Product Description: A thrilling debut story of death, love, destiny, and dangerLenzi hears voices and has visions - gravestones, floods, a boy with steel gray eyes. Her boyfriend, Zak, can't help, and everything keeps getting louder and more intense...read more

Product Description: Snatched from her home in Africa, carried across the sea in a plague-ridden ship, she finds herself standing on the platform of a slave market in the West Indies, on the island of St. John, staring down into a ring of strange white faces...read more

Product Description: Snatched from her home in Africa, carried across the sea in a plague-ridden ship, she finds herself standing on the platform of a slave market in the West Indies, on the island of St. John, staring down into a ring of strange white faces...read more

Product Description: After the long, dark winter, Leiv, Narua, Apuluk and Solvi are ready for adventure. They decide to head north with two dogsled teams to see if they can make it across the ice to Helluland (modern Baffin Island). But when a terrible blizzard and a shocking kidnap disrupt their journey, the four young travelers must use courage and quick thinking to get themselves home...read more

Product Description: "A story inspired by events in the boyhood of Winston "Spree" Simon, a pioneer in the development of the steel drum, in which he discovers he can create tunes by banging on discarded cans. Includes author's note, glossary, and sources"--Provided by publisher.

In 1907 Vancouver, Canada, after helping unearth a skeleton to be returned for burial in China, fourteen-year-old Bing experiences strange events that cause him to confront his fear of both ghosts and his father.

Chiko isn’t a fighter by nature. He’s a book-smart Burmese boy whose father, a doctor, is in prison for resisting the government. When Chiko is forced into the army by trickery, he must find the courage to survive the mental and physical punishment meted out by the training facility’s menacing captain. Tu Reh can’t forget the image of the Burmese soldiers burning his home and the bamboo fields of his oppressed Karenni people, one of the many ethnic minorities in Burma. Now living in a Karenni refugee camp on the Thai border, Tu Reh is consumed by anger and the need for revenge. He can’t wait to join his father and the Karenni resistance in the effort to protect their people. Chiko and Tu Reh’s stories come to a violent intersection as each boy is sent on his first mission into the jungle. Extreme circumstances and unlikely friendships force each boy to confront what it means to be a man of his people. Set against the political and military backdrop of modern-day Burma, Bamboo People explores the power of courage and compassion to overcome violence and prejudice.

Product Description: The whale rider was Kahutia Te Rangi. Ancestor of the people of Te Tai Rawhiti, he travelled from Hawaiki, the place of the Ancients, to the east coast of New Zealand. Then there was Kahu. The first great-grandchild of the whanau, she was loved by all her relatives except the one whose love she needed most―her great-grandfather...read more

Product Description: In seventeenth-century Scotland, saying the wrong thing can lead to banishment—orworse. Accused of being a witch, sixteen-year-old Maggie Blair is sentenced to behanged. She escapes, but instead of finding shelter with her principled, patriotic uncle,she brings disaster to his door...read more

Product Description: Jacky Faber, rich from her exploits diving for Spanish gold, has purchased the LoreleiLee to carry passengers across the Atlantic. Believing she has been absolved of past sinsagainst the Crown, Jacky docks in London to take on her crew, but is instead arrestedand sentenced to life in the newly formed penal colony in Australia...read more

Product Description: From ancient India comes this Eastern story of the Great Flood, lushly illustrated and retold for children. When good King Manu prays for God Vishnu to protect the world, his prayers are answered in a most unexpected way. Vishnu appears as a small fish that grows and grows, obliging the king to find larger and larger aquariums to hold him...read more

Product Description: What if a beautiful vintage dress could take you back in time?Louise Lambert has always dreamed of movie starlets and exquisite gowns and longs for the day when she can fill the closet of her normal suburban home with stylish treasures...read more

Product Description: Picking up where Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days left off, Phileas Fogg's teenage son, Harry, is in trouble. He has made a bet that he can drive a steam-powered motor-car around the world in 100 days. So along with a brilliant but shy mechanic, a sly female journalist, and the son of his opponent in the wager, Harry sets off on a race against time...read more

Product Description: It’s the Great Depression, and times are hard. Children are starving. Families are scraping by on government handouts and the kindness of strangers. There is no work to be had and no money to be earned. Teenager Jarek Sokolowski and his brother take action to save their loved ones—they apply for jobs in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)...read more

Product Description: An evocative retelling of the wreck of the SS Georgette off the coast of Western Australia in 1876, this inspiring account chronicles the heroic efforts of 16 year old Grace Bussell and Sam Isaacs, an Aboriginal stockman. Lavishly illustrated, this mixed media book—which includes collages, computer generated images, and oil paintings—depicts Bussell and Isaacs as they rescue the lives of 50 passengers and crew from sure-drowning...read more

Product Description: There once was a lasswith hair like a nestwho walked out in her sleepon the morn of Mayfest.      And what happens to this lass? She is pursued by a dove, and then a huntsman who fixes on the dove, a mouse who frightens the huntsman, a cat who chases the mouse, and so on—until an entire village is caught up in a spontaneous Mayday parade! Written in a delightfully catchy rhyme, this story is a treat to read aloud...read more

Product Description: La sabiduría de los pueblos originarios que habitaron América antes de la conquista europea es rescatada desde la tradición oral que los caracterizó. Recuperar estas narraciones primigenias que se transmitieron de generación en generación...read more