Fiction

Gr 7—9—High school freshman Emily March is sick of being constantly passed over as the middle sister...

K-Gr 2—A narrator tells of his boyhood with his grandfather, a lighthouse keeper on Lake Michigan...

Gr 5—9—In this sequel to Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow (HarperCollins, 2009), Jake's wild adventures take readers on a journey through space and time, where Nefertiti and her father, Pharaoh Neferhotep, are waging war against the Skull King and his minions, who are hunting Jake and his sister, Kady...

Gr 3—6—When Duck finally notices that she is being followed by Death, she becomes frightened and inquisitive...

Gr 8 Up—Jael's father tells her hardly anything about her mother or his past...

PreS-Gr 2—Otto's sister wears only red shoes and his best friend is infatuated with blue roller skates...

K-Gr 3—Taken from her home in Indonesia when she was five years old, Anju has lived in captivity, performing with an American circus for 35 years, followed by 15 years in a small zoo...

Gr 8 Up—This volume centers around four main questions: "Who Are the Taliban?"; "How Should the United States Deal with the Taliban?"; "What Is the Taliban's Relationship with Pakistan?"; and "What Is the Taliban's Relationship with Other Nations?" It is within this framework that key leaders and experts such as Barack Obama, Peter Bergen, and Dmitry Shlapentokh explore issues from America's transitional military strategy to how the U...

PreS-Gr 1—Begin with one weird and wacky, black-and-white beastie, then add an additional, but very different-looking one, to each subsequent page, and you have the Emberleys' newest offering, done with their inimitable twist and style...