John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen have to tell about something that just happened to them, about an experience too overwhelming to keep private.The two high-school sophomores come from constricting, unhappy homes, and although life seem...
In this endearing story by Newberry Medal-winner Sharon Creech, a wise old Italian granny skillfully imparts life advice (and cooking lessons) to her winning but sometimes obstinate 12-year-old granddaughter. Best known for Walk Two M...
Amy and Clarissa are two girls who love to draw pictures of witches and then create elaborate stories about their lives. However, one witch Amy and Clarissa draw seems to have real magical powers and before too long Amy and Clarissa f...
Marcelo Sandoval hears music no one else can hear--part of the autism-like impairment no doctor has been able to identify--and he's always attended a special school where his differences have been protected. But the summer after his j...
Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices)
Cassandra ClareThe Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare's newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel.It's been f...
Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices)
Cassandra ClareSunny Los Angeles can be a dark place indeed in Cassandra Clare's Lord of Shadows, the sequel to the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Lady Midnight. Lord of Shadows is a Shadowhunters novel.Emma Carstairs has finally avenge...
When Ralph and his pesky cousins accidentally make a mess at the Mountain View Inn, Ralph decides that he'd better take his motorcycle and leave. He persuades his young pal Ryan to take him to school, where Ralph is an instant hit wi...
The Eye of Minds (The Mortality Doctr...
James DashnerFrom James Dashner, the author of the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, comes an all-new, edge-of-your seat adventure. The Eye of Minds is the first book in The Mortality Doctrine, a series set in a world of hyperadvance...
The Silver Chair: The Chronicles Of N...
Focus on the FamilyA few English months and many Narnian years separate this follow-up to THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER, the previous installment in the classic children's fantasy series the Chronicles of Narnia. The much-reformed Eustace Scrubb and a ...
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Kimberly Willis HoltZachary Beaver, known as the fattest boy in the world, moves to Antler, Texas, where life is just plain ordinary. He meets Cal, a boy who has a brother fighting in Vietnam, and another kid named Toby, whose mother abandoned him and hi...
Princess and heir to the throne of Thorvaldor, Nalia has led a privileged life at court. But everything changes when she learns, just after her sixteenth birthday, that she is a false princess, a stand-in for the real Nalia, who has b...
3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows
Ann Brasharessummer is a time to grow seedsPolly has an idea that she can't stop thinking about, one that involves changing a few things about herself. She's setting her sights on a more glamorous life, but it's going to take all of her focus. At ...
Maya is a captive. In Grandmother's house in California, every word and action is strictly monitored, and even Maya's memories of her mother have been erased -- except within the imaginary world she has created. A world away, in the r...
Emily Windsnap and the Monster from t...
Liz KesslerAll I wanted was to impress my best friend, Shona, and the other mermaids who live in the sea around Allpoints Island. But what did I do instead? I woke up the kraken, a terrifying octopus-like monster the size of an apartment buildin...
Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shad...
James RollinsWhen a mysterious envelope arrives for Jake Ransom, he and his older sister, Kady, are plunged into a gripping chain of events. An artifact found by their parents—on the expedition from which they never returned—leads Jake and Ka...
The Invention of Hugo Cabret with DVD...
Brian SelznickORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man w...
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
Cassandra ClareThe New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling collection of short stories chronicling the adventures of Simon Lewis as he trains to become a Shadowhunter is now available in CD for the first time with an all-star cast of narrators!Simo...
The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramo...
Alexander McCall SmithHave you ever said to yourself, Wouldn't it be nice to be a detective? This is the story of an African girl who says just that. Her name is Precious. When a piece of cake goes missing from her classroom, a traditionally built young ...
Who needs a ladder when you've got a giraffe with an extending neck? The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company certainly doesn't. They don't need a pail, either, because they have a pelican with a bucket-sized beak. With a monkey to d...
Leon and the Spitting Image is about a hotel full of animals. IIt's about an evil ice maker. IIt's about glass eyeballs and human catapults. IIt's about really old panty hose and Possibly Fake Hair. But mostly it's about Leon Zeisel a...
Warning: this description has not been authorized by Pseudonymous Bosch. As much as he'd love to sing the praises of his book (he is very vain), he wouldn't want you to hear about his brave 11-year old heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest. O...
Poison Princess (The Arcana Chronicle...
Kresley Coleb22 Arcana cards. 22 young assassins. May the best hand live. Introducing The Arcana Chronicles from #1 INew York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole.She could save the world—or destroy it. P/Sixteen-year-old Evangeline "Evie...
A New York Times Bestseller and USA Today Bestselling Book!From award-winning actor, Neil Patrick Harris, comes the magical first book in a new series with plenty of tricks up its sleeve. When street magician Carter runs away, he neve...
Left Behind >The Kids<: Live Action A...
Tim LaHaye'Based on the final 7 books in the best-selling Left Behind: The Kids series, these live-action radio episodes are filled with impressive action and sound effects that kids will love. The Live Action Audios follow a group of teens who...
The Case of the Case of Mistaken Iden...
Mac BarnettSteve Brixton always wanted to be a detective . . .until he found outhe already was one.It all starts here: the thrilling story of Steve Brixton's first case. Our hero has a national treasure to recover, a criminal mastermind to unmas...
You are more than you think you are. That is the anonymous message that Beth Michaels receives right before she starts seeing things. Not just a slept-through-my-alarm-clock, late-for-homeroom, haven't-had-my-caffeine-fix kind of seei...
Dr. York, Miss Winnie, and the Typhoi...
Donald DavisThis won't hurt a bit.' In rural North Carolina, in 1951, despite parental reassurances, a typhoid shot hurt. It hurt even more when you saw who would be administering the shot--Miss Winnie, a large, dictatorial nurse who had been 'es...
All of Mattie Lyon's hopes and dreams are riding on her summer job at the Glennmore Hotel. She'll make enough money to go to college in the fall. She'll prove to her father that she is responsible. She'll learn how to survive in the s...
The Lion, the Witch And the Wardrobe
Focus on the FamilyOne of the most highly respected fantasy novels ever written, THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE can be seen as both an exciting children’s adventure story and an allegory about faith. The story begins when the Pevensie sibli...
The Bronze Bow: New Classic Collectio...
Elizabeth George SpearIn this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by only one passion: to avenge his father's death by crucifixion by driving the Roman legions from his land of Israel. He joins an outlaw band and leads a dangerous life o...