Rating: (92 reviews)
Author: Bryan Davis
Publisher: Living Ink Books
Product Description
Modern fantasy novel that inspires young people to pursue faith, courage, and love, to dig deep within to find their God-given strengths no matter how difficult the circumstances.
Rating: (236 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Product Description
Like bad smells, uninvited weekend guests or very old eggs, there are some things that ought to be avoided.
Snicket’s saga about the charming, intelligent, and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to alarm its distressed and suspicious fans the world over. The 10th book in this outrageous publishing [...]
Rating: (249 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Product Description
Warning: Your day will become very dark – and possibly damp – if you read this book.
Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Lemony Snicket’s saga about the charming, [...]
Rating: (210 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Product Description
Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colourful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks?
A carnival is a place for good family fun – as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire orphans, their time at the carnival turns [...]
Rating: (320 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Product Description
Dear Reader,
You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the [...]
Rating: (221 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Product Description
Lemony Snicket returns with the last book before the last book of his bestselling Series of Unfortunate Events. Scream and run away before the secrets of the series are revealed!
Very little is known about Lemony Snicket and A Series of Unfortunate Events. What we do know is [...]
Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Jude Watson
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Product Description
A Clue found in Book 3 sends Amy and Dan jetting off to find out just what’s behind the fierce rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of the Cahill family. Was a Clue stolen from the Tomas branch? Where is it now? And most important, can [...]
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Patrick Carman
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Product Description
JOIN ANYTIME TO PLAY FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN!
WHERE ARE AMY AND DAN CAHILL? The two kids were last seen in Egypt, hunting for one of the 39 Clues that could make them the most powerful people on earth. But no one has seen the siblings since. [...]
Rating: (42 reviews)
Author: Ludwig Bemelmans Author And Illustrator
Publisher: Viking Press
Product Description
Set in picturesque Paris, this tale of a brave little girl’s trip to the hospital is as appealing today as it was in 1940. The combination of spirited heroine, timelessly appealing art, cheerful humor, and rhythmic text makes “Madeline” a perennial favorite with children [...]
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Jeff Brown
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Product Description
Stanley Lambchop is just a normal boy, with a normal younger brother named Arthur, and two normal parents. That is, until a bulletin board falls on him during the night and flattens him to half an inch thick! From this point on, Stanley will never again be just [...]
Rating: (23 reviews)
Author: Jeff Foxworthy
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
In this hilarious collection of poems, comedian Jeff Foxworthy creates a neighborhood filled with fun, family, friends, and more. Here you’ll meet Cousin Lizzy, Uncle Ed and Aunt Foo Foo, cows with horns that don’t go beep, dads in sweaters, also sheep. From the thrill of flying to [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
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Publisher: HarperFestival
Product Description
Papa Bear and the cubs are having some trouble with chores –– they don’t want to do them! When they decide to take a break from cleaning, Mama Bear plays along. But what will happen when the mess builds up . . . and up . . . and up?
Ages [...]
Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Product Description
Ruby, where is your mother?
Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past few months, shes been on her own in the yellow house, managing somehow, knowing that her mother will probably never return.
Thats how she comes to live with Cora, the sister she hasnt seen [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Trenton Lee Stewart
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Product Description
The fabulous foursome readers embraced as The Mysterious Benedict Society is back with a new mission, significantly closer to home. After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are forced to go on an unexpected search–a search to find Mr. [...]
Rating: (62 reviews)
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Puffin
Product Description
The snipers bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive . . . just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has to stop him. [...]
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Product Description
Hope is the thing with feathers starts the poem Frannie is reading in school. Frannie hasnt thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more holy. There is a new boy in class everyone [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Mercer Mayer
Publisher: HarperFestival
Product Description
Little Critter is on a mission! After watching a film about climate changes at school, Little Critter decides to do his part to slow down global warming. With the help of his family and friends, Little Critter begins to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Together they learn about the [...]
Rating: (123 reviews)
Author: Angie Sage
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Product Description
The seventh son of the seventh son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he is born by a midwife who pronounces him dead. That same night, the baby’s father, Silas Heap, comes across a bundle in the snow containing a new born girl with [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Meg Cabot
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Product Description
When nine-year-old Allie Finkle’s parents announce that they are moving her and her brothers from their suburban split-level into an ancient Victorian in town, Allie’s sure her life is over. She’s not at all happy about having to give up her pretty pink wall-to-wall carpeting for creaky [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Angie Sage
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Product Description
When Silas Heap unSeals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she’s still up to no good. Her diabolical plan to give herself [...]
Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: John Grogan
Publisher: Collins
Product Description
Make way for Marley!
When the Grogan family is ready for a dog, they choose Marley, a yellow furball of a puppy who quickly grows into a large, rowdy Labrador retriever. Marley has a zest for life, and as he grows, so does his enthusiasm. He has an appetite [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Megan Mcdonald
Publisher: Candlewick
Product Description
“Stink is a delightful protagonist, and McDonald cleverly imparts information on smells. . . . A funny book for almost any collection.” — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
When Stink Moody’s second-grade class goes on a field trip to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum, he learns that his very [...]
Rating: (142 reviews)
Author: Brian Selznick
Publisher: Scholastic Press
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Book Description:
Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the [...]
Author: Jane O’Connor
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Description
Fancy Words Are Simply Fascinating!
From everyone’s favorite fancy girl comes an alphabetical guide to enhancing vocabulary. Why say beautiful when there are fancy words like gorgeous and glamorous? Instead of hello, try bonjour, which is French and so much fancier. An umbrella will keep you dry, but a parasol will make [...]
Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Book Description
When Mama Bear decides her family spends too much time in front of the TV, she bans it for a week. Then the Bear family finds other ways to have fun and keep busy, so they watch less when TV is [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Book Description
“When Mama Bear’s efforts to improve her family’s manners are unsuccessful, she devises a Politeness Plan–a chart listing a chore as a penalty for each act of rudeness. Basic etiquette is presented in a practical way. Berenstain illustrations add humor and [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Dan T. Davis
Publisher: Second Star Creations
Book Description
An Orphan’s Promise shows a realistic Santa mentoring orphan boys in his toyshop. When Ruby comes to learn toymaking, she also learns, when you are alone at age ten, being with Santa does not resolve the absence of her parents. This is a tale of [...]
Rating: (30 reviews) Author: Kirby Larson Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Book Description Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle’s homesteading claim. For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie’s been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late [...]
Rating: (288 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins
Amazon.com
Picking up from the final pages of the Pentultimate Peril, this farewell installment to the ridiculously (and deservedly!) popular A Series of Unfortunate Events places our protagonists right where we last left them: on a large, wooden boat in the middle of the ocean, trapped with their nemesis Count [...]
Rating: (65 reviews)
Author: Susan Patron
Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Rating: (223 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins
Amazon.com
In The Bad Beginning, things, well, begin badly for the three Baudelaire orphans. And sadly, events only worsen in The Reptile Room. In the third in Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events, there is still no hope on the horizon for these poor children. Their adventures are exciting and [...]
Rating: (80 reviews)
Author: Pam Munoz Ryan
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Rating: (179 reviews)
Author: Sean Covey
Publisher: Fireside
Amazon.com
Based on his father’s bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Sean Covey applies the same principles to teens, using a vivacious, entertaining style. To keep it fun, Covey writes, he “stuffed it full of cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all [...]
Rating: (29 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Description
Top secret—only for readers deeply interested in the Baudelaire case. How I pity these readers.
With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Cheri J. Meiners
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Book Description
Sharing is a social skill all children need to learn—the sooner the better. Concrete examples and reinforcing illustrations help children practice sharing, understand how and why to share, and realize the benefits of sharing. Includes a note to teachers and parents, additional information for adults, [...]
Rating: (271 reviews)
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Amazon.com
Lois Lowry’s magnificent novel of the distant future, The Giver, is set in a highly technical and emotionally repressed society. This eagerly awaited companion volume, by contrast, takes place in a village with only the most rudimentary technology, where anger, greed, envy, and casual cruelty [...]
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Alison Croggon
Publisher: Candlewick
Book Description
As this enthralling epic nears its climax, the young heroine’s brother discovers his own hidden gift — and the role he must play in battling the Dark.
Hem is a weary orphan whose struggle for survival ends when he is reunited with his lost sister, Maerad. But Maerad has [...]
