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Written in rich, free-verse poems, this moving tale follows a young Vietnamese girl as she leaves her war-torn homeland for America in 1975. With Saigon about to fall to the communists, 10-year-old Hà, her mother, and brothers are forced to flee their beloved city and head to the United States. But living in a new country isn’t easy for Hà, and she finds adapting to its strange customs ever challenging.

When the Dickenson clan sits down for Thanksgiving dinner in 2016, it is the last holiday where their tight-knit family will ever be the same. Oldest brother Pete and his wife are expecting their first child. Youngest sibling Sophie is too busy running her restaurant. The Little Plum, to bother with any kind of social life. And middle child Charlie’s happy, uncomplicated life as a midwestern science professor is upended when his wife Annette is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Knowing this will be her last Thanksgiving, Annette asks Sophie to look after Charlie after she’s gone.

This is George Dasent's classic collection of Scandinavian folklore. This is not about Norse mythology per se; so if you are looking for tales of Odin, Loki, and Freya etc., you will have to look elsewhere. Rather, this is an anthology of folk tales, similar to the Grimm Brothers', or Campbell's Popular Tales of the West Highlands. All of the usual suspects are in place, including giants, trolls, witches, evil step-siblings, magical boons and tasks, and anthropomorphic animals.

There's a new guidance counselor at Bailey Elementary School and he's giving the kids the creeps. No one understands why his skin is so pale, why he hides from the sun, or why his skin is deathly cold to the touch. But Counselor Drake couldn't really be Count Dracula, could he?

From the world’s #1 bestselling author, it's Rafe Khatchadorian's sister Georgia's turn to speak her mind in the third sidesplitting installment of the major bestselling Middle School series. Georgia Khatchadorian—the sister of Rafe, the star of the first two Middle School books-plans to...

This program is read by the authors. Hosts of the podcast Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know, Ben Bowlin, Matthew Frederick, & Noel Brown discern conspiracy fact from fiction regarding "stuff" the government doesn’t want you to know. Conspiracies didn’t always seem so clear and present. It...

Grab your family, friends, or even your dog and gather around for a fun game of trivia! This book is great for kids and has the ultimate list of fun categories from food all the way to children's movies!

This is the story of women who fought during WWI, but not as nurses or ambulance drivers. In 1917 sixteen-year-old Jean McLain is working as a post-office assistant in England. But when she wins a national Morse code competition, the British army makes a request Jean cannot refuse – to take a...

In the 80th anniversary year, Jackie French explores the dropping of the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which ended World War 2. 1942. Japan has bombed Sydney Harbour. Sixteen-year-old Ossie lies about his age to protect his country, even though it means abandoning his only...

A spine-tingling and heart-warming story about friendship and finding your special place in the world. Gus doesn't want to make friends. She also doesn't want to be intrigued by the cat-lady teacher at her new school, or the Riley's Comet project that she and her seaweed-eating science partner...

Nikki Maxwell is torn between two incredible parties in this second installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series! Recipe for disaster: 4 parties. Add 2 friends and 1 crush. Divide by 1 mean girl out to RUIN Nikki. Mix well, put fingers over eyes, and CRINGE! Settled in at...

NEW RELEASE ~ FULLY ILLUSTRATED A granite coffin sits sealed inside the Great Pyramid, wider than every passage built to reach it. Nobody can explain how it got there. Every fact is drawn from academic research and documented institutional data. This True Verified Facts book hands you 300+ documented discoveries about the only ancient wonder still standing, written to educate, entertain, and arm you with knowledge worth sharing long after you close the cover. Inside This Book: Why the Great Pyramid secretly has eight sides instead of four, visible for only a few seconds twice a year The ...

Meet Trudy, the clumsiest tooth fairy in the entire magical kingdom, who’s always just a wingbeat away from a giggle-worthy disaster! In The Tooth Fairy's Troubles, Trudy embarks on a laugh-out-loud quest to discover her true calling. Eager to improve her tooth fairy skills, she seeks wisdom from the fabulous Tooth Fairy Queen, Glimmerina. But instead of a smooth ride, Trudy finds herself caught in a whirlwind of magical blunders and side-splitting escapades! From mistaking a cat’s whisker for a tooth to accidentally turning fluffy pillows into pumpkins, Trudy’s wild adventures will ...

Six mysterious passengers and seven dark secrets. Who can be trusted? It's a dark and dangerous journey for the Cobb and Co night mail coach, but when his coach-driver father is injured, young Jem Donovan must take the reins. Surely a boy like Jem can't handle a team of four horses and guide the...

WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT How can one year spent orbiting a black hole equal 100,000 years passing back on Earth, with both clocks perfectly correct? Every fact is drawn from academic research and documented institutional data. This True Verified Facts book delivers 300+ secrets about time, each one built to educate, entertain, and arm you with knowledge worth sharing. Real science and history, from the human mind to the edge of the universe. Inside This Book: Why astronauts on the Space Station come home measurably younger than the rest of us Which everyday count of finger joints gave us...

There’s never a dull moment with silly jokes just for kids! Forget being bored. That should never be a thing! Keep the fun and laughter going whether at home, on the go, or quite honestly…wherever! This book is overflowing with rounds of children friendly jokes!

What's worse, betraying your best friend, or losing your home? Poppy Parker is between a rock and a hard spot. Her new life with Detective Trey Brannigan and his mom is going great until a shy, lonely neighbor girl crashes her bicycle right outside their front yard. As the girls develop a friendship, Poppy is stunned to learn that Presley is harboring a dangerous secret that could cost an innocent life if revealed. Fighting her instinct to confide in Trey, Poppy nervously promises to keep quiet. But as more details emerge, she's soon facing an impossible choice--expose the secret at the ...

NEW RELEASE ~ WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT Why did a thirty-foot tyrannosaur turn out to be covered head to tail in feathers, overturning everything we pictured about dinosaurs? Every fact sourced from peer-reviewed academic research and official scientific records. This True Verified Facts book delivers 300+ astonishing facts spanning four and a half billion years of life on Earth, written to educate, entertain, and arm you with knowledge worth sharing at any table. Inside This Book: Why Earth's earliest super-predator scanned the seas through more than sixteen thousand separate lenses How ...

WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT Moon dust smells like spent gunpowder. The astronauts who smelled it could not explain why. Every fact is drawn from academic research and documented institutional data. This True Verified Facts book delivers 500+ answers about the Moon, from its violent birth to the cities we may one day build on it, written to educate, entertain, and give you something worth sharing. Inside This Book: The lava tubes beneath the surface are wide enough to swallow an entire city Why the Moon drifts farther from Earth each year, quietly stretching the length of our days The ...

A road map to free your kids from the harms of digital technology and to recover the beauty, wonder, and true purpose of childhood—by a leading tech policy expert It’s no secret that addictive digital technologies like smartphones and social media apps are harming a generation of kids...