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When Ari's mother died four years ago, she had two final wishes: that Ari and her older brother, Gage, would stay together always, and that Ari would go to Carter, the middle school for gifted students. So when nineteen-year-old Gage decides he can no longer live with their bossy guardian, Janna, Ari knows she has to go with him. But it's been two months, and Gage still hasn't found them an apartment. He and Ari have been "couch surfing," staying...

Toby has to finish the final thing on The List. It's a list of brave, daring, totally awesome things that he and his best friend, Lucas, planned to do together, and the only item left is to hike the Appalachian Trail. But now Lucas isn't there to do it with him. Toby's determined to hike the trail alone and fulfill their pact, which means dealing with the little things -- the blisters, the heat, the hunger -- and the big things -- the bears, the loneliness,...

After Pinkalicious uses all of Alison's pink paint in class, she wonders how she can repay her best friend.

Karen loves April Fools' Day. That is when she gets to play tricks on her friends. Now she has come up with a joke to play on her whole family. Would this be her best joke ever?

In this humorous retelling of the classic fable, the tortoise, Balderdash, describes how his race with Jiffy the Hare (who was actually pretty slow for a hare), launched his career as a comedian.

After Pinkalicious uses all of Alison's pink paint in class, she wonders how she can repay her best friend.

Allashua and her family outsmart the Qallupilluit, imaginary Inuit characters, that like to take children under the sea ice in Hudson Bay.

A little bear learns from his mother what it means to make and break a promise, as well as the lesson that some things in life simply cannot be promised.

Bright and colorful, this picture book is filled with affirmations while building self-worth and improving communication skills for kids, and adults, of all ages.

An orphaned boy in present-day Senegal must decide between doing what is right and what is easy in order to honor a promise made to his dying father to keep their family together in the face of malicious gang members.