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After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance Author / Illustrator: Anne Sibley O'Brien   Author: Perry Edmond O'Brien Product Code: 91295 ISBN: 978-1-58089-129-5 Ages: 9 - 12 Availability: In stock. Price: $24.95 This book explores the work of Mohandas Gandhi and his legacy through fifteen profiles of activists who chose nonviolent resistance as the path to change. The book focuses on heroic individuals who were in direct physical danger and chose to respond with nonviolence. Watch the video trailer of After Gandhi "This mother-and-son effort earns high marks both for adding less-celebrated names to the pantheon of peacemongers and for noting that the nonviolent approach to civil protest doesn't always work—which makes the courage of those who engage in it all the more exemplary." --Kirkus Reviews ERRATA Pages VI and 89: The year is listed as 1967. This should read 1976. Running footers between pages 91-95 also list the year incorrectly as 1967. Qty:

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Camel Rider Author: Prue Mason Product Code: 93145 ISBN: 978-1-58089-314-5 Ages: 10 - 14 Availability: In stock. Price: $15.95 Adam and his family live comfortably in a compound with other foreigners who work in the Middle East. When war breaks out and all foreigners try to escape, Adam runs away in an effort to save his dog, which has been left behind. Alone and without resources in the desert, Adam meets Walid, an abused camel boy who has run away from his cruel masters. Together they struggle to bridge wide gulfs between their cultures and languages in order to survive. Ultimately both boys learn about true friendship. "[R]iveting... teens will stay on the edge of their seats. . ." — Publishers Weekly "[A] solid survival adventure." — School Library Journal "[A] fast-paced, exciting read." — Kirkus Reviews Read a chapter from Camel Rider. Qty:

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Family Reminders Author: Julie Danneberg   Illustrator: John Shelley Product Code: 93206 ISBN: 978-1-58089-320-6 Ages: 8 - 11 Availability: In stock. Price: $14.95 Mary’s love for her father and her desire to get life back to “normal” push her to take a chance that restores her father’s spirit and brings her family a new life, strengthened by the hardships they have endured. "[A] warm family story with characters a reader might like to know." --Kirkus Reviews "[A] heartwarming novel about overcoming hardship." --School Library Journal Qty:

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The Golden Bull Author: Marjorie Cowley Product Code: 91813 ISBN: 978-1-58089-181-3 Ages: 11 - 14 Availability: In stock. Price: $15.95 5,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia during a terrible drought, Jomar and Zefa's father must send his children away to the city of Ur because he can no longer feed them. At fourteen, Jomar is old enough to apprentice with Sidah, a master goldsmith for the temple of the moongod, but there is no place for Zefa in Sidah's household. Zefa, a talented but untrained musician, is forced to play her music and sing for alms on the streets of Ur. Marjorie Cowley vividly imagines the intrigues, and harsh struggle for survival in ancient Mesopotamia. "Healthy measures of cultural and historical detail. . ." –Kirkus Reviews Qty:

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The Golden Dreydl Author: Ellen Kushner   Illustrator: Ilene Winn-Lederer Product Code: 91356 ISBN: 978-1-58089-135-6 Ages: 8 - 11 Availability: In stock. Price: $15.95 Sara finds her family's Chanukah celebrations boring until Tante Miriam arrives at the holiday party. She gives Sara a Golden Dreydl that is really an enchanted princess who guides Sara on a journey into a magical world. Imaginative drawings depict a universe where Jewish history collides with fantasy. "The chatty storytelling is fast, furious, and sometimes funny, especially the riddles of the vicious king. . . Kids will enjoy the fantasy adventure, as well as the contemporary family standoffs; they'll also be interested in Tante Miriam's explanation of the dreydl's symbols. This will be fun for reading aloud." — Booklist "The concept is winning.... The illustrations are beautiful...—richly detailed, cheeky charming..." — Kirkus Reviews Read a chapter from The Golden Dreydl. Qty:

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The Importance of Wings Author: Robin Friedman Product Code: 93305 ISBN: 978-1-58089-330-5 Ages: 10 - 14 Availability: In stock. Price: $15.95 Roxanne just wants to be a normal American girl with a normal American family. But with her mother back in Israel and her father working long hours as a cab driver in Manhattan, Roxanne and her sister, Gayle, have to fend for themselves. Things change, though, when Liat moves into town. Liat challenges Roxanne's assumptions about what it means to be cool, and what it means to be American. "[E]xquisite . . ." --Booklist "Told in a first-person voice that is both sardonic and sincere, Friedman's novel succeeds in bringing forth some common issues that challenge any immigrant American child who must straddle separate ways of life while striving for that true-blue American image." --Kirkus Reviews "[T]his is a readable coming-of-age story that captures many universal aspects of the contemporary immigrant experience coupled with middle school angst, first crushes, and the importance of finding one’s own wings." --School Library Journal Qty:

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Kyle's Island Author: Sally Derby Product Code: 93169 ISBN: 978-1-58089-316-9 Availability: Out of stock. Backorder policy Price: $16.95 Sally Derby takes readers to a small lake in 1970s Michigan, where thirteen-year-old Kyle comes to understand that loss isn't forever, and that people are more complicated than they seem. Qty:

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The Legend of Hong Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea Author / Illustrator: Anne Sibley O'Brien Product Code: 93022 ISBN: 978-1-58089-302-2 Binding Information: Hardcover  Ages: 9 - 12 Availability: In stock. Price: $16.95 Hong Kil dong, the son of a powerful minister, is not entitled to a birthright because his mother is a commoner. After studying martial arts, divination, swordplay, the uses of magic, and the wisdom of the Book of Changes, Kil Dong sets off on a quest to discover his destiny and claim his rightful role as a wise and just leader. ". . . will entice reluctant readers as well as adventure lovers." — School Library Journal "WOW! — no, make that OMANAH!" — The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Qty:

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Life on Earth - and Beyond: An Astrobiologist's Quest Author: Pamela Turner Product Code: 91332 ISBN: 978-1-58089-133-2 Ages: 9 - 12 Availability: In stock. Price: $19.95 For the past thirty years, NASA astrobiologist Dr. Chris McKay has searched extreme environments from Antarctica's Dry Valleys to the Atacama Desert in Chile to the permafrost-covered tundra of Siberia looking for microbial life on earth. By studying Earth environments that mirror those on Mars and other planets, he hopes to find out if life can exist beyond Earth. "This beautifully designed volume offers an eye-opening look at an astrobiologist in action." &mdashBooklist "[E]ngagingly written, visually appealing..." &mdashSchool Library Journal Qty:

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The Mysteries of Beethoven's Hair Authors: Russell Martin, Lydia Nibley Product Code: 17141 ISBN: 978-1-57091-714-1 Ages: 10 and up Availability: In stock. Price: $15.95 Russell Martin, author of Beethoven's Hair, and his wife, Lydia Nibley, tell the story of how a lock of Ludwig von Beethoven's hair, clipped from the composer's head on his deathbed in Germany in 1827, ended up in Nazi-occupied Denmark in 1943 and was later sold at auction in London in 1994. Learn about this incredible journey through history and the mysteries revealed about Beethoven's deafness and death. Photographs, correspondence, reserach, and forensics further inform this fascinating story. Qty:

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