Fan Favorite D.J. Schwenk is back!! This season, D.J. Schwenk steps behind the free-throw line to confront the perils of love and life in this highly anticipated final book in Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Dairy Queen trilogy. “Hysterically laugh-out-loud funny. And inspiring. I loved it.” —Kristin Cashore, author of Graceling. “Hey. I’m Marissa from a very [...]
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Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw
“Aquamarine is inventive in form, compact and lucid in language, and as all-American as Jell-O in its story.” —Washington Post At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, 17-year-old Jesse Austin just loses the 100-meter freestyle to an Australian swimmer. That moment, suspended forever in the Olympic pool’s aquamarine, will haunt Jesse for the [...]
Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox
Swimming to Antarctica Lynne Cox ISBN:9780156031301 About the book: Now in paperback, with photos and maps added especially for this new edition, here is the acclaimed life story of a woman whose drive and determination inspire everyone she touches. Lynne Cox started swimming almost as soon as she could walk. By age sixteen, she had [...]
Poole, Gary Andrew — The Galloping Ghost
CONTACT: Megan Wilson, megan.wilson@hmhpub.com THE GALLOPING GHOST: Red Grange, An American Football Legend Gary Andrew Poole This past January, ESPN named Harold “Red” Grange the greatest college football player ever. Yet for all his achievements, Grange has been a largely overlooked and unexplored icon, until now. In The Galloping Ghost, Gary Andrew Poole gives us [...]
