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  • Little Worlds : A Collection of Short Stories for the Middle School

    • ASIN: 1877653527
    • ISBN: 1877653527
    • Brand: Wayside Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Wayside Pub

    The purpose of this text was to make available a large collection of stories that are high in literary quality yet accessible to middle-school students. Its widespread acceptance in schools throughout the country attests that this anthology has indeed achieved its goal. It presents students with a variety of issues, styles, conflicts, and points of... [Read More]

  • Best Shorts: Favorite Stories for Sharing

    • UPC: 046442476034
    • ASIN: 0618476032
    • ISBN: 0618476032
    • Brand: Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

    Newbery Medal–winning author Avi has selected short stories from the past and present in this entertaining collection for young readers. And whether you begin by reading alone or reading aloud, these stories are some of the very best to share. Featuring loyal pets, rogue waves, ghosts who use cell phones, and young people caught up in events beyo... [Read More]

  • The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition): The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue (True Rescue Series)

    • ASIN: 1250044235
    • ISBN: 1250044235
    • Brand: Tougias Michael J
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

    This adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman tells the story of the shipwreck of two oil tankers and the harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. N... [Read More]

  • 13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen

    • ASIN: 1416926844
    • ISBN: 1416926844
    • Brand: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

    "If thirteen is supposed to be an unlucky number...you would think a civilized society could come up with a way for us to skip it." -- from "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" by Bruce Coville No one will want to skip any of the twelve short stories and one poem that make up this collection by some of the most celebrated contemporary writers of... [Read More]

  • Read All About It!: Great Read-Aloud Stories, Poems, and Newspaper Pieces for Preteens and Teens

    • ASIN: 0140146555
    • ISBN: 9780140146554
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    A treasury of fifty sensational read-aloud pieces for young adults.From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to Maniac Magee, sci-fi to op-ed, “Casey at the Bat” to a moving true story about the reunion of two Holocaust survivors, this wonderfully diverse collection of excerpts from newspapers, magazines, and books has been created by Ji... [Read More]

  • Fifty Great Short Stories (Bantam Classics)

    • ASIN: 0553277456
    • ISBN: 0553277456
    • Brand: Bantam Classics
    • Manufacturer: Bantam Classics

    50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous,... [Read More]

  • Through the Fire: Based on a True Story About a Young Girl That Was Maliciously Burned in a House Fire

    • ASIN: 152078080X
    • ISBN: 152078080X
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    A childhood tragedy cost her more than she could've imagined, but it also gave a gift far worth more than she could've hoped for... Theresa holds nothing back as she retraces her traumatic childhood in the countryside of North Carolina in one of the most inspirational books you’ve read yet. Between unstable, alcoholic parents and the ever-present... [Read More]

  • A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

    • ASIN: 0547577311
    • ISBN: 0547577311
    • Brand: Clarion Books
    • Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

    The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys"... [Read More]

  • Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja

    • ASIN: 1493527487
    • ISBN: 1493527487
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    Age Level: 9 - 12 | Grade Level: 4th and upMy name is Chase Cooper, and I'm a 6th grade ninja. It's my first day at a different school and the only person I know is my cousin, Zoe (but she might be a little too cool for me). I was just another scrawny kid until a group of ninjas recruited me into their clan. It was a world of trouble I wasn't prepa... [Read More]

  • Of Mice and Men

    • ASIN: 0140177396
    • ISBN: 0140177396
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression   They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable ... [Read More]

  • The Kite Runner

    • ASIN: 159463193X
    • ISBN: 9781594631931
    • Brand: Riverhead Books
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    The #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel that introduced Khaled Hosseini to millions of readers the world over.   The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense... [Read More]

  • Two-Minute Mysteries (Apple Paperbacks)

    • ASIN: 0590447874
    • ISBN: 0590447874
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Paperbacks

    Whether testing their own sleuthing abilities by working against the clock or enjoying the intrigue of unraveling the case, readers get lots of spine-tingling mystery in these thrilling puzzlers.

  • Spanish Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Spanish & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Easy Spanish Stories Book 1)

    • ASIN: B078WRXYM7

    Do you know what the hardest thing for a Spanish learner is?Finding PROPER reading material that they can handle…which is precisely the reason we’ve written this book!Teachers love giving out tough, expert-level literature to their students, books that present many new problems to the reader and force them to search for words in a dictionary ev... [Read More]

  • The Secret Lake: A children's mystery adventure

    • ASIN: 0956932304
    • ISBN: 0956932304
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Well Said Press

    A lost dog, a hidden time tunnel and a secret lake... A page-turning time travel adventure for children aged 8-11. Now enjoyed by thousands of young readers!When Stella and her younger brother, Tom, move to their new London home,they become mystified by the disappearances of Harry, their elderly neighbor's small dog. Where does he go? And why does... [Read More]

  • The One and Only Ivan

    • ASIN: 0061992275
    • ISBN: 0061992275
    • Brand: HarperCollins
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

    Soon to be a major motion picture!Winner of the Newbery Medal and a #1 New York Times bestsellerThis unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendship. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated book is told from the point of view of Ivan h... [Read More]

  • The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

    • ASIN: 0374303231
    • ISBN: 0374303231
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

    Stonewall Book Award Winner―Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature AwardYALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter.One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both we... [Read More]

  • Middle School: Save Rafe! (Middle School series Book 6)

    • ASIN: B00FPQA7OS
    • Manufacturer: jimmy patterson

    Join Rafe as he survives white-water rafting, camp counselors, and rock climbing in this hilarious New York Times bestseller from the Middle School series.After a rough summer, Rafe is heading back to the dreaded Hills Village Middle School, the site of the very worst years of his life. And as if that's not bad enough, he's learned that he's going ... [Read More]

  • Animal Farm

    • ASIN: 0451526341
    • ISBN: 9780451526342
    • Brand: Orwell, George
    • Manufacturer: Signet

    George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise ... [Read More]

  • The Bad Seed

    • ASIN: 006246776X
    • ISBN: 006246776X
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

    ★ A New York Times bestseller! ★ An Amazon Best Children's Book of the Year selectionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Goodnight Already! seriesThis is a book about a bad seed. A baaaaaaaaaad seed. How bad? Do you really want to know? He has a bad temper, bad manners, and a bad attitude. He's been bad since he can remember! W... [Read More]

  • Easy Spanish Step-By-Step

    • UPC: 201571463380
    • ASIN: 0071463380
    • ISBN: 0071463380
    • Brand: McGraw-Hill
    • Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

    A proven grammar-based approach that gets you communicating in Spanish with confidence, right away Easy Spanish Step by Step proves that a solid grounding in grammar basics is the key to mastering a second language. Grammatical rules and concepts are clearly explained in order of importance, and more than 300 verbs and key terms are introduced on t... [Read More]

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