Pepper Ann becomes the soccer team star but lets the fame go to her head until her friends make her realize that a team has more than one player and that winning isn't everything. Original.

Angela is sure that she has a way to have her brothers buy her the snowshoes she wants, thus giving her the best Christmas ever, until her mother invites Nanette Manoir, whose parents are away, to spend the holiday with the family.

Product Description: Now anyone can change the look of their home in a day or less! This new series makes it easy with quick, inexpensive ideas perfect for readers decorating their homes for the first time. Each title is packed with practical advice and inspirational photos that illustrate 100 great design ideas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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When picture day is unexpectedly moved up by a few weeks, Addie Singer isn't nervous, as she loves the camera, but when someone tells her she has flat hair, she's determined to fix it, with not-so-fabulous results.

On the balcony of a hotel room, a man is keeping watch. He stares out at the cliffs from which his mother jumped to her death 20 years ago. During the course of a single night, the narrator stirs up the memories of his childhood, his lost youth, his brutal father, his runaway brother, and his years in Paris.

Addie decides to start of seventh grade the right way by throwing a party that will bring her instant popularity, but it doesn't quite turn out as she had hoped.

Product Description: Based on historical fact and legends, this fictionalized account of the life of Muhammad was nominated for the prestigious Prix Goncourt Before becoming the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad was a simple man of flesh and blood who started life as a poor or­phan in the Arabian city of Mecca...read more

Product Description: Sinbad the Sailor is reborn as a young, adventurous man in modern day Algeria, who has joined the waves of North African immigration into Europe. Accompanied by a mysterious mongrel and his Senegalese friend Robinson, this lover of women and beauty embarks on a journey around the Mediterranean—from Algiers to Damascus, passing through Rome, Paris, Baghdad, through the refugee camps and the deceitful glimmer of the Western world—that takes him on a headlong pursuit of happiness and love...read more