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Children's Summer Reading
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Publisher Comments This special edition of A Wrinkle in Time includes a new essay that explores the science behind the fantasy. Rediscover one of the most beloved children's books of all time: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle: Meg Murray, her little brother Charles... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Publisher Comments This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and begins a memorable journey. He... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Freckle Juice by Judy Blume Publisher Comments Andrew wants freckles more than anything else, so Sharon offers to sell him her secret freckle recipe. When Andrew turns green and blue from the brew, it's doubtful he'll ever wish for freckles again. Full color.... (read more) List Price $4.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman Publisher Comments In this stunning sequel to The Golden Compass, the intrepid Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld—Cittagazze, where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Castle of Llyr (Chronicles of Prydain #3) by Lloyd Alexander Publisher Comments In the imaginary kingdom of Prydain, Princess Eilonwy must leave her friends to go to the Isle of Mona for training as a proper princess. Because Eilonwy has magical powers, she is sought by Achren, the most evil enchantress in the land. Shortly after... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop Publisher Comments One of the classic fantastical adventures of all time! William has just received the best present of his life—an old, real-looking stone and wooden model of a castle, with a drawbridge, a moat, and a fingerhigh knight to guard the gates. Its... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Three (Chronicles of Prydain #1) by Lloyd Alexander Publisher Comments Taran, The Assistant Pig-Keeper, longs to be a hero. He begins his journey with a strange assortment of companions on a dangerous mission to save his beloved land, Prydain. Packed with action, humor, romance, and gallantry, Taran's adventures... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman Publisher Comments Published in 40 countries, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy – The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass – has graced the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Sense, and... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials #03) by Philip Pullman Publisher Comments Lyra and Will, the two ordinary children whose extraordinary adventures began in The Golden Compass and continued in The Subtle Knife, are in unspeakable danger. With help from the armored bear Iorek Byrnison and two tiny Gallivespian spies, they must... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Wind in the Door by Madeleine Lengle Publisher Comments Meg Murry can't help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, announces there are dragons in the vegetable garden. He's so bright, and so different from other kids, he's getting bullied at school, and he is also strangely, seriously... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The High King (Chronicles of Prydain #5) by Lloyd Alexander Publisher Comments When the sword of dyrnwyn, the most powerful weapon inthe kingdom of Prydain, falls into the hands of Arawn-Death-Lord, Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and Prince Gwydion raise an army to march against Arawn's terrible cohorts. After a winter expedition... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle Publisher Comments A touch of computer keys, a blast of heat, and suddenly the Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are gasping in a shimmering desert land. If only the brothers had normal parents, not a scientist mother and a father who experiments with space and... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes Publisher Comments An iron giant saves the world in this contemporary classic. A mysterious creature stalks the land, eating barbed wire and devouring tractors and plows. The farmers are mystified—and terrified. And then they glimpse him in the night: the Iron Giant,... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury Publisher Comments A stunning contemporary classic by American literary treasure Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. Meet the mysterious Mr. Moonshroud, who leads eight boys on a journey back through the centuries to discover the real... (read more) List Price $5.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Yearling Books) by Madeleine L'Engle Publisher Comments Meg Murry O'Keefe and her family are just sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner when her father gets a phone call from the White House about a madman's threat of nuclear war. Only an old Irish rune seems to hold a clue to averting worldwide disaster, and... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Black Cauldron (Chronicles of Prydain) by Lloyd Alexander Publisher Comments In the imaginary Land of Prydain, where "evil is never distant," it has become imperative that the Black Cauldron, chief implement of the diabolical Arawn, be destroyed. In this cauldron Arawn has created his terrible army of deathless warriors... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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