Product Description: Plug into a new generation of sci-fi It's a brave new world. 'My name is Kyle Straker. And I don't exist any more.' So begins the story of Kyle Straker, recorded on to old audio tapes. You might think these tapes are a hoax. But perhaps they contain the history of a past world...read more

Product Description: Alixandra Jones is your average teenager in the big apple of New York City. She has a perfect life, good grades, and a crazy family. But wait, then something goes wrong... She gets a terrible case of the influenza and has to be sent to a hospital...read more

Product Description: Part cheerleader, part drill sergeant, Whitney Holcombe chronicles how to transition from “the fat girl” to being a healthy, confident young woman.At age fourteen, Whitney Holcombe stepped onto her bathroom scale and a number glared up at her: 230...read more

Product Description: Next thing she knew, Mol was in a seated position at a slight recline. Monitors were beeping and flashing. She must be hooked up to those. Had she been in an accident? She couldn’t remember. She couldn’t remember anything at all! She bit back the panic welling up inside her...read more

Product Description: Tapping into themes of sustainability, morality, and cultural trends, this is an engrossing imagining of what society might become throughout the next 100 years, examined through ten incredibly disparate storiesThrough careful research of societal and cultural trends as well as scientific developments, these ten stories are about two friends existing together in various potential versions of the future...read more

Frankie Parsons is a worrier. Are the smoke alarm batteries dead? Does the cat have worms? Could that odd-shaped spot on his chest be cancer? What about bird flu?Most of the people in Frankie’s world—his father, his brother and sister, his great-aunts, his best friend—seem gloriously untroubled. Only Ma takes his catalog of persistent anxieties seriously; only Ma listens patiently to his 10 p.m. questions. But of course, it is Ma who is the cause of the most worrying question of all.This extraordinary novel, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, with an impeccably drawn cast of characters, is the story of how one young boy’s carefully controlled world unravels around him. Frankie’s story will resonate with listeners of all ages.

Frankie Parsons is a worrier. Are the smoke alarm batteries dead? Does the cat have worms? Could that odd-shaped spot on his chest be cancer? What about bird flu? Most of the people in Frankie’s world ― his father, his brother and sister, his great-aunts, his best friend ― seem gloriously untroubled. Only Ma takes his catalog of persistent anxieties seriously; only Ma listens patiently to his 10 p.m. questions. But of course, it is Ma who is the cause of the most worrying question of all. This extraordinary novel, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, with an impeccably drawn cast of characters, is the story of how one young boy’s carefully controlled world unravels around him. Frankie’s story will resonate with listeners of all ages.

Product Description: College minister Dan Conner is in the perfect position to help teenage boys tackle the issues of their day. A married father still in his twenties, he’s wiser than teens, younger than their parents, and ready to talk about real life stuff with no judgment or nonsense...read more

Product Description: 1) Lose my virginity2) Apologize to Rachel3) Get back at Biff4) Jam and party with Shakes the Clown5) Laugh in death’s face6) Go to Africa7) Rob a bank8) Tell Mark to screw himself9) Find out why Grandpa and Dad don't talk10) Tell the truth

Beth and Anna create a list of ten things that they must do in order to become beautiful goddesses who are irresistible to guys, but after several disasters involving fake tans and hair extensions, they find themselves a long way from their goal.

Beth and Anna are now 16, with the all-important boyfriends. So everything should be perfect - shouldn't it? Beth's not sure that going out with Joey is all it's cracked up to be, but she can't admit it to herself, let alone to Anna, who seems totally satisfied with life. When they stumble across a quiz: 'You and Your Lad: Suit him or Boot him?'

The first book in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit CW television show.No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now.Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents -- considered expendable by society -- are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life...or it could be a suicide mission.CLARKE was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did. WELLS, the chancellor's son, came to Earth for the girl he loves -- but will she ever forgive him? Reckless BELLAMY fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only pair of siblings in the universe. And GLASS managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth.Confronted with a savage land and haunted by secrets from their pasts, the hundred must fight to survive. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be mankind's last hope.

Arranged chronologically and covering all aspects of American history, each title in this series contains capsule biographies that mix the essential accomplishments of their subjects with fascinating, lesser-known details, as well as time lines, quizzes, and suggested projects.

Suggests ideas for unique science fair projects under such headings as 'chemists & cooks' and 'eye & mind.'

Suggests science projects involving electricity, light, sound, biology, chemistry, weather, and ecology.

Suggests science projects involving electricity, light, sound, biology, chemistry, weather, and ecology

Product Description: Compiled and deftly organized by baseball enthusiast Russell Roberts, 100 Baseball Legends Who Shaped Sports History is a simple compilation of one hundred major figures from the sport of baseball. Each one-page biography features a photograph of the baseball personality, along with a brief summary of his life and professional career...read more

Product Description: This beautifully illustrated anthology for younger readers brings together 100 of the best-known tales from the Old and New Testaments. Stories have been imaginatively retold, helping to introduce children to the main events of the Bible.

Presents the adventures and accomplishments of such explorers as Marco Polo, Prince Henry the Navigator, David Livingstone, and Amelia Earhart.

Arranged chronologically and covering all aspects of American history, each title in this series contains capsule biographies that mix the essential accomplishments of their subjects with fascinating, lesser-known details, as well as time lines, quizzes, and suggested projects.

Product Description: From the earliest settlements at Mount Sandel around 7000 BC to the first meeting of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2007, the book introduces the great moments in Irish history to children. Double page spreads are devoted to nine key moments: BATTLE OF CLONTARF, DESMOND REBELLIONS, BATTLE OF THE BOYNE, 1798 REBELLION, GREAT FAMINE, THE RISE OF THE GAA, EASTER RISING, WORLD WAR 2 (concentrating on the Bombing of the North Strand when the war came to Dublin) and the GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT...read more