Notable Social Studies Trade Book, awarded by National Council for the Social Studies and The Children's Book CouncilGold Medal, Young Adult Fiction, Independent Press AwardsSilver Medal, Teen Fiction, Benjamin Franklin Awards, Independent Book Publishers AssociationYA Fiction Book Award, Independent Book Publishers of New EnglandIndie Editors Choice, Kirkus ReviewsA...

The daughter of a missionary doctor, Claire Malcolm Lintilhac was born in China,became a nurse there, and lived and worked through China’s whole momentous firsthalf of the 20th century. Opening a unique window into the making of the world’snewest yet oldest superpower, China in Another Time — with over 160 photos anddrawings — is Claire’s own story.A remarkable true story that opens a window on the dramatic decades thatmade today’s China. Born in ...

Everyone expected fifteen-year-old Matt Shaw to be Jeffords Junior High's star basketball player. But Matt never went out for the team. He won't even touch a ball anymore, and he hardly talks to anyone. No one understands why he's changed, but Matt knows that it's his "golden child" older brother who's really been doing all the changing. Matt can't imagine what would happen to his family if word got out about Neal's drug habit and the strung-out strangers he's seen coming and going from th...

Throwing light on a dark problemParkland Middle School is a place the students call Darkland, because no one in it does much to stop the daily harassment of kids by other kids. Three bullied seventh graders use their smarts to get the better of their tormentors by starting an unofficial e-mail forum at school in which they publicize their experiences. Unexpectedly, lots of other kids come forward to confess their similar troubles, and it becomes clear that the probl...

With more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!In this fourth book in the My Weirder School series, Mr. Burke cuts the grass, trims the bushes, and does the landscaping around Ella Mentry School. He wants to have a corn maze on the baseball diamond and drag races with his riding mower. What’s up with the crop circles in the soccer field? And what did he bury under the monkey bars?Perfect for reluctant readers and word lovers alike,...

A magical pen causes creative chaos in this quirky, comic-style story from the Sid Fleischman Award–winning author of Milo.Best friends Matt and Larry “Craz” Crazinski couldn’t be more different. Matt loves order, while Craz lives on the edge. The boys share a passion for cartooning, but thanks to the school paper gatekeeper (and kind-of bully), Skip Turkle, it seems their cartoons will never be published.But then the boys discover a pen that promi...

A senior in high school abandons his perfect image for the chance to embrace his inner beast and the girl he loves.Daniel Morning seems perfect—handsome, charismatic, intelligent. But living up to everyone’s expectations has cost him the right to make his own decisions. The urge to shatter those expectations is beginning to gnaw at his insides.Then Daniel meets Misty. She’s smoky, rebellious, tender...and much more. She decides to let him into her pack of o...

Before coming to Earth Alashon and Vindar vow to find one another. The vow is not made lightly: if they fail, they will spend their eternity's alone.Drake has lived a hard life. In and out of trouble with the law, sentenced to juvenile corrections and finally released to the custody of his parole officer, the strange, surfer-dude Tom, Drake is forced to move to the tiny beach town of Seaside. There, he meets Megan, Tom's off-limits daughter. Though he tries to avoid her, it seems s...

Julie Reece Deaver's classic novel of loss and gradual acceptance has touched the hearts of ordinary readers for more than twenty years.Morgan and Jimmy have been best friends forever, and know each other inside out. They do everything together—they even argue well. But after a terrible accident, Morgan suddenly has to face life alone. Without Jimmy around, though, it’s like the best part of her has died. How could he do this to her?This moving novel has been used in grief ...

Katie is a little girl who hates when her parents hire a babysitter to stay with her all night long. But this time is different. Locked in her room, she suddenly gets a visit from a new friend, a Unicorn, who shows her a whole new enchanted kingdom to explore.

Everyone in Cherrydale has election fever! While the adults get ready to vote for town mayor, the fourth graders are holding an election for a fourth grade mayor! Both Katie and Suzanne are nominated, and Suzanne really (really, really!) wants to win. She even tries to sabotage Katie’s campaign! Katie is furious at her ex-best friend, until two hilarious switcheroos teach her that politics is a tricky business—and not worth losing her best friend over.

Will Sam’s best friend turn out to be a bully? He’s about to find out in this “strong and refreshingly straightforward” (School Library Journal) MAX novel.Sam Lewis is going to get his butt kicked in exactly thirty-three minutes. He knows this because yesterday his former best friend Morgan Sturtz told him, to his face and with three witnesses nearby, “I am totally going to kick your butt tomorrow at recess.”All that’s standing between Sam and this...