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Author: Megan BosticPublisher: Clarion BooksPublished: 01/17/2012Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.70dISBN: 9780547550763Audience: Young AdultAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 3.9Point Value: 5Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 149072 / Never EighteenAward: Charlotte Award - NomineeReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 10/24/2011 pg. 54Voice of Youth Advocates...

Leading from Within is a wonderful collection of ninety-three poems from well-loved poets, each of which is accompanied by a brief personal commentary from a leader explaining the significance and meaning of the poem in his or her life and work. The contributors represent...

Author: Rick RiordanPublisher: Disney HyperionPublished: 04/03/2012Pages: 592Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.20w x 1.50dISBN: 9781423113461Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.5Point Value: 19Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz #/Name: 140427 / Lost HeroAward: Truman Readers Award - Second PlaceAward: Iowa Teen Award - WinnerAbout the AuthorRick...

"Writing with his characteristic precision, Anderson melds the fantastic with the everyday. . . . A hilarious, heartfelt triumph." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Clay has had his fill of home life. A global plague has brought the world to a screeching halt, and with...

Kids will dive deep into God's word with the CEB Deep Blue Kids Bible. This engaging, interactive Bible offers four-color icons and illustrations throughout with a wealth of notes, devotionals, Bible trivia, and other interactive elements to capture inquisitive young minds. Plus the CEB...

Clyde is the new rooster at Sunrise Farm. But he's having trouble fitting in and replacing Larry--the beloved rooster whose wake-up calls were legendary. The cow, the gaggle of hens, and the sheep reminisce about Larry while poor Clyde fails to croon the farmyard...

Listed in Out Magazine's Top-10-Stage-Plays of 2012 In Wolves, two men's folie deux overtakes their small apartment and spills out onto city streets. When ex-boyfriend Jack brings a strange man home to woodland-obsessed Ben's apartment, the Narrator can barely keep a lid on the...

Strong, resilient, and deeply loyal, Dottie Connell farms her family's three hundred acres in rural Ohio alone, having sacrificed love and family for land she does not own. A sudden, inexplicable event leaves the daughter of her childhood friend in her care. Pressured by...

An adoptee's search for identity takes her on a journey from Minnesota to Korea and back as she seeks to resolve the dualities that have long defined her life: Korean-born, American-raised, never fully belonging to either.For years, Korean adoptee Jane Jeong Trenka tried to...

Author: Mark T. JewellPublisher: Energy Efficiency Funding GroupPublished: 09/01/2014Pages: 212Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781941991008Award: Axiom Business Book Awards - Bronze Medal WinnerAward: IndieFab awards - Honorable Mention

In 2005-06, Julie Angus, with her fianc Colin, rowed 10,000 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the first woman in the world to travel from mainland to mainland in a rowboat. The 145-day journey gave Angus, a trained scientist, a unique perspective on the...

A generous collection of poems by one of the most highly praised writers coming out of the Viet Nam War experience.Author: John BalabanPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 05/01/1997Pages: 150Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.83w x 0.47dISBN: 9781556591235Award: National Book Awards - NomineeReview Citation(s): Publishers...

★ 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Award Winner for Illustration★ 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Honor for Writing★ A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of 2020"Affirmations of black childhood abound, and whimsical wishes float like dandelion fluff. Equally as imaginative as the lyrical...

Every girl has wondered how they need to act or what they need to do to get a certain boy's attention. Now they can know!Chad Eastham will encourage girls to be confident in who they are and Whose they are. Girls need to know...

Welcome to Newport Beach, California--a community often found glittering in the spotlight, but one that isn't always as glamorous as we imagine. Through the lives of waiters and waitresses, divorced and single parents, and alienated teens, Victoria Patterson's Drift offers a rare and rewarding...

Everyone in the Yang family is a talented musician except for nine-year-old Yingtao, the youngest Yang. Even after years of violin lessons from his father, Yingtao cannot make beautiful music. Now that his family has moved from China to Seattle, Yingtao wants to learn...

In Richard Howard's new collection, voices of myth and memory prevail, if only by means of prevarication: the voice of Medea's mother trying to explain her daughter's odd behavior to an indiscreet interviewer; or first and last the voice of Henry James, late in...

Benjamin Pratt's school is about to become the site of a new amusement park. It sounds like a dream come true! But lately, Ben has been wonder if he's going to like an amusement park in the middle of his town--with all the buses...

After a major invasion of the Gaza Strip in late 2008, twenty-year-old Mahmoud Barghout decided to become a zookeeper. He saw that the children around him were exhausted by war, and so to provide respite, he set up the Happy Land Zoo. But the...

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Introduction by Fanny Howe. THE PUBLIC GARDENS: POEMS AND HISTORY is a memoir of place (Boston, New York, Oakland and San Francisco) and of the commons (gardens, streets, subways, marriage and family, libraries), a documentary (with lyrics) of a life...