Esperanza thought she'd always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico--she'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home, & servants. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California during the Great Depre...

 It's 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of li...

FEAR STREET -- WHERE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARES LIVE...Honey Perkins just moved to Shadyside. But she's telling everyone that she is Becka Norwood's best friend from elementary school. Trouble is, Becka doesn't remember her at all.But that...

Personalizing the children who belonged to Hitler Youth (1933 to 1945) with fascinating, chilling individual stories, this concise history begins with Hitler’s rise to power and moves on to the development of the movement, how a...

A modern classic that no child should miss. Since it was first published in 1939, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel has delighted generations of children. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to trav...

Does one need four fully grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four fully grown guests?Sophronia's first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Qua...

After the excitement of the fall, all Cammie Morgan wants is a peaceful semester at school. But that's easier said than done when you're a CIA legacy and go to the premier school in the world…for spies.Despite Cammie's best inten...

I could no longer deny what the heat in my cheeks meant when I was around Flynn. I was falling for my sister's boyfriend. There's just something about Flynn. Yes, he's a tall, unbelievably gorgeous, dark-haired football player, b...

Ramona's back and more fun than ever as she enters the fourth grade in this newest addition to the Ramona series. And things are off to a rousing start for the perky ten year old when she has a great first day of school, writing a gem...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole introduces The Arcana Chronicles, post-apocalyptic tales filled with riveting action, the dark mysticism of Tarot cards, and breathtaking romance.She could save the world—or destroy ...

'Trouble twins' Dallas and Florida are orphans who have given up believing there is such a thing as a loving home. Tiller and Sairy are an eccentric older couple who live in the beautiful, mysterious Ruby Holler, but they're restless ...

ten-year-old twins lacey and Casey Nicefolk have always wanted to fly. but kids can't fly . . . or can they? they can if they know the mysterious sucoh sucop—a man who claims to have an enchanted box that can transform any toy in...

This intensely moving story is now available in paperback.Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, and drugs with excruciating side effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Di...

Recognized as the father of analytic geometry, Rene Descartes was aFrench mathematician and philosopher. Kids will love this funny and veryaccessible tale - based on one of math's greatest myths - about the man whopopularized the Cart...

They told him his uncle died in a car accident. But fourteen-year-old Alex knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's windshield confirm his suspicions. But nothing could prepare him for the news that the uncle he always ...

Cat Chant and Marianne Pinhoe have discovered something incredibly exciting, truly precious, and very strange—an egg. This egg was not meant to be found. Chrestomanci himself, Cat's guardian and the strongest enchanter in the wor...

Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle's homesteading claim.For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to p...

When Ben's girlfriend, Marly, dies, he feels his life is over. What could possibly matter now when Marly is gone? So when Valentine's Day approaches, it makes sense that this day that was once so meaningful to Ben leaves him feelin...

During the reign of Peter the High King, a boy named Shasta discovers that the man he thought was his father is, in fact, not. Distraught by this news, Shasta runs away to Narnia but on his journey he is mistaken for another runaway.

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The adventures of two owls who shake up an entire neighborhood and turn a house topsy-turvy.

Four of the seven Trustees have been defeated and their Keys taken, but for Arthur, the week is still getting worse. Suzy Blue and Fred Gold Numbers have been captured by the Piper, and his New Nithling army still controls most of the...

Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock's huge adventures have been thrilling children young and old for fifty years--and their appeal is as strong as ever in these handsome new paperback packages. While the original beloved interior illustra...

Join the mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as he bakes his own cookies in his little mouse house.

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 cafeter...

Jack and Annie are off on another Merlin Mission. This time, Merlin has sent them to rescue a beautiful magical creature—the unicorn. But when they land in New York City during the Depression of the 1930s, Jack and Annie are confuse...

When the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie off to Hawaii it's for more than a vacation–they're in search of a fourth kind of magic for Morgan! On the way they help an island community survive a tidal wave and, of course, take s...

Illus. in black-and-white. Junie B. is the bestest spier in the whole world.That's 'cause she has sneaky feet. And her nose doesn't whistle when shebreathes. But guess what? Junie B. might be real sneaky and realpeeky, but when she sp...

David thought he was alone, that the ocean around him was all there was of the world. The wind screamed, the waves towered, and his boat, the twenty-two foot fiberglass FROG, skidded and bucked and, each moment, filled deeper and grew...

Merchants daughter Trisana Chandler is at the center of this second book of Tamora Pierces wildly popular Circle of Magic quartet. Tris and her friends from Winding Circle Temple are just learning to control their magic now they must ...