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Marvin is really excited to take care of his teacher’s dog while she’s away. He’ll even earn a bonus if he does a good job! And he gets to be alone in his teacher’s house! But when Mrs. North’s dog starts to look sick, Marvin isn’t sure he’ll get that bonus. In fact, Mrs. North may never talk to Marvin again!

"The usual hilarious comedy... [but] the story takes a surprising turn." - Booklist

"Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay!

Over 6 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller wonder and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face.

The book that inspired the Choose Kind movement.

I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.

August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. WONDER, now a #1 New York Times bestseller and included on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list, begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.

Wonder is the best kids' book of the year, said Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate.com and author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. In a world where bullying among young people is an epidemic, this is a refreshing new narrative full of heart and hope. R.J. Palacio has called her debut novel “a meditation on kindness” indeed, every reader will come away with a greater appreciation for the simple courage of friendship. Auggie is a hero to root for, a diamond in the rough who proves that you can’t blend in when you were born to stand out. "

"From Louis Sachar, the multi-award-winning author of Holes, comes the New York Times bestseller that's been nominated for 13 state awards and counting!

They got lost.
The world got scared.
And the mud got fuzzy.

Fifth grader Tamaya Dhilwaddi and seventh grader Marshall Walsh have been walking to and from Woodridge Academy together since elementary school. But their routine is disrupted when bully Chad Hilligas challenges Marshall to a fight. To avoid the conflict, Marshall takes a shortcut home through the off-limits woods. Tamaya, unaware of the reason for the detour, reluctantly follows. They soon get lost. And then they find trouble. Bigger trouble than anyone could ever have imagined. What they uncover might affect the future of the world. Fuzzy Mud is an imaginative and suspenseful story of the great lengths we'll go to for friendship and family, the mishaps and breakthroughs that are made in the name of science, and the wonders of mud . . . fuzzy mud. "

Winner of 17 Children's Choice Awards nationwide, here is Louis Sachar'smost beloved novel. "A humorous and immensely appealing story...Readers arelikely to come away with the sense that they've been rooting for themselvestoo"

In 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa on Salman Rushdie, accusing him of being "against Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an" for writing a novel called The Satanic Verses. Forced underground, Rushdie was asked to choose an alias for security purposes. He thought of combining the names of various writers he loved. Then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov - Joseph Anton. This is an extraordinary, provocative, and exceptionally cadid memoir that personalizes and brings to life one of the most crucial battles of our time: for freedom of speech.

"Thoughtful and astute.. an important book."
- Usa Today

"Compelling, affecting... (Rushdie) reacted with great bravery and even heroism.'
- The Wall Street Journal

"Gripping, moving and entertaining... Nothing like it has ever been written."
- The Independent (UK)

"A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty."
- Le Point (France)

"Action-packed.. Like Isherwodd'S, Rushdie's eye is a camera lens - firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus."
- Los Angeles Review of Books

"Unflinchingly honest... an egrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book."
- De Volksrant (The Netherlands)

"One of the best memoirs you may ever read."
- Dna (India)

"Extraordinary."
- The Boston Globe

"(An) elegantly spun yarn... Akunin's wonderful novels are always intricatly webbed and plotted."

- The Providence Journal

It Is 1877, and war has broken out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. In the treacherous atmosphere of a Russian field army, former diplomat and detective extraordinaire Erast Fandorin stumbles upon his most confounding case. Its diffıculties are only compounded by the presence of Varya Suvorova, a deadly serious (and seriously beautiful) woman with revolutionary ideals who has disguised herself as a boy in order to reunite with her respected comrade and fıance. Even after Fandorin saves her life, Varya can hardly bear to thank such a "lackey of the throne" for his efforts.

When Varya's fıance is accused of espionage and faces execution, however, she must turn to Fandorin to fınd the real culprit - a mission that forces her to reckon with his courage, deductive mind, and piercing gaze.

"This sophisticated mystery is a marvel."

- The Boston Globe

"Akonin's mystery (series) is wildly popular in his homeland, and deservedly so. His plots are intricate... Impressive."

- The Hew Yorker

"Fandorin delves with his customary mix of taciturn superiority and apparent bewilderment. He is a delightful character like no other in crime fiction."

- The Times (London)

Who Moved My Cheese? offered millions of readers relief for an evergreen problem- unanticipated and unwelcome change. Now its long-awaited sequel digs deeper, to show how readers can adapt their beliefs and achieve better results in any field.

Johnson's theme is that all of our accomplishments are due to our beliefs- whether we're confident or insecure, cynical or positive, open-minded or inflexible. But it's difficult to change your beliefs - and with them, your outcomes. Find out how Hem, Haw, and the other characters from Who Moved My Cheese? deal with this challenge.

Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected.

She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she’d never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn’t believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn’t exist.

As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d travelled too far. If there was still a way home.

EDUCATED is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, from her singular experience Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it.

We don't have to tell you how tough SAT Math is or how helpful a stellar exam score can be for your chances of getting into your top-choice college. Written by the experts at The Princeton Review, Cracking the SAT Math 1 Subject Test arms you to take on the test and achieve your highest score.

We don't have to tell you how tough SAT Math is or how helpful a stellar exam score can be for your chances of getting into your top-choice college. Written by the experts at The Princeton Review, Cracking the SAT Math 2 Subject Test arms you to take on the test and achieve your highest score.

The new SAT is still an unknown quantity for many students—and we all know that practice is one of the best ways to get comfortable with any exam.

6 Practice Tests for the SAT provides six complete opportunities to assess whether your skills are up to the mark on the new SAT’s higher-level math questions and reading comprehension passages. Detailed answer explanations for every practice problem support your progress, and help you to master every aspect of the test.