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Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan Staff Pick I love collections of essays. I almost always have one (or two or three) in a pile on my bedside table. But not since I first read A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace have I loved a book of essays as much as I loved... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The 13 Clocks by James Thurber Staff Pick Like so many other fairy tales, The 13 Clocks has a wicked duke, a beautiful princess, and a prince in disguise. But I've never read another book that has a Golux. In fact, I've never read another book like this one. Adults will laugh at the wordplay... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Hardcover
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The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids: The Secrets behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan Staff Pick Have you ever wondered why Twinkies never go bad? Are you eating food, or are you eating "edible food-like substances"? This book will help you answer those questions, and help you eat and cook in ways that are healthier for your body and better for the... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Engdahl Staff Pick This book by Portland author Sylvia Engdahl was forgotten for nearly 20 years, but was rescued in a new edition a few years ago. It tells the story of Elana, a girl on a mission to save a planet from destruction. It explores how science and magic can co... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Love Is the Higher Law by David Levithan Staff Pick Before 9/11, Claire, Jasper, and Peter didn't know each other, though they all lived in New York City. But after the World Trade Center collapses, the entire city feels like another planet, and they together are explorers of this new, terrible world. If... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Totally Joe by James Howe Staff Pick This book continues the story of Joe Bunch, a character from The Misfits, an earlier book by James Howe. Joe is your average seventh-grade homosexual. He's funny and smart and excited about the future. That future may or may not include starting a gay... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G Shaw Staff Pick With just two colors, blue and white, and one repeating phrase, Charles B. Shaw created a picture book that has inspired imaginations for over 60 years. Its two-color illustrations are perfect for babies whose eyes are still developing, but are also... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Guess Again! by Mac Barnett and Adam Rex Staff Pick Guess Again! makes me laugh out loud every time I read it, and I've read it 10 or 20 times. Adam Rex's illustrations are perfectly suited to the goofy, silly rhymes of Mac Barnett. See if you can guess the answers to any of the riddles. I was surprised... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Lost Lake by Allen Say Staff Pick Allen Say wrote and illustrated this story of a father and son who are living in the Pacific Northwest. The father wants to take his son camping at a secret spot where he loved to camp as a child. But when they get there, the secret spot is no longer a... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Dad's a Birdman by David Almond and Polly Dunbar Staff Pick David Almond struck a chord that resonated throughout the Kids' Team with My Dad's a Birdman, a novel that is whimsically illustrated and darkly comic in a very British way. The story of Lizzie and her dad bonding over the Great Human Bird Competition... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia L Engdahl Staff Pick This book by Portland author Sylvia Engdahl was forgotten for nearly 20 years, but was rescued in a new edition a few years ago. It tells the story of Elana, a girl on a mission to save a planet from destruction. It explores how science and magic can co... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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How They Met, and Other Stories by David Levithan Staff Pick Every Valentine's Day since he was in high school, David Levithan has written a short story for his friends, and How They Met collects eighteen of them. Some are funny, some are sad, and others are romantic, but the genius of How They Met is that every... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Toby Alone by Timothee de Fombelle Staff Pick Toby Lolness is less than 2 millimeters tall. (That's smaller than a pea!) His father has discovered the inconvenient truth about the health of the giant tree they all live in. If they don't change their ways, the tree will die, leaving them homeless... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly Staff Pick This is one of my favorite books of the year! It is bursting with over 300 pages of full-color goofy, silly, weird, and wacky comic strips for kids, from the 1930s through the 1960s. Rediscover Pogo, Uncle Wiggly, Donald Duck, Dennis the Menace, and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $16.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron Staff Pick The New York Times Book Review already got it exactly right: "It's his best work....The novel demonstrates every kind of strength....It's as if Cameron had taken the tools earned over a whole career and applied them to the materials of a first book... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Yam by Corey Barba Staff Pick Yam can fly! He likes to eat cupcakes and cheeseburgers, but not squid. Sometimes his television crawls into bed with him for a little snuggle. He has magic powers! He can make flowers grow out of your head! But, be careful! Don't leave him in the sun —... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $2.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My by Tove Jansson Staff Pick Some of my favorite stories as a child were the Moomin books by Tove Jansson. A couple of years ago, I discovered that she also did a comic strip for the Evening News, a London newspaper, and I fell in love all over again. This year, I found out that... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Hardcover
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The Wonderful O by James Thurber Staff Pick This classic has been unavailable, but it is back! Black and Littlejack are bad men. They decree that the letter after N will never be used again. What will happen? Can we survive with fewer letters? Read this book and see! (The letter after N remains... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Toby Alone by Timothe De Fombelle Staff Pick Toby Lolness is less than 2 millimeters tall. (That's smaller than a pea!) His father has discovered the inconvenient truth about the health of the giant tree they all live in. If they don't change their ways, the tree will die, leaving them homeless... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Varmints by Helen Ward Staff Pick This darkly beautiful book tells the story of one creature's rebellion against a dull and mechanized world. In a world where thoughtless beings have destroyed all traces of wilderness, the varmint hero, along with a few others, struggles to find a place... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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