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10+
Release Date
August 05, 2014
Secret lives, scandalous turns, and some very funny surprises — these essays by leading kids’ lit bloggers take us behind the scenes of many much-loved children’s books. Did Laura Ingalls cross paths with a band of mass murderers? Why was a Garth Williams bunny tale dubbed "integrationist propaganda"? For...
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11+
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October 01, 2014
It is Easter, 1973 and twelve year old Sebastian Duffy has some serious self-esteem issues. He is beaten by his parents, bullied at school, steals from his friends and still mourning the death of his brother. To cap it all, strange things have begun happening around him and he...
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8+
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April 29, 2014
Strange things are happening in Village Drowning, and a terrifying encounter has eleven-year-old Rye O'Chanter convinced that the monstrous, supposedly extinct Bog Noblins have returned. Now Rye's only hope is an exiled secret society so notorious its name can't be spoken aloud: the Luck Uglies. As Rye dives into...
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11+
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September 21, 2014
The third book in THE RACHEL TRILOGY, Rachel's Hope begins in 1905 San Francisco, where Rachel is torn between the old world and the new. She receives disturbing news about Sergei, still in Russia and seemingly trapped there by his involvement with the revolutionaries. Rachel works as a maid...
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11+
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September 21, 2013
It's late 1903 and Rachel Paskar and her family are leaving Russia to escape the murderous riots against Jews. They travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway to the coast and board a ship for Shanghai. China offers refuge but life is far from easy. Back in St. Petersburg, Russia, Rachel's...
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Rachel is a 14 year-old Jew living in 1903 Kishinev, Russia. Curious and determined, she wants more from life than the traditional role of wife and mother. When she witnesses the murder of a Russian boy, she realizes she can't go to the police for they don't trust Jews....
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8+
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August 19, 2014
Frank Einstein loves figuring out how the world works by creating household contraptions that are part science, part imagination, and definitely unusual. After an uneventful experiment in his garage-lab, a lightning storm and flash of electricity bring Frank’s inventions—the robots Klink and Klank—to life! Not exactly the...
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Tut: The Story of My Immortal Life is a funny, fast-paced novel for young readers by P.J. Hoover which chronicles the mischievous adventures of King Tut, now an immortal eighth-grader living in Washington, D.C.. You’d think it would be great being an Egyptian demigod, but if King Tut has...
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Author(s)
Age Range
10+
Release Date
August 19, 2014
In an alternate 1875 America electricity is forbidden, Native Americans and Yankees are united, and eldritch evil lurks in the shadows. Young Archie Dent knows there really are monsters in the world. His parents are members of the Septemberist Society, whose job it is to protect humanity from hideous...
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10+
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August 26, 2014
During the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius, one boy struggles to escape. Can he survive the most devastating disaster of ancient times? In this thrilling addition to the bestselling I SURVIVED series, readers are taken back to antiquity with a young boy trying to escape as the giant Mount...
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Sixth grade to-do list: •Make the pom-pom squad! •Get photo in the yearbook •With Alli and Cami, become the three most popular girls at Crestdale Heights Middle School! Abigail and her two best friends are poised for a life of pom-poms and popularity—until Abigail doesn't make the squad. And...
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Meet Tom Gates. When his teachers don’t have their beady eyes on him, he likes to draw pictures and write about stuff, like last summer’s worst camping vacation ever (five merits!), or how much he hates sitting next to nosy Marcus Meldrew, the most annoying boy at school....
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Age Range
10+
Release Date
August 26, 2014
Poppy's life has been turned upside down after her grandma (and guardian) had a stroke and ended up in the hospital. But Poppy is working on a plan to help Grandma Beth so their life together can go back to normal. But when she witnesses an armed...
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Maddie is desperate to keep her favorite horse from being sold in this first book in a contemporary middle grade series in the tradition of Marguerite Henry’s Misty of Chincoteague. Madison “Maddie” Martinez loves her weekly riding lessons, and she loves working with her favorite horse, Cloudy, every time....
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Peter feels compelled to help a wounded German pilot, but he doesn't want to be a traitor--especially not to his father, who is off fighting the Nazis. A moving story about the moral dilemmas of war. Summer 1941: For Peter, the war is a long way away, being fought...
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