Product Description: La abuelita de arriba y la abuelita de abajo / Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs (Spanish Edition) [Jul 01, 2010] dePaola, Tomie ... 9580496935

Thirteen-year-old Alice sets long- and short-term priorities for her life as she experiences the complexities of young love.

Alice decides she needs priorities in her life. What kind of future can you have if you don't plan? Priority number one: get Miss Summers, the beautiful English teacher at her school, to marry Alice's widowed father. After all, they've been dating for a year. The only problem is the vice-principal, Mr. Sorringer. He wants to marry her too.Love, Alice finds, can be complicated, even in her own life. She has been Patrick's girlfriend for almost two years. So why is she interested in other guys?But Alice isn't the only one with problems. Her friends Elizabeth and Pamela have their own troubles -- with family, with boyfriends, and with very personal matters that Elizabeth doesn't even want to discuss. If only there could be one day a week when things would stay the same: no embarrassing surprises. Life isn't like that, however, and Alice has to be ready for whatever comes next.

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Product Description: In dealing with the theme of this first story in the ‘Action Annie’ series of stories from the book of the same name, I wanted to address that perennial question that has perplexed the minds of millions of children ever since ‘Father Christmas’ became a prime feature of their Christmas Day celebrations...read more

Product Description: “If you don’t want your heart broken, don’t let on you have one.”Sara Moone is an expert on broken hearts. She is a foster child who has been bounced from home to home, but now she is almost sixteen and can not live in the system forever...read more

Product Description: Join Addie B. Strong as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, and learns that it is not what you have or look like but who you are inside that really counts. ÊFor parents and guardians seeking ways to combat the negative messages children are often inundated with - from what they should have to what they should look like - the acclaimed story of Addie B...read more

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Product Description: Junior year is halfway over and Melissa is thrilled to be going with Jess, Jimmy, and Brian to Cabo San Lucas for Spring Break. Things at home haven't been great, and she could use the break that the sun and sand of Mexico is sure to bring...read more

Product Description: Aprender a gestionar emociones es uno de los retos más importantes para el desarrollo de los niños y niñs. Mediante historias divertidas y cotidianas, la colección Toni y Tina, quiere ayudar a identificar sus propias emociones, hablar de ellas y afrontarlas.

Product Description: This is the story of a water drop that lived in the soil for a long time until one day she felt an irrepressible desire to see the light. Travel along with the droplet and live her adventures. The Adventures of a Water Drop is part of the ‘Emotional Stories’ series and is a story of Gratitude...read more

In three separate stories, Lulu learns important lessons--that she can do anything she puts her mind to, she is her own best friend, and the dark is not so scary after all--from her animal friends.

Product Description: Will Eckhart find the courage to rise from his past—and climb to his future? This quest for home is a stunning companion to Eva of the Farm.When Eckhart Lyon arrives at Sunrise Orchard, all he wants to do is play video games and read about King Arthur’s knights...read more

Product Description: "Beautiful, lyrical writing and a dangerously suspenseful plot. . .an unforgettable novel that readers will love." --Lucy Connors, author of The Lonesome YoungSometimes secrets kill. Maybe slowly, maybe painfully. Maybe all at once...read more

Product Description: A tragic kidnapping leads to an unlikely friendship in this novel about finding light in the midst of darkness from the author of The Truth About Alice.When eleven-year-old Dylan Anderson is kidnapped, his subsequent rescue leads to the discovery of fifteen-year-old Ethan Jorgensen, who had gone on a bike ride four years earlier and had never been seen again...read more

Product Description: Bernard is looking for his dad, who is absorbed in his own business and simply responds, Not now, Bernard. He then tries to get his mother s attention, but she responds the same way. But something is worrying the little boy: there is a monster in the garden, and Bernard is worried that he will be eaten...read more