Rating: (57 reviews)
Author: Hooked on Phonics
Publisher: Hooked On Phonics
Product Description
1st level of the Learn to Read series!
Packed with musical audio CDs, flash cards, a workbook, and a library of 24 magical books, Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read Kindergarten is a great way to get started with basic phonics skills. Kids learn about letters [...]
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 [...]
Rating: (161 reviews)
Author: Kenneth C. Davis
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
Who really discovered America? What was “the shot heard ’round the world”? Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Did he or didn’t he?
From the arrival of Columbus through the bizarre election of 2000 and beyond, Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride through more than 500 years of [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Paul S. Kemp
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Product Description
The stunning conclusion to the Twilight War!
One of the Forgotten Realms world’s most compelling villains–the Archwizards of Shade–have come down from their flying city with their sights set on the merchant realm of Sembia. They come in the guise of allies, but have invasion [...]
Rating: (330 reviews)
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Puffin
Product Description
Luckily for Sophie, the BFG is nothing like his neighbors, whose favorite pastime is guzzling little children. Amazon.com Review
Evidently not even Roald Dahl could resist the acronym craze of the early eighties. BFG? Bellowing ferret-faced golfer? Backstabbing fairy godmother? Oh, oh … Big Friendly Giant! This BFG doesn’t [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Nina Laden
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Product Description
From the author and illustrator of Peek-a-Who?, Ready, Set, Go!, and Grow Up! (with combined sales of nearly 300,000 copies) comes another irresistible board book. With peek-a-boo windows and a mirror, this engaging book lets youngsters see themselves as adorable animal characters. The mirror is sure to [...]
Rating: (28 reviews)
Author: John Flanagan
Publisher: Philomel
Product Description
Still far from their homeland after escaping slavery in the icebound land of Skandia, Will and Evanlyn’s plans to return to Araluen are spoiled when Evanlyn is taken captive by a Temujai warrior. Though still weakened by the warmweed’s toxic effects, Will employs his Ranger training to locate [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Editors of Klutz
Publisher: Klutz
Product Description
An eight-color pigment-ink pad, eight foam-tipped dabbers, impressive techniques and plenty of inspirational artwork. Squish the foam tip into the ink pad and dab-dab-dab vibrant color right into the book. Three pages of stencils included to make everything from lady-bugs to aliens, plus a page of abstract [...]
Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Daisy Meadows
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Product Description
Fairyland is home to seven colorful sisters. Together, they are the Rainbow Fairies! They keep Fairyland dazzling and bright. But when evil Jack Frost sends them far away, the sisters are in big trouble. If they don’t return soon, Fairyland is doomed to be gray forever!
Can Rachel [...]
Rating: (524 reviews)
Author: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Product Description
The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world’s only completely accurate book of prophecies written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing and everything appears to [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: W. Rev Awdry
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Product Description
Requested again and again, here, at last, is the Thomas Bright and Early Board Book Box Set. All four of the enormously popular Thomas board books are here: Go, Train, Go!; Stop, Train, Stop!; A Crack in the Track!; and Blue Train, [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
Product Description
Cracking the SAT brings you proven techniques from the test prep experts! The 2009 edition includes full-length practices tests and exclusive free access to further review online. In Cracking the SAT, we’ll teach you how to think like the test writers and
· Master specific strategies for answering [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Ellen Schreiber
Publisher: HarperTeen
Product Description
It’s tough for love-struck Raven to imagine what’s keeping her nocturnal boyfriend from returning to Dullsville. So there’s only one thing to do—find Alexander. Along the way, Raven can’t resist the spot where she feels most at home, the Coffin Club. But when she stumbles upon a secret [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Randall McCutcheon, James Schaffer, Randall McCutcheon, James Schaffer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Product Description
This accessible guide gives you the tools you need to score high on the new SAT essay.
.
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: (205 reviews)
Author: Taro Gomi
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Pub
Product Description
“Everyone Poops by Taro Gomi is part biology textbook, part sociological treatise and all celebration of a very natural process. Both my daughters begged me to read the book over and over again. They marveled at the enormity of the elephant’s poop and searched with the [...]
Rating: (18 reviews)
Author:
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: (4 reviews)
Author: School Specialty Publishing
Publisher: Brighter Child
Product Description
Brighter Child Multiplication 0 to 12 Flash Cards offer children a fun and easy way to practice their multiplication skills. Featuring 54 cards with two multiplication problems, plus the answers on every card. Bright, bold numbers are placed on a white background for easy reading. A [...]
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: (14 reviews)
Author: Trevor Romain
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Product Description
“Everybody who goes to school does homework. You are not alone. And they feel just as sick as you do when they have to do it.” Trevor Romain knows how horrible homework can be, and kids will see this right away as they page through this [...]
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: (985 reviews)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Alfaguara
Product Description
Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour Eclipse, the much anticipated 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, Bella once again finds herself surrounded [...]
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: (101 reviews)
Author: Deborah Howe, James Howe
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
BEWARE THE HARE!
Is he or isn’t he a vampire?
Before it’s too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household — a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits…and fangs! Amazon.com Review
This immensely popular children’s story [...]
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, [...]
