This beautifully written, spare novel encompasses seventeen-year-old Stephanie's journey from fall to spring, from childhood to womanhood. Her passion for the distant, fascinating …

"Los Angeles! City of tanned shoulders! Smog-spewing, pay-per-viewing, sit-com maker for the world!" Del's put it 17 years in L.A., bouncing among foster homes. Smart, sharp-tongu …

Join us as we celebrate CRICKET magazine's 30th anniversary with this delightful anthology of award-winning stories, black-and-white illustrations, full-color reproductions of orig …

Fifth-grader Brendan is anxious to win friends at his new school. The only obstacle: his mother. Jean Breen loves to make a spectacle of herself, so Brendan decides to stay as far …

No man was permitted to view the face of the great Kwan-Yu, Celestial Emperor of China. This didn't stop Dream-of-Jade, since she was no ordinary man, but a quite unusual cat. Whe …

Classic rhymes for the littlest listeners. Jack and Jill, Little Miss Muffet, Old King Cole and other favorites, all cutely illustrated, all guaranteed to lead to giggles and deman …

In 1937, the summer Amelia Earhart disappears, thirteen-year-old LaMarr's flamboyant mother Charmaine flies off with a stunt pilot friend and doesn't return. Sent to live with an a …

Fifteen-year-old Tanya, reeling from her parents divorce, is definitely not ready to embrace her Scottish heritage...

Hamish has a secret: He can't read. When his secret comes out, everyone steps in to teach Hamish to read. I Hate Books! is a fast-paced, funny, and touching book that will appeal …

Clover Martin is gone. Again. But now the residents of Blue Parrot, South Carolina, are turning their suspicions toward Memphis Riley. Could this thirteen-year-old have done someth …

Feather, the easily muddled Muse of Plants, is confused when he runs beak-first into young Emma. Emma, you see, is a Human, and NO HUMANS ARE ALLOWED in Kokonino County, home to F …

Lots of charming, silly rhymes for kids, all in one beautiful book with beautiful pictures. Yours kids will demand a reading again and again, until, without trying, you both will h …

With his favorite park threatened by a new development, young Eric decides to get his mother into the upcoming town election. While it's easy to get his mom on the ballot, Eric di …

This is a fun beginning course in multi-culturalism for the toddler set. The lesson is simple: cats (for example) all over the world make the same sounds, but every language has a …

Ben bear is renowned for his mouth-watering pizzas, and Chris Croc's delectable cakes are said to be the tastiest in the world. The two neighbors are the best of friends. When Peer …

Plunged into the dark waters off Sumatra when a ferry sinks, fourteen-year-old Emily swims through the night, testing her body's limits. For emotional strength, she increasingly lo …

Harriet Pig is an unstoppable, unflappable force, out to right the world. In this collection of four stories, she realizes her dream to fly, helps a friend overcome a fear of heigh …

Everyone knows a computer's "undo" command will erase a mistake. Thanks to a device called the Unner, Gib Finney can do the same thing - in real life. At first he thinks it's wonde …

Twelve-year-old best friends Carly and Arlene write about the final, cataclysmic days of Atlantis in a story that parallels the growing tensions between them.

On the first day of school, Robert thinks everyone is laughing at him because his hair has gotten so long. He gets a "back-to-school special" haircut from his friend Paul, which ju …

When Robert and his best friend Paul return from a President's Day weekend ski trip, they find that the third grade's pet snake, Sally, is missing. The boys put aside their fear of …

Robert Dorfman, the hero of Robert Takes a Stand, Robert Finds a Way, and Robert and the Practical Jokes, is back for another round of adventures in the popular Rober …

Robert Dorfman loves jokes as much as the next third-grader...except when they're played on him. As the tricks in his classroom get more and more out of hand, Robert wonders: What …

"People used to think a runny nose meant your brain was leaking." Third-grader Robert learns this and other wacky facts when he and his friend Paul start training to be contestants …

Third-grader Robert Dorfman is having a triple-rotten day, one that's terrible for him but will be terribly funny for readers. First his brother, Charlie, hogs the bathroom. When R …

When her mother's brother, Bailey, turns up - an uncle she never knew existed - fourteen-year-old Afton sets out to discover his secret past. Told in a style richly evocative of sm …

For Callie, with her serious fear of heights, the name Monster Mountain says it all. Why did she ever agree to a weekend of snowboarding with her best friend Jen? Jen is eager to b …

Nicky knows all about horses, but there's one breed she's never encountered before … the ghostly kind. Nicky's mother has taken a new job as the horse trainer at Bloodybow Castle i …

"Far, far away, on another planet, in a place called Numberland, all the Numbers live together in a big hotel." So beings Ivan Ekeland's Cat in Numberland, a story about infinity …

Kevin thinks nothing exciting will ever happen to him - until Cynthia, a runaway circus kangaroo, bounds into his life. She has a talent for jokes, disguises, and daring detective …

Alienated at school and troubled by his parents' separation, Kit loses himself in running - until one day, an accident catapults him into what seems to be a parallel universe. In t …

Vero Vo and her Vietnamese family move to Paris, where she and her bossy big brother Philippe are left to grapple with city life, a new school, and their sibling rivalry.

Clemens, Maddux, Koufax, Gibson - who is baseball's greatest pitcher? All across America, in school cafeterias, on ballfields, in front of TVs, and while clicking digital games, fa …

Eleven-year-old Maddie Pruitt, grieving and lonely since her mother's accidental death, finds a popped balloon in the woods with a note attached daring her to write back. Maddie ac …

Lots of cool jokes, plus 17 1/2 tips for remembering, telling and making up your own jokes. Kids love to be funny and to swap cool jokes. Now the popular illustrator whose appealin …