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Find out how Samantha, Kit, Melody, and other American Girl characters made a difference in their own way and in their own time with this Little Golden Book. Melody, Kit, Samantha, and other American Girl characters from different time periods show why it's important to stand up for what...

Celebrate the birthday of American Girl with this first Little Golden Book featuring Addy, Josefina, Kirsten, Molly, and Samantha, and other beloved characters. Take a peek into how each of these girls enjoyed her birthday during her unique times in U.S. history. Featuring a...

This Little Golden Book stars Molly, Josefina, Nanea, Felicity, and other favorite American Girl characters as they celebrate the holidays! Traditions may change over the years, but one thing never changes: everyone loves celebrating the holiday season! Felicity, Molly, Nanea...

American Girl Melody stands up for what's right in this all-new Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader that takes place in 1964. Melody Ellison loves singing and gardening, and is inspired by friends and family and the Civil Rights Movement to make changes in her community. Melody's story...

Go to school with Courtney, Kirsten, Addy, and other American Girl characters in this all-new Little Golden Book. Whether celebrating a first day of school, graduation, or the school days in between, this Little Golden Book makes a timeless gift for children ages 2 to 5 and collectors...

American Girl Samantha stands up for what's right in this all new Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader that takes place at the Turn of the Century in 1904! It's 1904, the turn of the 20th century, and Samantha Parkington is a nine-year-old orphan living with her rich grandmother. When...

In this first book of her series, Courtney is the best gamer at the arcade. But she can’t understand why there aren’t more girl characters in video games. When a school project allows her to create her own video game, the hero is a girl who knows how to handle any situation—something...

"The Dime Novel Kids are spunky, spirited, smart, sassy—and so is Sheila Turnage’s writing. It sizzles and sparkles." —Lauren Wolk, author of Newbery Honor Book Wolf Hollow From the Newbery Honor-winning author of Three Times Lucky comes a middle grade WWII spy mystery with as much humor...

The thrilling sequel to the acclaimed Beautiful Blue World follows a brave girl who must flee her country during wartime and work undercover to defeat the enemy. For fans of The War That Saved My Life and Wolf Hollow. “A thoughtful, pellucid story . . . [that] gently probes questions of...

“As I see it,” said Max, “all that stands between humankind and the end of the world is two talking monkeys, a crazy archaeologist covered in red paint, and a couple of kids with blowguns. Am I right?” Fourteen-year-old Max Murphy, video-gamer extraordinaire, is furious when his...

Jonathan goes on a secret quest to Rome, and Flavia, Nubia and Lupus set out to find him. Their dangerous mission takes them to the Golden House of Nero where a deadly assassin is rumoured to be at work - and they learn what happened to Jonathan's family during the terrible destruction of...

Stephen Satlow is an eight-year-old boy living in Brooklyn, New York, which means he only cares about one thing—the Dodgers. Steve and his father spend hours reading the sports pages and listening to games on the radio. Aside from an occasional run-in with his teacher, life is pretty simple...

From the creative team behind the bestselling, Caldecott Medal--winning Finding Winnie comes an extraordinary wartime adventure seen through the eyes of the world's most beloved bear. Here is a heartwarming imagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear who inspired...

Sixteen-year-old Jared is the newly crowned Prince of All Archenfield, ascending the throne after his older brother's mysterious death. But Jared feels reluctant and unprepared to rule the Princedom and its dangerous and powerful court. Like each Prince of All Archenfield before him, Jared must...

★ “Historical fiction at its finest.” –The Horn Book “There has never been a better time to read about healing, of both the body and the heart.” –The New York Times Book Review Echo Mountain is an acclaimed best book of 2020! An NPR Best Book of the Year...

Three classic wartime tales of identity, revelation and love that capture the power and scope of the human spirit. WAR HORSE At the outbreak of World War 1, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. He's soon caught up in enemy fire and fate takes him on...

Moshe is a frightened young boy when he and his family must flee their hometown from the Nazis. He risks starvation to find his way into the home of a Good Samaritan. Afraid he has lost his family in the Holocaust, Moshe carries on in the only way he knows how: by playing his violin.

A young Aztec girl tells her little brother how their parents create beautiful painted manuscripts, or codices. She explains to him how paper is made from local plants and how the long paper is folded into a book. Her parents and others paint the codices to tell the story of their people’s way of life. Inspired by the pre-Columbian codices, this story tells how the Aztec and their neighbors in the Valley of Mexico painted books and records long before Columbus arrived, and continued doing so among their Nahua-speaking descendants for generations after.

The haunting and poignant story of a how a young Japanese girl's understanding of the historic and tragic bombing of Hiroshima is transformed by a memorial lantern-floating ceremony. A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of the Century Twelve-year-old Nozomi lives in the Japanese city of...

Published in 1905 by Frances Hodgson Burnett - author of the beloved The Secret Garden - this is the story of Sara Crewe, the adored and pampered daughter of a wealthy widowed father. Sara suffers great losses but taps in to her "inner princess", and with strength, imagination, and storytelling, she triumphs over her sad circumstances while at the same time inspiring her fellow school companions.