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 | My Little Pony Storybook Collection Product# 458504679 Selling for $11.99 "Fun and friendship await in a treasury of eight classic stories where youngsters can join their favorite Pony Pals on a balloon ride, for a party, or for dressing up." |
 | Split Screen: Attack of the Soul-sucking Brain Zombies / Bride of the Soul-sucking Brain Zombies Product# 458504924 Selling for $17.89 "In a flip book with two stories back to back, best friends Min and Russel sign up to be extras on the set of a zombie film and then learn that there's nothing scarier than high school romance! Original." |
 | Staying Nine Product# 458505788 Selling for $4.99 "One week from her tenth birthday, Heather has decided she wants to sty nine forever. She agrees to an unbirthday party--which cannot include cake, candles or singing. Then she learns a valuable lesson from her uncle's girlfriend, Rosa Rita, who shows her that growing up and change are necessary--and can even by fun! Illustrations." |
 | Iris and Walter: The Sleepover Product# 460447651 Selling for $5.95 Iris discovers that her first sleepover may not be as fun as she imagined. |
 | Blue Eyes Better Product# 460450932 Selling for $5.99 "Written with quiet intensity, this beautiful and spare novel examines what happens to Tessa's family after her fifteen-year-old brother is killed in a drunk-driving accident. Set adrift, Tessa is forced to find a way to keep going ... even as her mother drifts further and further from her. Like Getting Near to Baby, this is an unstinting, compassionate, and deceptively plain story of a damaged family forging a way out of its grief." |
| Iris and Walter: The Sleepover Product# 460451085 Selling for $5.95 Iris discovers that her first sleepover may not be as fun as she imagined. |
 | Love, Ruby Lavender Product# 460544737 Selling for $5.95 "When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death." |
 | It's Hard to Be Five: Learning How to Work My Control Panel Product# 460545665 Selling for $17.89 "A child finds that learning to have self control is hard, but it can also be fun." |
 | Frog and Toad All Year Product# 460545822 Selling for $16.99 Two friends share experiences in each season of the year. |
 | Will You, Won't You? Product# 460545950 Selling for $15.89 "Thirteen-year-old Madison Parker is content with being invisible to most since all she ever wanted was a quiet summer in Vermont, yet with a Justice Department attorney for a mother and a grandmother working for the Senate Finance Committee, anonymity is sometimes not attainable." |
 | Lizzy's Ups and Downs: Not an Ordinary School Day Product# 460546098 Selling for $15.99 "Lizzie goes about her crazy day at school and experiences different things, both good and bad, along the way, such as not being able to sit in her usual seat on the bus to reciting her special poem to her entire class." |
 | Where's the Poop? Product# 460546154 Selling for $8.99 "Offers a creative introduction of potty training as various animals go about their business and then young readers lift-the-flaps to find the 'poop' in all types of places out in the wild, as well as at home." |
 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Product# 460546186 Selling for $17.95 "An account of how the author came to be a writer and selections from his writer's notebook augment stories juxtaposing fantasy and truth, and peopled with outrageous and courageous characters. Book available." |
 | Is There Really a Human Race? Product# 460546648 Selling for $17.89 "While thinking about life as a race, a child wonders whether it is most important to finish first or to have fun along the way." |
 | Walking on Glass Product# 460546732 Selling for $16.89 "When the decision to stop his mother's life-sustaining machines is put upon him, her young son must weigh all the options in order to make the right decision for the person he loves most in the world." |
 | The Carrot Seed Product# 460547588 Selling for $6.99 A little boy just knows that a carrot will grow from the seed that he plants--whatever his family may believe--in this brief (101 words) classic story of childhood faith rewarded. Two- and four-color illustrations. |
 | The Wish Product# 460547718 Selling for $5.99 "When Wilma gets one wish, she asks to be the most popular girl at school--but when her wish is granted it's more than she bargained for." |
| Love, Ruby Lavender Product# 460552329 Selling for $5.95 "When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death." |
 | Big Mouth & Ugly Girl Product# 460678836 Selling for $7.99 "Big Mouth No I did not. I did not, I did not. I did not say those things, and I did not plan those things. Won't It anyone believe me?Ugly Girl All right, Ugly Girl made a mistake. I'd told my mom what I'd heard in the cafeteria, and she'd told Dad. Evidently. I'd thought for sure they would want me to speak up for the truth." |
 | Breaking Point Product# 460678839 Selling for $15.95 "As a new and non-wealthy student at Gate, Paul finds day-to-day life to be a bit difficult, so when he is invited into the inner circle, Paul thinks things have changed until he is asked to do something that goes beyond a typical favor or request." |
 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Product# 460679826 Selling for $7.99 "Young Cassie Logan endures humiliation and witnesses the racism of the KKK as they embark on a cross-burning rampage, before she fully understands the importance her family attributes to having land of their own" |
 | Taking Sides Product# 460680060 Selling for $5.95 "Lincoln is in a jam when his basketball team at his new school--where the students are rich and mostly white--faces his old team from the barrio on the boards. How can he play his best against his friends? No matter who wins, it looks like it will be lose-lose for Lincoln." |
 | The Worm Family Product# 460680068 Selling for $16 "Despite being different from their shiny neighbors, the Worm family is happy being who they are and so, instead of packing up and moving away, decide to stay put in order to get to know their neighbors in the hopes of teaching them just how special they are." |
 | The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963: With Connections Product# 460680828 Selling for $19.85 "The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963." |
 | Hunter's Best Friend at School Product# 460680862 Selling for $17.89 Hunter the raccoon is not sure what he should do when his best friend Stripe starts acting up at preschool. |
 | Loser Product# 460680868 Selling for $16.89 "Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself." |
 | A Walk in the Rain With a Brain Product# 460680878 Selling for $16.95 Lucy meets a brain that helps her realize that everyone is smart in different ways. Includes a discussion section for parents and teachers. |
 | How Do I Love You? Product# 460680897 Selling for $16.89 "Counts the ways in which a child can be loved, from one to twenty and more." |
 | Annie, Between the States Product# 460680899 Selling for $16.89 "While performing secret operations for the Confederates during the Civil War while her brother is away fighting, Annie is soon faced with a great personal conflict when she is befriended by a Union lieutenant who suddenly makes her think differently about the goals of the Confederacy and her role in the war. Readers Guide available." |
 | Hitler's Daughter Product# 460680930 Selling for $16.99 "'Her name was Heidi, and she was Hitler's daughter. It began on a rainy morning in Australia, as part of a game played by Mark and his friends. It was a storytelling game, and the four friends took turns weaving tales about fairies and mermaids and horses. But Anna's story was different this time: It was not a fairy tale or an adventure story. The story was about a young girl who lived during World War II. Her name was Heidi, and she was Hitler's daughter. As Anna's story unfolds, Mark is haunted by the image of Hitler's daughter. He wonders what he would have done in her place if he had known his father was an evil man leading the world into a war that was destroying millions of lives. And if Mark had known, would he have had the power and determination to stop him? This intriguing novel poses powerful questions about a frightening period in history and will force readers to examine moral issues in a fresh, compelling light." |
 | Big Mouth & Ugly Girl Product# 460680944 Selling for $25 "Having been the only one to hear Matt Donaghy threaten to blow up the school, Ursula Riggs, a loner and outsider at Rocky River High School, is left on her own to figure out what needs to be done with the statement she has heard. Read by Hilary Swank & Ch" |
 | Claws Product# 460680967 Selling for $16.89 "''Life will sooner or later show its claws.' --Anton Chekov' For sixteen -year-old Jed Berg, life couldn't be sweeter. He's gotten his driver's license, landed a major girlfriend, and made number one singles in varsity tennis. His dad has even begun to let him drive his 1969 Chevy Camaro -- he's the envy of every guy at school. Then Jed meets his nemesis, a strange punk chick who seems to know everything about Jed -- and about his family. She has a secret to share, a secret so unsettling it triggers a chain of dreadful events. From the streets of Duluth to the treacherous wilderness of northern Minnesota, acclaimed author Will Weaver spins a mesmerizing story of two unforgettable teenagers caught in a web of love, betrayal, and survival." |
 | Katie John Product# 460681032 Selling for $16.89 "Ten-year-old Katie John Tucker did not look forward to the summer she and her parents were to spend in the enormous old house in the small southern town. She hadn't wanted to leave her friends, and she wished that fall would come quickly.But in spite of all her gloomy predictions, Katie John had a wonderful summer. With her new friend, Sue Halsey, she explored the old house and found it full of exciting surprises. The girls founded a society to improve people, and 'improved' Sue's infuriating older sister with amazing results." |
 | Blow Me a Kiss, Miss Lilly Product# 460681033 Selling for $15.89 "When her best friend, an old lady named Miss Lilly, passes away, Sara learns that the memory of a loved one never dies." |
 | Betsy-Tacy Product# 460681069 Selling for $15.99 "Betsy and Tacy were two little five-year-olds, such inseparable friends that they were regarded almost as one. These stories of their friendship present a very real picture of young children living in the early 1900's. Each book features amusing illustrations by award-winning author/illustrator Lois Lenski." |
 | William's Doll Product# 460681098 Selling for $16.89 "'Nonconforming William's heart is set on a doll; his father and brother are set against it. William gets his wish, and readers get a satisfying story that takes a gentle swipe at sexism'.--School Library Journal. ALA Notable Children's Book; New York Times Outstanding Children's Book. Full-color illustrations." |
 | Vanishing Product# 460681134 Selling for $14.89 "Alice just can't stop crying. To her, it seems as if it should be simple. If your parents split up, you live with the one who understands you best. Alice's father had always been the one to 'get' her. But somehow she had ended up living with her mom, who drank too much, and her stepfather, who didn't like her and didn't care who knew it. So when a bout with bronchitis lands her in the hospital, she decides she just can't face going home again -- ever. What if she simply stops eating -- goes on a hunger strike? They would have to keep her there, wouldn't they? It seems like the simplest solution, even when the hallucinations start, even when they kind of take over. But suppose she goes into a coma -- or dies? If that happens, she'll have to leave her new friend Rex, the mysterious boy who says he's dying, but whose jaunty ways have brought Alice to life." |
 | Walking Mary Product# 460681140 Selling for $16.89 "To escape problems with both of her parents throughout her childhood in the 1940s and 50s, Pearl Harbor Keenan reaches out to Walking Mary, a strange old woman who meets every single passenger train that pulls into the Framburg depot." |
 | Incredible Me Product# 460681146 Selling for $16.99 "Join a rambunctious child as she exuberantly celebrates all the wonderful qualities that make her special -- her nose, her toes, her ears, herself! Award winners Kathi Appelt and G. Brian Karas team up to create this joyous tribute to the wonders of being ... ME!" |
 | Incredible Me! Product# 460681147 Selling for $16.89 "Join a rambunctious child as she exuberantly celebrates all the wonderful qualities that make her special -- her nose, her toes, her ears, herself! Award winners Kathi Appelt and G. Brian Karas team up to create this joyous tribute to the wonders of being ... ME!" |
 | Happenings Product# 460681163 Selling for $15.89 "A high school girl faces pressure from her older brother, who is also her guardian, when she and her peers peacefully protest a teacher who they believe has stopped doing her job." |
 | Breathing Underwater Product# 460681179 Selling for $18.99 "Like father, like son Intelligent, popular, handsome, and wealthy, sixteen-year-old Nick Andreas is pretty much perfect -- on the outside, at least. What no one knows -- not even his best friend -- is the terror that Nick faces every time he is alone with his father. Then he and Caitlin fall in love, and Nick thinks his problems are over. Caitlin is the one person who he can confide in. But when things start to spiral out of control, Nick must face the fact that he's gotten more from his father than green eyes and money." |
 | Slap Your Sides: A Novel Product# 460681193 Selling for $16.89 Life in their Pennsylvania hometown changes for Jubal Shoemaker and his family when his older brother witnesses to his Quaker beliefs by becoming a conscientious objector during World War II. |
 | I Used to Be the Baby Product# 460681204 Selling for $15.89 "Now that there is a newborn in the family, the older sibling has a new role to play, using his know-how and experience to make the new baby feel right at home." |
 | The Very Worst Thing Product# 460681216 Selling for $15.99 "'David doesn't belong anywhere. He isn't good at school, or talking to people, or making friends. He's been in six different foster homes, and he can't really remember his parents. It seems like he'll never have anything all his own. Then he finds an owl egg. With the help of Mab, the skinny 'girl genius' of his class, he names it King Arthur and sets out to hatch and raise an owl of his very own. As they wait for King Arthur to hatch and as they raise the funny-looking owl chick, Mab and David become true friends. But Mab's father thinks they should return King Arthur to the wild. Can David give up his owl? Is it even the right thing to do? What can David do if the worst thing of all happens?" |
 | Nothing to Lose Product# 460681306 Selling for $17.89 "Having found freedom and happiness as a member of a traveling fair, seventeen-year-old Michael Daye's past comes calling when his mother goes on trial for killing his brutal step-father and he now must decide whether or not to leave his contented world in order to help his mother in her time of need." |
 | Nothing to Lose Product# 460681307 Selling for $7.99 "Having found freedom and happiness as a member of a traveling fair, seventeen-year-old Michael Daye's past comes calling when his mother goes on trial for killing his brutal step-father and he now must decide whether or not to leave his contented world in order to help his mother in her time of need. Reprint." |
 | Home of the Braves Product# 460681376 Selling for $9.99 "What makes an average American high school suddenly become violent? As Joe Brickman heads into the fall of his senior year, he's looking forward to the soccer season, when he will captain the Lawndale team. And surely this will be the year when he and his neighbor Kristine stop teasing each other and begin dating. But scary, unpredictable things start happening at Lawndale High. It's hard to tell what touches off the storm. Is it the arrival of Antonio Silva, a.k.a. the Phenom, a Brazilian soccer star who transforms the Lawndale Braves into a contender, and in doing so clashes with football players? Is it the shake-up of the social order in the school, when the Phenom starts dating Kris, and soccer becomes the 'in' sport? Is it the brutal humiliation of Joe's best friend, Ed 'the Mouse' McBean, and is Ed planning on taking some dark revenge on the entire school? Perhaps it's all of these new twists, and something older. As violence and danger escalate and school officials clamp down with zero tolerance, Joe finds himself searching for the courage to break f" |
 | Jumping the Scratch: A Novel Product# 460681426 Selling for $15.99 "After moving with his mother to a trailer park to care for an injured aunt, eleven-year-old Jamie Reardon struggles to cope with a deeply buried secret." |
 | 13 Little Blue Envelopes Product# 460681427 Selling for $16.99 "When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life." |
 | 13 Little Blue Envelopes Product# 460681428 Selling for $17.89 "When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life." |
 | Maine Squeeze Product# 460681530 Selling for $5.99 "Colleen thinks it is finally going to be a great summer when she lands a great job, a great boyfriend, and a house with no parents, but when last summer's boyfriends shows up, her Maine island suddenly becomes too small for the three of them. Original." |
 | You, Maybe: The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School Product# 460681535 Selling for $16.89 "Josie, a fifteen-year-old high school sophomore, is smart, funny, and very much her own person, but when popular senior Carson Gold starts wooing her, she cannot resist his attention." |
 | Cookies: Bite-size Life Lessons Product# 460681585 Selling for $14.89 "Definitions for everyday words, such as 'fair' and 'cooperation,' are presented to youngsters in order to demonstrate important life lessons with regard to managing day-to-day choices, problems, and situations in a young person's world." |
 | Do-over Product# 460681637 Selling for $7.99 "Thirteen-year-old Whitman has to deal with the anger he feels towards his father when his parents separate, his own interest in several girls, and the heady feeling of acting in his first play. Reissue." |
 | Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Product# 460681739 Selling for $13.95 The story of Alexander's rotten day leads off a collection of stories and poems about the trials and tribulations of childhood. Read by Blythe Danner. Book available. |
 | Confessions of a Teen Nanny Product# 460681768 Selling for $8.99 "Drawn into the glamour, luxury, and romance of Manhattan's elite by the sister of one of their charges, two sixteen-year-old nannies enjoy high salaries, extravagant gifts, and attention--for which they may have to pay a very high price. Reprint." |
 | Juicy Secrets Product# 460681769 Selling for $15.99 "Nannies Adrienne and Liz, harboring secrets of their own, discover that the glittering world of the rich and famous on the Upper East Side is not always what it seems when they become immersed in scandal and betrayal at the hands of evil Cameron Warner." |
 | The Secrets of Peaches Product# 460681771 Selling for $16.99 "As the hot sun sets on the orchards in a farming town in Georgia, a group of girls manages their romantic lives in the cool of the night as relationships come together and fall apart over the course of one magical summer. 75,000 first printing." |
 | Sins of the Fathers Product# 460681808 Selling for $17.89 "At Boston's Blessed Sacrament Catholic School, Drew, aided by a priest who is far from perfect--and on the wrong side of the Monsignor--stands by his best friends as one struggles to avoid being sent to public school and the other tries to hide serious problems." |
 | Haunted Product# 460681862 Selling for $7.99 "Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator, one who communicates with the dead, and she also happens to be in love with Jesse, a nineteenth-century ghost." |
 | Circle The Soul Softly Product# 460681933 Selling for $15.99 "Suppressed memories of childhood sexual abuse resurface, jeopardizing fifteen-year-old Kate's relationship with her new boyfriend." |
 | Bittersweet Sixteen Product# 460681942 Selling for $15.99 A student at New York's most exclusive preparatory school for girls deals with the mayhem of 'Sweet Sixteen' birthday parties given by the ultra-wealthy. |
 | Is He or Isn't He? Product# 460681970 Selling for $8.99 "Best friends Paige and Anthony set their sights on the same new boy, Max, not knowing whether he is gay or straight, and doing everything they can to find out--except ask him. Original." |
 | Getting Lost With Boys Product# 460682021 Selling for $8.99 "This summer, Cordelia Packer finds herself on an unexpectedly wild ride with her sister's very cute but obnoxious ex, Jacob Stein, and for the first time in her life, she is completely lost...on the road, and in love. Original." |
 | Good Girls Product# 460682123 Selling for $16.99 "Sixteen-year-old high school senior Audrey is humiliated when a compromising photograph of her is sent around her school, but she discovers a toughness within her that she never knew she had." |
 | NOW YOU SEE HER Product# 460682488 Selling for $15.99 "Beautiful, talented, and envied by almost everyone around her, Hope's family and friends are shocked when it is revealed that she faked her own abduction and they discover the unbelievable reasons why. 39,000 first printing." |
 | Beauty Queen Product# 460682595 Selling for $16.99 "'I felt the prick of the needle, but only for a second, because this great rush of warmth quickly followed, encompassing my whole body from my toes fight up to the top hair on my head. I could not move as she guided the needle in and out of my vein. When she was done, I felt like I had entered heaven. I looked in the mirror and felt beautiful and confident. I felt this great peace at last, this warmth, and I knew that everything was going to be okay -- and really always had been. Like time had stopped and I was floating on a cloud.'" |
 | The Half-A-Moon Inn Product# 460682699 Selling for $4.99 "Lost on wintry roads, mute-born Aaron searches for his mother, who has failed to return from the town market. Nearly half-frozen, he stumbles into the Half-a-Moon Inn, where the wicked proprietor forces him to assist her with picking pockets and prying into people's dreams. Readers have been captivated by Aaron's escape from evil since 1980, when this charming and suspenseful book was first published. Illustrated." |
 | DREAM SOUL Product# 460682721 Selling for $6.99 "Will the Lees celebrate Christmas? Everyone 'else in their small town in West Virginia is getting ready for Christmas, but Joan's parents won't let her and her siblings celebrate: Christmas is not Chinese. Then their father finally promises they can go to a neighbor's Christmas party, but only if none of them misbehaves at all in the weeks before the holiday. If only he was as generous as Joan's friend Victoria's father! Continuing the story of the Lees begun in 'The Star Fisher, Dream Soul is a touching story of love, loyalty, and the importance of family." |
 | Brainboy And The Deathmaster Product# 460682727 Selling for $6.99 "When the new prototype of his favorite game, StarMaster, leads him to the laboratory of software guru Keith Masterly, orphan and computer game genius Darryl Kirby finds his life plunged into danger when he uncovers Keith's diabolical scheme, which forces him to confront his painful past. Reprint." |
| Boy Crazy! Confidential : The Truth About Flirting, Friendship, and Love Product# 460682741 Selling for $5.99 "In the Boy Crazy! 'TM' fiction series, readers get to live out the fantasy of meeting a real Boy Crazy! 'TM' boy. Young protagonists are placed in romantic conflicts that are front and center in every girl's life, and the objects of their affection are real Boy Crazy! 'TM' boys. Fully integrated into the stories are real elements of the Boy Crazy! 'TM' universe, blurring the line between reality and fantasy. Get ready to fall head over heels! It's all here -- everything girls need to know about life and love, straight from the Boy Crazy! 'TM' boys themselves. Broken into easily digestible sections, input and quotes from boys are interspersed with thoughtful commentary designed to help girls figure it all out (including boys)." |
 | What Do You Do, Dear?: Proper Conduct for All Occasions Product# 460682757 Selling for $7.95 What do you do when: a lady polar bear walks into your igloo in a white fur coat?the lady you are forcing to walk the plank drops her handkerchief?you meet someone coming the other way on a circus tightrope? This is the funniest book on good behavior you'll ever read! |
 | Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack Product# 460682856 Selling for $6.99 "Published in 1972, Kerr's spectacularly funny and now famous first novel for young adults is not another anti-drug sermon. Dinky does not shoot smack nor is she about to--she only makes the announcement so that her mother will give her some attention." |
 | Slot Machine Product# 460682860 Selling for $6.99 "The summer program Elvin Bishop is attending at Flagship Academy turns out to be a glorified sports camp, where each incoming freshman must find his athletic 'slot'. That's a problem when you're a wisecracking, overweight sports incompetent. But as Elvin bounces from sport to sport, he learns a surprising lesson--sometimes real strength comes from knowing when not to play the game. A 1996 ALA Best Book for Young Adults. A 1996 ALA Recommended Book for Reluctant Young Readers. A 1995 Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book." |
| Big Mouth & Ugly Girl Product# 460682871 Selling for $7.99 "Big Mouth No I did not. I did not, I did not. I did not say those things, and I did not plan those things. Won't It anyone believe me?Ugly Girl All right, Ugly Girl made a mistake. I'd told my mom what I'd heard in the cafeteria, and she'd told Dad. Evidently. I'd thought for sure they would want me to speak up for the truth." |
 | Breaking Point Product# 460682872 Selling for $7.99 "'We may need to plant a bomb in Old Lady Zaller'sclassroom. ' 'What?' I stared at Charlie across the monitor. Charlie smiled, and I laughed. You really had me going there, man.' 'I'm completely serious.' Still smiling. 'We've done the research, got the info.' He took a disc from the holder and inserted it into the drive. Pressed a button. The hard drive swallowed it like a snake on a mouse. A few clicks of Charlie's fingers. The file opened, screaming purple and orange letters. TEEN ANARCHY!!!" |
 | Terpin Product# 460682891 Selling for $14.89 "When his well-intentioned lie appears to have contributed to a man's suicide, Terpin's resolve to never again act or speak, except by the truth in his heart, has far-reaching consequences." |
| Breaking Point Product# 460682899 Selling for $15.95 "As a new and non-wealthy student at Gate, Paul finds day-to-day life to be a bit difficult, so when he is invited into the inner circle, Paul thinks things have changed until he is asked to do something that goes beyond a typical favor or request." |
 | Inside Out Product# 460682904 Selling for $16.89 "Zach Wahhsted is used to hearing these brutal words. But today he isn't the only one in danger of dying. A busy coffee shop -- a robbery gone wrong. Two gunmen, nine hostages, flash-ing lights, itchy trigger fingers. And Zach, a seemingly ordinary teenager, is caught in the middle of the mayhem. But nobody realizes that Zach -- who has no gun and no knife -- has a mind more dangerous than any weapon. Never what he seems and always on the edge, Zach is an unforgettable character in a new book by Terry Trueman that is filled with the same shocking power and heartbreaking compassion as his Printz Honor Book, stuck in neutral." |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Product# 460686569 Selling for $7.99 "Young Cassie Logan endures humiliation and witnesses the racism of the KKK as they embark on a cross-burning rampage, before she fully understands the importance her family attributes to having land of their own" |
 | Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat Product# 460686704 Selling for $5.99 "'Ronald is an awkward but enthusiastic baseball beginner who is grateful to be on the team. Initially discouraged because he cannot hit the ball, Ronald eventually discovers his error . . . and he starts to improve. . . . The colorful, expressive illustrations are a bright asset'.--School Library Journal." |
 | A Letter to Amy Product# 460686741 Selling for $6.99 "'A master of ingenious collages, (Keats) has made brilliant variegated pictures'.--'The Horn Book'. Full color." |
 | Second Star to the Right Product# 460686814 Selling for $5.99 "Leslie Hiller is a bright, attractive, talented teenager -- a Manhattan child of privilege. She is also a perfectionist. When Leslie starts to diet, she finds herself becoming obsessed, getting thinner and thinner, until she is forced to realize that her quest for perfection is killing her. First published in 1981, this groundbreaking novel has been lauded by countless librarians, educators, and readers. Our new edition features an Afterword by the author about the illness's impact on her own life." |
 | Any Advice? Product# 460686825 Selling for $5.99 "For the embarrassing horrifying, puzzling moments in life, this book provides the best, most sympathetic advice to every imaginable problem. Written by the expert trauma team at Alloy.com, . . . Any Advice? uses real teens' real-life crises to explore all aspects of teen life, love, sex, dating, friends, school, family, and self-image. Throughout the book are pop-ups, sidebars, cool graphics and illustrations, and lighthearted lists, such as the ten best break-up songs to torture yourself with. It's a humorous yet practical survival guide to the best (and worst) years of your life." |
 | Me and My Little Brain Product# 460686912 Selling for $4.99 "Tom, a.k.a. the Great Brain, is off to boarding school. Now his little brother, J. D., is free to follow in Tom's ingenious, conniving, and profitable footsteps. All of J. D.'s attempts at turning a profit fail miserably, and he soon realizes that he just doesn't have that crafty Great Brain knack. But when his younger brother is kidnapped, J. D. finds that his little brain may not be so ordinary after all...." |
 | Otherwise Known As Sheila the Great Product# 460686915 Selling for $5.99 "Sheila Tubman is not quite sure who she is. Just when she's convinced that she really is confident, witty Sheila the Great, she is confronted with her worst fears. Faced with long-eared dogs, swimming lessons, and spiders, Sheila may be forced to admit that she's not a supergirl after all." |
 | LBD: It's a Girl Thing Product# 460686928 Selling for $6.99 "Barred by their overprotective parents from attending a rock music festival, fourteen-year-olds Ronnie, Fleur, and Claude, also known as 'Les Bambinos Dangereuses,' decide to stage their own music festival at Blackwell School. Reprint." |
 | Bottled Up Product# 460686935 Selling for $6.99 "Fearful and frustrated with his father, Pip smokes pot, skips school, and finds himself in trouble more often than he?ÇÖd like, so when the principal threatens him with expulsion if he doesn?ÇÖt see a counselor, Pip finally finds someone with whom to talk to help him work things out. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint." |
 | Oh No, Gotta Go! Product# 460686941 Selling for $5.99 "Spanish and English text are combined in this tale about a little girl who simply must find a bathroom and quick, enhanced with full-color illustrations highlighting the Spanish text. Reprint." |
 | Dread Locks Product# 460686969 Selling for $6.99 "Combining elements from classical myths, fairy tales, and legends, fourteen-year-old Parker Bear learns the hard way that life isn't always what it seems to be after befriending the beautiful new girl in school who, through a series of strange events, reveals herself as something Parker could have never imagined. Reprint." |
 | Lena Product# 460686970 Selling for $5.99 Thirteen-year-old Lena and her younger sister Dion mourn the death of their mother as they hitchhike from Ohio to Kentucky while running away from their abusive father. Simultaneous. |
 | Henry's Show And Tell Product# 460686977 Selling for $5.99 "Terrified of show-and-tell, Henry, an extremely shy kindergartner, finds a way to overcome his fear of public speaking with the help of a creative and compassionate teacher. Reprint." |
 | The True Story of Peter Rabbit: How a Letter From Beatrix Potter Became a Beloved Children's Classic Product# 460686987 Selling for $7.99 "After Beatrix Potter leaves for Scotland, her young friend, Noel Moore, becomes ill and only begins to get well when he receives a letter from Miss Potter--a story with pictures that eventually becomes The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Originally published as My Dear Noel. Reprint." |
 | Horrible Harry Goes to Sea Product# 460686996 Selling for $3.99 "Miss Mackle's class is learning about their ancestors, and everyone just found out that Ida's great-great grandmother sailed on the Titanic -- and lived to tell about it. Miss Mackle decides to take the class on a riverboat ride to help them imagine what it was like to travel on the high seas like their ancestors did. Harry and his friends are so excited -- it's going to be the perfect field trip. All aboard! Room 3B is setting sail!" |
| Taking Sides Product# 460687308 Selling for $5.95 "Lincoln is in a jam when his basketball team at his new school--where the students are rich and mostly white--faces his old team from the barrio on the boards. How can he play his best against his friends? No matter who wins, it looks like it will be lose-lose for Lincoln." |
| The Worm Family Product# 460687331 Selling for $16 "Despite being different from their shiny neighbors, the Worm family is happy being who they are and so, instead of packing up and moving away, decide to stay put in order to get to know their neighbors in the hopes of teaching them just how special they are." |
 | Iris and Walter Product# 460687408 Selling for $5.95 "When Iris moves to the country, she misses the city where she formerly lived, but with the help of a new friend named Walter, she learns to adjust to her new home." |
 | Home of the Brave Product# 460687875 Selling for $16.95 "Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner." |
 | Send Me Down a Miracle Product# 460765789 Selling for $6.95 "Things used to be normal in Casper, Alabama. Charity Pittman was a regular fourteen-year-old, the perfect daughter, following in her preacher father's footsteps. But then Adrienne arrived, with her big-city ways and artsy ideas. Reverend Pittman thinks she's the devil incarnate. Charity thinks she's amazing. But no one knows what to think of Adrienne when she claims she's seen Jesus. In the heartening and humorous book that made the National Book Award shortlist, Han Nolan visits a small town that's praying for a miracle but heading for disaster. Reader's guide and an interview with the author included." |
 | Through Grandpa's Eyes Product# 460766105 Selling for $16.89 "John loves Grandpa's house the best because he sees it through Grandpa's eyes. Grandpa is blind but he has his own way of seeing.When Nana sculpts Grandpa's head out of clay, Grandpa's fingers tell him it looks like him. 'Pretend your fingers are water, ' he tells John. In the meadow, Grandpa hears the song sparrow even before John sees it. And Grandpa smells the marigolds among the plates of eggs and toast on the kitchen table.In this beautifully illustrated picture book, author and artist tell a tender story about a young boy who learns to see through his grandpa's eyes." |
 | Chasing Redbird Product# 460766113 Selling for $17.99 Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky. |
 | Bloomability Product# 460766114 Selling for $16.89 "When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers her world expanding." |
 | Arthur's Birthday Party Product# 460766121 Selling for $14.89 Arthur the chimpanzee is determined to be the best all-around gymnast at his gymnastics birthday party. |
 | All the Old Haunts Product# 460766125 Selling for $15.89 Offers short stories appealing to the young adult with topics involving the struggles and emotions of adolescents such as an unplanned pregnancy and death. |
 | Stuck in Neutral Product# 460766131 Selling for $16.89 "Shawn McDaniel is an enigma and a miracle--except no one knows it, least of all his father. His life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. Not even those who love him best have any idea what he is truly like. In this extraordinary and powerful first novel, the reader learns to look beyond the obvious and finds a character whose spirit is rich beyond imagining and whose story is unforgettable. My life is like one of those 'good news-bad news' jokes. Like, 'I've got some good news and some bad news--which do you want first?' Books for the Teen" |
 | Ever After Product# 460766250 Selling for $7.99 The appearance of a new girl in her community changes the relationship between fourteen-year-old Molly and her best friend Vicky and complicates Molly's attempt to pinpoint her own identity. Reissue. |
 | True Confessions of a Heartless Girl Product# 460766257 Selling for $6.99 "A confused seventeen-year-old girl, a single mother and her young son, two elderly women, and a sad and lonely man, with their own individual tragedies to bear, come together in a small Manitoba town and find a way to a better future." |
 | Bully-be-gone Product# 460766293 Selling for $16.99 "Budding-inventor Millicent Madding launches her latest invention to disastrous results, and she has only days to create an antidote before the local bullies wreak havoc and her dearest friendships are destroyed forever." |
 | Boy Kills Man Product# 460766302 Selling for $6.99 "Believing that the drug dealers are the only ones who are both feared and respected in their small town in South America, Shorty and Alberto decide to pursue this route for themselves in order to gain the riches and acknowledgment they seek, but working as twelve-year-old hit men for drug dealers becomes more complex and more dangerous than they could have ever imagined. Reprint." |
| Saints of Augustine Product# 460766380 Selling for $17.89 "In St. Augustine, Florida, former best friends Charlie Perrin and Sam Findley, now both sixteen, come to realize that their friendship is the only thing that will keep them afloat when each of their worlds is turned upside down through death, divorce, and the seemingly out-of-control direction of their lives." |
 | Pants on Fire Product# 460766385 Selling for $17.89 "Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her." |
 | Dead Heat Product# 460766474 Selling for $4.99 "Melanie Graham is thrilled that she's finally found something she's good at and loves--exercise riding racehorses. In fact, Melanie enjoys it so much, she dreams of becoming a jockey. Her Aunt Ashleigh says Melanie has a gift. Melanie begins to follow a strict diet and exercise regime appropriate for a professional jockey. But her competitiveness and intensity are alienating Melanie from her closest friends, especially Kevin McLean. It takes a near disaster to show Melanie that she needs to slow down." |
 | We Are All in the Dumps With Jack and Guy: Two Nursery Rhymes With Pictures Product# 460766514 Selling for $22.95 "We are all in the dumps For diamonds are thumps The kittens are gone to St. Paul's! The baby is bit The moon's in a fit And the houses are built Without walls Jack and Guy Went out in the Rye And they found a little boy With one black eye Come says Jack let's knock Him on the head No says Guy Let's buy him some bread You buy one loaf And I'll buy two And we'll bring him up As other folk do Two traditional rhymes from Mother Goose, Ingeniously joined and interpreted by Maurice Sendak." |
 | It's Like This, Cat Product# 460766542 Selling for $5.99 "'The thoughts, feelings, and activities of an adolescent boy in contemporary New York City, perceptively revealed in a skillfully written narrative'.--Booklist.--The New York Times. 1964 Newbery Medal; ALA Notable Children's Books 1940-1970." |
 | I Was a Teenage Fairy Product# 460766547 Selling for $7.99 "Maybe Mab was real. Maybe not. Maybe Mab was the fury. Maybe she was the courage. Maybe later on she was the sex... A tiny fairy winging her way through the jasmine-scented L.A. night. A little girl caught in a grown-up glitz-and-glitter world of superstars and supermodels. A too beautiful boy with a secret he can never share... From the author of 'Weetzie Bat' comes a magical, mesmerizing tale of transformation. This is the story of Barbie Marks, who dreams of being the one behind the Cyclops eye of the camera, not the voiceless one in front of it; who longs to run away to New York City where she can be herself, not some barley flesh-and-blood version of the plastic doll she was named after. It is the story of Griffin Tyler, whose androgynous beauty hides the dark pain he holds inside. Andfinally it is the story of Mab, a pinkie-sized, magenta-haired, straight-talking fairy, who may or may not be real but who helps Barbie and Griffin uncover the strength beneath the pain, and who teaches that love--like a sparkling web of light spinning around our bodie" |
 | Deliver Us from Evie Product# 460766583 Selling for $6.99 "Told by her brother Parr, this is the story of 18-year-old Evie, her Missouri farm family, and the turmoil created by Evie's love for the local banker's beautiful daughter. 'It's a story that challenges the stereotypes, not only about love, but about farmers and families and religion and responsiblity--about all our definitions of 'normal.''--ALA Booklist. A 1995 ALA Best Book for Young Adults." |
 | Necessary Roughness Product# 460766584 Selling for $6.5 "Chan Jung Kim was always popular at his school in L.A. But now the Kim family has moved to a tiny Minnesota town where football's the name of the game and nobody has ever seen an Asian-American kid before. Desperate to fit in, Chan finds himself on the football field, pretending to be something he's not. For the first time in his life, Chan is forced to think about what it means to be Korean--and what is really important." |
 | Hard Ball: A Billy Baggs Novel Product# 460766586 Selling for $5.99 "For as long as Billy Braggs can remember, rich townie and ace pitcher Archer 'King' Kenwood has been his nemesis, both on the field and off. And when their long-standing rivalry explodes into violence, shocking their small-town Minnesota community, Coach Anderson comes up with an ingenious plan to keep the peace between his two star players with surprising results." |
 | Won't Know Till I Get There Product# 460767612 Selling for $5.99 "Fourteen-year-old Stephen, his new foster brother, his friends are sentenced to help out at an old age home for the summer after Stephen is caught writing graffiti on a train." |
 | Live a Little Product# 460767746 Selling for $6 "Hale O'Reilly has always hidden his true emotions-bottling everything up inside and acting like he just doesn't care. But Hale does care, and during the last few days of his senior year, he comes to realize just how much. 'Offering action and laughs in every chapter, this zesty contemporary novel has a little something for everyone.'-Publishers Weekly" |
 | Counterfeit Son Product# 460767763 Selling for $17 "When serial killer Hank Miller is killed in a shoot-out with police, his abused son Cameron adopts the identity of one of his father's victims in order to find a better life." |
| Send Me Down a Miracle Product# 460767766 Selling for $6.95 "Things used to be normal in Casper, Alabama. Charity Pittman was a regular fourteen-year-old, the perfect daughter, following in her preacher father's footsteps. But then Adrienne arrived, with her big-city ways and artsy ideas. Reverend Pittman thinks she's the devil incarnate. Charity thinks she's amazing. But no one knows what to think of Adrienne when she claims she's seen Jesus. In the heartening and humorous book that made the National Book Award shortlist, Han Nolan visits a small town that's praying for a miracle but heading for disaster. Reader's guide and an interview with the author included." |