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The first official music videos aired in the 1970s, but the seeds for making music something more than a pleasure for the ears were planted decades earlier. This book covers the birth of the music video, starting in the 1920s and 1930s when the first...

Readers will learn that music based on jazz beats can be heard all over the world but the roots of the style are distinctly American. Jazz grew out of the musical hothouse that was New Orleans, Louisiana at the end of the nineteenth century. Jazz...

This stunning collector's edition of the #1 national bestseller--and first book in the beloved Lightlark Saga--from award-winning author Alex Aster includes a suite of sensational features: Premium metallic slipcase Satin cover with foil stamping ...

"Excellent, evocative, and thoughtful with genuine depth" (New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon), Catfish Rolling is a wholly original and mind-bending debut YA novel by Clara Kumagai about memory, family, and an earthquake that breaks apart...

A compelling, propulsive YA graphic novel mystery from acclaimed Eisner Award-winning author of Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, Mariko Tamaki, and Eisner-nominated illustrator Nicole Goux At Wilberton Academy, few students are more revered than...

A compelling, propulsive YA graphic novel mystery from acclaimed Eisner Award-winning author of Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, Mariko Tamaki, and Eisner-nominated illustrator Nicole Goux At Wilberton Academy, few students are more revered than...

Fans of Avatar, the Last Airbender and F.C. Yee's New York Times bestselling Kyoshi novels can now collect both hardcover editions of this acclaimed duology in this Chronicles of the Avatar box set. The Rise of Kyoshi delves into the origin story of...

In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person's physical size is directly proportional to their wealth.The poorest of the poor are the size of rats, and billionaires are the size of skyscrapers. Warner and his sister Prayer are...

In Ginger Kid: Mostly True Tales from a Former Nerd, popular comedian Steve Hofstetter grapples with life after seventh grade . . . when his world fell apart. Formatted as a series of personal essays, Steve Hofstetter walks his readers through awkward...

After getting caught hooking up with her best friend's ex on the last day of junior year, Kendall starts senior year friendless and ostracized. She plans to keep her head down until she graduates. But after discovering her online identity has been hacked...

A companion collection to the New York Times bestselling young adult series, containing three stories about a teenaged ancestor of Alice in Wonderland. Alyssa Gardner went down the rabbit hole and took control of her destiny. She survived the battle for...

The Student Textbook contains lessons that instruct students on eight key grammar and usage concepts: Capitalization Punctuation Sentence Structure Parts of Speech Usage Spelling Rules Diagramming

Fear Street -- where your worst nightmares live... Chelsea is the typical shy girl. Always home on a Saturday night, she would give anything to have her first date. Finally, Chelsea's luck begins to change when two new guys move into town and both ask...

Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, "An Ember in the Ashes "is an epic fantasy debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom. It's a story that's literally burning to be told. LAIA is a Scholar living...

Cars are a high-interest topic for teens. From design disasters to financial failures to automobile "misfits," this book is a fascinating look at the car industry and some of the "lemons" it has produced throughout history. In a reader-friendly manner,...

This stunning volume looks at some of the most significant natural and man-made disasters in world history. Each fascinating account gives a full and detailed analysis of the events leading up to the disaster, the actual disaster itself, and then the...

This impressive go-to source covers all the essential elements required for journalism in high schools. Designed for easy reading and reference, it highlights important concepts and features examples from current high school publications from around the...

Provide readers with a comprehensive selection of primary sources describing important events including climate disruption, globalization, and stem cell research. Readers will also survey the experiences of World War I and II, the Great Depression, and...

Provide readers with a comprehensive selection of primary sources describing important events including climate disruption, globalization, and stem cell research. Features include: Timelines and rich resource sections that help readers explore details...

This provocative anthology looks at the relationship between politics and environmentalism. It explores a popular but troubled international treaty to protect the ozone layer, a possible link between third world debt and environmental problems, and the...

The television show The Office meets Bridget Jones in a novel set in an office so dysfunctional, it's bound to strike a chord with any nine-to-fiver. A compulsively readable, hilarious novel told through the e-mail messages of Martin Lukes. Martin Lukes...

"If every man and woman under 40 who is not in a happy, committed relationship reads Jillian Straus's shocking, heartbreaking, and persuasive exploration of love among the Unhooked Generation, far fewer romances will end in tears. This book will give...

In a world plagued by loss and filled with everything she despises, Dawn embarks on a desperate quest for a better life. Miraculously, she is granted a perfect existence surrounded by the love of those she holds dear, including those she has lost. Yet,...

WHEN THE HORSE JUMPS OVER THE MOON is a compelling, lovable Americana story with a 'green' twist. This charming fantasy horse tale entwines Vaudeville humour and wit in its fun, whimsical tale through the Southwest's Land of Enchantment. A hard-luck...

Our past, present and future begins over a thousand years into the future in an alternative universe where humanity have just started to flourish on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Having harnessed the power of nanotechnology and combining it with arc reactor...

When it comes to supporting young people, Joanne Kirby knows her stuff. She is a mother of four and a qualified social worker who has years of experience working within education. She brings her knowledge together to provide an easy to understand,...

Tom is on holiday from school during a long, hot summer sometime in the early 1970s. While on an errand for his mum he saves Charles Bradwell from drowning in the local quarry and finds that he has gone back in time to the mid-1660s to just after the end...

At the end of the war to end all wars, beautiful, telepathic, twin girls save a teenage girl from the clutches of a notorious gang. With the town in ruins, the twins then find themselves leading an ever-expanding group of teenagers, children and...

A retired naval man tells tall tales to his grandson to heal the wounds of the past. A Greek urn washes up on a beach, will the one who finds it have their wishes come true? A broken-hearted man who ends up living on the streets finds a special coin, can...

Alexia and her brother Brad travel out beyond Yass River to bring home Duchess, the beautiful black pony with the four white socks. The clever Duchess has many pony tricks in store for her new family, but proves to be very brave, when things go amiss at...

Alyssa Durtnall and her brother Liam are looking forward to their summer holiday away from school but Liam already bored on the first day of his holiday sees a cat that leads him to a new gypsy encampment in the woods near his home. What follows changes...

Alyssa Durtnall and her brother Liam are looking forward to their summer holiday away from school but Liam already bored on the first day of his holiday sees a cat that leads him to a new gypsy encampment in the woods near his home. What follows changes...

Susan lives with her mum and dad, her two younger brothers and her dog Rover in a remote village in the flat fen county of Lincolnshire. The year is 1956 and life is still hard after the Second World War. But the summer holidays are just starting, and...

Coming close to death, Jim Stanley has a vision of his deceased grandfather which leads Jim into the world of magic and the secret brotherhood of the Templar Knights. Jim meets his garden gnome guide Togman and they soon find themselves running from an...

Transport yourself to the heart of South and Central Africa with this collection of short stories about ordinary people. Aged between 18 and 50, these characters find themselves entangled in situations that lead to tragedy, dishonesty, and betrayal. In...

Those who see beauty in all of nature will find themselves taken into this unseen world of mysteries by The Goddess of Sidhe, where she tells the secrets, challenges, and dangers that are endured by four elementals that test them to their limits,...

Eighteen year old Scott McCully finds himself drawn into the dangerous world of espionage as he seeks the truth about his parents' deaths. When Scott's parents fail to show up for his football game - again - he's more disappointed than concerned...

"Make them believe your loyalties are unquestionable..." For most of her life, Katira has trained to take on the role of assassin. While it's far from the life she would have chosen for herself, the law known as the Inheritance Proclamation dictates that...

How did a teenage revenge plot go so dazzlingly wrong?They were so innocent... Lidia, your average girl next door. Jack Your all-American party boy.Life was great.Until love destroyed them. Mind, body, and soul.Now, they want payback.With a plot to win...

So what happens when Bigfoot, the Trickster Coyote, the ghost of Sam Steele and the long-lost spirit of The Prophet, brother to the mighty Tecumseh and reincarnated in the form of a giant pink flying Winnebago go toe-to-toe with dark supernatural forces...