on a small, forlorn farm the holiday season is best forgotten, along with painful memories of loved ones lost. Mother Nature has other plans, however, and a chance snowstorm brings together two unlikely hearts, one human [...]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Boxed Set, The (Percy Jackson & the Olympians)

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

Product Description
Humans and half-bloods alike agree–Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a series fit for heroes! Re-live the adventure from the beginning with this boxed set of the first three books.
The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can’t seem to focus on his [...]

Milton’s Secret: An Adventure of Discovery through Then, When, and the Power of Now

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Eckhart Tolle, Robert S. Friedman
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing

Product Description
For the first time ever, bestselling author Eckhart Tolle brings the core of his teachings to children, ages 7 to 100. Beautifully illustrated and artfully expressed, this charming story will bring joy to children and their parents for decades to come.
Milton, who is [...]

Crank

Rating: (108 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Product Description
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina — she’s fearless.
Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: [...]

Amanecer (Breaking Dawn, Spanish Edition)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Alfaguara

Product Description
Twilight tempted the imagination. New Moon made readers thirsty for more. Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon. And now, the book that everyone has been waiting for… Breaking Dawn, the final book in the #1 bestselling Twilight Saga, will take your breath away. Description in Spanish: [...]

Summer of the Monkeys

Rating: (113 reviews)
Author: Wilson Rawls
Publisher: Yearling

Product Description
The last thing a fourteen-year-old boy expects to find along an old Ozark river bottom is a tree full of monkeys. Jay Berry Lee’s grandpa had an explanation, of course–as he did for most things. The monkeys had escaped from a traveling circus, and there was a handsome [...]