Product Description: Marvin lives with his family under the kitchen sink in the Pompadays' apartment. He is very much a beetle. James Pompaday lives with his family in New York City. He is very much an eleven-year-old boy.After James gets a pen-and-ink set for his birthday, Marvin surprises him by creating an elaborate miniature drawing...read more

Product Description: On a sunny day at the beach with her mom and brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And then everything―absolutely everything―changed. Now she’s counting down the days until she returns to school with her fake arm and kids will whisper, “That’s her...read more

Product Description: Life is full of making choices and these character education chapter books examine the different choices made by two cousins -- the McNairs. Greg the Good is hard working and honest. Three books follow Greg as he makes choices that earn him money, respect, and a good reputation...read more

Lady Emily is determined to be belle of the ball in this irresistible romantic romp. La Petite Four is the sweet, playful tale of sixteenyear- old Lady Emily’s self-discovery on her way to finding love and having a ball—literally! Emily and her three best friends can’t wait for the year’s biggest party: the Coming-Out Ball that will plunge them into the seductions, scandals, and decadence of nineteenth-century London Society. But when dashing Lord Robert puts a wrinkle in their plans, Emily and her crew hatch an investigation to expose his dark side—a move which puts them right in the path of the stubborn, yet curiously attractive James Cropper. Readers will have to fluff up their ball gowns and hang on to their corsets as Emily decides between Robert and James, love and independence, and ultimately discovers just how far she’ll go to follow her own heart.

Product Description: "Spollen interweaves elemental, evocative images of what is formless and boundless―water, air, grief, death―with what is solid and limited-earth, objects, human love and forgiveness. This enchanting novel starts quietly, draws the reader in and weaves a seductive spell that holds until the last page...read more

After moving yet again and starting life over in another new town, Jude tries to cope with her mother's drinking and anger issues through her artistic endeavors, but when her depression becomes too great to handle alone, Jude seeks guidance in a portrait of van Gogh that results in dangerous thinking.

Desperately wanting to meet her absent father, thirteen-year-old Pia sends a letter to him in Italy to see what will come of it and soon gets a response that initiates a journey to a distant country, makes her deal with the imperfections of her family, and inspires her to rediscover herself in the process.

At a medieval monastery, orphaned Simon, who is apprenticing in illumination, dreams of the day he can create his own pictures, but finds he must first complete a strange and unusual assignment that Father Anselm has given him.

With his shaved head and begging bowl the new kid is an automatic target for the bully boys of Edward Rucher High—an easy mark for their casual cruelty.Watching this, Justin would gladly stay as far from the newcomer as possible—until their economics teacher pairs them for a project and he finds himself becoming fascinated by the kid the others mock as “Buddha Boy.” The thing is, friendship with an outcast always carries a price, and soon Justin must decide if he can stay silent in the face of what he knows.A scorching portrait of contemporary high school life, featuring a character listeners will never forget.

When elephant artist Hugo develops artist's block, his friend Miles convinces him to go along on a whirlwind trip to Paris, where Hugo learns to see things in new ways.

Wishing she was more special and able to get more attention from the boys in school, the Manhattan School of Arts, Gretchen Yee dreams of becoming a fly on the wall of the boys' locker room in order to better understand the opposite sex and finally get someone to notice her. Reprint.

With the help of her artistic grandmother, a little girl learns to use her 'heartsight' to view the world through an artist's eyes, in a charming story that celebrates the bond between a child and her grandmother.