Author: Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Keywords: hunger, games, book, second, fire, catching
Number of Pages: 391
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0439023491
ISBN-13: 9780439023498

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.

Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Keywords: universe, corner
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0439388805
ISBN-13: 9780439388801

The summer she turns 12, Hattie Owen is steeped in the routines of her small town life until the startling arrival of an uncle no one has ever spoken about. Now that Uncle Adam’s "school" - an institution for the mentally disabled - is closing, Hattie’s family must deal with a childlike young man whose existence they’ve denied for years. Hattie suddenly experiences a summer in which she learns living life fully means facing both the good times and the bad.

Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Keywords: fallujah, over, sunrise
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-04
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0439916240
ISBN-13: 9780439916240

Operation Iraqi Freedom, that’s the code name. But the young men and women in the military’s Civil Affairs Battalion have a simpler name for it: WAR. In this new novel, Walter Dean Myers looks at a contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he brought to the Vietnam war of his classic, FALLEN ANGELS. He creates memorable characters like the book’s narrator, Birdy, a young recruit from Harlem who’s questioning why he even enlisted; Marla, a blond, tough-talking, wisecracking gunner; Jonesy, a guitar-playing bluesman who just wants to make it back to Georgi

Author: Pam Munoz Ryan
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Keywords: dreamer
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0439269709
ISBN-13: 9780439269704

From the time he is a young boy, Neftalí hears the call of a mysterious voice. Even when the neighborhood children taunt him, and when his harsh, authoritarian father ridicules him, and when he doubts himself, Neftalí knows he cannot ignore the call. Under the canopy of the lush rain forest, into the fearsome sea, and through the persistent Chilean rain, he listens and he follows. . . Combining elements of magical realism with biography, poetry, literary fiction, and sensorial, transporting illustrations, Pam Muñoz Ryan and Peter Sís take readers on a rare journey of the heart and imaginat

Author: Eliot Schrefer
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Keywords: girls, dangerous, school
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0545035287
ISBN-13: 9780545035286

Angela’s parents think she’s on the road to ruin because she’s dating a "bad boy." After her behavior gets too much for them, they ship her off to Hidden Oak. Isolated and isolating, Hidden Oak promises to rehabilitate "dangerous girls." But as Angela gets drawn in further and further, she discovers that recovery is only on the agenda for the "better" girls. The other girls -- designated as "the purple thread" -- will instead be manipulated to become more and more dangerous . . . and more and more reliant on Hidden Oak’s care.

Author: Gregory Tang
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Keywords: seasons, math
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0439210429
ISBN-13: 9780439210423

MATH FOR ALL SEASONS will challenge every kid ­ and every parent ­ to open their minds and solve math problems in a new and unexpected way. By looking for patterns, symmetries, and familiar number combinations displayed within eye-catching pictures, math will become easier, quicker, and more fun than anyone could have imagined!

Author: Ken Mochizuki
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Keywords: boys, beacon
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0439267498
ISBN-13: 9780439267496

Like other Japanese-American families in the Beacon Hill area of Seattle in the early 1970s, 16-year-old Dan Inagaki’s parents expect him to be an example of the "model minority." But unlike Dan’s older brother, with his 4.0 GPA and college scholarship, Dan is tired of being called "Oriental" by his teachers, and sick of feeling invisible. Dan’s growing self-hatred threatens his struggle to claim an identity. Sharing his anger and confusion are his best friends, Jerry Ito, Eddie Kanagae, and Frank Ishimoto. Together, these Beacon Hill Boys fall into a spiral of rebellion t