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Bailey
By Harry Bliss
ISBN 978-0-545-23344-6
32 Pages / Ages 4 – 7 / Picture Books
Follow Bailey the dog as he gets ready and goes to school. Should he wear the red or blue collar? Both are so fashionable! Will he be late? That squirrel is a distraction! And what about Bailey's homework? Would you believe he ate it? In this funny new book from the bestselling children's illustrator Harry Bliss, school proves to be an unexpected place for Bailey to do all sorts of things he loves: reading, fetching, painting, digging, singing – and making friends!
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Can You See What I See? Toyland Express
By Walter Wick
ISBN 978-0-545-24483-1
40 Pages / Ages 3 & up / Picture Books
An amazing new search-and-find adventure from the creative mind of renowned photographer and author Walter Wick. This is the eighth title in the bestselling search-and-find series. It follows the life of a toy train from the workshop to the attic, only to be rescued at a yard sale and brought to life once again in a new home. As readers search for more than 250 hidden objects, they will also notice how the train takes on various transformations along its journey.
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The Kiss Box
By Bonnie Verburg, Illustrated by Henry Cole
ISBN 978-0-545-11284-0
32 Pages / Ages 3 – 7 / Picture Books
In this soothing love story between mother and child, Mama Bear offers various vessels to contain their love while they are apart – but none seem right. It's not until Little Bear suggests that they make each other a Kiss Box – filled with a hundred kisses – that they are able to stay connected, no matter where they are. Whether it be an errand to the grocery store, a business trip, or the first day of school, this is a tender reminder that we are always together where it matters most: in our hearts.
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Mouse & Lion
By Rand Burkert, Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert
ISBN 978-0-545-10147-9
32 Pages / Ages 5 – 7 / Picture Books
On a ridge above the Kalihari, Lion naps, until Mouse bumbles into him, willy-nilly, startling him awake. After a show of teeth, Lion is softened by Mouse's pledge of loyalty and sets him free. When a cold moon brings a humbling lesson, Lion comes to recognize Mouse's keen skill, and deeper kindness. Mouse and Lion, Aesop's fabled duo, renew their ancient bond in this warm retelling by Rand Burkert, illuminated by the authentic natural detail of Nancy Ekholm Burkert's art.
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My Rhinoceros
By John Agee
ISBN 978-0-545-29441-6
32 Pages / Ages 4 – 7 / Picture Books
If you should ever get a rhinoceros for a pet, you're in for a surprise. It won't chase a ball. Or a stick. Or a Frisbee. In fact, according to the experts, a rhinoceros does only two things: pop balloons and poke holes in kites. But don't be discouraged. As you'll discover in Jon Agee's hilarious picture book, rhinoceroses can do more – so much more – than that!
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Picture a Tree
By Barbara Reid
ISBN 978-1-4431-0761-7
32 Pages / Ages 4 – 7 / Picture Books
Picture a tree, from every season, and from every angle. These wondrous beings give shade and shelter. They protect, and bring beauty to any landscape. Now look again. Look closer. A tree's colours both soothe and excite. Its shape can ignite the imagination and conjure a pirate ship, a bear cave, a clubhouse, a friend; an ocean, a tunnel, and a home sweet home. Its majestic presence evokes family, growth, changes, endings and new beginnings.
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Tom Thumb
By Eric Carle
ISBN 978-0-545-27009-0
56 Pages / Ages 7 & up / Fairy Tales
Eric Carle brings to life four tales written by the brothers Grimm with his gorgeous illustrations and charming retelling of the classic stories. These tales capture the interest and imagination of children and adults alike, showing that while we might wish and wander, we should be grateful for what we have and where we are in life. Beautifully reissued, this new book has all the enchantment of Eric Carle's art, plus the compelling storytelling and morals of Grimms' tales.
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I Am Small
By Emma Dodd
ISBN 978-0545353700
24 Pages / Ages 2 – 5 / First Picture Books
From the eyes of a baby penguin, the world is a great big place. The sky so high, the ocean so deep, and the mountains so steep – all these things are magnificent from its point of view. But in the eyes of its mother, this little penguin is the biggest thing in the world!
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13 Gifts
By Wendy Mass
ISBN 978-0-545-31003-1
304 Pages / Ages 8 – 12 / Middle Grade Fiction
When Tara, a self-proclaimed shrinking violet, steals the school mascot, a goat, in order to make some friends with the popular crowd and gets caught, she gets herself in a heap of trouble. In addition, her parents decide that instead of taking her on their summer trip to Madagascar to study the courtship rituals of the bamboo lemur, she must go stay with her aunt, uncle, and bratty cousin Emily St. Claire in Willow Falls. Alyssa thinks it's a good time to start over; she'll be turning thirteen after all, so she might as well make the best of it and perhaps even attempt to break out of her shell (in a non-criminal manner). What Alyssa doesn't know is that this charmed town has something big in store for her on her thirteenth birthday.
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Dear Canada: That Fatal Night
By Sarah Ellis
ISBN 978-0-545-98073-9
176 Pages / Ages 9 – 12 / Middle Grade Fiction
It is May 1912, one month after the horrific sinking of the Titanic, and twelve-year-old survivor Dorothy Wilton is sent home from school in disgrace when she strikes another student. Although she's expelled, her sympathetic teacher encourages Dorothy to write an account of her experience on the ship, with the hopes that it will help Dorothy come to terms with her trauma. And so begins a truly remarkable story. Sarah Ellis expertly takes a unique perspective on the Titanic tragedy, exploring the concept of survivor's guilt with devastating honesty.
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Flyaway
By Lucy Christopher
ISBN 978-0-545-31771-9
336 Pages / Ages 8 – 12 / Middle Grade Fiction
At the hospital, upset and scared after her dad has suffered a heart attack, thirteen-year-old Isla meets Harry. He's the first boy to understand her and her love of the outdoors. But Harry is ill, and as his health fails, Isla is determined to help him the only way she knows how. Together they watch a lone swan struggling to fly on the lake outside Harry's window. Isla believes that if only she can save the injured swan, somehow that will help both Harry and her dad, too. What she doesn't realize is that her actions will change not just their lives, but hers.
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I Am Canada: Deadly Voyage
By Hugh Brewster
ISBN 978-1-4431-04654
208 Pages / Ages 9 – 12 / Middle Grade Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Jamie Laidlaw is returning to Canada from England aboard the Titanic. In his four days on board, he busies himself with new friends, finding ways to explore the ship's forbidden areas, and generally landing himself in trouble. When disaster strikes and the horrifying scramble for survival ensues, Jamie is on the front lines — struggling to help free the lifeboats and get people on board them. When a huge wave washes over the ship's sloping deck, it's time for Jamie to take action — and take his fate into his own hands.
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Icefall
By Matthew Kirby
ISBN 978-0-545-27424-1
336 Pages / Ages 8 – 12 / Middle Grade Fiction
Solveig, a princess, is trapped in a hidden fortress, tucked between towering mountains and a frozen fjord, with her siblings, her friend Raudi, and an army of restless soldiers, awaiting news of her father's victory at battle. As they wait for winter and the unending ice to break, acts of treachery soon make it clear that a traitor lurks in their midst. First, the larder is emptied, then the men protecting Solveig and her siblings are poisoned. A malevolence seeps through the fortress walls, and a smothering claustrophobia slowly turns these prisoners of winter against one another. Can Solveig, her brother and sister, and Raudi survive the long winter months and expose the traitor before he (or she) succeeds in destroying a king, his empire, and his children?
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Seriously, Norman
By Chris Raschka
ISBN 978-0-545-29877-3
252 Pages / Ages 8 – 12 / Middle Grade Fiction
Now that the whole thing is over (and we all survived!), I can tell you what happened. Picture this for a second. Rock wall six inches on my left. Sheer cliff hundreds of feet down on my right, my best friend Norman in front of me. No, seriously, this story is about Norman and about how he grows and learns stuff. Why, why are grown-ups so insane? That's exactly the question that Norman, Anna and Emma (the twins), and I, Leonard, try to answer. And with the help of Norman's new tutor, Balthazar Birdsong (also fairly nuts), we nearly do it, too.
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Wonderstruck
By Brian Selznick
ISBN 978-0-545-02789-2
608 Pages / Ages 8 & Up / Middle Grade Fiction
Set fifty years apart, two independent stories — Ben's told in words and Rose's in pictures — weave back and forth with mesmerizing symmetry. How they unfold and ultimately intertwine will surprise you, challenge you, and leave you breathless with wonder. With over 460 pages of original drawings and playing with the form he invented in his trailblazing debut novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick once again sails into uncharted territory and takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey.
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Amulet #4: The Last Council
By Kazu Kibuishi
ISBN 978-0-545-20887-1
224 Pages / Ages 8 & up / Graphic Fiction
Emily, Navin, and the crew arrive in the lost city of Cielis, but they soon realize it is not the utopia they expected to find. While Trellis and Luger are taken prisoner, Emily is forced to fight for her life in a series of tests that will determine who among the new generation of young Stonekeepers will join the Guardian Council, the powerful group of Stonekeepers who govern Alledia. As the number of competitors gets smaller and smaller, a terrible secret is slowly uncovered-a secret that will change the lives of our heroes forever.
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Drawing From Memory
By Allen Say
ISBN 978-0-545-17686-6
72 Pages / Ages 8 & up / Graphic Memoir
Drawing from Memory is Allen Say's own story of his path to becoming the renowned artist he is today. Shunned by his father, who didn't understand his son's artistic leanings, Allen was embraced by Noro Shinpei, Japan's leading cartoonist and the man he came to love as his "spiritual father." As World War II raged, Allen was further inspired to consider questions of his own heritage and the motivations of those around him. He studied, trained-and ultimately came to understand who he really is.
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Pilot and Huxley: The Next Adventure
By Dan McGuiness
ISBN 978-0-545-26845-5
64 Pages / Ages 7 – 9 / Graphic Fiction
Pilot and Huxley just want to get home, but an unexpected glitch hurtles them into the holiday lands instead. Now they're stuck in a bizarre world where ghouls and zombies in Halloween Land are friendly, and Santa and his elves in Christmas Land are evil. Will the boys make it out alive? Can they find a way back to Earth? Is a bowl of noodles a deadly weapon?
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Bronxwood
By Coe Booth
ISBN 978-0-439-92534-1
320 Pages / Ages 14 & up / Young Adult Fiction
Tyrell's father is just out of jail, and Tyrell doesn't know how to deal with that. It's bad enough that his brother Troy is in foster care and that his mother is no help whatsoever. Now there's another thing up in his face, just when he's trying to settle down. Tyrell's father has plans of his own, and doesn't seem to care whether or not Tyrell wants to go along with them. Tyrell can see the crash that's coming — with his dad, with the rest of his family, with the girls he's seeing — but he's not sure he can stop it.
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Fever Crumb: A Web of Air
By Philip Reeve
ISBN 978-0-545-22216-7
304 Pages / Ages 12 & up / Young Adult Fiction
Two years ago, Fever Crumb escaped the war-torn city of London in a traveling theater. Now she arrives in the extraordinary city of Mayda, where buildings ascend the cliffs on funicular rails, and a mysterious recluse is building a machine that can fly. Fever is the engineer he needs — but ruthless enemies will kill to possess their secrets.
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First Day on Earth
By Cecil Castellucci
ISBN 978-0-545-06082-0
160 Pages / Ages 12 & up / Young Adult Fiction
Mal lives on the fringes of high school. Angry. Misunderstood. Quiet, but with a lot of words underneath. Seven years ago, Mal disappeared for three days. Everyone tells him it was a breakdown, a seizure, something medical. He thinks it was something different. An alien abduction. But there's no way for him to know for sure. Then, at an abductee support group, he meets Hooper, who has some otherworldly secrets of his own. And suddenly the truth is closer than Mal ever imagined it could be.
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iBoy
By Kevin Brooks
ISBN 978-0-545-31768-9
304 Pages / Ages 12 & up / Young Adult Fiction
Before the attack, Tom Harvey was just an average teen. But a head-on collision with high technology has turned him into an actualized App. Fragments of a shattered iPhone are embedded in his brain. And they're having an extraordinary effect on his every thought. Because now Tom knows, sees, and can do more than any normal boy ever could. But with his new powers comes a choice: Seek revenge on the vicious gangs who rule the South London housing projects where he lives, and who violated his friend Lucy? Or keep quiet and move on?
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Liar's Moon
By Elizabeth C. Bunce
ISBN 978-0545136082
368 Pages / Ages 12 & up / Young Adult Fiction
As a pickpocket, Digger expects to spend a night in jail every now and then. But she doesn't expect to find Lord Durrel Decath there as well – or to hear he's soon to be executed for killing his wife. His late wife had an illegal business on the wrong side of the civil war raging just outside the city gates. Digger keeps finding forbidden magic in places it has no reason to be.
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The Scorpio Races
By Maggie Stiefvater
ISBN 978-0-545-22490-1
416 Pages / Ages 12 & up / Young Adult Fiction
With her trademark lyricism, Maggie Stiefvater turns to a new world, where a pair are swept up in a daring, dangerous race across a cliff — with more than just their lives at stake should they lose.
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Underdogs
By Markus Zusak
ISBN 978-0-545-35442-4
512 Pages / Ages 12 & up / Young Adult Fiction
Before The Book Thief, Markus Zusak wrote a trilogy of novels about the Wolfe brothers: The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, and Getting the Girl. Gritty, funny, and at times heartbreaking, these novels form the early work of an author who would go on to receive worldwide acclaim as an exciting new voice in young adult literature. We're proud to present these novels together for the first time, and to be introducing our readers to The Underdog, never before published in North America.
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