Synopsis: Despite superior genes that are supposed to guarantee her perfect health, Amy experiences pain, dizziness, and loss of physical control. Why are her amazing skills disappearing just when she needs them most? And what if she is forced to survive as an ordinary teenager?

Synopsis: Amy Candler knows she's different. In fact, she's perfect -- a perfect twelve-year-old girl.Overnight, she can see and hear things from awesome distances; she can tumble, twist, and turn like a top gymnast; and she knows the answer to every question her teachers ask.But Amy doesn't have the answer to the mystery of her past.All she knows is that her recurring nightmare seems very real.That her crescent-shaped birthmark wasn't there yesterday.…

Synopsis: "The mountains look peaceful. The kids and the leaders seem friendly. The only challenge supposedly comes from within yourself. Wilderness Adventure - it'll change your life forever. . . . Amy arrives at Wilderness Adventure all pumped up for a week of extreme sports. Her superior strength gives her an edge over the others. But she's ready to rock-climb, mountain-bike, and hang-glide without apologies. Only Eric and Tasha know why things are so…

Synopsis: Amy Candler never bothered with the popular clique at school. Now she wants to join their ranks. It doesn't make any sense to her friends--especially when a wave of panic is sweeping through the school hallways and friends need to stick together. Students are disappearing. Eric is being stalked. Mr. Devon mysteriously returns, whispering about dark secrets. Everyone at Parkside Middle School is on edge, and even with her extraordinary skills,…

Synopsis: Psyched that her friends Tasha and Eric are traveling with her to New York for a national spelling bee, Amy finds more than she bargained for when it becomes clear the organizers are after a lot more than perfect spelling. Original.

Synopsis: Three girls become friends when they skip ballet class and spend a calamity-filled afternoon in a shopping mall.

Synopsis: Life at Robby Hummer's house is wild, fun, and a big mess since his twin brother and sister were born. At school, he'd rather read quietly than play games at recess of watch a filmstrip. But his teacher thinks he reads too much and sends him to Mrs. Van Gent, the schol counselor. Sheesh! Since when is liking books a problem? Meanwhile, some kids at school think it's weired that Robby's father stays home to take care of the twins while his mother…

Synopsis: 'My mum killed my dad, then dragged his body all the way along the beach . . . I don't believe a word of it'Max Cassidy is a teenage escapologist, so good he's nicknamed the Half-pint Houdini. His father disappeared two years ago and his body has never been found. His mother is now serving a life sentence for her husband's murder.Max's mission to learn the truth about his family takes him on an thrilling journey, from London to the horrors of…

Synopsis: Part of the classic Fudge series from Judy Blume, bestselling author of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing! Peter Hatcher can’t catch a break. His little brother, Fudge—the five-year-old human hurricane—has big plans to marry Peter’s sworn enemy, Sheila Tubman. That alone would be enough to ruin Peter’s summer, but now his parents have decided to rent a summer home next door to Sheila the Cootie Queen’s house. Peter will be trapped with Fudge and…

Synopsis: Selected, supposedly at random, to test a new virtual reality game, Miriam and Stuart discover that something devious is going on and that the game, New World, is something more than they bargained for. By the author of The Great American Elephant Chase.

Synopsis: All the latest scientific data about the natural phenomena of earthquakes and volcanoes, including over 30 photographs.

Synopsis: As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and an occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and everything changed overnight. In six days a town called Confusion appeared . . . and on the seventh it could disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness and violence. On one side are…

Synopsis: Rhyming text and illustrations present a broad range of prehistoric mammals, from the ratlike Triconodon to the spectacular Woolly Mammoth.

Synopsis: Poor Oscar Winkle! Ever since his little brother, Robert (not-so-affectionately known as Slobert), showed up seven and a half years ago, he's been specializing in ruining Oscar's life. So he comes up with Operation: Dump the Chump, a brilliant scheme to get even with the pesky creep.

Synopsis: A little blue penguin caught in an oil slick flounders to shore and a likely death; a dolphin the size of a bicycle gets caught in a fisherman's net and nearly drowns; a yellow-eyed penguin wanders in confusion, searching for its nesting site in a tract of newly constructed seaside homes. When the animals that live along the world's coastlines cross paths with humans, too often the animals lose out. But does it have to be this way? This…

Synopsis: The first book in Lois Lowry's well-loved, hilarious series about family, school, and growing up. To Anastasia Krupnik, being 10 is very confusing. For one thing, she has an awful teacher. Then, her parents announce they're going to have a baby--at their age. Anastasia knows that if she didn't have her secret notebook to write in, she would never make it to her 11th birthday.

Synopsis: "Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to characterize the Western world's visual idea of Japan. In many ways images of hedonism, ukiyo-e scenes often represented the bright lights and attractions of Edo (modern-day Tokyo): beautiful women,…