The 2010 Newbery Medal winner is When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, published by Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
The escapades of the Greek gods and heroes get a fresh spin in the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, about a contemporary 12-year-old New Yorker who learns he's a demigod.
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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is scheduled to release on February 12, 2010 in the United States.
Read an extract
Hear the first part of the book, as read by the author.
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Video interview with Rick in North Carolina
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Video interview with Rick in Cincinnati
For Teachers ...
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The Lightning Thief: A Teacher’s Guide.
A complete Lightning Thief unit
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The Lightning Thief: A Reader’s Guide.
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Rationale. A curriculum rationale, based on NCTE models, for those teachers considering Percy Jackson for classroom use.
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Literature Circle Questions
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Biographical Information on Rick Riordan.
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A Readers Theater from Lightning Thief.
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Percy Party event guide.
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Project ideas.
Andy Griffiths returns with the latest in the Just Series. Accompanied by hilarious illustrator Terry Denton, he has created another amazing story.
Take one Shakespearean tragedy: Macbeth.
Add Andy, Danny and Lisa – the Just trio, whose madcap exploits have already delighted hundreds of thousands of readers for the last ten years.
Crazy hair
by Neil Gaiman
Illustrated by Dave McKean
The duo responsible for The Wolves in the Walls (2003) return with another chaotic picture book popping with bright collage and multimedia imagery.
---Listen to the author, Neil Gaiman reading his poem
"In the bristling thriller CATCHING FIRE, two young heroes win the horrifying--and mandatory--Hunger Games, thereby becoming targets of a Government bent on maximum revenge."
Read the first chapter (PDF)
Listen to the author read a chapter
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder In this startlingly frank account of Buffett's life, Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley—and hand picked by Buffett to be his biographer—strips away the mystery that has long cloaked the word's richest man to reveal a life and fortune erected around lucid and inspired business vision and unimaginable personal complexity. In a book that is dominated by unstinting descriptions of Buffett's appetites—for profit, women (particularly nurturing maternal types), food (Buffett maintained his and his family's weight by "dangling money")—it is refreshing that Schroeder keeps her tone free of judgment or awe; Buffett's plain-speaking suffuses the book and renders his public and private successes and failures wonderfully human and universal. Schroeder's sections detailing the genesis of Buffett's investment strategy, his early mentoring by Benjamin Graham (who imparted the memorable "cigar butt" scheme: purchasing discarded stocks and taking a final puff). Inspiring managerial advice abounds and competes with gossipy tidbits (the married Buffett's very public relationship with Washington Post editor Katherine Graham) in this rich, surprisingly affecting biography.
Her Mother's Face
by Roddy Doyle
“Her mother had died when Siobhán was only three.” In this quiet story set in Dublin, a girl is left with a father so sad he never speaks to her about her mother. By the time she is 10, Siobhán can no longer remember her mother’s face; it’s an “empty space” that causes painful unhappiness. One day, Siobhán meets a beautiful woman who recognizes the girl’s sadness and listens to her story.
Read more ... and get the activities ..., or buy the book either from Amazon or from an Australian outlet.
KL Going's King of the Screwups is getting rave reviews, and now KL is holding a huge contest that asks you to confess your biggest screwup in a paragraph or more! If she laughs hysterically, or cries in sympathy, you just might be a winner!
[From Readergirlz - read more there and get the link to some free chapters of the book]