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Grace Norwich

The inspiring tale of an American hero's journey to become the first President of the United States.Just in time for President's Day, children will be moved by Washington's revolutionary vision for our country. Celebrated war hero, George Washington used his progressive ideals to become the first President of the US, earning the nickname "Father of his country." Readers will be...

Jim Gigliotti

hero and an inspiring humanitarian. I am Roberto Clemente.A unique hero, Roberto Clemente is not only famous for his impressive baseball career, but also for his generous humanitarian efforts. Nearly 40 years ago, the same year he swung his 3,000th major league baseball hit, he died in an airplane accident on his way to deliver aid to earthquake victims. His heroics on the fiel...

Grace Norwich

I was the 35th President of the United States. I am John F. Kennedy.When I was young, people called me courageous and competitive. I used those qualities to serve as a commander in the U.S. Navy. The leadership skills I learned in combat helped earn me a place first as a congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives, and later as a U.S. senator-but that was just the beginnin...

Blast off for a spectacular 3-D tour of the solar system--from the infernal surface of the sun to the deepest, darkest reaches of space. Filled with engaging text, dazzling images, and diagrams throughout, 3-D Explorer: Solar System features five out-of-this-world pop-up scenes with cool metallic effects that really bring the secrets of space to life. This new title in the popu...

Did you know that an estimated 80% of all life on earth is found in the ocean? Now kids can dive in to discover all of the amazing secrets of the world's oceans in 3-D Explorer: Oceans. In this multi-dimensional book, they can learn more about the familiar plants and animals of the shoreline and rock pools and uncover the mysteries lurking in the ocean's midnight zone and murky...

"I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly," wrote Leonardo da Vinci in his journal alongside a sketch for an impossibly ingenious invention he called his Flying Machine. Though never built, it takes flight here in Journal of Inventions: Leonardo da Vinci. This fascinating book is an exquisite collection of elaborate 3-D pop-ups and deta...

Jorge Garcia Murga

¿Qué habrá quedado de aquel niño que fuimos, si es que ha quedado algo? ¿En qué pensarían Juan Ramón Jiménez, cuando escribió Platero y yo, o Antoine de Saint Exupery, cuando escribó El Principito? ¿Pensarían en sí mismos o en sus potenciales y futuros destinatarios? ¿Pensarían en el niño que ellos mismos fueron -y quizás lamentaban haber dejado de ser- o en el hombre que podrí...

Maria T. Lennon

Hilarious tween heroine Charlie C. Cooper—reformed bully, misguided fashionista, and so-called middle child—is back! This sequel to Confessions of a So-called Middle Child will delight fans of Louise Rennison, Mean Girls, and Harriet the Spy.Charlie's adventures offer a fresh look at middle school, bullying, and mean girls. In Book Two, Charlie navigates sudden celebrity and au...

Anne-Marie Desplat-Duc

Mes premiers romans Dès 9 ans 18 « Fabrice bout littéralement. Pourvu qu'Émilien ne soit pas impliqué dans l'accident ! Son père blessé la semaine précédente, et maintenant son frère. Ce serait terrible... Il a la gorge sèche. Pourra-t-il accomplir sa mission dans de bonnes conditions ? » Lors d'un grave accident, plusieurs pompiers sont blessés, dont le père d'Émilien et Fabri...

Philippe Nessmann

«De Mendoza à Santiago. Vendredi 13 juin 1930, 11 h 15. Urgent. Guillaumet pas arrivé. Stop. Merci confirmer heure de départ. Stop.» Depuis les débuts de l'Aéropostale, Mermoz, Saint-Exupéry et les héros de la poste aérienne ont réalisé de fabuleux exploits. Mais lorsque Henri Guillaumet disparaît dans les Andes, l'espoir de le retrouver vivant est bien mince. Personne ne peut ...

Brigitte Heller-Arfouillère

Le secret du templier Haut pays d'Auvergne, 1321. Madeleine, la soeur jumelle de Géraud, a disparu. Le jeune garçon est prêt à tout pour la retrouver, mais comment y arriver seul ? Le destin place sur sa route Bertrand de Ségur, un mystérieux chevalier de l'ordre des templiers qui va l'aider dans sa quête et lui faire des révélations surprenantes sur sa famille. Géraud découvre...

Tove Jansson

Leave Moominvalley? Is it possible? Yes, even the Moomin family need a change of scenery sometimes, so they're off to live in a lighthouse on a tiny island. Here they find space to grow, and to do things they couldn't in their comfortable, cluttered valley home. As they discover their new home, the family also discover surprising, and wonderfully funny, new things about themsel...

Kinney, Jeff

A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun . . . unless, of course, you're the Heffleys. The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns. Gas station bathrooms, crazed seagulls, a fender bender, and a runaway pig--not exactly Greg Heffley's idea of a good time. But even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure--and this is one the Hef...

Judith St. George / Tim Foley

When Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the "Corp of Discovery" left St. Louis, Missouri, on May 21, 1804, their mission was to explore the vast, unknown territory acquired a year earlier in the Louisiana Purchase. The travelers hoped to find a waterway that crossed the western half of the United States. They didn't. However, young readers will love this true-life adventure t...

Susie Ghahremani

Pamela D. Pollack

Susan B. Anthony may be an international icon but her campaign for women's rights had personal roots. Working as a school teacher in New York, Anthony refused to settle for less pay than her male colleagues which ignited her lifelong devotion to women's equality. Anthony toured the United States and Europe giving speeches and publishing articles as one of the most important adv...

Nancy Harrison

The iconic Mount Rushmore displays the faces of four important US presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Each man made his mark, carving his place in history. Now, the presidents unite once again with the four Who Was...? biographies included in this boxed set, each with eighty black-and-white illustrations, to reveal the stori...

Finally, 365 days a year with Greg Heffley and Diary of a Wimpy Kid! The Wimpy Kid School Planner is a one-of-a-kind way for you to keep track of all of your tests, appointments, and activities during school, after school, on the weekends, over the holidays, and during winter and summer breaks. It's filled with drawings on every page; all of your favorite characters; and column...

Nancy Harrison

As a field reporter in the 1960s, Gloria Steinem worked hard to dig up important stories. She went undercover to expose the grim realities of gender inequality in America. As her message continued to grow, she became the spokeswoman of the women's liberation movement and created the feminist publication, Ms. magazine. Steinem continues to speak and write about women and women's...

Nancy Harrison

Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom--and once he realized that knowledge was power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man he gave powerful speeches about his experience as a slave. He was so impressive that he became a friend of President Abraham...

Davis, Kathryn Gibbs

Capturing an engineer's creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world's most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel.A fun, fact-filled text by Kathryn Gibbs Davis combines with Gilbert Ford's dazzling full-color...

Bell, Cece

Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful--and very awk...

Brandon Mull

#1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Mull launches Scholastic's wildly popular multiplatform phenomenon.Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. Four flashes of light erupt, and from them emerge the unmistakable shapes of incredible beasts -- a wolf, a leopard, a panda, a falcon. Suddenly the paths of these children --...

Pilkey, Dav

Stickers, jokes, flip-o-ramas, and puzzles are featured in this second compendium starring Captain Underpants and his friends. ...

Carl Hiaasen

This Newbery Honor-winning, hilarious Floridian adventure involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, pint-sized owls, and more. A New York Times bestseller!Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral frie...

Louis Sachar

Stanley's been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center where the warden makes the boys "build character" by digging holes. Stanley realizes the boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? ...

Louis Sachar

He may be the weirdest kid in school, but he's not completely hopeless! The triumph of Bradley Chalkers, the weird, insecure bully of the fifth grade, will appeal to every reader who's cheered for--or been--the underdog. Winner of 17 children's choice awards, including an IRA/CBC Children's Choice. ...

Megan Miller

From the author of Minecraft Hacks and Minecraft Hacks Master Builder comes the most encompassing guide ever to combat in the world of Minecraft!With more than 100 million registered Minecraft accounts and rights picked up by Warner Brothers for an action-adventure film in the style of The Lego Movie, Minecraft is on its way to becoming the next big children's brand. While ther...

Tobin, Paul

PopCap's immensely popular "Plants vs. Zombies" game gets another serving of hilarious, plant-filled, zombie-zapping comics! Crazy Dave--the babbling-yet-brilliant inventor and top-notch neighborhood defender--helps his niece, Patrice, and young adventurer Nate Timely fend off Zomboss's latest global attack in "Plants vs. Zombies: Timepocalypse"! This new, standalone tale will ...