• The Beginning of Everything

    Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything is a witty and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of books by John Green and Ned Vizzini, novels such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and classics like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye.Varsity tennis captain Ezra Faulkner was supposed to be homecoming king, but that was before—before his girlfriend cheated on him, before a car accident shattered his leg, and before he fell in love with unpredictable new girl Cassidy Thorpe.As Kirkus Reviews said in a starred review, "Schneider takes familiar stereotypes and infuses... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B009NF6DBI
    • ASIN: B009NF6DBI
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Katherine Tegen Books

  • The Hideaway

    Now a USA TODAY and Amazon Charts Bestseller!“A story both powerful and enchanting: a don’t-miss novel in the greatest southern traditions of storytelling.” —Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling authorWhen her grandmother’s will wrenches Sara back home to Sweet Bay, Alabama, she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever knew in life.After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags’s ramshackle B&B in Sweet Bay. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0718084225
    • ASIN: 0718084225
    • ISBN: 0718084225
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines, Revised Edition

    A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C. Foster’s classic guide—a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable.While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes—and the literary codes-of the ultimate professional reader, the colle... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0062301675
    • ASIN: 0062301675
    • ISBN: 9780062301673
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Perennial

  • Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick“Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger; I think you will fall in love, too!” —Reese WitherspoonNo one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missi... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0735220697
    • ASIN: 0735220697
    • ISBN: 0735220697
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Seasons of the Moon Series, Books 1-4: Six Moon Summer, All Hallows' Moon, Long Night Moon, and Gray Moon Rising

    When Rylie went to summer camp, she didn't expect to get bitten by a werewolf and turn into a monster. She also didn't expect to fall in love--especially not with a werewolf hunter.  Between ravenous werewolf packs, a bloodthirsty family of hunters, and Rylie's battle with her inner wolf, all the odds are stacked against Rylie's love for Seth. But Seth will do anything to be with her... even if it means turning against his family and sacrificing everything.   This is a bundle of the first four books in the Seasons of the Moon series, the bestselling YA paranormal books! Th... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B0080SA5S6
    • ASIN: B0080SA5S6
    • Manufacturer: Red Iris Books

  • Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

    Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read? Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading? Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you'll do something wrong? RAs DISTARreg; is the most successful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTARreg; method outperform their peers who receive instruction from other programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adapted for parent and child to use at home. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0671631985
    • ASIN: 0671631985
    • ISBN: 0671631985
    • Brand: Touchstone
    • Manufacturer: Touchstone

  • Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive

    In this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian's courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new generation to one of history's most thrilling survival epics.  On a May afternoon in 1943, an American military plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a y... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0385742525
    • ASIN: 0385742525
    • ISBN: 0385742525
    • Brand: WaterBrook Press
    • Manufacturer: Ember

  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0060935464
    • ASIN: 0060935464
    • ISBN: 0060935464
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

  • The Running Dream (Schneider Family Book Award - Teen Book Winner)

    When Jessica is told she’ll never run again, she puts herself back together—and learns to dream bigger than ever before. The acclaimed author of Flipped delivers a powerful and healing story.   Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She’s not comforted by the news that she’ll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run?   As she struggles to cope, Jessica feels that she’s both in the spotlight and invisible. People who don’t know what to say act like she’s not there. Jessica’s embarrassed to ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0375866280
    • ASIN: 0375866280
    • ISBN: 0375866280
    • Brand: Ember
    • Manufacturer: Ember

  • Summer Unplugged

    Dive into this best-selling teen romance today. Over 150,000 copies sold!Bayleigh is addicted to her cell phone and her mom has had enough. After catching her sending a less than lady-like photo to a boy who barely knows her, Bayleigh's mom sends her away to her grandparent's house for the summer--sans cell phone, laptop and iPod. Bayleigh thinks the summer will be torture without social media...that is until she meets the boy next door.Note: This book may contain language and suggestive situations that aren't suitable for younger readers."Great story and wonderful characters." - Amazon Review... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00BP0WN54
    • ASIN: B00BP0WN54

  • Fahrenheit 451

    Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1451673310
    • UPC: 642688055004
    • ASIN: 1451673310
    • ISBN: 9781451673319
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • Summer Bridge Activities - Grades 7 - 8, Workbook for Summer Learning Loss, Math, Reading, Writing and More with Flash Cards

    AWARD-WINNING WORKBOOK: Summer Bridge Activities is the recipient of the 2018 Kids' Product of the Year Award and Travel Fun of the Year Award from "Creative Child Magazine." This workbook was designed to prevent summer learning loss and help your child get a headstart on the next year. INCLUDES: One Summer Bridge Activities workbook for 7th to 8th grade. This workbook focuses on all subjects - math, writing, reading, science, social studies, fitness and character building. It also includes bonus stickers and flash cards. 15 MINUTES A DAY: These best-selling summer activity books are designed ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1483815870
    • UPC: 044222242725
    • ASIN: 1483815870
    • ISBN: 1483815870
    • Brand: Carson-Dellosa
    • Manufacturer: Summer Bridge Activities

  • I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

    The bestselling memoir by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school.Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life for the cause: She was shot point-blank while riding the bus on her way home fro... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0316327913
    • ASIN: 0316327913
    • ISBN: 0316327913
    • Brand: Little Brown Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

  • Lord of the Flies

    Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age.   This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler.At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begin... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0399501487
    • ASIN: 0399501487
    • ISBN: 0399501487
    • Brand: Golding, William/ Epstein, E. L. (CON)
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • The Outsiders

    50 years of an iconic classic! This international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie is a heroic story of friendship and belonging. No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up on “greasers” like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to ex... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 014240733X
    • ASIN: 014240733X
    • ISBN: 014240733X
    • Brand: Speak
    • Manufacturer: Speak

  • Best Summer Programs for Teens, The

    Record numbers of teens are applying to selective universities and the competition to gain entrance into college is tougher than ever before. The fourth edition of The Best Summer Programs for Teens helps teenagers find

    • UPC: 56042396
    • Rating: 2.667

  • The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) - Audiobook

    Seventeen, fashion-obsessed, and gay, Abby Ives has always been content playing the sidekick in other people's lives. While her friends and sister have plunged headfirst into the world of dating and romances, Abby's been happy

    • UPC: 285822953
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Summer of Broken Things

    Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted and sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts, once good friends, begrudgingly travel to Spain together for a summer vacation where they uncover a secret their families kept hidden from them their entire

    • UPC: 187161484
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Hardcover)

    An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut

    • UPC: 390615
    • Rating: 4.473

  • The Female Persuasion : A Novel

    Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement

    • UPC: 343932408
    • Rating: 3.438

  • Sky in the Deep (Hardcover)

    Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan, but when faced with her brother's betrayal, and driven by a growing love for her

    • UPC: 855712001
    • Rating: 3.833

  • Varina

    "Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is

    • UPC: 957299982
    • Rating: 3.938

  • The Rising Sea

    "Everywhere, waters are rising--and that is just the beginning of the world's peril, unless the NUMA crew can beat the

    • UPC: 871043487

  • Reflection: A Twisted Tale (Hardcover)

    "When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain

    • UPC: 919292049
    • Rating: 4.5

  • The Family Gathering

    Having left the military, Dakota Jones is at a crossroads in his life. With his elder brother and youngest sister happily settled in Sullivan's Crossing, he shows up hoping to clear his head before moving

    • UPC: 748518508
    • Rating: 4.5

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