Scholastic Book Fairs Podcast

This visual tour de force, based on historical documents, chronicles Honest Abe's life from boyhood to his extraordinary leadership position as the sixteenth President of the United States of America.

Cleopatra Edison Oliver and her best friend Caylee are going to take the world by storm with their personalized barrettes. All they need now is their big break. So when successful businesswoman Fortune A. Davies announces a new website where "kidpreneurs" can upload ads for their businesses, Cleo invites all of her customers to film an ad for FortuneTube. But making a commercial is different from running a business, and Cleo may lose her chance to shine!

Less than forty-eight hours after twelve-year-old Chris sets off on a sailing trip down the Alaskan coast with his uncle, their boat sinks. The only survivors are Chris and a boy named Frank, who hates Chris immediately. Chris and Frank have no radio, no flares, no food. Suddenly, they’ve got to forage, fish, and scavenge the shore for supplies. Chris likes the company of a curious, friendly raven more than he likes the prickly Frank. But the boys have to get along if they want to survive. Because as the days get colder and the salmon migration ends, survival will take more than sheer force of will. Eventually, in the wilderness of Alaska, the boys discover an improbable bond - and the compassion that might truly be the path to rescue.

Long ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were ripped open, and it's taken centuries to bring back civilization in the wake of the catastrophe. Now, the luckiest Cits live in enclosed communities behind walls that keep them safe from the hideous monsters fighting to break through. Others are not so lucky. To Joyeaux Charmand, who has been a Hunter in her tight-knit mountain community since she was a child, every Cit without magic deserves her protection from dangerous Othersiders. Then she is called to Apex City, where the best Hunters are kept to protect the most important people. Joy soon realizes that the city's powerful leaders care more about luring Cits into a false sense of security than protecting them. More and more monsters are getting through the barriers,and the close calls are becoming too frequent to ignore. Yet the Cits have no sense of how much danger they're in. There is something much worse than the usual monsters infiltrating Apex. And it may be too late to stop them. MATU

Centuries ago, the royal family of Adria was killed, or so everyone thought. Now Grace Blakely knows the truth: There was one survivor, and that survivor’s blood runs through her veins. This simple fact could cause a revolution, which is why some people will stop at nothing to keep it from coming to light. There is only one way for Grace to save herself, save her family, and save the boy she loves. She must outmaneuver her foes, cut through the web of lies that has surrounded her for years, and go back to the source of all her troubles, despite the risk. If she wins, she will inherit a throne. And if she loses, she will inherit the fate of all the dead princesses who came before her.

Ugly Cat is dying for a paleta, or ice pop, and his friend Pablo is determined to help him get one by scaring a little girl who is enjoying a coconut paleta in the park. Things go horribly wrong when, instead of being scared, the little girl picks Pablo up and declares that he would make a great snack for her pet snake. There's also the small problem that Ugly Cat may have inadvertently swallowed Pablo in all of the commotion! Ugly Cat and his impeccably dressed mouse friend Pablo are an unlikely and dynamic duo who will win young readers over with their ridiculously silly antics and their search for tasty treats.

Mickey Labriogla is the best catcher in the league. But when a hotshot new pitcher joins the Dulaney Orioles, Mickey wonders if it isn't time to find another position, or maybe another team. Zoom's the most arrogant player the Orioles have ever seen. But even Coach Labriogla, Mickey's dad, seems in awe of the kid's talent and willing to overlook his insufferable behavior. When Mickey and Zoom find themselves rivals for the attention of the mysterious Abby Elliott, who works the concession stand, any chance the two teammates can get along goes out the window.

Ever since her mother left Maia has struggled with depression, which once got so bad she had to go to an institute for a while. Maia is sure that if she finds her mother, if the two of them can talk about whale songs and constellations, then everything will be okay again. Maia is in love with Billy, the handsome, brooding boy who lives in the group home in town. He doesn't seem to know that Maia exists. Until now. When Maia sets off on a road trip in search of her mom, Billy unexpectedly comes along. As they drive up the East Coast, stopping along the way for lobster rolls and stolen moments in lighthouses, they begin opening up to each other. Billy has dark family secrets of his own, and he and Maia want to outrun their pasts together. But if and when they reach their destination, what will the future hold?

When a plane crash-lands in the Arctic, eight young survivors step from the wreckage expecting to see nothing but ice and snow. Instead, they find themselves lost in a strange jungle with no way to get home and little hope of rescue. Food is running out. Water is scarce. And the jungle is full of threats unlike anything the survivors have ever seen before - from razor-beaked shredder birds to carnivorous vines and much, much worse. With danger at every turn, these eight kids must learn to work together to survive. But cliques and rivalries threaten to tear them apart. And not everyone will make it out of the jungle alive! BONUS! In the Horizon multiplatform experience, you're not just reading about the castaways, you're one of them. Join the race for survival in the free game, available on your browser and as an app.

Maddie’s unique talent often feels more like a curse than a gift. She grudgingly puts it to use identifying deathdates for the paying customers her mother reels in. It seems like a straightforward way to help support her family until one client's young son goes missing and Maddie gets pulled into a homicide investigation that turns her world upside down. As more young people disappear and are later found murdered, suspicion swirls around Maddie. She becomes a suspect in the investigation, a target for the murderer, and a partner with a boy who might be connected to it all. Could Maddie hold the key to cracking the case? MATURE THEMES: This book contains language or subject matter that may be considered objectionable.

Follow 7-year-old Sofia Martinez as she deals with her family and daily life. From a missing class pet to her grandma's birthday, Sofia's fiery passion for everything she does makes every day an adventure.

Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is kind. Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey. One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. As Luna’s thirteenth birthday approaches, her magic begins to emerge - with dangerous consequences. But a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing Xan. The author of the highly acclaimed, award-winning novel THE WITCH'S BOY has written an epic coming-of-age fairy tale destined to be a modern classic.

Things are going just swimmingly for EllRay. He's finally getting along with most of the kids at school. He's even getting along with his family. But then everything comes to a screeching halt when his younger sister accidentally overfeeds the classroom goldfish EllRay was supposed to be taking care of over Spring vacation. What is EllRay going to tell his teacher and the kids in his third-grade class? Fortunately, most of them are sympathetic. But not bossy Cynthia. She sees this as an opportunity to blame EllRay for her own mess-ups. Must EllRay now walk the plank for stuff that he didn't do?

When Kitty is happy and healthy, everything is perfect. She jumps around, eats everything in sight, and has the energy to keep slobbering puppies in their place. But when she's sick, all she can do is lie in her bed. Looks like it's time for this sick kitty to go...to the vet. When Kitty's family finally manages to get their clawing, angry pet into the doctor's office, it's a wild adventure for Kitty, who has to get the most dreaded thing of all...a shot. Once the shot is administered, Kitty is cast into an ingenious dream within a dream sequence in which she has to make right by Puppy or risk being shut out of PussyCat heaven forever.

An addictive new app is all the rage at Linden Wilson's high school. Worthy ranks couples, determining via votes and user comments if one person is "worthy" of the other. Linden is happily dating Alex Garcia and can't imagine the app will affect them - until Alex is labeled "worthy" and Linden "unworthy." Suddenly, everything changes. Linden must struggle under this newfound scrutiny as her relationships are put to the ultimate test.

Rip and Red are best friends whose fifth-grade year is nothing like what they expected. They have a crazy new tattooed teacher named Mr. Acevedo, who doesn't believe in tests or homework and who likes off-the-wall projects, the more "off" the better. And guess who's also their new basketball coach? Mr. Acevedo! Easy-going Rip is knocked completely out of his comfort zone. And for Red, who has autism and really needs things to be exactly a certain way, the changes are even more of a struggle. But together these two make a great duo who know how to help each other - and find ways to make a difference - in the classroom and on the court.

Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team—a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove - not only to each other, but to themselves.

Zoe considers herself “Just Zoe", never measuring up to her too-perfect older sister or her smarty-pants little brother. Truthfully, she’d rather just blend in with the plants at the family nursery. Her one friend, Q, is moving away, leaving Zoe to fend for herself. That is, until a stranger comes to the nursery looking for a Baobab tree. His visit makes Zoe long for real adventures, not just imaginary ones, and shows her that perhaps her first real adventure is finally beginning.

When 15-year-old Henry Forrest lies about his age to enlist in the Marines, he thinks it's his ticket to adventure. But when he's shipped off to the Philippines, the brutality of World War II's Pacific front is unfathomable. When the Japanese invade, Henry and the remaining members of his battalion become their prisoners. Henry will have to endure the Bataan death march, overcrowded prisons, and the Japanese factory where he is sent as slave labor. Henry's friends know he's young, and they also know he'll have to keep lying and fighting and scheming if he wants to survive!

The swamp in Sterling's small Louisiana town proves to have a power over its inhabitants when her brother disappears and no one but Sterling even remembers that he existed. Now Sterling, with the help of brooding loner Heath, who's had his own creepy experience with the swamp, must fight back and reclaim what - and who - the swamp has taken. MATURE THEMES: This book contains language or subject matter that may be considered objectionable. We believe this book makes a valuable contribution to literature and should be available to young adult readers, but it may not be appropriate for every student.