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Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays
Rebecca Stern · Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays will inspire students to think differently about the much feared assignment in elementary and middle schools around the country essay writing. Rebecca Sterns fifth grade students were bored to death with essay writing, and the one thing Rebecca... |
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A Fighting Chance
Claudia Melendez Salinas · Pin'ata Books
Pages: 285
Format: Print book |
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In this contemporary novel for young adults about star crossed lovers, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks who hopes to haul himself and his family out of the barrio as an aspiring boxer falls in love with a beautiful rich girl whose father forbids her to date Mexicans. |
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Lumière
Jacqueline E Garlick · Skyscape
Pages: 391
Format: Print book |
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Even in a land of eternal twilight, secrets can't stay in the dark forever.Seventeen-year-old Eyelet Elsworth has only one hope left: finding her late father's most prized invention, the Illuminator. It's been missing since the day of the mysterious flash - a day that saw the sun wiped... |
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Bombs over Bikini: The World's First Nuclear Disaster
Connie Goldsmith · Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Pages: 88
Format: Library Binding |
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In 1946, as part of the Cold War arms race, the US military launched a program to test nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific Ocean. From 1946 until 1958, the military detonated sixty-seven nuclear bombs over the region's Bikini and Enewetak Atolls. The twelfth bomb, called... |
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Photos Framed: A Fresh Look at the World's Most Memorable Photographs
Ruth Thomson , · Candlewick
Format: Hardcover |
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Portrait. Nature. Art. Documentary. A look at some of the worlds most iconic photographs invites viewers to focus on the mediums place in art and history.Photographs can be beautiful or harrowing, honest or manipulative, dramatic or comforting. Photos Framed explores twenty-seven of the most... |
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Ask Me
Kimberly Pauley · Soho Teen
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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Paranormal gets a Stephen King makeover: An oracle in a small-town Florida uses her troubling gift to stop a murderer - before he comes for her. Aria Morse is an Oracle, blessed - or cursed - with the gift of prophecy. Ask her anything, and the truth spills out immediately. But Aria's... |
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Aw Yeah Comics! And... Action!
Art Baltazar (Author, Illustrator) · Dark Horse Books |
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AW YEAH COMICS!!! Its FINALLY here! The catch phrase? The store? Nope. THE COMIC! This is it! The comic youve heard so much about! Action Cat! Adventure Bug! And their adventures in the Aw Yeah Comics Universe! ALL collected for the first time in this handsome Dark Horse trade paperback!... |
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Rook
Sharon Cameron · Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover |
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A remarkable and utterly inventive novel bursting with intrigue and romance, from Sharon Cameron, acclaimed author of THE DARK UNWINDING, which USA TODAY called "spellbindingly imaginative."Centuries after a shifting of the Earth's poles, the Sunken City that was once Paris... |
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When We Collided
Emery Lord · Bloomsbury
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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Seventeen year-old Jonah Daniels has lived in Verona Cove, California, his whole life, and only one thing has ever changed: his father used to be alive, and now he is not. With a mother lost in a deep bout of depression, Jonah and his five siblings struggle to keep up their home and the restaurant... |
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There Will Be Bears
Ryan Gebhart · Candlewick Pr
Pages: 217
Format: Print book |
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Tyson is determined to hunt an elk - even if it means sneaking his grandpa out of a nursing home - in a debut novel sparked with dry wit and wilderness adventure. Thirteen-year-old Tyson loves hanging out with his roughneck Grandpa Gene, who's a lot more fun than Tyson's ex-best friend,... |
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