Readers who love seafaring adventures like Avi’s The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle or the American Girl books will love Barbara Mariconda’s The Emerald Shore. This book is the marvelous conclusion to the Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons trilogy, a series that Newbery Award–winning author Katherine Applegate calls “a grand and adventurous tale.” Lucy is trapped between two powerful magics. The glittering magic that’s protected her ever since her parents died, and the dark magic of the Simmons family curse. Lucy’s fight to survive the curse has led her to sail on an epic journey across the globe. Now finding Mary Maude Lee’s stolen pirate treasure on the rocky shores of Ireland is the only way for Lucy to break the curse and protect herself and everyone she loves. But time is running out. Danger looms closer than ever before, and Lucy will need courage stronger than magic to save herself from the fate that awaits her.
Mysterious paintings in a cave near her grandmother's inn on the Maine coast and an unusual cat that her younger brothers want to adopt lead twelve-year-old Evie to face her suppressed memories of her mother's death and her father's ...
Join two young children on a mathematical butterfly hunt.
Fast paced, action packed, and completely hilarious, this is the start to an exciting new middle-grade series by actor and writer Thomas Lennon.
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Captured by pirates in Jamaica and sold into slavery in New England, Resolute Talbot and her siblings are taught to spin and weave before Resolute finds herself alone in a harsh Lexington culture torn by a brewing Revolutionary War. 50,000 ...
In this heart-wrenching tale of love and loss, a young Marine and his best friend’s sister plunge into a forbidden love affair while he’s home on leave.
These are the questions that Marina Endicott, one of our most beloved storytellers, explores in this sweeping, intoxicating novel set aboard one of the last merchant sailing ships to make its way through the South Pacific in the early 1900s ...
Presents examples of optical illusions and discusses how they happen by looking at how the brain and the eyes work together.
A Girl at the End of the World.
In rhyming text, Pack the Packrat sorts his collection of trinkets in a variety of ways.