Caldecott Medalist Allen Say presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist during WWII, when he apprenticed under Noro Shinpei, Japan’s premier cartoonist DRAWING FROM MEMORY is Allen Say's own story of his path to becoming the renowned artist he is today. Shunned by his father, who didn't understand his son's artistic leanings, Allen was embraced by Noro Shinpei, Ja…
The first Transformers: Dark of the Moon prequel begins here! See the origin of the bitter rivalry between Optimus Prime and Megatron! What is the secret connection that will forever bind them? And how will it affect the future of all TRANSFORMERS?! From the Publisher: Bring your young readers background on the Autobots and Decepticons waging their battle in the Dark of the Moon. In Foundation…
It's Halloween, and Garfield dresses up as "Catzilla," a fierce wild cat that lives at the zoo, to go out Trick or Treating. What Garfield doesn't know is that the real Catzilla has escaped from the zoo and the police are searching for it, leading to a wild case of mistaken identity! Will Garfield end up in a zoo? And what will Jon and Odie do if they run into Catzilla? Also featuring the stori…
Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level reading material for younger learners. There are pigs everywhere on Bird Island and Red is not happy. Why are they looking at the eggs? What do they want? And can he stop them? A fun reader based on the hit film Angry Birds The Movie. Level 2
Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse emerses readers in a small Vermont town in 1924 with this haunting and harrowing tale Leanora Sutter. Esther Hirsh. Merlin Van Tornhout. Johnny Reeves . . .These characters are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924. A town that turns against its own when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. No one is safe, especially the two youngest, twelve-ye…
From DreamWorks, the studio behind the megahit SHREK 2, a movie that proves that it's a jungle out there! What happens when four New York zoo animals-a lion who's used to being the center of attention, a zebra who wants to live in the wild, a giraffe who's a hypochondriac, and a hippo who's got attitude to spare-are taken from the safety of their city homes, loaded on to a boat headed for Af…
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent in Illustrations, EMIERT/ALA Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Best Books, Kirkus Reviews Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews Notable Children's Book, American Library Association (ALA) Children's Books of the Year, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Editor's Favorites, The Bloomsbury Review Starred Review, The Horn Book Story Telling Worl…
Superb stories, daring deeds, fantastic adventures! Learn all about Roald Dahl's encounters with the enemy, his worldwide travels, the life-threatening injuries he sustained in a plane accident, and the rest of his sometimes bizarre, often unnerving, and always colorful adventures. Told with the same irresistible appeal that has made Roald Dahl one of the world's best-loved writers, Going Solo …
From the bestselling author Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG comes an autobiographical account of his exploits as a World War II pilot! Superb stories, daring deeds, fantastic adventures! Learn all about Roald Dahl's encounters with the enemy, his worldwide travels, the life-threatening injuries he sustained in a plane accident, and the rest of his sometimes bizarre, often unne…
From the talented creator of bestselling comics Blue Monday and Scooter Girl, comes a funny, super-power graphic novel about the middle-school social hive, where only one girl can be the QUEEN BEE! Haley is smart, funny, nice, and determined to be super-popular in her new middle-school. . . if she can control that problematic little secret power of hers. Enter another new seventh-grader, A…