Author: David Macaulay
Publisher: Graphia
Keywords: construction, planning, roman, story, city
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1983-10-24
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 0395349222
ISBN-13: 9780395349229

Text and black and white illustrations show how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them. Grades 5-9.

Author: Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Publisher: Graphia
Keywords: queen, dairy
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2007-06-04
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0618863354
ISBN-13: 9780618863358

When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.Harsh words indeed, from Brian Nelson of all people. But, D. J. can’t help admitting, maybe he’s right.When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.Stuff like why her best friend, Amber, isn’t so friendly anymore. Or why her little brother, Curtis, never opens his mouth. Why her mom has two jobs and a big secret. Why her college-football-star brothers won’t even call home. Why her dad would go ballistic if she tried out for the high school football team herself. And why Brian

Author: J.R.R. Tolkie
Publisher: Graphia
Keywords: hobbit
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-08-15
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0618260307
ISBN-13: 9780618260300

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular

Author: Carl Deuker
Publisher: Graphia
Keywords: candy, gym
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-09-22
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0547076312
ISBN-13: 9780547076317

Mick Johnson is determined not to make the same mistakes his father, a failed football hero, made. But after being tackled just short of the end zone in a big game, Mick begins using “gym candy,” or steroids. His performances become record-breaking, but the side effects are terrible: Mick suffers ’roid rage, depression, and body acne. Gym Candy’s subject matter is just as hard-hitting as its football scenes. You’ll find yourself unable to look away as Mick goes down a road that even he knows is the wrong one to travel.

Author: Vivian Vande Velde
Publisher: Graphia
Keywords: unfriendly, user
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0152163530
ISBN-13: 9780152163532

It’s the most advanced computer role-playing game ever: When you play you’re really there—in a dark dream teeming with evil creatures, danger-filled fortresses, and malevolent sorceries. The game plugs directly into your brain--no keyboard, no modem, no monitor. And for game hacker Arvin Rizalli and his friends, no cash up front, no questions asked . . . and no hope of rescue when the game goes horribly, deathly wrong.

Author: Gary Paulse
Publisher: Graphia
Keywords: tent
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0152058338
ISBN-13: 9780152058333

Teenage Steven and his father, Corey, take to the road with a Bible, an old army tent, and less than the best of intentions. Tired of being poor, Steven’s father is certain that preaching the Word of the Lord is the easy way to fame and fortune. But just when they’ve got their act down pat and the money is rolling in, Steven and Corey begin to realize that what they’d originally thought of as a harmless lie is all about avarice and power and, ultimately, guilt.     Each book includes a reader’s guide.

Author: Nick Earl
Publisher: Graphia
Keywords: summer
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2005-05-02
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 061845781X
ISBN-13: 9780618457816

This summer is different. School is over for Alex Delaney, and he’s waiting for his university acceptance, only seventeen days away. The waiting is killing him. He’s not expecting much from summer. Bodysurfing, TV, but mainly waiting.So he’s not ready for the girl who cuts past him on a wave. Not at all prepared for her perfect balance on the board, the elegant muscles of her shoulders and back. Just a girl. Compelling green eyes, golden skin, something graceful and elusive about her. Summer is about to change.