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 [...]
Rating: (60 reviews)
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Product Description
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 [...]
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: The Blue Sky Press
Product Description
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, [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Natasha Wing
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Product Description
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.
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!
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 [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Product Description
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
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 [...]
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?
Author: Minna Lacey
Publisher: Usborne Books
Product Description
Perfect for the busy run up to Christmas, this handy little spiral bound book presents 50 great projects to make for the festive season. The easy to follow activities include angel paperchains, a Christmas collage, sparkling tree decorations, a snow fairy Christmas card, tissue paper giftwrap and much, much more. [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Sandpiper
Product Description
Four years after the death of her mother, seven-year-old Allie goes to The Nutcracker with her grandfather who shares the memories of the special day he had when he took Allie’s mother to her first performance of the ballet.
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: DK CHILDREN
Product Description
A Christmas Carol is an essential part of Christmas for families everywhere. Since the book’s publication in 1843, the story of miserly Scrooge’s change of heart after the visit of three spirits has been encountered by children in innumerable books, plays, movies, and cartoons based on Dicken’s [...]
Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Katharine Holabird
Publisher: Puffin
Product Description
When Angelina Ballerina sees old Mr. Bell all alone at Christmastime, she decides to bring him some holiday cheer. Cousin Henry doesn’t want to help— until he finds that there’s a real Santa Claus living in their town! Angelina’s Christmas is a heartwarming story that is perfect for [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
This scrumptious follow-up to the bestselling Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons captures the spirit of the holiday season. From making the same kind of cookies at the same time each year (tradition) to decorating them with lots of sprinkles (celebrate), youngsters will gobble up vocabulary words and holiday [...]
Author: Vivian French
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Product Description
Two stories in one! Princess Hannah and Princess Lucy are fizzing with excitement. If Lily Room wins the prize for best stall at the Christmas Fair, they will get to lead the Princess Parade!
Rating: (86 reviews)
Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Product Description
First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote’s rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. We are proud to be reprinting this warm and delicately illustrated edition of A Christmas Memory–”a tiny gem of a holiday story” (School Library [...]
Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Gershen Kaufman
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Product Description
First published in 1990, this perennial best-seller has helped countless children build self-esteem and assertiveness skills.
Newly revised and updated, it’s the ultimate resource for any kid who’s ever been picked on at school, bossed around, blamed for things he or she didn’t do, or treated unfairly—and [...]
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 [...]
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Product Description
Do the folk stories about leprechauns match our ideas about them today? Are there other fairies in Irish tradition? What are the origins of these stories? Why do people believe in leprecahuns and fairies? Find out the answers to these questions and [...]
Author: Daisy Meadows
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Product Description
This Valentine’s Day isn’t so sweet!
Where’s the love? Jack Frost and his goblins have stolen the magical objects that make Valentine’s Day so special. Now sweethearts are sad, and friends and families are fighting! Even Rachel and Kirsty aren’t getting along.
When Juliet the Valentine Fairy asks the girls for help, [...]
Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Phillip M Hoose
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Product Description
“When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.’” – Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Birnbaum Travel Guides
Publisher: Disney Editions
Product Description
Children are perhaps Walt Disney World’s biggest fans. On playgrounds and in classrooms, there’s always excited talk about who went to Walt Disney World and what they did each day-or minute. It has become almost a rite of passage to visit America’s most popular travel destination, [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Alma Flor Ada
Publisher: Rayo
Product Description
Resuenen con alegría
los cánticos de mi tierra
que viva el Niño Jesús
que ha nacido en Nochebuena.
It’s time to sing out with joy
the songs that are sung in my land
in praise of the precious Child
born this holy Christmas evening.
Come share the joy of a Hispanic Christmas!
In this warm and [...]
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 [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Jane O’connor
Publisher: HarperFestival
Product Description
Nancy prepares an elegant Easter affair in this fancy new lift-the-flap book!
Throwing a fabulous and fancy Easter party is a very big job—and Nancy and Bree are in charge of decorating! This book includes thirteen flaps that open to reveal hidden surprises that will delight all festive Fancy [...]
Rating: (72 reviews)
Author: Brandon Mull
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
Very strange things are afoot at Fablehaven. Someone or something has released a plague that transforms beings of light into creatures of darkness. Seth discovers the problem early, but as the infectious disease spreads, it becomes clear that the preserve cannot hold out for long. In dire need [...]
Author: Beverly Cleary
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
Kids everywhere feel connected to Ramona’s unique way of looking at the world as she tries to adjust to new teachers, feels jealous about Susan’s curls, and is secretly pleased by Yard Ape’s teasing. The scrapes she gets herself into—like wearing pajamas to school or accidentally making egg yolk shampoo—are funny [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Deja King
Publisher: A King Production/Young Diamond Book
Product Description
Check out Mercedes and Dalvin, two beautiful young lovers in a modern day story that is destined to be a classic. Mercedes is truly a daddy s girl. She is his crown jewel and nothing in the world is more precious to him. Mercedes [...]
Rating: (67 reviews)
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Product Description
It’s been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents’ divorce—or since the fighting started. Now she has the chance to spend a carefree summer with her dad and his new family in the charming beach town where they live.
A job in a clothes [...]
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.
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Patricia A. Pingry
Publisher: Candy Cane Press
Product Description
Through simple words and illustrations a young child can meet Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States. The story introduces the most memorable events of Lincoln’s life; his childhood in Indiana, his leadership during the Civil War, and his writing of the Emancipation [...]
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: Egmont UK
Product Description
A classic Christmas story in an irresistible format, from the best-selling author/illustrator team, Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman.
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Sue Carabine
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Product Description
Santa doesn’t know lures from bait, so some fishermen gather to help him this Christmas Eve.
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Product Description
Category: HolidayOne Christmas morning, a boy finds a rocking horse under his tree. When he climbs on his back, they ride off on the most wondrous adventures–jousting with knights and capturing outlaws. But as the years go by & the boy outgrows his favorite childhood friend, [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Mercer Mayer
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Product Description
Mercer Mayer’s very popular character stars in a getting-ready- for-Christmas picture book. Little Critter approaches Christmas with the intention of being a good helper. When he makes a mistake, he has a logical explanation. He couldn’t wrap the Christmas package because the tape [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Wende Devlin
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
Old Cyrus Grape doesn’t like children. And he insists that the skating pond is his. Mr. Whiskers knows this isn’t true, but since he can’t prove it, there’ll be no skating…not even on Christmas Day!
That is…unless cleaning Mr. Whiskers’ house uncovers some important information.
Author: Katie Tait
Publisher: Scholastic
Product Description
The Care Bears try to help Grumpy Bear find his Christmas spirit.Children will love to read about these adorable bears and learn about their special caring mission as the Care Bears teach them the importance of caring for others and sharing their feelings.
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, [...]
Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Alan Katz
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
It’s Christmastime! While everyone else is singing “Frosty the Snowman” and “Winter Wonderland,” ring in your holidays with “Our Friendly Mailman” and “Something in My Brother’s Underpants”!
Songwriter and comedy writer par excellence Alan Katz roasts old Christmas chestnuts and turns them into sparkling new holiday hits that everyone [...]
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Clement C. Moore
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Product Description
The New York Times bestseller! How many families have wanted to share this classic poem with even the tiniest children but have hesitated to let them touch a fragile heirloom edition? That’s no longer a concern with this sturdy board book. Let the smallest ones [...]
