![]() ![]() Longtime Ivy and Bean fans won't be disappointed and young readers who have yet to check out the series will find this a fine starting point.Ī classroom favorite, Ivy and Bean have been keeping kids laughing - and reading - for more than a decade. Annie Barrows is the bestselling author of books for both children and adults including the Ivy & Bean series which has more than 5 million copies in print Funny, relatable characters and story line Perfect chapter book and book series for young readers ![]() There's really only one solution: she needs a baby sister, on the double Luckily, Ivy and Bean know just where to get one. Author of The Magic Half (Miri and Molly 1), Ivy and Bean Break the Fossil Record, Ivy and Bean Take Care of the Babysitter, The truth according to us. She could give away all her toys, but she likes her toys. How can she keep from getting spoiled? She could give away all her clothes, but she'd probably get in trouble. Spoiler alert Ivy doesn't have any brothers or sisters. They scream and cry when they don't get their way. She's read a lot of books about only children, so she knows that they are sometimes spoiled rotten. Ivy and Bean are back, and they are funnier than ever: ![]()
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![]() ![]() What was is like diving into the kingdom of Kandala and its characters after having lived in the world of The Cursebreakers series for so long? We can explore global themes like corruption and war and violence-and show characters finding hope and peace and victory along the way. YA fantasies really allow us to take a deep dive into challenging topics and present them to readers in an accessible way. What is it about this genre you love writing so much? ![]() I think Lilith, from the Cursebreaker series, would probably be the worst.īoth Defy the Night and your last YA trilogy, the Cursebreakers, are YA fantasies. I think Quint, from Defy the Night, would be a ton of fun to hang out with. With that in mind, which of the characters, including those from Defy the Night, do you think you would get on with best and worst? Harristan and Grey would probably get along really well, in a quiet, reserved sort of way. I think Corrick and Grey would hate each other. ![]() ![]() Corrick and Rhen would compete at absolutely everything, but they’d be friendly rivals. I think Tessa and Harper would be great friends. This is such a fun question! I’ll go with the Cursebreaker series. ![]() ![]() Praise for Greetings from Witness Protection!: This inventive, clever story has a lot of heart at its center. Jake Burt's debut middle-grade novel Greetings from Witness Protection! is as funny as it is poignant. As she barely balances the responsibilities of her new identity, Nicki learns that the biggest threats to her family's security might not lurk on the road from New York to North Carolina, but rather in her own past. Nicki swears she can keep the Trevor family safe, but to do so she'll have to dodge hitmen, cyberbullies, and the specter of standardized testing, all while maintaining her marshal-mandated B-minus average. After all, the bad guys are searching for a family with one kid, not two, and adding a streetwise girl who knows a little something about hiding things may be just what the marshals need. ![]() Martin, New York Times-bestselling author of RainReign and the Baby-Sitters Club series The marshals are looking for the perfect girl to join a mother, father, and son on the run from the nation's most notorious criminals. Partcoming of age tale and part spy thriller, Greetings from Witness Protection could be a collaboration between Judy Blume and Ian Fleming."-Ann M. Marshals' best bet to keep a family alive. Nicki Demere is an orphan and a pickpocket. ![]() ![]() About the Book A funny and poignant debut novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family in the witness protection program and finds that hiding in plain sight is complicated and dangerous. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when she starts to delve beneath his carefully crafted façade, can he keep her at arm’s length while still protecting her? Or will their hot desires explode into a love that transcends the secrets of their pasts?Ī marriage of convenience ignites into a passionate love affair in the hotly anticipated second novel in New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries’s addictive Sinful Suitors series! Warren knows the danger of her game, and he refuses to watch her lose everything while gaining justice for her late brother. When he threatens to reveal her secret, she’s determined to keep him from ruining her plans, even if it means playing a cat-and-mouse game with the enigmatic rakehell. Then one night, handsome Warren Corry, the Marquess of Knightford, a notorious member of St. To root out the card cheat responsible for her brother’s death, Miss Delia Trevor spends her evenings dancing her way through high society balls, and her late nights disguised as a young man gambling her way through London’s gaming hells. ![]() The third book in the sexy Sinful Suitors Regency romance series, this heart-pounding story shows why New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries is one of the most beloved historical romance writers today. ![]() ![]() ![]() Such transactions are not limited to the digital environment. Instagram, in that way, is both a choice and not a choice at all-a trap saturated in the language of easy freedoms: Post, comment, like. “Comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves.” Here, though, is another finding: Many of the same young people who spoke of Instagram’s degradations kept returning to the service anyway. ![]() “Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse,” the company’s internal research revealed. In September, The Wall Street Journal published a report, based on leaked documents, describing Facebook’s awareness of the harmful effects one of its platforms was having on young people. ![]() ![]() It has been nominated for several awards, as well as being voted a YALSA top ten teen title. Cant look away / Donna Cooner.First edition. Donna's first book Skinny was also published by Electric Monkey. She grew up on the Gulf Coast of Texas and, although she loves the Colorado mountains, she still yearns for the ocean from time to time. Cant Look Away by Donna Conner tells the story of Torrey Grey, teenage fashion blogger extraordinaire, after her younger sister Miranda is killed by a drunk. Donna Cooner is an author, blogger, speaker and teacher currently living in Fort Collins, Colorado. ![]() A thrilling read for fans of Zoella's Girl Online, Gayle Forman's If I Stay and Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places. How can Torrey mourn her sister in private, when her bubbly public persona is all over the web? Then she meets Luis, whose family owns the local funeral home, and he challenges all that Torrey thought she knew about love, life, and loss. But when Torrey's sister is killed in an accident her world implodes, especially as she feels partly to blame. ![]() Thousands of people watch her beauty vlog for tips on how to be popular and pretty. Torrey Grey is famous - at least, she is on the internet. ![]() A fantastic read about relationships, guilt, love, redemption and the upside/downside of social networking from the author of Skinny. ![]() ![]() ![]() Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief was the overall winner of the Red House Children's Book Award in 2006, and made into a blockbuster film starring Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan and Uma Thurman in 2010. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife and two sons. Rick Riordan is the award-winning writer of the Percy Jackson series, The Kane Chronicles and the Heroes of Olympus series. Because first they must search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra, then they have to learn how to chant its spells. And in order to battle the forces of chaos, they must revive the sun god Ra - a feat no magician has ever achieved. ![]() ![]() If Carter and Sadie don't destroy him, the world will end in five days' time. To save their dad, they embark on a terrifying quest from Cairo to Paris to the American South-west and discover the truth about their family's connection to the House of Life: an Egyptian temple of magic that has existed for thousands of years. Set imprisons Dr Kane in a golden coffin and Carter and Sadie must run for their lives. ![]() The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)īrooklyn House Magician’s Manual (The Kane Chronicles, Hardback ) The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2) The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1) ![]() ![]() ![]() It was bloody brilliant! It’s kind of like watching TV with the commentary on because it satiates your hunger to know more. ![]() The plot is weaved around the characters instead of the other way around which allowed Ma to incorporate vivid backstories that directly explained each character’s personality and motives. Right away, I noticed Ma’s ability to flesh out her characters and she literally brought them to life with her words. This is not your typical fantasy novel either. It showcases the potential locked inside everyone and how you can break the binds that chain you in society. There’s absolutely no exaggeration when I tell you that this book has magic gracing every single page and what’s even better is how it’s magic that is always evolving and changing. It had an arrogant and independent princess, a witty prince with indigo flames, and an entire plot shrouded in magic and scandal. Coco Ma’s debut novel Shadow Frost has everything you could hope for in a new YA fantasy series. ![]() ![]() ![]() She manages to write with a distinct point out view without negating the fears of the time but still firmly standing against any racism. Scattergood’s debut novel is a gem of a novel. In this setting, it is Glory who shines, growing into a young woman with passion and a voice to match. Desegregation has come to Hanging Moss, and the pool is closed rather than stop being segregated, tempers are high, and neighbors and families are torn. ![]() Glory does have a new friend, a girl from the north whose mother is helping set up a clinic where everyone is welcome. Her best friend Frankie has always been easy to get along with, but now things are strained. She is interested in boys more than in playing games with Glory. Now her older sister Jesslyn, doesn’t want anything to do with her. But for Glory, the summer of 1964 when she turned 12, was a very different summer. In Hanging Moss, Mississippi, summer is filled with swimming at the pool, visits to the library, and just trying to stay cool. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers will discover that hundreds of things can go wrong with a horse, from breeding through birth, training and racing, and that every race has variables and hazards that can produce danger and death, as well as the loss of millions of dollars. ![]() With settings that range from California and Kentucky to Paris, the novel covers two years in which the players vie with each other to produce a mount that can win high-stakes races. Smiley, it turns out, knows a prodigious amount about Thoroughbreds, and she is as good at describing the stages of their lives, their temperaments and personalities as she is in chronicling the ambitions, financial windfalls and ruins, love affairs, partings and reconciliations of her large cast of human characters. Almost neck and neck with Alyson Hagy's Keeneland, this novel about horses and their breeders, owners, trainers, grooms, jockeys, traders, bettors and other turf-obsessed humans is another winner. ![]() The Chinese calendar aside, 2000 may be the Year of the Horse. ![]() |