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This board book introduces animals. Duck by Martin Waddell, illus. A young duck searches for his mother. Pages fold out to reveal a child's world and activities. Two children start a pet-washing business. In this Bonnie Bumble tale, the rain washes the blue right out of the sky. Maisy spends a morning on the farm; and plays doctor. A mole is determined to have the moon all to himself.

In this pop-up tale, a hungry lion comes for lunch. A lonely robot decides to make himself a canine companion. Disappearing Dragon by Jonathan London, illus. In her latest caper, this heroine is in a jealous mood. An ill boy searches for strength and courage. The author chronicles her experiences with dolphins. These tales tell of a toddler's first steps; and the life span of a child's blanket. It's Beeper by Carole Lexa Schaefer, illus. In this board book tale, a mother gives her child a new piece of the Nativity scene each day.

Readers search for clues and follow a thief through mazes. Is a boy's new dog really a dinosaur? An African-American family celebrates the autumn harvest. A young vampire wants to learn the spell that will change him into a bat. A clumsy duck saves his fellow ducks. Rooster thinks his crowing makes the moon rise.

A porcupine helps his aardvark friend overcome his fear of a night monster. Rufus discovers that he, like his mother, is a witch. Great Explorations introduces Ferdinand Magellan: Down the Mississippi and Lewis and Clark: To the Top of the World and Daniel Boone: Great Journeys adds Bound for America: The Story of the Mexican Americans by L. Perl and The Trails of Tears: The Story of the Cherokee Removal by D.

How many cookies does this character give away en route to Grandma's? A dog leads his blind owner on a journey from Boston to New York. All ages Baa Baa Black Sheep , illus.

In this poem, a boy watches the snow fall outdoors. And among the five new Overcoming Adversity titles are Mohandas K. Gandhi by Charles Shields and J. Ten titles join Great Disasters: Modern Arab World debuts with Iraq: There are seven titles added to Exploration of Africa: Paperbacks Winter Day Play: Animals has six additions by Melissa Stewart; True Books: Sports Clinic plays on with five new volumes, among them Great Soccer: Caillou Backpack titles, all illus.

All ages Everlasting Stories: A Family Bible by Lois Rock, illus. All ages The Nutcracker , based on the story by E. Milton the cat takes a trip to the vet. Nesting Blocks , based on the book by Barbara M. Collage art features dinosaur skeletons. A girl discovers color in everyday objects. Photos illustrate this guide to making hats from balloons. Balloons carry a boy to the moon.

A Seri Indian elder describes her friendship with a lizard. A preschooler enjoys a birthday party. An elephant overcomes his fear of separating from this mother on the first day of school. A boy also finds a fox in his socks and kittens in his mittens. Mice put on a play about the first Thanksgiving. A Nativity Story by Eve Bunting, illus. Bert and Ethel find their runaway pigs in unexpected places. Amir tells of his search for his younger siblings, from whom he was separated when his parents died. After moving to Vermont in , a boy makes discoveries about his family that challenge his notions of war and its heroes.

Children's English Dictionary by P. A father tells his children about the night Jesus was born. A boy's grandfather tells him about Pentecost and the first Christians. First up is a steampunk box set. This novel is part of the Steampunk Fairy Tales collection. You can snag the book now with 5 others for 99 cents. It will release on its own later this summer. I had a ton of fun writing Ewan's and Rapunzel's story. They may be my favorite fairy tale couple yet. Hey everyone, I'm really excited to announce that the fist 3 books in the Steampunk Red Riding Hood series are now available for pre-order!

Wolves and Daggers, Book 1, releases May 8th! About the series, Welcome to London, In a city where airships fill the skies and steam-powered autos motor down the streets, Agent Clemeny Louvel keeps the realm safe from unseen dangers. You see, the supernatural are alive and well. Something wicked this way comes! I know a lot of you have been waiting on this novel. Between sick babies, a hurricane, and deadlines, the book got very behind.

On top of that, while the novel was complete in draft form The result is a much better book, but it took some time to complete. It was a difficult book to write in te. To celebrate the release of my steampunk Alice in Wonderland, I have this amazing mug up for grabs. Check out the rafflecopter below for a chance to win! Steampunk Alice in Wonderland Now Available! The book will be a special release price of 99 cents for the next few days, and is free to read in Kindle Unlimited!

Novel Description To save the Hatter, Alice must bargain with the one man she despises so much that she might still love him. Alice thought she'd turned over a new leaf. No more working for Jabberwocky. As my blog tour is underway this week, I am giving away this really great Disney Beauty and the Beast collection to celebrate the release of Beauty and Beastly! The book is a writing journal and is super cute inside. I picked up the cup at Disneyland here in Orlando.

It's supposed to light up. One winner will get all these lovely gifts. Be sure to take just a moment to enter! Steampunk Beauty and the Beast. Beauty and the Beast is one of my all-time favorite fairy tales.

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I loved spinning the story into a steampunk tale. I hope you enjoy this latest addition to the fairy tale family. Novel Description In this tale as old as time, Isabelle Hawking must tinker a solution to a heartbreaking mystery. When Isabelle Hawking and her papa set out from London on a. The Bear and the Nightingale Giveaway. Just wanted to share a quick note that I have a little holiday giveaway underway!

The authors of the Blazing Indie Collective are very excited to share a special holiday release. As a treat to our readers, we joined forces to provide you a special holiday collection for FREE! Check out the Mistletoe and Mischief Collection and enter our holiday giveaway! Limited Edition Holiday Collection! Novel Description No one returns from the Dark Bazaar. I am the last full-blooded witch in Istanbul. When a magical rift tore the world apart, humans, witches, and vampires were left behind.

Peace among us has never been easy. But now, our fragile accord is crumbling. The vampires have started abducting humans, taking them to the Dark Bazaar to be sold for their blood--or worse. Mehmet the Wise, leader of the humans, has withdrawn his people behind the walls of their zon. Sneak Peek of Chapter 1. I'm really excited to share the Scorched: The Last Nomads releases this week! When her brother was killed and her mom, Queenie, bailed, Isis fought to stay strong.

Now the only person Isis can rely on is herself…until her secret crush K-Rock steps in. But when Isis lets her guard down, will she be given a second chance to get her life straight or will it cost her everything? Thirteen Chairs by Dave Shelton July In an abandoned house, the ghosts gather. They argue, they laugh, and they tell their stories.

Some tell their own stories, some tell stories they have heard elsewhere. Some of them are true, some are not. But each tale draws you closer. When a new guy moves into town, Scarlett feels an instant spark. But he soon runs into Andrea, a fellow con-artist. Sixteen-year-old Kara McKinley is about to realize her dream of becoming a professional baker. Beautifully designed and piped, her cookies are masterpieces, but also her ticket out of rainy Seattle—if she wins the upcoming national baking competition and its scholarship prize to culinary school in California.

Kara can no longer stand the home where her family lived, laughed, and ultimately imploded after her mean-spirited big sister Kellen died in a drowning accident. All Kara has left are memories of better times. But the past holds many secrets, and they come to light as Kara faces a secret terror. Someone is leaving her handwritten notes. Her chance of escape. Heartbreakers by Ali Novak August 4. Stella will do anything for her sick sister, Cara—even stand in line for an autographed Heartbreakers CD…for four hours.

At least she met a cute boy with soft brown hair and gorgeous blue eyes while getting her caffeine fix. And even after she calls his music crap, Oliver still gives Stella his phone number. And whispers quotes from her favorite Disney movie in her ear. OMG, what is her life?

But how can Stella even think about being with Oliver — dating and laughing and pulling pranks with the band — when her sister could be dying of cancer? Sixteen-year-old Beckan and her friends are the only fairies brave enough to stay in Ferrum when war breaks out. Now there is tension between the immortal fairies, the subterranean gnomes, and the mysterious tightropers who arrived to liberate the fairies.

As danger mounts, Beckan finds herself caught between her loyalty to her friends, her desire for peace, and a love she never expected. Even if that means closing herself off to all her closest friends, including charming football stud Alex Colby. Can Jordyn find the courage to tell Alex how she really feels—and the truth about her family—before he slips away forever? Real life is messier than the movies. A bold, thought-provoking novel from the exceptionally talented, Steven Camden. Just like in Star Wars. Same film studies course, different backgrounds, different ends of town.

This is real life. This is where monsters from the past come back to take revenge. This is where you are sometimes the monster. Some of the rules have been easy to follow, like 5, never die your hair a color of the rainbow , or 7, never hook up with a teacher. But Dave has a secret: Dave has loved Julia for as long as he can remember. Julia is beautiful, wild and impetuous. So when she suggests they do every Never on the list, Dave is happy to play along. He even dyes his hair an unfortunate shade of green. It starts as a joke, but then a funny thing happens: And maybe even on love. Tyler has a football scholarship to Stanford, a hot girlfriend, and a reliable army of friends to party with.

Then his mom kills herself. And Tyler lets it all go. Tyler finds a job that crashes him into Jordyn, his former childhood friend turned angry-loner goth-girl. She brings Tyler an unexpected reprieve from the never-ending pity party his life has become. How could he not fall for her? So when violence rocks his world again, will it be Jordyn who shows him the way to a hopeful future?

Or after everything, will Tyler have to find it in himself? Then he meets Amanda. Amanda understands wanting to belong.

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As a foster kid, the firehouse is the only place that feels like home. And when a string of arsons suddenly point to Amanda, their relationship could go up in flames. Stick by Michael Harmon August 4. Preston puts on his homemade superhero costume every night to help others, too: A twist of fate brings this unlikely pair together in a friendship that is as odd as it is true.

Each can see the other better than he can see himself, and in these unexpected reflections lies a chance for mutual redemption. Before she knows it, Zoe has vandalized an office complex with fake snow, pretended to buy drugs alongside a handsome football player dressed like the Hulk, had a throw-down with a possible cult, and, oh yeah, saved her new hometown which might be worth making her permanent hometown after all. The one person who makes Ryden feel like his old self is Joni. But the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to keep his two worlds separate. Walter Wilcox has never been in love.

That is, until he meets Naomi, and sparks, and clever jokes, fly. But when his cop dad is caught in a racial profiling scandal, Walter and Naomi, who is African American, are called out at school, home, and online. Can their bond and mutual love of the Foo Fighters keep them together? Fourteen year old nerd-boy Dan Cereill is not quite coping with a reversal of family fortune, moving house, new school hell, a mother with a failing wedding cake business, a just-out gay dad, and an impossible crush on Estelle, the girl next door.

They banish knives to locked drawers, cover sharp table edges with padding, switch off electrical items — but injuries follow wherever they go, and the accident season becomes an ever-growing obsession and fear. Beyond Clueless by Linas Alsenas August A private, Catholic, girls-only high school. Meanwhile, at their local public school, her best friend, Jimmy, comes out of the closet and finds himself a boyfriend and a new group of friends.

Marty feels left out and alone, until she gets a part in the school musical, Into the Woods, and Jimmy and his new crew are in it, too! Things start looking even better when Marty falls for foxy fellow cast member Felix Peroni. And Felix seems to like her back. But the drama is just beginning. Can Marty and Jimmy keep up their friendship? For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim. When these two crash into each other, they crash hard.

Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and an unlikely friendship between a girl of mixed race and a Patron boy causes heads to turn. The Creeping by Alexandra Sirowy August Twelve years ago Stella and Jeanie vanished while picking strawberries. Stella returned minutes later, with no memory of what happened. Jeanie was never seen or heard from again.

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Then along comes a corpse, a little girl who washes up in an ancient cemetery after a mudslide, and who has red hair just like Jeanie did. Suddenly memories of that haunting day begin to return, and when Stella discovers that other red-headed girls have gone missing as well, she begins to suspect that something sinister is at work. And before the summer ends, Stella will learn the hard way that if you hunt for monsters, you will find them.

When her father dies, she finds herself at a crossroads. Should she paint in the classic tradition, the way he taught her? Go to college, like her art teacher wants? Or should she listen to Trey, the seductive street artist who leads the crew Noise Ink? She is a brilliant artist—but will she use her talent, or waste it?

Shackled by Tom Leveen August Sixteen-year-old Pelly has a master plan. Pelly has been suffering from severe panic attacks ever since her best friend, Tara, disappeared from a mall six years ago. And her plan seems to be working, until an unkempt girl accompanied by an older man walks into the coffee shop where she works. Too shocked to do anything, Pelly helplessly watches Tara slip away again as she steels herself against a renewed spiral of crippling anxiety. But rather than being overcome by anxiety, Pelly feels more energized than she has in years. Pelly decides she cannot be shackled by her past—and the anxiety, fear, and grief that comes with it—any longer if she wants to save Tara.

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And not all the shackles are in her head. Each story draws from a classic tale or two—sometimes of the horror genre, sometimes not—to inspire something new and fresh and terrifying. There are no superficial scares here; these are stories that will make you think even as they keep you on the edge of your seat. From bloody horror to supernatural creatures to unsettling, all-too-possible realism, this collection has something for any reader looking for a thrill.

Code of Honor by Alan Gratz August Now Delia is a ghost, trapped in her creepy home forever. Can Delia unlock the mystery of the old asylum, save her sister, and free herself? Then there are the brother and sister kept in a cell that keeps getting hotter and hotter. Diary of a Haunting by M. Things only get creepier when she learns about the sinister cult that conducted experimental rituals in the house almost a hundred years earlier.

The more Paige investigates, and the deeper she digs, the clearer it all becomes: Found in the aftermath, Diary of a Haunting collects the journal entries, letters, and photographs Paige left behind. Keepers of the Labyrinth by Erin Moulton August Lilith Bennette runs at midnight. She scales walls in the dark and climbs without a harness. So when Lil is invited to Crete for a Future Leaders International conference, the same conference her mom attended years ago, she jumps at the chance to find some answers. But things in Melios Manor are not what they seem. Lil finds herself ensnared in an adventure of mythological proportions that leads her and her friends through the very labyrinth in which the real Minotaur was imprisoned.

What secrets does the labyrinth hold, and will they help Lil find the truth about her mother? Imagine a time when the gods turn a blind eye to the agony of men, when the last of the hellions roam the plains and evil stirs beyond the edges of the map. A time when cities burn, and in their ashes, empires rise. Eponine remembers being a child: But mostly she remembers being miserable. Taught to lie and cheat, and to hate the one girl, Cosette, who might have been her friend.

Now, at sixteen, the two girls meet again, and Eponine has one more chance. But what is the price of friendship—the love of a boy? Her mom is gone now, though, and the Steps have turned her into a servant in her own home. But on her sixteenth birthday, Nicolette discovers a secret workshop in the cellar and begins to dare to imagine a new life for herself.

Could the mysterious books and tools hidden there—and the mechanical menagerie, led by a tiny metal horse named Jules—be the key to escaping her dreary existence? With a technological exposition and royal ball on the horizon, the timing might just be perfect for Nicolette to earn her freedom at last. Gorgeous prose and themes of social justice and family shine in this richly imagined Cinderella retelling about an indomitable inventor who finds her prince.

Reawakened by Colleen Houck August When seventeen-year-old Lilliana Young enters the Metropolitan Museum of Art one morning during spring break, the last thing she expects to find is a live Egyptian prince with godlike powers, who has been reawakened after a thousand years of mummification. But fate has taken hold of Lily, and she, along with her sun prince, Amon, must travel to the Valley of the Kings, raise his brothers, and stop an evil, shape-shifting god named Seth from taking over the world. Stranded by Melinda Braun August But when a freak windstorm kills her guide, Emma and a handful of other campers are forced to fend for themselves.

Lost, hungry, and exhausted, the small group must rely on their survival instincts as they travel through the forest towards Lake Superior. But the Boundary Waters is vast and unpredictable, and as the days drag on, it becomes clear that the group is no match for what Mother Nature has in store—and time is running out. In the YA epistolary novel an unlikely friendship develops via email correspondence between year-old James, who studies the Urban Dictionary in hopes of making sense of his bewildering peer interactions, and year old Darren, who is trying to win back his ex-girlfriend while doing grunt work on the set of a sitcom.

But ever since the death of his brother, the pressure for Henry to be perfect has doubled. But soon Anne is all he can think about. His mother, his friends, and even his girlfriend warn him away, but his desire for Anne consumes him. Are You Still There? Gabriella Mallory, AP student and perfect-daughter-in-training, stands barefoot on a public toilet for three hours while her school is on lockdown. Someone has planted a bomb and she is hiding. The bomb is defused but the would-be-bomber is still at large. And everyone at Central High School is a suspect. The school starts a top-secret crisis help line and Gabi is invited to join.

When she does, she is drawn into a suspenseful game of cat and mouse with the bomber, who has unfinished business. He leaves threatening notes on campus. He makes threatening calls to the help line. And then he begins targeting Gabi directly.

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Is it because her father is the lead police detective on the case? Is the bomber one of her new friends. Could it be her new boyfriend with his complicated past? As the story unfolds, Gabi knows she is somehow connected to the bomber. Even worse she is part of his plan. Can Gabi reach out and stop him? Or will she be too late?

Only there are a few catches…. Until the glitches start…. Burn Girl by Mandy Mikulencak September 1. A meth lab explosion leaves Arlie permanently scarred — both physically and emotionally. Yet, she develops the street smarts and survival skills to keep her addict mother out of the reach of the law and hidden from her stepfather, Lloyd, the man responsible for the explosion that killed three people.

Social services steps in and rules suddenly exist where none had before. While her facial scar makes it hard to fit in, Arlie begins to think a normal life might be possible — that is, until her stepfather tracks her down and insists she return drug money her mother had stolen. Will Caynes never has been good with girls. Then Will meets Brandy, a cute and easy-to-talk-to sophomore. So why does he keep hooking up with Angus on the sly?

His divorced parents just complicate everything. His father, after many half-baked business ventures and endless house renovations, has started drinking again. Deciding who to love, who to choose, where to live. Whichever way Will goes, someone will get hurt. Himself, probably the most. Cameron and his mom have been on the run for five years. His father is hunting them. Buried in the past?

Cameron must uncover the dark secrets before they tear him apart. Leah and her stepbrother Tim are white and middle class from suburban Maryland, with few worries beyond winning lacrosse games and getting college applications in on time. Michelle and Leah only have one thing in common: Buck Devereaux, the biological father who abandoned them when they were little.

After news trickles back to them that Buck is dying, they make the uneasy decision to drive across country to his hospice in California. Leah hopes for closure; Michelle just wants to give him a piece of her mind. Who will break down first—herself or the car? Evan, a soccer star and the nephew of a conservative Southern Senator, has never wanted for much — except a functional family.

Alma has lived in Georgia since she was two-years-old, excels in school, and has a large, warm Mexican family. Never mind their differences, the two fall in love, and they fall hard. That her whole family and most of her friends live in the country without permission.

Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon September 1. My disease is as rare as it is famous. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.