A novel twist to a classic rhyme.Who says that little girls are made of “sugar and spice and everything nice?” Or that boys are made of “frogs and snails and puppy dog tails?” What if girls were made
Best Friends Forever.Harry may be four and three-quarters and Walter may be ninety-two and a half, but that doesn’t stop them from being best friends. Harry loves to go next door to play games with Wa
Invites the reader to swim with ancient creatures in the watery depths and meet their modern-day descendants, in a book with color photos, fun facts, further reading and much more. Original.
Lila has just moved to a new town and can't wait to make friends at school. But on the first day, a boy points at her and shouts: A crow! A crow! The new girl's hair is black like a crow!” The others
Two vulnerable girls go to extremes for love. In Dead Time, Isabella is in jail and waiting to be tried for a horrifically violent crime. Her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend, Lulu, is dead. Even her name
Love in the time of the Tiananmen Square. Anna never imagined living in such a foreign place. Fresh out of high school, she has joined her father, who works in Shanghai. She's eager to see China be
Gracie's simple life on St. Helena dramatically changes when Napoleon Bonaparte is brought to the island as a prisoner. As long as Gracie could remember, she had been told stories of Napoleon Bonap
A universal story about speaking, listening and being heard.Margot loves space. Astronauts, the stars, and especially the moon landing. So she can’t understand why all of her attempts to communicate h
Ben wants to take something really neat to school for show and tell. What could be neater than his new baby sister? But his sister doesn’t want to co-operate. She cries in his backpack. She cries at t
It is Olivia’s birthday, and when she blows out the candles on her cake and makes a wish, she gets exactly what she wanted—SNOW, SNOW, and MORE SNOW, even though it’s summertime. All that snow leads t
When a little boy sees a cat slip into the open door of an apartment building, the temptation is too great: he follows the cat into the lobby. Before continuing up the stairway, the boy picks up
Some mistakes can never be repaired. The narrator of Train Wreck is looking back at the year she was 15 . . . She is in love with a bad boy named Johnny. Johnny's friends play a cruel trick on a misf
How do you create a life in balance?Mel and Mo may look alike, but these twins’ personalities are far from identical. As they grow up, their differences drive them apart . . . which suits them just fi
Another laugh-out-loud book from the author of The Paper Bag Princess! Brigid really, really loves markers. She convinces her mom to buy a new set of five hundred washable coloring markers, then five
Sarah sees a woman turn a boy into a frog, so she asks her to help with a science project, but the woman, Anastasia Morningstar, might need Sarah's help instead.
Readers are invited to journey back in time to Mesoamerica (1350-1521) before the Spanish Conquest where the ancient Aztecs, Maya, and other Mesoamericans believed that the gods created a world where
Experience all the thrills and suspense of chasing down the world's highest-profile criminals. What does it take to catch a criminal? Not just any criminal, but one of the world's most wanted? In
An authentic rallying cry for anyone who has been affected by bullying. In February 2013, Shane Koyczan's passionate anti-bullying poem "To This Day" electrified the world. An animated video of th
Accompanied by fascinating facts and colorful stories, this riveting history of doorways, including the Meridian Gate in Beijing's Forbidden City and the entrance to the Sankore Mosque in Timbuktu, pr
What would you do if furniture threw itself down stairs and fires broke out in the cupboards? Or if you saw a festering green hand appear behind you in a mirror? In this engrossing book about the sup
The intriguing universe of robots. Robots have lived in the human imagination for generations. Remember Frankenstein's creature brought to life by an electric charge, the Tin Man who yearned to beco
What would you do with three wishes? When eleven-year-old Jason Reid is offered three wishes from an Elster of the Third Order called Quicksilver, he starts off greedy and frivolous, and his third wis
A lively, thought-provoking look at the power and pitfalls of the beauty industry hype. From fairy tales and Hollywood movies to magazine ads, reality TV and the Internet, we absorb the lesson ear
Describes the inventions created by the Chinese in agriculture, metalwork, transportation, warfare, and other fields, including paper, printing, and silk, and how they fit into Chinese civilization, b
An examination of the culture of beauty, past and present, that gives the reader the critical tools to see beyond the hype and impossible ideals. Lively visuals accompany the text.
Written for middle-grade and older readers, Eyes and Spies looks at the way information and data about us is collected and used by individuals, governments, companies, and organizations. Each chapter
