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In this compelling tale for children and adults alike, the poet Matthea Harvey collaborates with artist Elizabeth Zechel to create a powerful, resonant allegory for these times of violent military solutions to global problems. In this compelling tale, there is a little general who heads an...

History teacher Nathan Greene’s plans for his students to hear Abraham Lincoln present his Gettysburg Address go awry when two ghostly historians secretly change the plans. Instead, the time-traveling classroom portable lands just before dawn on July 1, 1863, the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg....

Orphaned. Abducted. Programmed. Emily won’t be a test specimen too. When Emily Brelin was five years old, a rogue general murdered her parents and abducted her. He forced her into combat training and groomed her to be a teen spy, expecting her to one day become a female assassin. After...

Teen special agents James and Lauren travel to the US in the tenth book of the CHERUB series, which Rick Riordan says has “plenty of action.” CHERUB agents are highly trained, extremely talented—and all under the age of seventeen. For official purposes, these agents do not exist. They...

Shhh…someone is TRYING to sleep in this rowdy picture book, winner of the General Mills Spoonful of Stories contest. The newest winner of the General Mills Spoonfuls of Stories contest is a young boy who’s very tired from his busy day, but can’t seem to find enough peace and quiet to...

Der Befreiungskrieg gegen Napoleon bricht aus. Noch stehen die französischen Truppen in Deutschland. Willem Beggerow, ein pommerscher Bauernjunge, will seinen Vater rächen, der von streifenden 'Musjes' erschossen wurde. Der Vater gibt ihm eine Tabakdose, die er von Scharnhorst erhalten hatte. Der...

Join in a Wild West adventure with the Hideout Kids! Sheriff Tuff Brunson and his sidekick Deputy Sadie Marcus are sent by Judge June on a dangerous job in the Sand Hills of Texas. They must bring General Buster Muster to Muleshoe so he can build a fort to protect the Hideout Kids from an...

Uh, oh, Amigo! Grant, Christina, Juan and Rose are in big trouble! The Alamo is under attack! By termites! By ghosts! And by four funny kids determined to solve a mystery that their mystery book-writing grandmother says doesnt exist! Soon they get out of the fajita frying pan and into the chili pepper...

Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed. Through the Looking-Glass includes such verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter",...

Part three of this four part series has Joe's ship preventing a mutiny of the transport ship they are escorting from England to the Colonies. After parting company with the transport ship Joe's ship is attacked and his captain is injured. After Joe's ship limps into port and prepares to sail again...

Jingo Hawks is out of luck when Mrs. Daggatt from the orphan house hires him out as a chimney sweep to the awful General Dirty-Face Scurlock. But it's gypsy luck that puts Jingo into the right chimney and then into the care of the mysterious Mr. Peacock, who claims to know Jingo's scoundrel father....

After twice being defeated by Boy Zero, the villainous General Pandemonium enlists the services of evil guru, Master Sushi, to help him achieve world domination. Together, the dastardly duo hatch a plan to rid the earth of humans by getting everyone to eat genetically modified cupcakes, which cause...

Un destacamento del ejército, al mando del general don Lope de Figueroa, llega a la localidad de Zalamea de la Serena para descansar antes de continuar su camino hacia Portugal. El general busca alojamiento para sus soldados en las casas del pueblo. A don Álvaro de Ataide, capitán de la tropa,...

Thirteen-year-old Lorah dreams of one day becoming a nurse. When her family emigrates from Ireland to the Dominion of Canada in 1868 she has no idea how challenging her life is about to become-or if she can fulfill her dreams. Crossing a raging river in a severe storm, and encountering a black bear...