April
Earth Day
Share the importance of protecting our earth with your students. Read a book this Earth Day!
Poetrees
By: Douglas Florian
Illustrated by: Douglas Florian
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: March 9, 2010
Ages: above 6
Seeds are sprouting, roots are spreading, and branches are swaying in this tree-mendous poetry collection. From coconut palms and bristlecone pines to baobabs and banyans, Douglas Florian explores the arboreal world with his...
Other Formats: eBook
Generation Green
The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life
By: Linda Sivertsen and Tosh Sivertsen
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: August 5, 2008
Ages: above 12
We all know about the Earth's environmental crisis, but there is someone who can truly make a difference: you. If you text your friends or chat with them online, download music to your iPod, or toss bottles and papers into...
Other Formats: eBook
Easter
Fill your Easter basket with these egg-ceptional books.
Hello, Bunny!
(Part of Paint Me Pals)
By: Kris Hirschmann
Illustrated by: Victoria Hutto
This edition: Novelty, 24 pages
Publication date: January 26, 2010
Ages: above 6
Hop on over and say hello to Hello, Bunny!, a springtime novelty kit that comes with a keepsake bunny to decorate and display, four pots of paints, a pot of glaze, and a mini paintbrush, all packaged with an activity book...
Freshman Reading/First Year Experience
Suggested titles for college common book programs as part of the Freshman First Year Experience
The Pregnancy Project
A Memoir
By: Gaby Rodriguez
with: Jenna Glatzer
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: January 17, 2012
Ages: above 14
It started as a school project…but turned into so much more.Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she would end up a teen mom. After all, her mother and her older sisters had gotten pregnant as teenagers; from an...
Other Formats: eBook
Three Little Words
A Memoir
By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: May 5, 2009
Ages: above 14
"Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama." Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those...
Tweak
Growing Up on Methamphetamines
By: Nic Sheff
This edition: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: above 15
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always...
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
Poetry Month
April is Poetry Month! Celebrate in your school or library with these books from Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing.
Poetrees
By: Douglas Florian
Illustrated by: Douglas Florian
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: March 9, 2010
Ages: above 6
Seeds are sprouting, roots are spreading, and branches are swaying in this tree-mendous poetry collection. From coconut palms and bristlecone pines to baobabs and banyans, Douglas Florian explores the arboreal world with his...
Other Formats: eBook
Generation Green
The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life
By: Linda Sivertsen and Tosh Sivertsen
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: August 5, 2008
Ages: above 12
We all know about the Earth's environmental crisis, but there is someone who can truly make a difference: you. If you text your friends or chat with them online, download music to your iPod, or toss bottles and papers into...
Other Formats: eBook
Poetry Month
April is Poetry Month! Share some poems with your students today!
Dinothesaurus
Prehistoric Poems and Paintings
By: Douglas Florian
Illustrated by: Douglas Florian
This edition: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: above 6
This book is full of dinosaurs, Both carnivores and herbivores. You’ll find a big Iguanodon, As well as clever Tro-o-don. There’s Spinosaurus and T. rex, Plus plesiosaurs with GIANT necks . . . Step back in time in...
Other Formats: eBook
Far from You
By: Lisa Schroeder
This edition: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publication date: December 23, 2008
Ages: above 14
Lost and alone€¦down the rabbit hole. Alice thought she knew what solitude was: Her mother—gone Her father—remarried with a newborn daughter. Now€¦ trapped in the icy embrace of a...
What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
By: Sonya Sones
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: December 16, 2008
Ages: above 12
My name is Robin. This book is about me. It tells the story of what happens when after almost 15 pathetic years of loserdom, the girl of my dreams finally falls for me. That seems like it would be a good thing, right?...
Identical
By: Ellen Hopkins
This edition: Hardcover, 576 pages
Publication date: August 26, 2008
Ages: above 14
"Perfect on the outside, but behind the Normal Rockwell facades, each holds its secrets. Dark, untellable. Practically unbelievable." -- IDENTICAL Kaeleigh and Raeanne are 16-year-old identical twins, the daughters of a...
America at War
Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Edited By: Lee Bennett Hopkins / Illustrated by: Stephen Alcorn
This edition: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: above 8
In this ever-timely collection of more than fifty poems and paintings
divided into eight sections, one of America's most distinguished poets
and anthologists, Lee Bennett Hopkins, and internationally acclaimed
painter and...
I Heart You, You Haunt Me
By: Lisa Schroeder
This edition: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publication date: January 8, 2008
Ages: above 14
Girl meets boy.
Girl loses boy.
Girl gets boy back...
...sort of.
Ava can't see him or touch him, unless she's dreaming. She can't hear his
voice, except for the faint whispers in her mind. Most would think...
Other Formats: eBook
Glass
By: Ellen Hopkins
This edition: Hardcover, 688 pages
Publication date: August 21, 2007
Ages: above 14
Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go. Kristina thinks she can control it. Now with a baby to care for, she's...
If
A Father's Advice to His Son
By: Rudyard Kipling
Illustrated by: Charles R. Smith Jr.
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 6
What makes a boy into a man?
Courage.
Confidence.
Patience.
Integrity...
For more than one hundred years, this classic poems has inspired readers to reach for the best in themselves.
In pictures and words, here's...
Impulse
By: Ellen Hopkins
This edition: Hardcover, 672 pages
Publication date: January 23, 2007
Ages: above 14
Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same. Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted...
Burned
By: Ellen Hopkins
This edition: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publication date: March 28, 2006
Ages: above 14
Raised in a religious -- yet abusive -- family, Pattyn Von Stratten starts asking questions -- about God, a woman's role, sex, love. She experiences the first stirrings of passion, but when her father catches her in a...
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
By: Sonya Sones
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: October 25, 2005
Ages: above 12
My name is Ruby.
This book is about me.
It tells the deeply hideous story
of what happens when my mother dies
and I'm dragged three thousand miles away
from my gorgeous boyfriend, Ray,
to live in L.A. with my...
Crank
By: Ellen Hopkins
This edition: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publication date: October 5, 2004
Ages: above 14
This is a story about a monster. Not a dragon or a mythological beast, but a very real, very destructive monster--crystal meth--that takes hold of seventeen-year-old Kristina Snow and transforms her into her reckless alter-ego...
What My Mother Doesn't Know
By: Sonya Sones
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2003
Ages: above 12
My name is Sophie.
This book is about me.
It tells
the heart-stoppingly riveting story
of my first love.
And also of my second.
And, okay, my third love too.
It's not that I'm boy crazy.
It's just that even though
I'm almost...
Other Formats: eBook
True Believer
By: Virginia Euwer Wolff
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: October 1, 2002
Ages: above 12
LaVaughn is fifteen now, and she's still fiercely determined to go to college. But that's the only thing she's sure about. Loyalty to her father bubbles up as her mother grows closer to a new man. The two girls she used to do...
Other Formats: Hardcover
Poetry Month
April is Poetry Month! Share some poems with your students today
Chasing Brooklyn
By: Lisa Schroeder
This edition: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publication date: April 19, 2011
Ages: above 14
Restless souls and empty hearts Brooklyn can't sleep. Her boyfriend, Lucca, died only a year ago, and now her friend Gabe has just died of an overdose. Every time she closes her eyes, Gabe's ghost is there waiting for her. She...
Spinster Goose
Twisted Rhymes for Naughty Children
By: Lisa Wheeler
Illustrated by: Sophie Blackall
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: March 8, 2011
Ages: above 5
Some children are simply too naughty for Mother Goose to handle. Luckily her sister Spinster Goose knows just how to deal with these uncouth urchins. Her school is home to some world-class troublemakers: they bite and pinch,...
Chasing Brooklyn
By: Lisa Schroeder
This edition: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publication date: January 5, 2010
Ages: above 14
Restless souls and empty hearts Brooklyn can't sleep. Her boyfriend, Lucca, died only a year ago, and now her friend Gabe has just died of an overdose. Every time she closes her eyes, Gabe's ghost is there waiting for her. She...
Dinothesaurus
Prehistoric Poems and Paintings
By: Douglas Florian
Illustrated by: Douglas Florian
This edition: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: above 6
This book is full of dinosaurs, Both carnivores and herbivores. You’ll find a big Iguanodon, As well as clever Tro-o-don. There’s Spinosaurus and T. rex, Plus plesiosaurs with GIANT necks . . . Step back in time in...
Other Formats: eBook
Far from You
By: Lisa Schroeder
This edition: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publication date: December 23, 2008
Ages: above 14
Lost and alone€¦down the rabbit hole. Alice thought she knew what solitude was: Her mother—gone Her father—remarried with a newborn daughter. Now€¦ trapped in the icy embrace of a...
What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
By: Sonya Sones
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: December 16, 2008
Ages: above 12
My name is Robin. This book is about me. It tells the story of what happens when after almost 15 pathetic years of loserdom, the girl of my dreams finally falls for me. That seems like it would be a good thing, right?...
Identical
By: Ellen Hopkins
This edition: Hardcover, 576 pages
Publication date: August 26, 2008
Ages: above 14
"Perfect on the outside, but behind the Normal Rockwell facades, each holds its secrets. Dark, untellable. Practically unbelievable." -- IDENTICAL Kaeleigh and Raeanne are 16-year-old identical twins, the daughters of a...
America at War
Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Edited By: Lee Bennett Hopkins / Illustrated by: Stephen Alcorn
This edition: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: above 8
In this ever-timely collection of more than fifty poems and paintings
divided into eight sections, one of America's most distinguished poets
and anthologists, Lee Bennett Hopkins, and internationally acclaimed
painter and...
I Heart You, You Haunt Me
By: Lisa Schroeder
This edition: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publication date: January 8, 2008
Ages: above 14
Girl meets boy.
Girl loses boy.
Girl gets boy back...
...sort of.
Ava can't see him or touch him, unless she's dreaming. She can't hear his
voice, except for the faint whispers in her mind. Most would think...
Other Formats: eBook
Glass
By: Ellen Hopkins
This edition: Hardcover, 688 pages
Publication date: August 21, 2007
Ages: above 14
Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go. Kristina thinks she can control it. Now with a baby to care for, she's...
If
A Father's Advice to His Son
By: Rudyard Kipling
Illustrated by: Charles R. Smith Jr.
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 6
What makes a boy into a man?
Courage.
Confidence.
Patience.
Integrity...
For more than one hundred years, this classic poems has inspired readers to reach for the best in themselves.
In pictures and words, here's...
Impulse
By: Ellen Hopkins
This edition: Hardcover, 672 pages
Publication date: January 23, 2007
Ages: above 14
Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same. Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted...
Burned
By: Ellen Hopkins
This edition: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publication date: March 28, 2006
Ages: above 14
Raised in a religious -- yet abusive -- family, Pattyn Von Stratten starts asking questions -- about God, a woman's role, sex, love. She experiences the first stirrings of passion, but when her father catches her in a...
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
By: Sonya Sones
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: October 25, 2005
Ages: above 12
My name is Ruby.
This book is about me.
It tells the deeply hideous story
of what happens when my mother dies
and I'm dragged three thousand miles away
from my gorgeous boyfriend, Ray,
to live in L.A. with my...
Crank
By: Ellen Hopkins
This edition: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publication date: October 5, 2004
Ages: above 14
This is a story about a monster. Not a dragon or a mythological beast, but a very real, very destructive monster--crystal meth--that takes hold of seventeen-year-old Kristina Snow and transforms her into her reckless alter-ego...
What My Mother Doesn't Know
By: Sonya Sones
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2003
Ages: above 12
My name is Sophie.
This book is about me.
It tells
the heart-stoppingly riveting story
of my first love.
And also of my second.
And, okay, my third love too.
It's not that I'm boy crazy.
It's just that even though
I'm almost...
Other Formats: eBook
True Believer
By: Virginia Euwer Wolff
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: October 1, 2002
Ages: above 12
LaVaughn is fifteen now, and she's still fiercely determined to go to college. But that's the only thing she's sure about. Loyalty to her father bubbles up as her mother grows closer to a new man. The two girls she used to do...
Other Formats: Hardcover
