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  • I Am Malala

    How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

    In this New York Times bestselling memoir, Malala Yousafzai—the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize—inspires young readers with her stunning story of resilience and power.I Am Malala. This is my story.Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • All Boys Aren't Blue

    A Memoir-Manifesto

    In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.A New York Times Bestseller!Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature storiesFrom the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid

    by Colin Meloy ...
    Illustrated by Carson Ellis ...
    From the creators of the New York Times bestselling Wildwood Chronicles comes an original, humorous, and fast-paced middle grade novel about a band of child pickpockets—imagine The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets Oliver Twist.It is an ordinary Tuesday morning in April when bored, lonely Charlie Fisher witnesses something incredible. Right before his eyes, in a busy square in Marseille, a group of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!)

    The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls

    Series series Celebrate You
    A body-positive guide to help girls ages 8 to 12 navigate the changes of puberty and grow into womenPuberty can be a difficult time for a young girl—and it's natural not to know who (or what) to ask. Celebrate Your Body is a reassuring puberty book for girls that encourages them to face puberty and their body's changes with excitement and empowerment. From period care to mysterious hair in new ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Paper Daughters of Chinatown (Adapted for Young Readers)

    Based on the true story of two friends who unite to help rescue immigrant women in the most dangerous corners of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 1890s.When Tai Choi leaves her home in the Zhejiang province of China, she believes she’ll be visiting her grandmother. But in truth, despite her mother’s opposition, her father has sold her to pay his gambling debts. Alone and afraid, Tai Choi is ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Iliad And The Odyssey - Homer

    by Homer ...
    Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turnsdriven time and again off course, once he had plunderedthe hallowed heights of Troy.So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey.If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

    A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

    This crucial, empowering, #1 New York Times bestselling exploration of racism—and antiracism—in America makes critical ideas accessible for teen readers, adapted from Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning.This is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now.A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.A book about race.The... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Polar Bears Past Bedtime

    Illustrated by Sal Murdocca ...
    Series Book 12 - Magic Tree House (R)
    The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!It's icicle city…when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie to the frozen Arctic. Luckily, a seal hunter on a dogsled lends them warm clothes. Unluckily, they get stuck on cracking ice. Will the giant polar bear save them? Or will Jack and Annie become frozen dinners ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Brazen

    Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

    Illustrated by Pénélope Bagieu ...
    2019 Eisner Award Winner for Best U.S. Edition of International MaterialThroughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable spirit.With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Bayou Magic

    A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids, plus an environmental twist.It's city-girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings - the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Rise Up!

    How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy

    This urgent book explores the roots of racism and its legacy in modern day, all while empowering young people with actionable ways they can help foster a better world and become antiracists.Why are white supremacists still openly marching in the United States? Why are undocumented children of color separated from their families and housed in cages? Where did racism come from? Why hasn’t it already ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Tornado Terror (I Survived True Stories #3)

    True Tornado Survival Stories and Amazing Facts from History and Today

    Series Book 3 - I Survived True Stories
    From the author of the New York Times bestselling I Survived series, comes two gripping accounts of two young people who survived two terrifying twisters.The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 was the deadliest tornado strike in American history, tearing through three states and killing 700 people. Almost a century later, the Joplin Tornado was a mile-wide monster that nearly destroyed theheart of a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Turtle of Michigan

    A Novel

    “Celebrates the power of human connections.”—School Library Journal (starred review)“Humorous, sensitive, and poignant.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)The stand-alone companion to National Book Award Finalist and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s The Turtle of Oman. The Turtle of Michigan is a deft and accessible novel that follows a young boy named Aref as he travels from Muscat, Oman, to Ann Arbo ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • No Way, They Were Gay?

    Hidden Lives and Secret Loves

    by Lee Wind ...
    Series series Queer History Project
    "History" sounds really official. Like it's all fact. Like it's definitely what happened.But that's not necessarily true. History was crafted by the people who recorded it. And sometimes, those historians were biased against, didn't see, or couldn't even imagine anyone different from themselves.That means that history has often left out the stories of LGBTQIA+ people: men who loved men, women who ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Who Was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

    Illustrated by Jake Murray ...
    Series series Who Was?
    You've probably seen her on T-shirts, mugs, and even tattoos. Now that famous face graces the cover of this Who Was? book.Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was famous for her stylish collars (called jabots) and her commanding dissents. This opera-loving New Yorker always spoke her mind; as a young lawyer, RBG advocated for gender equality and women's rights when few others did. She gained attention for ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Secret Saturdays

    Read Torrey Maldonado's posts on the Penguin Blog and the new Penguin Community.A poignant look into one fatherless twelve-year-old’s struggles with friendship and trust.Sean is Justin’s best friend, at least Justin thought he was. But lately Sean has been acting differently. Sean’s been telling lies, getting into trouble at school, and hanging out with a tougher crowd, even getting into fights. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime

    Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers)

    by Trevor Noah ...
    The host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, shares his personal story and the injustices he faced while growing up half black, half white in South Africa under and after apartheid in this New York Times bestselling young readers' adaptation of his adult memoir.“A piercing reminder that every mad life--even yours--could end up a masterpiece." --JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling authorWe do ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Vanderbeekers Make a Wish

    Series Book 5 - The Vanderbeekers
    Witness the power of family history and family love in this funny, poignant addition to a series that the New York Times Book Review hails as “delightful and heartwarming.”It’s summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa’s surprise fortieth birthday party. But when Papa must leave town suddenly to help his best friend, trouble in the form of their distant grandparents ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Handful of Stars

    by Cynthia Lord ...
    This powerful middle-grade novel from the Newbery Honor author of RULES explores a friendship between a small-town girl and the daughter of migrant workers.When Lily's blind dog, Lucky, slips his collar and runs away across the wide-open blueberry barrens of eastern Maine, it's Salma Santiago who manages to catch him. Salma, the daughter of migrant workers, is in the small town with her family for ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • President of the Whole Fifth Grade

    Series Book 1 - President Series
    In this fun middle-grade novel from the author of The Kayla Chronicles, Brianna Justice has big dreams of following in her chef hero’s footsteps—and the first step is to become the president of her class.Start counting your votes . . . and your friends.When Brianna Justice's hero, the famous celebrity chef Miss Delicious, speaks at her school and traces her own success back to being president of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Forge

    Series series Seeds of America
    “One of the best novels they have ever read.” —Kirkus ReviewsCurzon navigates the dangers of being a runaway slave in this keenly felt second novel in in the historical middle grade The Seeds of America trilogy from acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson.Blistering winds. Bitter cold. And the hope of a new future.The Patriot Army was shaped and strengthened by the desperate circumstances of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How They Croaked

    The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous

    by Georgia Bragg ...
    Illustrated by Kevin O'Malley ...
    This award-winning book for reluctant readers is a fascinating collection of remarkable deaths--and not for the faint of heart.Over the course of history, men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess--especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. From King Tut's ancient autopsy to Albert Einstein's great brain escape, How They ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Good Behavior

    Jailed at age sixteen for armed robbery, Nathan Henry was the kind of teenager most parents and teachers have nightmares about. His crime was the culmination of a life lived on the edge: guns and drugs, sex and violence, all set against the ordinary backdrop of a one-stop light town in rural Indiana. Nate's personal history is both disturbing and fascinating. A rough childhood becomes an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • What Was the Alamo?

    Illustrated by David Groff ...
    Series series What Was?
    "Remember the Alamo!" is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days. The Alamo was a crucial turning point in the Texas Revolution, and led to the creation of the Republic of Texas. With 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo ... Read more

    $7.99 USD