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The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service and Ted Harrison Staff Pick Gol dang! The Cremation of Sam McGee is one heckuva fine poem! Pull yer boots up to the hot chocolate and take a few extra marshmallows while I tell you how the strangest things happen when you get up North. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to get... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Yakitate!! Japan #01 by Takashi Hashiguchi Staff Pick If you're the type to take things too seriously, don't bother with this graphic novel series, Yakitate!! Japan. Instead of killing each other, our characters are competing with rolls, loaves, and pastries. With famous lines like "I was distracted by his... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Kids on Strike! by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Staff Pick Bartoletti's triumph! A must read! Now hear this! Newspaper kids on strike? When its youngest citizens spoke up, New York City experienced one of its finest hours.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg Staff Pick This is one of the few books I have read more than twice. If you walk through this world with any mental illness, including clinical depression, you will probably see yourself in this 15-year-old's struggle.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cronus Chronicles #2: The Siren Song by Anne Ursu Staff Pick The second book in Anne Ursu's Cronus Chronicles is as fun (and as dark) as the first, The Shadow Thieves. If you enjoy books twisted with Greek mythology, then once you discover Ursu's creations, you'll dig in. Put five pillows on your bed, snuggle into... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley Staff Pick An exquisite fantasy adventure set in a desert country.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Staff Pick For the winter holidays try American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Chang. This quirky book is a fabulous introduction to the new generation of graphic novels, and blends folklore with an exploration of racial stereotyping and the "right stuff" of America... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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My Letter to the World and Other Poems (Visions in Poetry) by Emily Dickinson Staff Pick I grew up in Emily Dickinson's hometown of Amherst, Massachusetts, and was lucky to be introduced to her poetry long before I tried to understand or analyze it. If you let the words roll around in your ears, you'll catch yourself tumbling on her rhymes... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Young People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman Staff Pick Russell Freedman has been meticulously documenting children's history for over 20 years. The inspiration for Immigrant Kids came from an exhibition of photographs called "Street Kids: 1864–1977," held at the New York Historical Society in 1978. Once... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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You're Smarter Than You Think: A Kid's Guide to Multiple Intelligences by Thomas Armstrong Staff Pick Wow! Hey! You're Smarter Than You Think talks about a lot of different kinds of intelligence — not just the kind that can be measured with an IQ test or the SAT. See for yourself what intelligence is and what it is not. Now that's smart!... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Hikaru No Go: Volume 1: Descent of the Go Master by Yumi Hotta Staff Pick Hikaru No Go is a fabulous story of learning to play Go, sportsmanship, and — my favorite part — nobody gets beaten up! The spirit of a Go master joins Hikaru when he gets a hold of his grandfather's Go board one day, after which things are more than... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld and Keith Thompson Staff Pick Scott Westerfeld's newest novel takes a different direction altogether from his wildly popular Uglies series. Leviathan, set in a fictional period prior to WWII, is an excellent blend of fantasy, technology, and adventure, reminiscent of Kenneth Oppel's... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Staff Pick For the winter holidays try American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Chang. This quirky book is a fabulous introduction to the new generation of graphic novels, and blends folklore with an exploration of racial stereotyping and the "right stuff" of America... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nordic Hero Tales from the Kalevala by James Baldwin Staff Pick If you ever wondered where J. R. R. Tolkien got some of his major inspiration for The Lord Of The Rings, read the Kalevala. Even the Elvin language was based on Finnish. Then when you're in the lunchroom you can tell your friends how closely related the... (read more) Your price: $8.95 New - Trade Paper
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You Know Where to Find Me by Rachel Cohn Staff Pick Having not read any Cohn to date, I was interested... and really moved. When I was a teenager, back in the last century, I really could have used this story. I thought I was alone.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples Staff Pick A young girl rebels against her traditional, nomadic, bedouin culture by challenging her father.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North by Kay Nielsen Staff Pick I loved this book so much as a child that I stole my mother's copy and, then, left it out in the rain! I have since replaced it with an old collectible volume. Now you can enjoy East of the Sun and West of the Moon in beautiful reproduction, with... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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Revenge of the Baby-sat by Bill Watterson Publisher Comments "Calvin and Hobbes provided an exhilarating blend of fantasy, sophistication, pungent humor and superb drawing that was dazzling." --The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio With keen insight, Bill Watterson depicted life through the eyes of a child in Calvin... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Witchcraft of Salem Village (Landmark Books) by Shirley Jackson Staff Pick Have you ever read about the Salem Witch Trials? Shirley Jackson's Witchcraft of Salem Village superbly chronicles how suspicion can transform a small and rigidly structured community. Landmark's history series has an incredible author and title list... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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