Synopsis: The #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars and the upcoming HBO spin-off series Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin!In Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four perfect-looking girls aren’t nearly as perfect as they seem.Aria can’t resist her forbidden ex. Hanna is on the verge of losing her BFF. Emily is freaking out over a simple kiss. And Spencer can’t keep her hands offanything that belongs to her…

Synopsis: After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson-a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any "normal" friends.But things don't stay quiet for long. Percy soon discovers there is trouble at Camp Half-Blood: the magical…

Synopsis: - Background information to build content-area knowledge including: Scientific timelines, words to know, job descriptions, and seminal cases- Chapter Summaries and questions that recap the evidence: You're The Medical Examiner- Reading Cues and Clues: Prompts, call-outs, highlighted words, diagrams, and primary sources- Field Guides and Tools: Bone Guides, Parasite Guides, Ghost-Hunter Technology, Spy gadgets- Cool, bold, graphic design: CSI-…

Synopsis: So many readers have written and asked: What happened to Sarny, the young slave girl who learned to read in Nightjohn? Extraordinary things happened to her, from the moment she fled the plantation in the last days of the Civil War, suddenly a free woman in search of her sold-away children, until she found them and began a new life. Sarny's story gives a panoramic view of America in a time of trial, tragedy, and hoped-for change, until her last…

Synopsis: Do you know your rights? Can your teacher search your locker? Can your principal tell your school paper what to print? Can your school control what you read? Teens like you took these questions all the way to the Supreme Court. It is the highest court in the United States. The Supreme Court can decide which rules to keep and which to strike down. Find out what the court has decided about the issues that affect you.

Synopsis: Are UFOs for real? Take a look at the evidence, then decide for yourself.

Synopsis: Features: - Engaging biographies of famous and infamous figures in history- Sophisticated design will attract high-school and middle-school struggling readers, yet on-target reading level makes these books accessible to readers of all levels- Controlled vocabulary and sentence length make these books highly readable- Directly Correlated to Social Studies Standards for Middle and High School Students- Includes etchings, maps, photos, and primary…

Synopsis: Eddie Ventura is the first baseman for the Hudson City Hornets seventhgrade baseball team. The team is off to a rough start, but finally begins to win some games. Not exactly thanks to Eddie. He’s a good enough player, but he’s a better writer, and soon he’s recruited by the sports editor of the school newspaper to write about the team’s games. Thing is, he’s more of a storyteller than a truthteller, and before long the rest of the team isn’t…

Synopsis: Two heavy-hitters in children's literature deliver a critically acclaimed, bestselling biographical novel of cultural icon Muhammad Ali.★ "This utterly delightful story about Ali's childhood is a smash hit."—School Library Journal (starred review)Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. Kwame Alexander and James Patterson join forces to vividly depict his life up to age seventeen in both prose and…

Synopsis: 13-year-old Pandora Atheneus Andromaeche Helena (or Pandy, for short) has no idea what she'll bring for her school project. By accident she discovers a simple box, said to contain something so terrifying and horrible that no one must ever, ever touch it for fear of inflicting all of mankind with the wrath of the Gods and Goddesses. This, of course, makes the box the perfect thing for Pandora to bring for her school project. Unfortunately, things…