February 27, 2010 – 10:49 am
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Carolyn Marsden
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Product Description
Gloria always spends Christmas with Papi, Mama, and Nana. But this Christmas, Papi is away picking oranges and Mama has to work at the hotel where she is a maid. Gloria is miserable when Mama makes her go with her-until they get to the hotel with its [...]
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February 13, 2010 – 7:39 pm
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 [...]
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Also tagged Ages 3-5, Animals, Authors & Illustrators, A-Z, Baby-3, Binding (binding), Board Book, Christmas, Early Reader Series, Education, Family Life, Fiction, Holidays & Festivals, Issues, Max, New Sibling, Nonfiction, People & Places, Printed Books, Rabbits, Refinements, Rosemary Wells, Siblings, Unlaunched Refinements, Wells, Rosemary
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February 8, 2010 – 9:49 am
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 [...]
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Also tagged Adolescentes, Binding (binding), BISAC Test, Custom Stores, Dessen, Sarah, Family Life, Fiction, Hardcover, Literature & Fiction, Love & Romance, Parents, People & Places, Printed Books, Refinements, Sarah Dessen, Specialty Stores, Teens, Young Adult
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February 4, 2010 – 6:58 pm
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Marie Hall Ets
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Product Description
Published over 30 years ago, Nine Days to Christmas remains fresh and relevant. Ceci’s first Christmas posada party and pinata have made her Mexican town come alive for generations of readers. “The youngest child will be completely transported by this lovely story”.–The Atlantic. Three-color illustrations.
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Also tagged 4 - 8 años, Ages 3-5, Ages 4-8, Binding (binding), Christmas, Classics, Classics by Age, Fiction, Hardcover, Holidays & Festivals, Literature & Fiction, Marie Hall Ets, Picture Books, Printed Books, Refinements, Teens, Unlaunched Refinements
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January 31, 2009 – 12:34 am
Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Product Description
How did Jon Scieszka get so funny, anyway? Growing up as one of six brothers was a good start, but that was just the beginning. Throw in Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, jokes [...]
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Posted in Ages 9-12
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Also tagged Ages 9-12, Binding (binding), Biographies, Family Life, General AAS, Jon Scieszka, Mass Market, Nonfiction, Paperback, People & Places, Printed Books, Refinements, Siblings, Trade
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January 24, 2009 – 8:55 am
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Kelly Link
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Product Description
Kelly Link has lit up adult literary publishing—and Viking is honored to publish her first YA story collection. Through the lens of Link’s vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning “The Faery Handbag,” in which a teenager’s [...]
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Also tagged Action & Adventure, Adventure & Thrillers, Binding (binding), Fantasy, Fiction, General AAS, Hardcover, Kelly Link, Literature & Fiction, Printed Books, Refinements, Science Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror, Teens, Young Adult
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January 18, 2009 – 2:53 pm
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: John Bemelmans Marciano
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Product Description
The Paris skies are gray, so Miss Clavel and the twelve little girls are leaving for brighter weather— spring in Rome. Rome has wonderful sights to see and delicious things to eat, but Madeline also finds an unexpected adventure, involving a thief, a chase, and many, [...]
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Also tagged Action & Adventure, Ages 4-8, Animals, Binding (binding), Cats, Europe & Russia, Explore the World, Fiction, General AAS, Hardcover, John Bemelmans Marciano, People & Places, Printed Books, Refinements
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August 26, 2008 – 2:14 am
Rating: (57 reviews)
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
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Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes till the bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants — can you make 1 good [...]
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Also tagged Ages 4-8, Baby-3, Basic Concepts, Binding (binding), Counting, Fiction, Games, Hardcover, Humorous, Issues, Jon Scieszka, Math, Printed Books, Puzzles, School, Science, Nature & How It Works, Scieszka, Jon, Smith, Lane, Sports & Activities, Staff Favorites
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Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Rosemary Wells
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
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Max is an irresistibly cute but persistent little bunny who wants what he wants when he wants it–any parent with an active toddler will relate. And like most little kids, Max thinks the grass is always greener on the other side; to be more precise, he’s sure the [...]
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Also tagged Activities & Toys, All 4-for-3 Deals, Animals, Archive, Baby-3, Basic Concepts, Binding (binding), Board Book, Children's Books: Baby-3: General, Children's Books: Literature: General, Counting, Custom Stores, Early Reader, Family Life, Fiction, Humorous, Issues, Max, New Sibling, People & Places, Printed Books, Rabbits, Rosemary Wells, Series, Siblings, Specialty Stores, Sports & Activities, Wells, Rosemary
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Rating: (49 reviews)
Author: Simms Taback
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
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When Joseph’s favorite overcoat gets old and worn, he makes a jacket out of it. When the jacket is more patches than jacket, Joseph turns it into a vest. When the vest’s number is up, Joseph makes a scarf. This thrifty industry continues until there’s nothing left of [...]
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Also tagged Ages 0-3 (Board Books), Ages 13+, Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Archive, Baby-3, Barney, Basic Concepts, Bedtime & Dreaming, Binding (binding), Blue's Clues, Board Books, Boynton, Sandra, Carle, Eric, Children's Books: Baby-3: General, Children's Books: Literature: Classics by Age: General, Children's Books: Literature: General, Classics, Custom Stores, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths, Goodnight Moon, Guess How Much I Love You, Hardcover, Hoban, Tana, Nursery Rhymes, Peter Rabbit, Picture Books, Pop-Up & Movable, Printed Books, Scarry, Richard, Sesame Street, Simms Taback, Specialty Stores, Stories, Taback, Simms, Teletubbies, Thomas the Tank Engine, Winnie-the-Pooh
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Rating: (85 reviews)
Author: Robert McCloskey
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
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Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk go the blueberries into the pail of a little girl named Sal who–try as she might–just can’t seem to pick as fast as she eats. Robert McCloskey’s classic is a magical tale of the irrepressible curiosity–not to mention appetite–of youth. Sal and her mother set [...]
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Also tagged Ages 4-8, Animals, Archive, Baby-3, Barney, Basic Concepts, Bears, Bedtime & Dreaming, Binding (binding), Blue's Clues, Board Books, Boynton, Sandra, Carle, Eric, Children's Books: Baby-3: General, Children's Books: Literature: Classics by Age: General, Children's Books: Literature: General, Classics, Custom Stores, Fiction, Friendship, Goodnight Moon, Guess How Much I Love You, Hardcover, Hoban, Tana, Humorous, McCloskey, Robert, Nursery Rhymes, People & Places, Peter Rabbit, Picture Books, Pop-Up & Movable, Printed Books, Robert McCloskey, Scarry, Richard, Sesame Street, Social Situations, Specialty Stores, Staff Favorites, Staff Picks, Teletubbies, Thomas the Tank Engine, Winnie-the-Pooh
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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 [...]
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Also tagged Action & Adventure, Adoption, Archive, Babysitting, Being a Teen, Binding (binding), Bullies, Children's Books: Issues: General, Children's Books: Literature: General, Children's Books: People & Places: Family Life: Gen, Children's Literature Guides, Custom Stores, Dating & Intimacy, Dessen, Sarah, Disaster Preparedness, Divorce, Drug Use & Abuse, Drugs, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths, Family, Family Life, Fiction, First Day of School, Friendship, Girls & Women, Hardcover, Homosexuality, Humorous, Hygiene, Illness, Issues, Literary Criticism & Collections, Marriage & Divorce, Money, Moving, Multigenerational, New Baby, New Experiences, New Sibling, Nutrition, Orphans & Foster Homes, Parents, People & Places, Personal Safety, Pet Death, Phobias, Poetry, Popular Culture, Popularity, Potty Training, Pregnancy, Prejudice, Prejudice & Racism, Printed Books, Read-Aloud, Sarah Dessen, School, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror, Sex Education, Sexual Abuse, Short Story Collections, Shyness, Siblings, Sleep, Social Issues, Social Skills, Special Needs, Specialty Stores, Stepfamilies, Suicide, Teens, Teens: Social Issues: General, Tolerance, Twins, Violence, Weight
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December 6, 2007 – 6:30 am
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Don Freeman
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Book Description
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house Corduroy and his friends were trimming the tree, singing carols, munching cookies, and waiting for Santa. Join in the festivities with Corduroy as he helps make the holiday jolly. With its appealing die-cut shape and sturdy pages, [...]
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Also tagged Activities & Toys, Ages 4-8, All 4-for-3 Deals, Animals, Baby-3, Bears, Christmas, Don Freeman, Fiction, Freeman, Don, Halloween, Holidays & Festivals, jp-unknown1, People & Places, Specialty Stores, Sports & Activities, Stores
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December 5, 2007 – 11:54 pm
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Don Freeman, B. G. Hennessy
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
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Also tagged Activities & Toys, B. G. Hennessy, Baby-3, Christmas, Don Freeman, Fiction, Freeman, Don, Holidays & Festivals, People & Places, Pop-Up & Movable, Sports & Activities
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November 30, 2007 – 2:15 pm
Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Katharine Holabird
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Book 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! With festive sparkly foil on the jacket and a heartwarming [...]
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Posted in Ages 4-8
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Also tagged Ages 4-8, Animals, Christmas, Craig, Helen, Fiction, Holidays & Festivals, Katharine Holabird, Mice, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs & Squirrels, People & Places, Picture Books
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November 15, 2007 – 7:18 pm
Rating: (7 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Book Description
Yucky music, great big feet.
Ladies smelling way too sweet.
Look at knees and stand in line.
Llama Llama starts to whine.
Does any child like to go shopping? Not Llama Llama! But Mama cant leave Llama at home, so off they go to Shop-O-Rama. Lots of aisles. Long lines. Mama is too [...]
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Posted in Ages 4-8
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Also tagged Ages 4-8, Animals, Family Life, Fiction, Health, Humorous, Mammals, Nature & How It Works, Parents, People & Places, Personal Hygiene, Science
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November 15, 2007 – 5:48 pm
Rating: (66 reviews)
Author: Marjorie Flack, Kurt Wiese
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
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The tale of a little duck alone on the Yangtze River, The Story About Ping is a sweet and funny book with wonderfully rich and colorful illustrations. On a day like any other, Ping sets off from the boat he calls home with his comically large [...]
November 13, 2007 – 11:20 pm
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
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‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring because of a nasty, contagious illness–even the mouse is in bed with a miserable cold. Only brave Madeline is up and about … competently running the household until she hears a knock at [...]
November 13, 2007 – 7:42 pm
Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Al Gore
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Book Description
Former Vice President Al Gore’s New York Times #1 bestselling book is a daring call to action, exposing the shocking reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and the future we face if we do not take action to stop global warming. [...]
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November 13, 2007 – 8:27 am
Rating: (90 reviews)
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Book Description
Last year, Annabel was “the girl who has everything”—at least that’s the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf ’s Department Store.This year, she’s the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister [...]
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November 13, 2007 – 5:19 am
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Sharon Shinn
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Book Description
When seventeen-year-old heiress Averie Winston travels with her guardian to faraway Chiarrin, she looks forward to a reunion with her father, who is a commanding general, seeing her handsome fiancé Morgan once more, and exploring the strange new country. What she finds is entirely different. Although the [...]
November 12, 2007 – 9:12 pm
Rating: (82 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
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Have you ever dreamed of being locked in a department store at night? The endearing story of Corduroy paints a picture of the adventures that might unfold (for a teddy bear at least) in such a situation. When all the shoppers have gone home for the night, Corduroy climbs down [...]
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November 12, 2007 – 2:15 pm
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Rosemary Wells
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Book Description
“Goodnight, Max,” says Max’s sister Ruby. But Max can’t get comfortable. First he spills a glass of water. Then there are all those itchy cookie crumbs in his bed…and the moon shining through his window. Will poor Max ever fall asleep? Rosemary Wells’ beloved Max and Ruby [...]
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November 12, 2007 – 6:10 am
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Jan Karon, Melanie Cecka
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Book Description
Violet Goes to the Country is the second in a series of bestselling Mitford Storybooks inspired by Cynthia Coppersmith, a character from Jan Karons Mitford Years series.
Violet and her owner, Alice, are off to the country for a visit. Violet is as excited as can [...]
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Also tagged Ages 4-8, Animals, Cats, Country Life, Emily Arnold, Fiction, Jan Karon, McCully, Melanie Cecka, People & Places, Where We Live
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November 8, 2007 – 8:27 pm
Rating: (144 reviews)
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Amazon.com
If geese had graves, Mother Goose would be rolling in hers. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales retells–and wreaks havoc on–the allegories we all thought we knew by heart. In these irreverent variations on well-known themes, the ugly duckling grows up to be an ugly [...]
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November 8, 2007 – 2:19 am
Rating: (74 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Book Description
Llama, Llama red pajama waiting, waiting for his mama. Mama isn’t coming yet. Baby Llama starts to fret. In this infectious rhyming read-aloud, Baby Llama turns bedtime into an all-out llama drama! Tucked into bed by his mama, Baby Llama immediately starts worrying when she goes downstairs, and his [...]
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Also tagged Ages 4-8, Animals, Baby-3, Bedtime & Dreaming, Emotions & Feelings, Family Life, Fiction, Humorous, People & Places, Picture Books, Social Situations
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November 7, 2007 – 9:50 pm
Rating: (47 reviews)
Author: Robert McCloskey
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Amazon.com
It’s not easy for duck parents to find a safe place to bring up their ducklings, but during a rest stop in Boston’s Public Garden, Mr. and Mrs. Mallard think they just might have found the perfect spot–no foxes or turtles in sight, plenty of peanuts from pleasant [...]
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November 3, 2007 – 7:28 pm
Rating: (62 reviews)
Author: Munro Leaf
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Amazon.com
What else can be said about the fabulous Ferdinand? Published more than 50 years ago (and one of the bestselling children’s books of all time), this simple story of peace and contentment has withstood the test of many generations. Ferdinand is a little bull who much prefers sitting [...]
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October 30, 2007 – 1:23 pm
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Jan Karon, Melanie Cecka
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Book Description
No Mitford collection is complete without the Violet books
Violet Comes to Stay is the first in a series of storybooks inspired by Cynthia Coppersmith, Father Tims wife from Jan Karons bestselling Mitford Years series. Jan Karons legions of fans will love this timeless story about [...]
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