Scholastic Book Fairs Podcast

Odette is a young Jewish girl living in Paris during a dangerous time. The Nazis have invaded the city, and every day brings new threats. After Odette’s father enlists in the French army and her mother joins the Resistance, Odette is sent to the countryside until it is safe to return. On the surface, she leads the life of a regular girl, but inside she is burning with secrets about the life she left behind and her true identity.

This is the diary . . . of a fly. Even though she's little – just like her best friends, Worm and Spider – Fly wants to be a superhero. And why not? She walks on walls, sees in all directions at once, and can already fly! Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss, the team behind the #1 New York Times bestsellers DIARY OF A WORM and DIARY OF A SPIDER, reach hilarious heights with their story of a little fly who's not afraid to dream big!

Here is a feast of facts for kids who love all things military. With a bold, colorful design and stunning photography, this book presents authentic details of each military role, their training and technology, including vehicles and aircraft.

VWhat is the most deadly weapon of the animal kingdom: razor sharp teeth, claws like daggers, super-speed or silent stealth? Packed with amazing facts and stunning illustrations, readers can follow the deadliest predators as they track, chase and kill in this up-close exploration of nature’s most savage hunters.

This book presents the United States in a totally new way. Packed with statistics, information, fun facts, maps, illustrations, and photographs, it also links directly to video and games with QR codes on every page. More than 200 codes present video about all things American, from the moonwalk to the Iditarod, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and all points in between. Some digital games are just for fun; others offer serious homework help. Readers will find music, sports, state animals, disasters, parks, monuments, history, and much more in this innovative and informative book about every state in the US.

This colorful book about dinosaurs is perfect for young readers. With amazing computer artwork to place the dinosaurs in a modern city environment of buildings, cars, trucks, fire engines, parks and construction sites, dogs and people of all sizes and ages are in awe of the huge creatures. The dinosaur illustrations are accurate in relative size, shape and color. Simple, descriptive text is in big clear letters for young readers, and a pronunciation guide helps with the dinosaurs' tongue-twisting names. The colorful full-page drawings, however, are the main attraction. Thirty scenes of street settings with lots of action and people in the familiar activities of day-to-day life are sure to engage all dinosaur fans.

Thirteen-year-old Bernie's summer is looking pretty grim. It's hard to make friends when your family runs a monument company and your backyard is littered with tombstones. It's even harder when your mother suddenly refuses to leave her room. To make matters worse, her father has just hired a new artist to engrave the headstones. Bernie has a bad feeling about him right from the start, and after snooping around his cottage, she discovers an engraved portrait of their neighbor, a woman who promptly dies the next day. And it's not just a weird coincidence. The pattern continues, and Bernie realizes that Mr. Stein has begun engraving headstones before people die, which forces Bernie to ask a horrifying question: Is Mr. Stein predicting the deaths . . . or causing them?

World War II was the deadliest war in history. What could an ordinary citizen do to help stem Adolf Hitler's march across Europe? Plenty. In HEROES OF WORLD WAR II, readers will learn all about freedom fighters, spies, code names, secret passages, and daring rescues.

Mr. Tiger lived a perfectly proper life in a perfectly proper city. Everything was perfectly fine, until the day he had a wonderfully wild idea! Why choose to stay in the stuffy city when there is a whole wide world of wilderness and wildness to explore? So, Mr. Tiger bounds off on an adventure to discover where he really belongs. This fun new story from Caldecott award-winning illustrator Peter Brown shows us that there's a time and place for everything – even for going wild!

I never thought a mutt like Bandit could get me in so much trouble. Don’t get me wrong, he’s the best dog in the world, and what happened wasn’t his fault, even if it nearly got me killed. Bandit didn’t cause the hurricane, okay? And it wasn’t his idea to go all the way from our home in New Hampshire to the heat and smalls of New Orleans. It was supposed to be a vacation, a chance to meet family in a city I’ve never heard of. And then disaster struck. The world turned upside down and inside out, and that was before the flood.

In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials -- one that cemented the Holocaust in the public imagination.

When he was a boy, Luc's mother would warn him about the "mock men" living in the trees by their home - chimpanzees whose cries would fill the night. Luc is older now, his mother gone. He lives in a house of mistreated orphans, barely getting by. Then a man calling himself Prof comes to town with a mysterious mission. When Luc tries to rob him, the man isn't mad. Instead, he offers Luc a job. Together, Luc and Prof head into the rough, dangerous jungle in order to study the elusive chimpanzees. There, Luc finally finds a new family - and must act when that family comes under attack.

What if the dumbest idea ever turned your life upside down? At thirteen, Jimmy was popular, at the top of his class, and the leading scorer on his basketball team. But all that changed when chicken pox forced him to miss the championship game. Things went from bad to worse when he got pneumonia and missed even more school. Before Jimmy knew it, his grades were sinking and nothing seemed to be going right. How did Jimmy turn things around, get back on top at school, and land a date with the cutest girl in class?

The fascinating images in this book represent 50 of the oddest animals readers will ever encounter, weird creatures such as the carnivorous comb jelly, the lantern-carrying deep-sea dragonfish, the jewel squid with giant eyes, and the dancing jellyfish. Informative captions relay the stories behind the patterns of light, the transparent bodies, and the toothsome wide-open jaws.

Veronika. Caroline. Isobel. Eleanor. One blond, one brunette, one redhead, one with hair black as tar. Four otherwise identical girls who spend their days in sync, tasked to learn. But when May, a very different kind of girl and the lone survivor of a recent shipwreck, suddenly and mysteriously arrives on the island, an unsettling mirror is about to be held up to the life the girls have never before questioned.

Did you know that James West invented the microphone in your cell phone? That Fred Jones invented the refrigerated truck that makes supermarkets possible? Or that Dr. Percy Julian synthesized cortisone from soy, easing untold people's pain? These are just some of the black inventors and innovators scoring big points in this dynamic look at some unsung heroes who shared a desire to improve people's lives. Learn all about the inventors whose ingenuity and perseverance against great odds made our world safer, better, and brighter.

Kelsey Kline is the best reader in the third grade. When the principal, Mr. Boone, announces a school-wide reading contest, complete with a pizza party for the winning class and a special certificate for the top readers in each grade, she knows she's just the person to lead Mrs. Molina's third graders to victory. But how can they win when her classmate Cody Harmon doesn't want to read anything, and even Kelsey's best friends Annika and Izzy don't live up to her expectations? And could Simon possibly be reading all of those books that he claims he is, or is he lying to steal Kelsey's rightful spot at the top?

Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers works in her mother's shop selling porcelain dolls to wealthy patrons. Even though she and her mom know that the rich can't be trusted, they rely on them to keep the store afloat. Then charismatic Xander walks into the store and seems to understand cynical and sarcastic Caymen better than anyone else, and she begins to wonder if maybe she and her mother were wrong. That is, until she's mistreated by Xander's friends and, after reading a tabloid, discovers that he may already have a girlfriend.

Nothing ever happens in Little, CA, which is just the way Carter Moon likes it. But when Hollywood arrives to film a movie starring former child star turned PR mess Adam Jakes, everything changes. Carter's town becomes a giant glittery set and, much to her annoyance, everyone is starry-eyed for Adam. Carter seems to be the only girl not falling all over herself to get a glimpse of him, and this, apparently, makes her perfect for the secret offer of a lifetime: playing the role of Adam's girlfriend while he's in town to improve his public image in exchange for a hefty paycheck. Her family really needs the money and so Carter agrees. But it turns out Adam isn't at all who she thought he was.

Gabby Gomez loves to chew bubble gum, even though her mother has warned her against it. It's not like she will turn into gum...except, that's exactly what happens! With her new, stretch-tastic powers, Gabby can help save the day, but she will have to keep her gummy alter-ego a secret from her mother or else she'll find herself in a really sticky situation.