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10 Minutes till Bedtime by Peggy Rathmann

The countdown to bedtime is about to begin when a family of hamsters arrives at the front door. Streaming into the room, their escapades accelerate as the countdown continues. Full-color...

101 Ways to Bug Your Parents by Lee Wardlaw

When his parents nixes his plans to attend the Invention Convention and enroll him in a creative writing class instead, 12-year-old Steve comes up with a wacky moneymaking project.

101 Ways to Bug Your Teacher by Lee Wardlaw

The long-awaited sequel to "101 Ways to Bug Your Parents" now offers middle-graders several cunning and resourceful ways to bug their teachers.

16 Going on 21 by Darren Lee

Teens Denim and Dre have been close since childhood and now are finding their feelings turning to passion, despite their parents' efforts to keep them from moving in that direction. Their...

17 Kings and 42 Elephants by Margaret Mahy

Where those kings are headed is a mystery, but no travelers ever had such a jolly time. Here is a royal romp through a tongue-twisting paradise. 32 full-color illustrations.

1984 by George Orwell

Satire on the possible horrors of a totalitarian regime in England in 1984.

2030: A Day in the Life of Tomorrow's Kids by Amy Zuckerman

Global events and new technology change how we live from moment to moment. So, what will the world be like in 20 years? Futurists Zuckerman and Daly examine what a kid's daily life might be like in...

2095 by Jon Scieszka

While on a field trip to New York's Museum of Natural History, Joe, Sam, and Fred travel one hundred years into the future, where they encounter robots, anti-gravity disks, and their own...

26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola

Many things happened the year Tomie's family built their new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue, in Meriden, Connecticut, including the hurricane of 1938, Tomie's first day of kindergarten, and more. This...

97 Ways to Train a Dragon by Kate McMullan

Back in his first new adventure in four years, Wiglaf is as funny and appealing as ever as he finds a baby dragon in this installment. Includes a hilarious bonus yearbook section. Illustrations.

A Big Fat Enormous Lie by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

A child's simple lie grows to enormous proportions.

A Boy Called Slow: The True Story of Sitting Bull by Joseph Bruchac

 Anxious to be given a name as strong and brave as that of his father, a proud Lakota Sioux grows into manhood, acting with careful deliberation, determination, and bravery, which eventually...