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by Christopher Curtis Publisher Comments When Kenny Watson’s brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, the Watson family heads south to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma’s church is bombed.... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Eric Sanvoisin Publisher Comments WHAT IF YOUR Dad loved books, owned a bookstore, and even called his cherished volumes “my little bookies”? You would probably despise books—just like the young protagonist in this deliciously bizarre story. One summer vacation, while... (read more) List Price $4.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kirby Larson Publisher Comments Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle's homesteading claim. For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jean Merrill Publisher Comments In the year 1976, war has been declared between truck drivers and pushcart peddlers in New York City.... (read more) List Price $5.50 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Amy Goldman Koss Publisher Comments As if it doesn’t suck enough to have cancer, practically every time you pick up books or see movies where characters get sick, you know they’ll be dead by the last scene. In reality, kids get all kinds of cancers, go through unspeakable... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Megan Whalen Turner Publisher Comments By scheming and theft, the Thief of Eddis has become King of Attolia. Eugenides wanted the queen, not the crown, but he finds himself trapped in a web of his own making. Attolia's barons seethe with resentment, the Mede emperor is returning to the attack,... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Marina Budhos Publisher Comments The author of "Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers" pens a moving story about two teenage sisters, originally from Bangladesh, whose family lives illegally in New York City. After 9/11, immigration regulations change, forcing the family to seek... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kl Going Publisher Comments In this third novel from a Printz Honor winner, Iggy leaves public housing behind to make something of his life. It's not easy when you're 16, have no skills, and your only friend is mixed up with the dealer who got your mom hooked.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Theodore Lesieg and B. Tobey Publisher Comments A young boy weighs the pros and cons of possessing various animal appendages such as a duck's feet, a deer's antlers, a whale's spout, an elephant's trunk, and a long, long tail only to decide that he's better off just being himself. A zany,... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tim Eldred Publisher Comments Caught in the crossfire of an interstellar war, our Earth was bombed to flinders--and then repaired. The mysterious alien Benefactors who healed the planet also offered “uplift” to our dolphins and gorillas. The dolphins turned them down. The... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Anne Laure Bondoux Publisher Comments The winner of France's prestigious Prix Sorcires, this novel follows a young boy who is taken by the man who has killed his family. Together the killer and the boy begin a new life on a remote and rugged stretch of land in Chil.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jack Gantos Publisher Comments In his third book for young adults, Gantos scripts a completely original drama. With gothic flavor and black humor, he depicts a group of people bound together by love, compulsion . . . and a passion for taxidermy.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Helen Frost Publisher Comments Two sisters, Jeannie and Sarah, tell their separate yet tightly interwoven stories in alternating narrative poems. Each sister – Jeannie, who leaves Scotland during the Highland Clearances with her father, mother, and the younger children, and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Kimmel Smith Publisher Comments Peter is thrilled that Grandpa is coming to live with his family. That is, until Grandpa moves right into Peter's room, forcing him upstairs. Peter loves Grandpa but wants his room back and has no choice except to declare war.... (read more) List Price $5.50 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Mitchell Powells.com Staff Pick A single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor is the focus of David Mitchell's incandescent new novel. The pedestrian village of Black Swan Green appears terribly ordinary for Jason, but the striking cast of characters he lives amongst, as... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Anike Hage Publisher Comments Anya is a young girl who has to adjust to her new school. When she tries to fit in and join the various school sports teams, shes rejected by every one. With nowhere else to turn, she decides to form her very own soccer team. Thus begins the first Gothic-... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Scott Hunt Publisher Comments For this intriguing collection, Hunt sent nine hauntingly surreal images to 18 authors and asked each one to write a story based on the image. Sometimes the same picture can tell two different stories, as this collection shows. Illustrations.... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $11.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by L. M. Montgomery Publisher Comments Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy Emily deals with stiff... (read more) List Price $5.50 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sheila Burnford Publisher Comments Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness. Separately, they would soon have died. But, together, the... (read more) List Price $5.50 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ned Vizzini Publisher Comments The author of "Be More Chill" takes a poignant look at teenage depression in this remarkably moving and authentic picture of the physicality, the despair, and even the hilarity of depression. Hyperion Books for Children/Miramax... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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