Dean Pitchford starred on Broadway in Godspell and Pippin before turning to songwriting.  His songs, which include “Fame,” “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” and “Footloose,” have sold over seventy million recor...

Meet Dodo! He loves an adventure. He is always willing to try new things. He enjoys making new friends. But not everything turns out the way Dodo expects. Even a walk with his Mama turns into a topsy-turvy day of discoveries, challenges, and surprises...

An impassioned, charming, and hilarious debut novel about a young woman's coming-of-age, during one of the harshest whaling seasons in the history of New South Wales. 1908: It's the year that proves to be life-changing for our teenage narrator, Mary...

When a young girl spies three cats in her yard, she hopes they will be her playmates! But these frolicking felines have other ideas for fun. Will they ever be her friends?Illustrated with bright, fresh pictures by Nadine Bernard Westcott, Nola Buck's ...

The re-launch of Walter Dean Myers's series about a middle-school crew of newspaper reporters keeps going strong!Zander and his friends are in trouble—again. The freedom of expression they've enjoyed by publishing their own school newspaper has ...

When college professor Peter Mellor dies in an automobile accident during a zombie outbreak, he is reborn as a member of the living dead-and quickly learns that being a zombie isn't all fun and brains.

Chapter OneOn her sixteenth birthday, violet mathers nearly bled to death in a thread factory. The “incident,” as it was referred to in the company’s 1935 logbook, happened on the graveyard shift, just before break time, when the ...

Acclaimed author Shawne Johnson writes the intriguing story about the fictional town of Eden, Ohio and it’s inhabitants. Founded by a group of run-away slaves, it’s been up to their ancestors to keep the town prospering. However, many hav...

Pucho Escalante, un inquieto trombonista guantanamero, nos pasea desde Caracas, Colombia y Buenos Aires hasta Flandes, El Cairo y Uganda, para al final descubrir que solamente en la mAgica Ciudad de las Columnas puede ser realmente feliz. Los mAs excE...

He's taken on political satire and skewered self-help. Now Al Franken turns the world of earnest, inspirational self-help books on its head.<br><br>More advanced than Robert Fulghum, more fit than Maria Shriver's husband, <i>Oh, th...

This incredibly original and intelligent love story is set against New York City at the dawn of the mechanical age, as an unlikely duo find themselves wrestling with the nature of history, technology, and the unfolding of time itself.

Oh, the Places You'll Go! For out-starting upstarts of all ages, here is a wonderfully wise and blessedly brief graduation speech from the one and only Dr. Seuss. In his inimitable, humorous verse he addresses the Great Balancing Act (life itself, ...

Through twentythree connected short stories, the author looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburgs population are seen through the eye...

"In the beginning we were happy. And we were always excessive. So in the beginning we were happy to excess." With these opening lines Sean Wilsey takes us on an exhilarating tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families.Sea...

Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres-Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, but also Indians killing Amer...

In a deeply moving collection of interrelated stories, this American classic illuminates the loneliness and frustrations-spiritual, emotional, and artistic-of life in a small town.

A collection of silly tongue-twisters.

A mad outpouring of made-up words and intriguing ideas.

It’s bath time for Otter, the irrepressible picture book character from I Am Otter, Otter in Space, and Otter Loves Halloween! Sure to be adored by fans of Curious George or Olivia.Otter and Teddy love to play in the garden. But when they get di...

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Standing up to the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiqua...

Katie is an ordinary third-grader–except for one very extraordinary problem! She accidentally wished on a shooting star to be anyone but herself. But what Katie soon learns is that wishes really do come true–and in the strangest ways . . ...

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Standing up to the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiqua...

M. R. James was a prolific and hugely successful author, now credited with redefining the ghost story form. By abandoning many of the formal gothic clichs of his predecessors and using more contemporary settings, James set the stage for future generat...

Ever want to know what that thing is growing on your face-and how it got there? How about what that insect is doing outside your window? Oh, Yuck! has stories about these things and more! Learn about vile bodily functions, including gas eruptions, ski...

My Weird School SpecialLife Is Weird!The weirdest Valentine's Day story in the history of the world!Plus 32 pages of bonus content!Professor A.J.'s Valentine FactsPuzzlesGamesTriviaand more!