THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES THE SWINEHERD THE REAL PRINCESS I. A Beginning II. What Happened to the Councillor III. The Watchman's Adventure IV. A Moment of Head Importance - An Evening's Dramatic Readings - A Most Strange Journey V. Metamorphosis of the Copying-Clerk VI. The Best That the Galoshes Gave ... more »

The Black Books: Diary of a Teenage Stud is a revolutionary new fiction series: a no-holds-barred, darkly comic take on one seventeen-year-old's inner life. Jonah Black chronicles his shrouded-in-mystery return from boarding school and his reentry into a life he'd left behind. His Proustian eye for detail ... more »

In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival ... more »

Ellie's starting ninth grade and she's got some very definite goals. She'll stay best friends with Magda and Nadine. She'll go on a diet and stick to it. She'll get a glamorous hairstyle. And she'll get a boyfriend. Even if she has to settle for one who likes her more than she likes him. Any guy will ... more »

Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo may seem the luckiest girl ever. The truth is, however, that Mia spends all her time doing one of three things: preparing for her nerve-racking entrée into Genovian society under the slave-driving but elegant Grandmére, slogging through congestion ... more »

An illustrated collection of the Classic Mother Goose rhymes. Here are a few of the ones we know you remember: Jack and Jill went up the hill,   To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down, and broke his crown,   And Jill came tumbling after. Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool? Yes, marry ... more »

Unfortunately, Roy's first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn't been sinking his thumbs into Roy's temples and mashing his face against the school-bus window, Roy might never have spotted the running boy. And the running boy is intriguing: he was running ... more »

You do not want to mess with me, Sydney Bristow said, struggling to keep her voice light. Really. You have no idea. Or what? Burke Wells teased, dangling a heavy book just out of her reach. You'll beat me up? There are so many possibilities. Let's just keep it vague. One strawberry blond brow hiked suggestively ... more »

When Rebecca's mother marries Pres's father, Rebecca is sure that living in the same house with the guy of her dreams will turn her new step-brother into her new love. Even though her best friend, Celeste, warns her to face reality, Rebecca doesn't listen. She thinks Pres is the perfect guy for her! ... more »

Do you want to be popular? Everyone wants to be popular at least, Stephanie Landry does. Steph's been the least popular girl in her class since a certain cherry Super Big Gulp catastrophe five years earlier. Does being popular matter? It matters very much Steph. That's why this year, she has a plan ... more »

The Black Book: Diary of a Teenage Stud is a series unlike any other: a no-holds-barred, darkly comic take on one seventeen-year-old's inner life. Jonah Black chronicles his shrouded-in-mystery return from boarding school and his reentry into a life he'd left behind. His Proustian eye for detail and ... more »

The Black Book: Diary of a Teenage Stud is a series unlike any other: a no-holds-barred, darkly comic take on one seventeen-year-old's inner life. Jonah Black chronicles his shrouded-in-mystery return from boarding school and his reentry into a life he'd left behind. His Proustian eye for detail and ... more »