Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: CreateSpace
Product Description
Vintage Collectors Edition of Charles Dickens’ most beloved christmas story on 150 pages, printed on high quality book paper. A great christmas gift. This is a beautiful 2008 reprint of the original classic edition from 1914, originally published by Publisher David Mkay in Philadelphia. Original illustrations by A.I. [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Standard Publishing
Product Description
Celebrate the season with Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future—and discover how the greatest Christmas classic was based on the greastest story ever told.
This special edition includes the complete text of A Christmas Carol along with notes [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Everyman’s Library
Product Description
The final volume in the Everyman’s Library Charles Dickens collection: the timeless story of everyone’s favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens’s Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham’s classic illustrations.
No holiday season is complete without the story of tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, of his long-suffering [...]
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 [...]
Rating: (152 reviews)
Author: Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert
Publisher: Vintage
Product Description
A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus’ novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Amazon.com Review
The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have [...]
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
Product Description
Scoring high on the AP Chemistry Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about chemistry—only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your highest score. In Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam, we’ll teach you how [...]
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Edward B Fiske
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Product Description
For more than 20 years, this leading guide to more than 300 colleges and universities has been an indispensable source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Hip, honest and straightforward, the Fiske Guide to Colleges delivers an insider’s look at the academic climates and [...]
Rating: (102 reviews)
Author: Brandon Mull
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite.
Kendra and her brother, Seth, have [...]
Rating: (18 reviews)
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Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Product Description
Goodnight monsters everywhere, in this parody romp with its own special twist!
“Goodnight tomb. Goodnight goon. Goodnight Martians taking over the moon.”
It’s bedtime in the cold gray tomb with a black lagoon, and two slimy claws, and a couple of jaws, and a skull and a shoe and a pot [...]
Rating: (54 reviews)
Author: Kevin Hogan, Mary Lee Labay
Publisher: Network 3000
Product Description
People form their first impression of you in three to four seconds! This book reveals to you the hidden secrets of attraction and charisma. You will learn to maximize your hidden and natural attributes to create an instant bond with anyone you meet! Learn [...]
Rating: (37 reviews)
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher: Vintage
Product Description
With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky’s classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. “The best (translation) currently available”–Washington Post [...]
Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Chris D’lacey
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Product Description
In the thrilling third book in Chris d’Lacey’s popular series, David Rain is faced with a perilous task. ICEFIRE’s evil sibyl Gwilanna is back, this time determined to resurrect the dragon Gawain on the ice cap of the Tooth of Ragnar. Can David and his friends stop [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Margaret Mcnamara
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Product Description
“HOW MANY SEEDs in a pumpkin?” Mr. Tiffin asks his class as they gather around the big, medium, and small pumpkins on his desk. Robert, the biggest kid, guesses that the largest one has a million seeds; Elinor, sounding like she knows what she’s talking about, [...]
Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Lois Ehlert
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
Product Description
Fall has come, the wind is gusting, and Leaf Man is on the move. Is he drifting east, over the marsh and ducks and geese? Or is he heading west, above the orchards, prairie meadows, and spotted cows? No one’s quite sure, but this much is [...]
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Margery Cuyler
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
What’s the best way to help a skeleton get over his hiccups? Amazon.com Review
Skeletons are a little less scary when they have the hiccups. This particular skeleton can’t seem to shake them–not in the shower (nice fuzzy bat slippers!), not while brushing his teeth (woops! there goes the [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Juliet Marillier
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Product Description
FOR PAULA, ACCOMPANYING her merchant father on a trading voyage to Istanbul is a dream come true. They have come to this city of trade on a special mission to purchase a most rare artifact—a gift from the ancient goddess, Cybele, to her followers. [...]
Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Samantha Moss, Lesley Schwartz
Publisher: Orange Avenue Publishing
Product Description
Free time is great. Unless you spend all of it searching for your homework, your mobile phone, or a clean pair of shorts. Then free time is not so great. In fact, it’s non-existent. If chaos and disorganisation are swallowing all of your free [...]
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Chris Caudron, Caro Childs, Cheryl Evans
Publisher: Usborne Books
Product Description
With the tips in this book, children can transform people into animals, monsters, clowns and vampires, or decorate their faces with beautiful flowers or exotic scenes. Easy-to-follow instructions and helpful techniques mean that even beginners can achieve impressive results.
Rating: (78 reviews)
Author: Kate Dicamillo
Publisher: Candlewick
Product Description
The National Book Award finalist from the best-selling author of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE – now in paperback
Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger – a real-life, very large tiger – pacing back and forth in a cage. What’s [...]
Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Kelly DiPucchio
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: George Levenson
Publisher: Tricycle Press
Product Description
Tricycle Press is proud to present two new editions of the critically acclaimed Pumpkin Circle. Pumpkin seedlings grow, sprout, bud, and bloom, offering up their golden fruit, then break down into rich soil from which seeds sprout again—a circle without end. The skillfully translated Spanish language edition [...]
Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: W. Nikola-Lisa
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Product Description
Bearsie Bear is just falling asleep when a very cold Moosie Moose knocks on the door and asks to sleep over in Bearsie Bear’s warm bed. Next knocks Cowsie Cow, then Piggie Pig, then Foxie Fox, then Goosie Goose . . . and the bed becomes, to [...]
Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Marty Noble
Publisher: Dover Publications
Product Description
Striking adaptations of authentic native art depict, among other subjects, a Mixtec circular design from an incised gourd rattle, religious figures from a Metepec candlestick, and images of jaguars taken from a Guerrero lacquered chest. An exciting challenge for coloring book enthusiasts, these 30 illustrations will also [...]
Rating: (69 reviews)
Author: Keiko Kasza
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Product Description
Choco was a little bird who lived all alone. He wished he had a mother, but who could his mother be? “Just right for the preschool group or beginning reader.”–Kirkus Reviews, pointer review. “Young listeners will be charmed by the book’s humor, warmth, and surprise ending.”–Horn Book. [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Marcia Miller, Martin Lee
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Product Description
Humorous, reproducible math mystery stories will give your math sleuths a chance to have fun while practicing important math problem solving skills. They’re just perfect for classwork and homework and help you meet the NCTM standards. For use with Grades 4-8.
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Publisher: Yearling
Product Description
It is Halloween night and all the kids are dressed in scary and funny costumes. Their Trick or Treat bags are getting heavier.
Nate’s good friend Rosamond needs his help. Her cat, Little Hex, is missing. Little Hex hates Halloween, so maybe he’s hiding. Or is he lost? Nate and his trusty dog [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Laurie Rozakis
Publisher: Scholastic Reference
Product Description
Super Study Skills shows students how to: Make the most of their time by getting organized Read more effectively Prepare for a test without last-minute panic Take tests with confidence and skill . . . and study smarter for the grades they want.It also provides short answer [...]
Author: David Macaulay
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books
Product Description
In this comprehensive and entertaining resource, David Macaulay reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he could. In order to present this complicated subject in an accurate and entertaining way, he put in years of research. He sat in on anatomy classes, dissections, and even [...]
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: (70 reviews)
Author: Michael Scott
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Product Description
He holds the secret that can end the world.
The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal [...]
Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Sebranek, Patrick Sebranek, Dave Kemper, Verne Meyer
Publisher: Great Source Education Group
Amazon.com Review
It’s meant for high schoolers, but adults who haven’t inhaled chalk dust for years might appreciate it even more. The process of organizing, researching and writing a paper is laid is out in easy-to-understand normal-speak. The chapters on grammar and [...]
Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Neal Shusterman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Product Description
In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would “unwind” them
Connor’s parents want to be rid of him because he’s a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. [...]
Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Barbara O’Connor
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Product Description
Half of me was thinking, Georgina, don’t do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. The other half of me was thinking, Georgina, you’re in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out of it.
Georgina Hayes [...]
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Linda Ward Beech
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Product Description
Teachers can build word power with these 24 ready-to-reproduce, 3-page lessons. Each lesson is packed with fun, research-based activities that help students to explore roots, prefixes, and suffixes; use students’ prior knowledge for greater understanding.
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Michael Buckley
Publisher: Amulet Books
Product Description
The Grimms take Manhattan in the fourth book in the New York Times bestselling series!
When fairy-tale detectives Sabrina and Daphne Grimm venture back to the big city to help a friend, they land in the middle of a big mystery. Puck’s father, King Oberon, has been murdered, [...]
Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Richard M. Hannula
Publisher: Canon Press
Product Description
“Thus says the LORD: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls“(Jer. 6:16). Christianity is a faith in love with history. God took on human [...]
Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Nancy Werlin
Publisher: Puffin
Product Description
For Matt and his sisters, life with their cruel, vicious mother is a day-to-day struggle for survival. But then Matt witnesses Murdoch coming to a childs rescue in a convenience store, and for the first time, he feels a glimmer of hope. When, amazingly, Murdoch begins dating Matts [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Dan Kennedy, Randall I. Charles, Sadie Chavis Bragg
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Alfaguara
Product Description
Legions of readers entranced by the New York Times bestseller Twilight won’t be disappointed by this gripping sequel. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. Passionate, riveting, and deeply moving, this vampire love saga is well on its [...]
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: (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 . . . [...]
