February
Black History Month
Celebrate Black History Month this February with books from Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing!
Eliza's Freedom Road
An Underground Railroad Diary
By: Jerdine Nolen
Illustrated by: Shadra Strickland
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: January 4, 2011
Ages: 8 - 12
It is 1852 in Alexandria, Virginia. Eliza’s mother has been sent away and it is Abbey, the cook, who looks after Eliza, when Eliza isn’t taking care of the Mistress. Eliza has the quilt her mother left her and the...
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Joseph
By: Shelia P. Moses
This edition: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publication date: March 23, 2010
Ages: above 12
Fourteen-year-old Joseph Flood is the victim of his mother Betty's addictions to crack and alcohol. An African American boy living in a North Carolina ghetto neighborhood, Joseph has little chance for survival if his soldier...
Good Fortune
By: Noni Carter
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: January 5, 2010
Ages: above 12
Ayanna Bahati lives in a small African village when she is brutally kidnapped, along with her brother, and forced onto a slave ship to America. As Ayanna, renamed Anna, rises from the cotton fields to the master’s house,...
The Rock and the River
By: Kekla Magoon
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: 9 - 14
In 1968 Chicago, it’s not easy for thirteen-year-old Sam to be the son of known civil rights activist Roland Childs. Especially when his older brother, Stick, starts keeping to himself. Then, one day, Sam finds something...
Coretta Scott King
First Lady of Civil Rights (Part of Childhood of Famous Americans)
By: George E. Stanley
Illustrated by: Meryl Henderson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: December 16, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
Coretta Scott King is well known for being the wifeÊof Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and for her own civil rights and world peace activism. She also received many awards and honorary degrees. But before she did all of...
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Chains
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: October 21, 2008
Ages: above 10
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister,...
Little Rock Nine
(Part of Turning Points)
By: Marshall Poe
Illustrated by: Ellen Lindner
This edition: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
There are moments in every country's history when decisions are made and actions are taken that will change the course of that country's future. Turning Points historical graphic novels bring these moments in American history...
Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues
By: Harriette Gillem Robinet
Illustrated by: Raul Colon
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
"Oh, I'm singing the bus-rider blues, the Alabamy bus-rider blues. I got me a feeling, deep down inside, It ain't never ever gonna be the same." During the Alabama bus boycott, six months after Rosa Parks made her famous bus...
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Copper Sun
By: Sharon M. Draper
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2008
Ages: above 14
M. Sindy Felin's National Book Award finalist is in paperback for the first time. Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting laughed at by...
Other Formats: Hardcover
Presidents' Day
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Cleared for Takeoff
(Part of Liberty Porter, First Daughter)
By: Julia DeVillers
Illustrated by: Paige Pooler
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: July 12, 2011
Ages: 8 - 12
When your father is the President of the United States, and you've taken your own oath to represent the kids of America . . . well, that's a lot of responsibility for one girl. Luckily, Liberty Porter is up to the job! There's...
New Girl in Town
(Part of Liberty Porter, First Daughter)
By: Julia DeVillers
Illustrated by: Paige Pooler
This edition: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publication date: July 6, 2010
Ages: 8 - 12
Liberty Porter is your average eight-year-old girl. Except for the fact that her dad is the newly-elected President of the United States. She just moved into her new house--the White House. And she's about to start at her new...
My Brother Abe
Sally Lincoln's Story
By: Harry Mazer
This edition: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
Virtually nothing is known about Sarah Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's older sister. This novel will follow the few known facts of the Lincoln family's early life, starting with the Lincolns' move from Kentucky to Indiana when...
President George W. Bush
Our Forty-third President
By: Beatrice Gormley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2005
Ages: 10 - 14
President George W. Bush once said, "I never dreamed about becoming president. When I was growing up, I wanted to be Willie Mays."
George W. was born in 1946 and attended Yale University. As a young man he trained as a...
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Harry S. Truman
Thirty-Third President of the United States (Part of Childhood of Famous Americans)
By: George E. Stanley
Illustrated by: Meryl Henderson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publication date: May 4, 2004
Ages: 8 - 12
One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Champion of Freedom (Part of Childhood of Famous Americans)
By: Kathleen Kudlinski
Illustrated by: Meryl Henderson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2003
Ages: 8 - 12
Childhood of Famous Americans
One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized...
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Andrew Jackson
Young Patriot (Part of Childhood of Famous Americans)
By: George E. Stanley
Illustrated by: Meryl Henderson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: May 1, 2003
Ages: 8 - 12
Dear Reader: The Childhood of Famous Americans series, seventy years old in 2002, chronicles the early years of famous American men and women in an accessible manner. Each book is faithful in spirit to the values and...
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John Adams
Young Revolutionary (Part of Childhood of Famous Americans)
By: Jan Adkins
Illustrated by: Meryl Henderson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publication date: June 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
Dear Reader: The Childhood of Famous Americans series, seventy years old in 2002, chronicles the early years of famous American men and women in an accessible manner. Each book is faithful in spirit to the values and...
Other Formats: eBook
Ronald Reagan
Young Leader (Part of Childhood of Famous Americans)
By: Montrew Dunham
Illustrated by: Meryl Henderson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: September 1, 1999
Ages: 8 - 12
The Childhood Of Famous Americans Series
One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring,...
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Hard to Get
(Part of Romantic Comedies, The)
By: Emma Carlson Berne
This edition: Mass Market Paperback, 288 pages
Publication date: February 23, 2010
Ages: above 12
Val Rushford has it all: The boyfriend, the looks, the grades, the friends--she's perfect. But when she dumps her cheating boyfriend, Dave, she's bombarded with all types of advances from boys all over school! Totally...
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Love Off-Limits
(Part of Romantic Comedies, The)
By: Whitney Lyles
This edition: Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages
Publication date: August 4, 2009
Ages: above 12
Breaking up is hard to do!
Natalie should be on top of the world dating Jeremy. He's totally perfect by everyone's standards. But the seemingly fl awless couple have been dating since freshman year, and now Natalie fears...
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The Secret Life of Prince Charming
By: Deb Caletti
This edition: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publication date: April 7, 2009
Ages: above 12
A thoughtful, funny, and layered teen novel by National Book Award Finalist Deb Caletti.
Sea of Love
(Part of Romantic Comedies, The)
By: Jamie Ponti
This edition: Mass Market Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: December 16, 2008
Ages: above 12
When it comes to love, sometimes it's sink or swim.
As if it's not bad enough that Darby had to leave NYC and her BF to move to Florida, where her family's started running a hotel, now she has to help with the hotel's...
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The Cupid Chronicles
(Part of Wedding Planner's Daughter, The)
By: Coleen Murtagh Paratore
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: January 8, 2008
Ages: above 10
When the library in Bramble, Cape Cod, announces it's in danger of closing, the town residents have got to raise BIG money and FAST. Thirteen-year-old Willa must put her crush on Joey Kennelly on the back burner to save the...
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Bloom
By: Elizabeth Scott
Designed by: Lisa Fyfe
This edition: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publication date: April 24, 2007
Ages: above 12
There's a difference between falling and letting go.
Lauren has a good life: decent grades, great friends, and a boyfriend every girl lusts after. So why is she so unhappy?
It takes the arrival of Evan Kirkland for...
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