Part of the 8-book Tamora Pierce reissue for Fall 2006, this title in the Circle Opens quartet features spellbinding new cover art. Coincides with the release of WILL OF THE EMPRESS in trade pb.Briar Moss been training four years as a plant mage, but he hasn't put his past behind him. He meets a street girl, Evvy, using powerful magic to polish stones for a merchant, and resolves to find her a teacher. But Briar understands the city's gangs as well...

Set in 1917 in a small Australian outback town and against the backdrop of a nation at war, Let the Balloon Go is a poignant story of a boy and his family. Young John Sumner has contracted polio and wears a leg brace. He also suffers mild epilepsy. While his brothers fight in the war overseas, John fights a much more personal battle – the battle for his own freedom. His over-anxious mother is afraid to let him play games and climb trees like other...

Dropboy is a series of books where the title character that becomes liquid, gets involved in many adventures. He defends his friends Andy, Takao, Anny, and Roa from the fumbling villain Doc Folly, his henchman Roig and the blue bats Frit and Frat. Are many action-packed adventures with a unique message: friendship above all else. In this book, When Dropboy and the gang go to study in the cave where Dropboy and Shibo, his mentor, live, they discover...

First published in 1924, "When We Were Very Young" is the timeless collection of poetry by A. A. Milne. The introduction to the collection suggests that the narrator is meant to be Christopher Robin, the child at the center of Milne's famous tales of The Hundred Acre Wood. In the poem "Teddy Bear", readers are first introduced to Milne's most famous character, Winnie-the-Pooh, who was originally called "Mr. Edward Bear" by Milne's real-life son, Christopher...

Having just broken out of a juvenile detention facility, Aiden and Meg live a life on the run while trying to find evidence that will free their parents from a life sentence in prison.

A parcel of land was gifted to a grandaughter from her loving grandparents when she married and started a family. On this parcel, was a sassafras tree that she had watched grow since she was a child. This is the story of the changes the girl and the tree went through together and the memories made and shared.

Multi-talented Brown is the luckiest pencil in the box! In this fun, creative story, Brown learns that in order to make and keep friends, he needs to know how to be a good friend. And to be a good friend, Brown must find a way to share his many talents with others. At first, that seems hard to Brown. But he soon realizes that to be a good friend, all he has to do is be himself! Making Friends Is an Art! is part of the popular Building Relationships...

Fluffy is a toughie, Mandee is handee, Toulouse is on the loose and Merlot is on the go! These are just some of the things Mary Lou's cats get into and up to in her book for new and beginning readers. I decided to write this book many, many years ago. I thought about it a long time. Finally, after being retired a while, I decided to "make it so". It contains stories about four of my cats. Three have passed away and Merlot Henry Lawrence is still...

Mary is excited because today is Show and Tell at school. Mary's innocent little lamb, Woolie, has a beautiful pink bow and excitedly, is ready to go with Mary to visit the kids at school. The stage is set for a lively day as Woolie clip-clops down the classroom aisle and settles into a seat, ready to show off in front of Mary's class. All is going splendidly until the class is called out for recess and Woolie encounters Tommy Leland Hupp, a bully...

My name is Ugh, and I've just finished my first month of middle school. All of my summer school training couldn't prepare me for what I had to deal with. I had even more crazy teachers, including my home economics teacher, Mr. Nocab, who actually turned out to be a lot cooler than I would have expected. My friends are also the coolest people around. They are Tibby, Grunt, Will, and Snow. I had a lot of fun with them since I met them, and I'm...