Ol' Mama Squirrel has raised many babies and kept them all safe from predators, but she may have met her match when a determined grizzly bear threatens to eat her entire family tree.

From Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author behind HBO's hit series True Blood and NBC's Midnight, Texas, the third in a series that proves death never takes a holiday ...

For Lily Bard, the idea of "going home for Christmas" summons nothing but dread. She wants to stay in her real home in Shakespeare, Arkansas, where

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Acclaimed children's author Shutta Crum presents an attractive tale of country living. Brenda Gail Munson is very excited to be staying with her great-grandparents up on the mountain for the summer. But her cousin Melvin has come to visit too, and he's so annoying! When Melvin taunts Brenda, she throws a handful of dirt and stones at him. But instead of hitting Melvin, the dirt and stones hit Morning Glory, great-grandmother's favorite laying hen!...

On Sunday night, April lies in bed, trying to sleep. She is excited. On Friday she and her mother will take a train to her grandmother's house. Almost a week is such a long time for a little girl to wait. But as April takes a bus ride, goes to the market, visits her father at work, and eats lunch at a diner, the days slip by. Everywhere she goes, there are people who are different sizes and shapes, and have different needs. At last it's Friday; April...

Pen, Will, and Cat met during the first week of their first year of college and struck up a remarkable friendship, one that sustained them and shaped them for years - until it ended abruptly, and they went their separate ways. Now, six years later, Pen is a single mother of a five-year-old girl, living with her older brother in Philadelphia and trying to make peace with the sudden death of her father. Despite feeling deserted by Will and Cat, she

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Award-winning author Tom Angleberger's books have been hailed as ''delightful'' (New York Times). The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee is the third hilarious tale in Angleberger's best-selling Origami Yoda series. Dwight has left McQuarrie Middle School to attend Tippett Academy- and he's taken Origami Yoda with him. (Luckily, the Fortune Wookiee soon arrives at McQuarrie to take Yoda's place.) Meanwhile, Dwight's friends fear that he's becoming too...

Dark times have fallen on McQuarrie Middle School. Dwight's back - and not a moment too soon, as the gang faces the FunTime Menace: a new educational program designed to raise students' standardized test scores. Instead, it's driving everyone crazy with its obnoxious videos of Professor FunTime and his insidious singing calculator! When Principal Rabbski cancels the students' field trip - along with art, music, and LEGO classes - to make time for...