Pamela S. Turner

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

A samurai fights for honor and survival in a real-life Game of Thrones.

Stirring narrative nonfiction recounts the rise of Minamoto Yoshitsune from seemingly doomed infant to immortal warrior-hero (and one of the most famous samurai in Japanese history). Acclaimed author Pamela S. Turner delivers all the drama, romance, and tragedy of the original story--with delightfully dry wit and a healthy dose of modern perspective. Gorgeous ink paintings by celebrated graphic-novelist Gareth Hinds complete this irresistible package.

Samurai Rising

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Peter Jennings

Todd Brewster

Jennifer Armstrong

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Adapted from the #1 national bestseller especially for children 8-12! The twentieth century has been a time of tremendous change, the most eventful hundred years in human history. Join Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster for a fascinating journey back in time to experience the century's greatest moments. Through the vivid first-person accounts of eyewitnesses, the most thrilling--and the most terrifying--events of the past hundred years come to life. Here are the voices of ordinary people--children and adults--expressing their joys and sorrows, their hopes and fears, as they watched history being made. This is history as it was lived, and as it will be remembered for the next hundred years. This lavish book, in association with the television series presented by ABC News and The History Channel, includes more than 200 exquisitely reproduced photographs with an astonishing power to illuminate history. They will delight and appall you, educate and entertain you, as you watch the century unfold before your eyes. This spectacular book is a keepsake for every family's library. It is a riveting read and an essential research volume. It is the story of our time for all time.

The Century for Young People

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Pam Muñoz Ryan

When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.

Becoming Naomi León

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Gloria Whelan

Night of the Full Moon

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Helen Frost

Students in a fifth-grade classroom reveal their innermost thoughts in a series of poems, sharing their experiences with birth and death, complications at home and at school, and the struggles of fitting in.

Room 214: a Year in Poems

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June English

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

History

Updated to include the events of 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, this story of the United States' involvement in war is told in engaging narrative and evocative period art and photographs.

The addition chapters on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq make this the only comprehensive title for children. Wars covered are the American Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican American War, Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, War in Afghanistan, and War in Iraq. Each war is placed in context examining the prelude to the war and the aftermath. Biographies of both notable figures and quiet heros, pull-quotes, maps, timelines, eyewitness accounts, and discussions of medical and psychological care issues, anti-war protests,

Scholastic Encyclopedia of the United States at War

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Carolee Dean

Fourteen-year-old Kenny Roy Willson fantasizes about escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison.

Comfort

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Rita Williams-Garcia

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

When 14-year-old Gayle gets into trouble again, Mama sends her south to live with her aunt and uncle, a minister. They'll hardly let her out of the house and she doesn't like her cousin Cookie. Then Gayle meets Great, the family matriarch. Gayle's life begins to change--perhaps she can make her own place in the world after all.

Like Sisters on the Homefront

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Sara Zarr

Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. The right people knew her name, her performances were booked months in advance, and her future seemed certain.

That was all before she turned fourteen.

Now, at sixteen, it's over. A death, and a betrayal, led her to walk away. That leaves her talented ten-year-old brother, Gus, to shoulder the full weight of the Beck-Moreau family expectations. Then Gus gets a new piano teacher who is young, kind, and interested in helping Lucy rekindle her love of piano -- on her own terms. But when you're used to performing for sold-out audiences and world-famous critics, can you ever learn to play just for yourself?

National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr takes readers inside one girl's struggle to reclaim her love of music and herself. To find joy again, even when things don't go according to plan. Because life isn't a performance, and everyone deserves the chance to make a few mistakes along the way.

The Lucy Variations

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Joan Bauer

While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies.

Backwater

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Kiersten White

Dive into a world of enchantment and romance in this lush fantasy, which Stephanie Perkins, international bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss, called “an absolute delight—a magical, sparkling, dangerous world with witty repartee and a romance that will light your heart on fire.” Fans of Libba Bray and Cassandra Clare will fall in love with this captivating stand-alone novel from Kiersten White, New York Times bestselling author of the Paranormalcy trilogy. Jessamin has been an outcast since she moved from her island home of Melei to the dreary country of Albion. Everything changes when she meets the gorgeous, enigmatic Finn, who introduces her to the secret world of Albion's nobility. It’s a world that has everything Jessamin doesn't—power, money, status . . . and magic. But Finn has secrets of his own, and the vicious Lord Downpike will do anything to possess them. Unless Jessamin, armed only with her wits, can stop him.

Illusions of Fate

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Kim Harrington

When you can see things others can't, what happens when someone is watching you?

Everybody knows about Clarity "Clare" Fern. She's the psychic girl in school, the one who can place her hands on something and see hidden visions from the past.

Only, Clare would rather not be a celebrity. She prefers hanging back, observing. Her gift is not a game to her.

But then someone starts playing with her head and heart. Messages and gifts from a secret admirer crop up everywhere Clare turns. Could they be from Gabriel, the gorgeous boy who gets Clare's pulse racing? Or from Justin, Clare's hopeful ex-boyfriend who'd do anything to win her back?

One thing is certain. Clare needs to solve this mystery, and soon. Because the messages are becoming sinister, and a girl in town has suddenly disappeared. Clare needs to see her way to the truth -- before it's much too late.


Perception

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Zoë Ferraris

Stumbling upon the drowned body of Nouf, the teenage daughter of a prominent, wealthy Saudi Arabian family, Nayir, a desert guide hired by her family to search for her, feels compelled to discover what really happened to her.

Finding Nouf

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Rosemary Wells

A young Southern girl named India Moody finds courage she never thought she had as she musters the strength and wit to survive the ravages of the Civil War and keep her family together through it all.

Red Moon at Sharpsburg

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Ben Mikaelsen

In 2 parallel stories, a fourteen-y/o boy who is NASA's first Junior Astronaut and a 14 y/o Maasai herder in Kenya both edge into maturity while questioning their family traditions.

Countdown

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David Talbot Rice

Crazy Loco

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Esphyr Slobodkina

The Wonderful Feast

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David C. King

"Includes social studies projects taken from the ancient Aztecs"--Provided by publisher.

Projects about the Ancient Aztecs

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Sophie Blackall

Cleverly revealing the basics of reproduction in an age-appropriate way, award-winning Sophie Blackall has created a beautiful picture book full of playful details to amuse and engage readers. Sooner or later, every child will ask, Where do babies come from? Answering this question has never been this easy or entertaining! Join a curious little boy who asks everyone from his babysitter to the mailman, getting all sorts of funny answers along the way, before his parents gently set him straight.

The Baby Tree

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Donald Hall

The Farm Summer 1942

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Barbara M. Joosse

A companion to the best-sellingMama, Do You Love Me? [http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,914/title,Mama-Do-You-Love-Me/] andPapa, Do You Love Me? [http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,4930/title,Papa-Do-You-Love-Me/], this beautiful book captures the unique bond that exists between grandmother and grandchild. Set in Hawaii, the vibrant watercolor illustrations and lyrical text combine to capture the lush landscapes and unique traditions of Hawaiian culture, while at the same time conveying a universal message. Sure to be another instant classic.

Grandma Calls Me Beautiful

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Dan Harder

Colliding with Chris

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Jacqueline Morley

You Wouldn't Want to Be an American Pioneer!

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Marjorie Priceman

The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride

Describes how, with an audience that including such important figures as Marie Antoinette and Ben Franklin, a duck, sheep, and rooster became the first passengers ever to ride in a hot-air balloon.

Hot Air

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Melinda Gates

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