Winning personalities come to life in Big Buddy Biographies! This dynamic group of kid-friendly sports standouts, singing sensations, television and movie superstars, and even First Kids will inspire young readers. Each book highlights a person’s background, claim to fame, and dreams for the future. Colorful graphics, oversized photographs, and short, engaging sentences and paragraphs will…
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Nana’s Gift offers a timeless message about intergenerational family relationships
by Michael Strickland Nana’s Gift is a heartwarming, touching, and beautifully written picture book by Agy Wilson, Darlee Sims is left at Nana’s for the weekend and at first is not happy with it. But having fun with Nana, Pasha and Honey, Darlee learns about her family, and best of all herself. With wonderful illustrations…
Varian Johnson’s Saving Maddie Keeps Readers Turning Pages
Saving Maddie does not need to be saved,” wrote one amazon reviewer. “The book will do well and be enjoyed by many people because there is something in it for everyone.” With nuanced characters, Varian Johnson author of My Life As A Rhombus, and Red Polka Dot in World Full of Plaid offers a realistic treatment of…
An Abundance of Katherines: “Challengingly complex and entirely entertaining”
“Imagine an operating room at the start of a daring but well-rehearsed procedure and you will have something of the atmosphere of ”An Abundance of Katherines”: every detail considered, the action unrolling with grace and inevitability.” -New York Times Book Review “Green follows his Printz winning Looking for Alaska (2005) with another sharp, intelligent story….
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