Young Readers

Number-one New York Times best-selling author Cassandra Clare created the Mortal Instruments in 2004 with City of Bones (Simon & Schuster, 2007). Since then, the series has grown to five books, with a sixth due in 2014, and been joined by two spinoff trilogies and an upcoming film starring Jamie Campbell Power and Lily Collins. Featuring stories by Holly Black, Kendare Blake, Gwenda Bond, Sarah Rees Brennan, Rachel Caine, Sarah Cross, Kami Garcia, Michelle Hodkin, Kelly Link, Kate Milford, Diana Peterfreund, Sara Ryan, Scott Tracey, and Robin Wasserman.

In the final edition in the Turbo-kitty series, Turbo ventures outside his yard for the first time, as well as deals with changes on the home front.

Are you looking for the perfect hockey book for young readers? Are you seeking an engaging book that will have your child wanting to read more? Do you need a gift for a kid who’s crazy about hockey? Do you have a child, grandchild, niece, or nephew who plays hockey, watches hockey, or wants to learn more about the sport? This book is the perfect read for any young hockey fan. It’s an all-encompassing guide that covers everything from the history of the game, stories of the greatest players and games, trivia to test readers' knowledge, and everything in between. The Hockey Book for Kids ...

Ridley Larsen is everything you want in a friend. She's tough as nails, she's fiercely loyal, and she's smart as a whip. But she can be a harsh critic, which has put her position with the Magic Misfits on the rocks, even as the threat of the group's longtime enemy Kalagan looms large. Ever since his recent appearance in Mineral Wells, the kids know that a showdown with the vicious magician is imminent.

An introduction to modern technology buzz & gadgets for young readers

A visit to a Montana ranch doesn’t seem threatening...but then Ricky and his friends hear the story of the phantom outlaw. Searching for the mysterious figure gets them into a tight spot -- literally -- and only Ricky’s little brother, Joel, can rescue them.

In Nature's Best Hope (Young Readers' Edition), Tallamy empowers kids to use their own yards to help combat the negative effects of climate change. He does so by breaking down complex concepts into simple terms and real-world examples that kids can easily grasp. Black and white photographs help further clarify concepts. In addition to sharing the science, Tallamy encourages kids to take direct action. Some of these ideas include planting an oak tree at home. If that’s too large of a task, he suggests they can plant asters—a beautiful flower whose pollen bees use to feed their young.

Ignite your child's imagination with the thrilling pages of "Inspiring Sports Stories for Curious Minds: 18 Athlete Biographies and How They Became the Best in the World". This captivating collection of tales takes your young reader on an unforgettable journey, delivering a front-row seat to the lives of 18 global sports superstars. Every turn of the page reveals a new adventure, a new challenge overcome, and a new champion standing tall. From the soccer fields of Brazil to the tennis courts of the United States, from the swimming pools of Australia to the cricket pitches of India, the ...

Vaylor has a secret. He has learned about the secret Fairy Spirits that grow in some pumpkins got Halloween. He learns about how they spread light and happiness to all who will see and believe. And Vaylor learns about listening with your heart - not just with your ears. Filled with happy pictures and happy people it is for reading to the toddlers and for reading by the early readers.

IT'S NOT EASY to keep friends when they find out you can see the dead. Emma hopes she can juggle her gift with making new friends, now that her parents moved her to a haunted town on the East Coast. It was just after her 13th birthday when Emma’s family packed up everything they owned and moved to Seaside Cove to open a Bed and Breakfast in an old plantation house. Emma didn't really want the gift of seeing Earthbound spirits. Her Grandma Helen told her that she would be called on to help them sometimes, but she just didn't know how, so she hoped they wouldn't ask her. But in order to ...

Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads young listeners through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—offering an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves. How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country’s most essential stories are hidden in plain view.

Would you like to inspire your son to grow into a brave, confident, and disciplined young man? Are you looking for a way to help him discover his innate strength and courage while teaching him important values for the road ahead? Through 10 empowering stories for boys ages 8-12, your son will meet young heroes just like him, so he can learn from how they face setbacks, overcome challenges, and learn the importance of discipline, perseverance, and gratitude.

For as long as she can remember, Maddie has seen a series of unique digits hovering above the foreheads of each person she encounters. Her earliest memories are marked by these numbers, but it takes her father's premature death for Maddie and her family to realize that these mysterious digits are actually deathdates, and just like birthdays, everyone has one.

Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family and her family's graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, which sits at the foot of a harsh and deadly mountain range that was once home to the fae. The problem with being a gravedigger in Colbren, though, is that the dead don't always stay dead.

Mr. Griffin is the strictest teacher at Del Norte High, with a penchant for endless projects and humiliating his students. Even straight-A student Susan can't believe how mean he is to the charismatic Mark Kinney. So when her crush asks Susan to help a group of students teach a lesson of their own, she goes along. After all, it's a harmless prank, right? But things don't go according to plan. When one "accident" leads to another, people begin to die....

The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future. It takes you on a race journey from then to now, shows you why we feel how we feel, and why the poison of racism lingers. It also proves that while racist ideas have always been easy to fabricate and distribute, they can also be discredited.

On the 16th of December, 1944, in the frozen forests of the Ardennes, the German army attacked American Allied forces, making one last attempt to turn the tide of World War II. Thus began the long, hard slog of a battle that was nicknamed by the media as the Battle of the Bulge. Lasting more than a month, it led to tens of thousands of casualties. Sir Winston Churchill called it "the greatest American battle of the war and...an ever-famous American victory".

The mysterious librarian has come to take his payment of Hazel Goode, and it just might come at the cost of her life. Librarian Earl Harris won’t let Hazel off the hook unless she retrieves a mystical book from the Faery realm…and he can’t, or won’t, tell her how to get there or where to find it. And that’s only the beginning of Hazel’s troubles. Hazel has seven days to find Faery, overcome the bloodthirsty fae creatures that live there, locate the book, escape back to the human realm, and somehow bring the book back to Harris, whose dark plans for the tome she doesn’t know. ...

Someone’s unleashed deadly magical creatures on Shadow Hollow, and this time, Hazel might not be able to stop the death toll. The late mayor’s super-vampire project should have died along with him, but now, new vampire-like creatures are cropping up… and killing the people of Hazel’s small mountain town. With Corwin missing more often than not, Hazel’s left with only a hot, werewolf and her dead sister’s ghost to help her. So she turns to the definitely-not-human librarian, who expects her to return the favor by paying an unnamed price he’s coming to collect in thirteen days...

Aria Patel likes stability, certainty, predictability. It’s why she’s so into science. It's why she dumped her boyfriend before they went to different colleges because the odds were that something would go wrong, eventually. In a life that’s already so chaotic, why obsess over complicated relationships and shadowy unknowns when the scientific method gives you direction and a straight path to avoid all the drama. But there’s no avoiding anything when Aria finds herself suddenly falling through parallel universes and there’s no formula that can save her.