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Erinn Banting
The Great Storytellers series profiles and celebrates significant children’s authors. Each book explores the life of a well-known children’s writer and provides an overview of his or her most popular…
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Christopher Paul Curtis
A Newbery Honor-winning author ( The Watsons Go to Birmingham ) delivers a heart-wrenching, suspenseful novel of one unforgettable family caught up in the turbulent days of the Great Depression.
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Bestselling Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis delivers a powerful companion to his multiple award-winning ELIJAH OF BUXTON.
Ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Watsons of Flint, Michigan, are heading for Birmingham, Alabama, and one of the darkest moments in American history. Honors include 1996 Newbery Honor Book…
For use in schools and libraries only. Flint Future Detective Club members Steven Carter, his friend Russell, and Russell’s huge dog Zoopy solve the mystery of a quadrillion-dollar bill with…
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be…
Bud (like a plant, not short for ‘Buddy’, as he determinedly tells everyone) is a motherless boy on the run. The only clue his late mother left him was a…
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother’s shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men…
For use in schools and libraries only. The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go…
Steven and his best friend Russell from Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money are back. When Russell’s dog, Rodney Rodent, jumps into a mural to chase a demonic-looking gnome and disappears, the…
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the…
Thorndike Press Large Print Mini-Collections.
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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 1995.
A hilarious, touching, and tragic novel about civil rights and the impact of violence on one African American family. Narrated by Kenny, 9, the story tells about his middle-class black…
This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award winner is now a Hallmark Channel Original Movie. When Kenny Watson’s brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, the family…
The bestselling Newbery Honor-winning story of an African-American family’s experience traveling through the South in the turbulent 1960s. Ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons, make their way from…
From the Newberry Medal and Corretta Scott King Award winning author, three bestselling novels that have been called a modern classic by NPR and marvelous by The New York Times…
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also…
In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, ten-year-old Bud is a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression. Bud escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search…
It’s 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but he’s on a mission. His momma never told him who his father was, but…
Mark Twain
English look-alikes from two different worlds, the palace and the slums, playfully change places and suddenly become confronted with each other’s problems.
Bud does not want to return to the orphanage after his disastrous night at the Amos’s house; therefore, he decides to go in search of the band leader whom he…
Enter the world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Momma and Dad decide it’s time for a visit to Grandma, Dad comes home…
Christopher,Paul Curtis
Its 1860, and 11-year-old Elijah is a first-generation freeborn child. His Canadian town of Buxton serves as a haven for runaway slaves. When the towns corrupt preacher steals money from…
Master storyteller Christopher Paul Curtis’s Newbery Honor novel, featuring his trademark humor and unique narrative voice, is now part of the Scholastic Gold line!
Tom Selleck is Nick Lassiter, suave, debonair bon vivant - and thief! Whether he’s charming the cream of society at dinner - or emptying their safes in the dead of…
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