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Author: Jennifer Vanderlaan

Whether you are new to the ministry of childbirth or a seasoned veteran, Teaching Christian Childbirth gives you tools for designing the perfect class to meet your community's needs. Explore what it takes to run a Christ ...

Author: Heather Anderson, Fay Angelo & Rose Stewart

More Secret Girls' Business is a companion volume to Secret Girls' Business. In addition to information about periods, More Secret Girls' Business includes details about physical and emotional changes. It will give girls ...

Author: Victoria Kann

It's nonstop laughs when Pinkalicious finds a knock-knock joke book in the school library. But when one of the mean girls challenges her to a laugh-off, Pinkalicious has to pull out all the stops to create the funniest, ...

Author: Judy Blume

Tony Miglione is thirteen, and his family lives in a cramped house in New Jersey. But then his Dad invents something that makes them rich, and they move to a luxury home in Long Island. But being rich brings it's own pro ...

Author: Robert Winston

Discover why you do and what you do. Join Professor Robert Winston and introduce your child to the most powerful, complicated computer network that exists - their brain. It covers from what the different parts of the bra ...

Author: Silverstein

This story of a boy who grows to manhood and of a tree that gives him her bounty through the years, is a moving parable about the gift of giving and capacity to love.

Author: Eve Bunting

Maeve is unnerved when she and her grandfather find a body in the bog in Ballywhinney,
Ireland. It turns out to be the body of a young girl who lived more than a
thousand years ago. A girl like Maeve, with fair ha ...

Author: Alan Horsfield, Allyn Jones & Bianca Hewes

This book includes an introduction to the actual tests, covers the essential literacy and numeracy components assessed in the actual tests. Topics for literacy include spelling, grammar, punctuation, comprehension and wr ...

Author: Deborah Ellis

Imagine that your house has been destroyed by bombs, your friends have fled or been killed, your mother, sister and little brother are missing, and today you buried your father...Homeless and alone, Parvana begins a desp ...

Author: Eric Carle

It's the Grouchy Ladybug's 20th birthday. To celebrate, we are introducing a new, larger format edition with brighter, more colorful pages created from Eric Carle's original artwork using the latest reproduction technolo ...

Author: Joanne B. Parrotta

Teenagers today are under a lot of pressure to be sexually active. Popular culture encourages it. Our teens are having sex at a younger and younger age, putting themselves at risk of sexually transmitted diseases, unwant ...

Author: Ken Spillman

Jake's room is only slightly messy - until he tries to clean it! First Jake empties his sock drawer, his jock drawer and his toy cupboard; then he drags out all the dusty forgotten stuff beneath his bed. Now everything i ...

Author: Louise Rennison

It's the hotly anticipated sequel to the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, WITHERING TIGHTS - laugh your tights off as Tallulah Casey and her bonkers mates return for a new term at Dother Hall performing arts college ...

Author: Alex Flinn

A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright--a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.

You think I'm talking fairy tales? N ...

Author: Tracy Anglada

Brandon and the Bipolar Bear was the first fictional story available for young children about bipolar disorder. Now revised to keep up with advances in the field, this 24-page book will continue to bring comfort to young ...

Author: Donna Jo Napoli

In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be allowed to marry; Don ...

Author: Randy M. Page & Tana S. Page

Promoting Health and Emotional Well-Being in Your Classroom, Fifth Edition provides pre-service and current teachers all the tools and up-to-date information needed for effectively promoting healthy life choices. Framed ...

Author: Maribeth Boelts

"In this witty, wise picture book, Boelts presents a kid's-eye view of a
consumer fad that rages through school at gale force." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)
All Jeremy wants is a ...

Author: Kimberly Derting

Sometimes the Dead Can't Be Silenced.

Violet thought she had made peace with her unique ability to sense the echoes of the dead and the imprints that cling to their killers . . . until she acquired an imprint of her ...

Author: Rita Williams-Garcia

Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oak ...