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Run run run. That's what twelve-year-old Annie loves to do. When she's barefoot and running, she can hear her heart beating . . . thump- THUMP , thump- THUMP . It's a rhythm that makes sense in a year when everything's shifting: Her mother is pregnant, her grandfather is forgetful, and her best friend, Max, is always moody. Everything changes over time, just like the apple Annie's been assigned to draw. But as... (more)

Everything You Need...am Hist To Know About American History (Everything You Need To Know About...)

Everything You Need...am Hist To Know About American History (Everything You Need To Know About...)

by Kate Kelly, Anne Zeman

The newly revised and updated Everything You Need to Know About series provide kids and parents with a quick refresher to 4th through 6th grade curriculum topics. The organization and scope of these concise homework-help guides make them an essential reference resource. Researched according to middle-grade curriculum and current textbooks, and created in conjunction with subject experts, these titles answer kids'... (more)

The Garden of Eve

by K. L. Going

Evie reluctantly moves with her widowed father to Beaumont, New York, where he has bought an apple orchard, dismissing rumors that the town is cursed and the trees haven't borne fruit in decades. Evie doesn't believe in things like curses and fairy tales anymore--if fairy tales were real, her mom would still be alive. But odd things happen in Beaumont. Evie meets a boy who claims to be dead and receives a... (more)

Heritage Studies 6 (Heritage Studies for Christian Schools)

Heritage Studies 6 (Heritage Studies for Christian Schools)

by BJU Press

The Student Worktext is a full-color complement with study questions. This is an revision of the notebook packet

Spelling 6 for Christian Schools (Spelling for Christian Schools)

Spelling 6 for Christian Schools (Spelling for Christian Schools)

by Joanne Hall, Ann Greenleaf, Jan Joss

Spelling 6 (Spelling for Christian Schools)

Spelling 6 (Spelling for Christian Schools)

Science 6 for Christian Schools: Activity Manual -Answer Key

Science 6 for Christian Schools: Activity Manual -Answer Key

This is the Activities Manual overprinted with the answers.

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism

by Georgia Byng

Molly Moon has spent her entire life in a miserable orphanage run by the hairy, snaggletoothed Miss Adderson. But when she finds a mysterious book, Molly discovers an extraordinary talent -- she can hypnotize anyone! Accompanied by Petula the pug, Molly hypnotizes her way to New York and Broadway stardom. But hot on her trail is the sinister professor, who is determined to use Molly to stage the crime of the... (more)

Al Capone Does My Shirts

by Gennifer Choldenko

Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are not your average neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz. It’s 1935 and twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved to the infamous island that’s home to criminals like notorious escapee Roy Gardner, Machine Gun Kelly, and of course, Al Capone. Now Moose has to try to fit in at his new school, avoid getting caught up in one of the... (more)

Itch

by Michelle D. Kwasney

After the death of her beloved Gramps, Delores Colchester, better known as “Itch,” moves with her grandmother from Florida to Ohio. Starting over is hard, and Itch feels like an outsider in her new school, until she becomes friends with popular baton-twirling Gwendolyn. On the outside, Gwendolyn seems perfect: talented, smart, and beautiful. But she has a dark secret, which Itch begins to suspect and soon... (more)

Guardian of the Spirit (Moribito) ISBN 0545005426

Guardian of the Spirit (Moribito) ISBN 0545005426

by Nahoko Uehashi

Balsa was a wanderer and warrior for hire. Then she rescued a boy flung into a raging river -- and at that moment, her destiny changed. Now Balsa must protect the boy -- the Prince Chagum -- on his quest to deliver the great egg of the water spirit to its source in the sea. As they travel across the land of Yogo and discover the truth about the spirit, they find themselves hunted by two deadly enemies: the... (more)

The Cabinet of Wonders: The Kronos Chronicles: Book I (The Kronos Chronicles)

The Cabinet of Wonders: The Kronos Chronicles: Book I (The Kronos Chronicles)

by Marie Rutkoski

Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it’s never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled hair and give her advice. Her best friend can trap lightning inside a glass sphere. Petra also has a father in faraway Prague who is able to move metal with his mind. He has been commissioned by the prince of Bohemia to build the world’s finest astronomical clock. Petra’s... (more)

Genesis

by Bernard Beckett

Set on a remote island in a post-apocalyptic, plague-ridden world, this electrifying novel is destined to become a modern classic. Anax thinks she knows her history. She’d better. She’s now facing three Examiners, and her grueling all-day Examination has just begun. If she passes, she’ll be admitted into the Academy—the elite governing institution of her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that... (more)

3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

by Ann Brashares

summer is a time to grow seeds Polly has an idea that she can't stop thinking about, one that involves changing a few things about herself. She's setting her sights on a more glamorous life, but it's going to take all of her focus. At least that way she won't have to watch her friends moving so far ahead. roots Jo is spending the summer at her family's beach house, working as a busgirl and bonding with the... (more)

Lucky Breaks

by Susan Patron

"Eleven is much more intrepid than only ten." On the eve of her eleventh birthday, Lucky wants to let loose and become intrepid; she's ready for life to change. But Hard Pan (population 43) drones on like it always has: Lincoln all tied up in knotty matters, Miles newly diagnosed as a genius but as needy as ever, Brigitte running her Café and trying to figure out what it means to be American. Enter Paloma,... (more)

The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World [MYSTERIOUS EDGE OF HEROIC WORL]

The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World [MYSTERIOUS EDGE OF HEROIC WORL]

by E. L.(Author) Konigsburg

Gilda Joyce

The Dead Drop

by Jennifer Allison

When Gilda lands a summer internship at Washington, D.C.’s International Spy Museum, she finds herself embroiled in both a museum haunting and a real case of espionage. While investigating a cemetery where Abraham Lincoln’s son was once buried, Gilda stumbles upon a spy’s “dead drop” of classified information. Gilda’s efforts to decode the cryptic message lead to further intrigues: Is she on the trail of a mole... (more)

The Biography of Tea (How Did That Get Here?)

The Biography of Tea (How Did That Get Here?)

by Carrie Gleason

Ages 7 to 14 years. How could a relaxing cup of tea become a symbol of revolution? This fascinating book relates the thousand-year-old history of tea and its sometimes tumultuous trade. Find out how different teas are grown, harvested, and sold, and how the trade of tea has changed the world.

100 Cupboards

by Nathan D. Wilson

Twelve-year-old Henry York wakes up one night to find bits of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken through the wall above his bed and one of them is slowly turning . . .Henry scrapes the plaster off the wall and discovers cupboards of all different sizes and shapes. Through one he can hear the sound of falling rain. Through another he sees a glowing room–with a man pacing back and forth! Henry soon... (more)

The Graveyard Book

by Neil Gaiman

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned... (more)

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Heartbeat

by Sharon Creech