Reverse spin, triple pump, reverse dribble, stutter step withtwist to the left, stutter into jumper, blind pass. These are me.The moves make the man.The moves make me.Jerome foxworthy -- theJayfox to his friends -- likes to think he can handle anything. Hehandled growing up without a father. He handled being the firstblack kid in school. And he sure can handle a basketball. Then Jerome meets bix Rivers -- mysterious and moody, but a greatathlete. So Jerome decides to teach bix his game. He can tell thatbix has the talent. All he's got to do is learn the rightmoves....

Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashionedkind of running away...so she decided not to run FROM somewhere,but TO somewhere. And so, after some careful planning, she and heryounger brother, Jamie, escaped -- right into a mystery that madeheadlines!

“Engle writes her new book in clear, short lines of stirringfree verse. Caught by the compelling narrative voices, many readerswill want to find out more.”—Booklist, Starred Review “A powerful narrative in free verse . . . haunting.”—The HornBook “Hauntingly beautiful, revealing pieces of Cuba’s troubled pastthrough the poetry of hidden moments.”—School Library Journal “Young readers will come away inspired by these portraits ofcourageous ordinary people.” —Kirkus Reviews “The poems are short but incredibly evocative.”—Voice of YouthAdvocates

Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life ifa trolley accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with hisunhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides torun-and not just run away, but run. And this is where the myth ofManiac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially dividedsmall town with his amazing and legendary feats.

Summer has a magic all its own in Elizabeth Enright's belovedstories about two children and their discovery of a ghostlylakeside resort. These two modern classics are once again availablein Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic editions, but now with handsomenew cover art by Mary GrandPre to complement Beth and Joe Krush'soriginal interior illustrations.

Half moorfolk and half human, and unable to shape-shift ordisappear at will, Moql threatens the safety of the Band. So theFolk banish her and send her to live among humans as a changeling.Named Saaski by the couple for whose real baby she was swapped, shegrows up taunted and feared by the villagers for being different,and is comfortable only on the moor, playing strange music on herbagpipes. As Saaski grows up, memories from her forgotten past with theFolks slowly emerge. But so do emotions from her human side, andshe begins to realize the terrible wrong the Folk have done to thehumans she calls Da and Mumma. She is determined to restore theirchild to them, even if it means a dangerous return to the worldthat has already rejected her once.

Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she's been making waves ever since. Although Mo hopes someday to find her "upstream mother," she's found a home with the Colonel--a café owner with a forgotten past of his own--and Miss Lana, the fabulous café hostess. She will protect those she loves with every bit of her strong will and tough attitude. So when a lawman comes to town asking about a murder, Mo and her best friend, Dale Earnhardt Johnson III, set out to uncover the truth in hopes of saving the only family Mo has ever known. 《长青藤小说：从天而降的幸运》讲述了一个勇敢机智的11岁女孩，与好的朋友组建侦探所，侦破小镇长达11年的谜案的故事。过完这个暑假，女孩摩就要上6年级了。11年前，她在一场飓风中被大水冲到了图珀洛镇，由镇上咖啡馆的店

Readers today are still fascinated by "Nat," aneighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard.Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor"s world—Salem in the earlydays, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded thewharves. But Nat didn"t promise to have the makings of a sailor; hewas too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but noone guessed that he had the persistence and determination to mastersea navigation in the days when men sailed only by "log, lead, andlookout." Nat"s long hours of study and observation, collected inhis famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known asthe "Sailors" Bible"), stunned the sailing community and made him aNew England hero.

Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in NewOrleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptownfamily or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. Butwhat she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving caretaker,wise in the ways of the world and able to predict the future. Sowhen Mama Ya-Ya's visions show a powerful hurricane--Katrina--fastapproaching, it's up to Lanesha to call upon the hope and strengthMama Ya-Ya has given her to help them both survive the storm. Ninth Ward is a deeply emotional story about transformationand a celebration of resilience, friendship, and family--as onlylove can define it.

一个婴儿。一座坟场。一次刺杀的结束，一个传奇的开始。在墓园里。有幽灵。有食尸鬼。还有神秘的守护者。连死神也亲自出马。（不用担心。她是一位和蔼的女士。）在人世间，有骗子，有恶棍，也有普通的老百姓。还有一位天真烂漫的小姑娘。 成长故事，法术修炼。冒险经历，少年初恋。贯穿全书的是刺杀与复仇的较量。 墓地的阴森反衬出鬼魂的温情。喧嚣的人世却冷漠无情。但终，坟场里成长的少年仍将告别往昔。走向社会。走向成年…… Winner of the Newbery Medal When a babyescapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who wouldhave thought it would find safety and security in the localgraveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres,Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead.But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still lookingfor him - after all, he is the last remaini

The 1938 classic tells the story of Mr. Popper, the small-townhousepainter who dreamed of exploring Antarctic regions, andCaptain Cook, the redoubtable penguin who turned Mr. Popper's worldupside down. Reprint. Newbery Honor Book. H. SLJ. NYT. AB.

13世纪在克拉科夫有一位吹号手，他尽忠职守，为他所爱的国家牺牲生命，被敌人射死在《海那圣歌》结束前。到了15世纪，有一家忠贞爱国的人，冒着生命危险，千里迢迢地为国王送来了稀世珍宝——塔尔努夫水晶球。 这家人躲过了坏人钮扣脸彼得的追赶，化名寄居在一位炼金学者的楼下，继承了吹号手的职位，然而却未能逃过钮扣脸彼得三番五次的骚扰。在一次因塔尔努夫水晶球引起的城市大火后，这家人终于如愿地将它送到国王手中。出乎意料，炼金学者却将它夺过来丢进了河里，结束了因它惹来的长久灾难。 透过作者精心的描述，读者更能知道当时一个吹号手的职责，不仅是每个小时尽忠报时而已，还包括利用居高临下的位置，注意城外敌人的偷袭以及城内不幸发生的天窭人祸。透过这种巨细靡遗的笔触，读者才能够清易地融入五百年前的道

这是是一本关于爱、宽容与坚持的书，读后能给人以力量。 这本五彩斑斓的小书里，有一个感人至深的故事。15岁的女孩麦格为了寻找失踪的科学家爸爸，踏上了一条非同寻常的道路。这是一个关于坚持信念的故事。尽管旅途中布满了艰辛和危险，但三个伙伴从没有动摇过他们要找到并救出爸爸的决心。这也是—个有关爱的故事。爸爸对麦格的亲子之爱，弟弟与麦格的手足之情，加尔文与麦格的朋友之谊……麦格肩负着这些爱，战胜了邪恶，重返家园。