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Your favorite authors and illustrators are signing at Booth #318. Come meet Laurie Halse Anderson, Sarah Dessen, Jay Asher, T.A. Barron, Lauren Myracle, Jerry Pinkney, Marilyn Nelson, and more! We'll also have tons of FREE promotional items and preview copies to give away. Click here for more information.

Bestselling author Mike Lupica returns with Million-Dollar Throw, a high-stakes story about thirteen-year-old Nate's one chance to win a much-needed million dollars, with just one throw of the football. Check out the discussion guide to all of Mike Lupica's books—great for boys, sports fans, or reluctant readers—in this playbook!

Follow the link to the right for more FREE classroom resources, discussion guides, and activity kits.

Welcome to Season 2 of From the Publisher's Office, where you can find intimate author interviews, exciting book trailers and websites, a fun read-aloud segment with former librarian Liz Shanks, and tons of supplemental educational content as part of two online video series: Penguin Storytime and YA Central.

Season 2 features an interview with author T.A. Barron, a walk around Brooklyn with three-time Newbery Honor-winner Jacqueline Woodson, a special segment with author/illustrator Tomie dePaola in which Penguin Storytime Host Liz Shanks reads his classic tale Strega Nona, Her Story, and more! Visit us at www.penguin.com/thepublishersoffice

Marching for Freedom by award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge already has SIX STARRED REVIEWS and readers all over the country are connecting with this moving recount of the fight for the vote. Now students can get into the story even more, with a Google Lit Trip!

The author says:
Lit Trips use Google Earth to map out the story journey taken in books. Lit Trips founder, Jerome Burg, and I have collaborated on a Marching for Freedom Lit Trip. It's a great way to get proficient at Google Earth, while meeting teaching standards for technology, English, and history.

We've designed the site so students can explore notable people and places of Selma, then "fly" with the protesters on the march to Montgomery. We've pulled together quotes and photos and film clips I couldn't put in the book, and created an author strand for my comments. Full of questions for students that encourage critical thinking about their own values and actions. 

—Elizabeth Partridge

Check it out here.
Click here for a lesson plan incorporating Marching for Freedom.
Click here to watch the Marching for Freedom video with author Elizabeth Partridge.

Alex Rider is back—and better than ever! A con artist has realized there is big money in charity—the bigger the disaster, the greater the money flow! So that is what he will produce: the biggest disaster known to man. But Alex Rider will face whatever it takes—gun fire, explosions, hand-to-hand combat with mercenaries—to bring down his most dangerous adversary yet.

The newest adventure, Crocodile Tears, is available this month!

This month, we're featuring Richelle Mead, author of the bestselling Vampire Academy series! Click here to meet Richelle and learn how to arrange for her to speak at your school or library. Be sure to check out Blood Promise, the fourth volume in the Vampire Academy saga, available now!

Gobble-Gobble Crash, A Barnyard Counting Bash Julie Stiegemeyer Valeri Gorbachev Read more...		Thank You Bear Greg Foley Greg Foley Read more...		Acorns Everywhere Kevin Sherry Read more...

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Pie Alison Jackson Judy Schachner Read more...		Turkey Riddles Katy Hall Lisa Eisenberg Kristin Sorra Read more...		The Mayflower & the Pilgrims' New World Nathaniel Philbrick Read more...

Check out some of our superstar award-winning titles below! Then, visit www.penguin.com/yrawards to view more titles recognized by the American Library Association and other national organizations, as well as a continually updated record of all state award master lists!

Christmas Remembered Tomie dePaola Read more...		The Dragonfly Pool Eva Ibbotson Read more...		The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World Nathaniel Philbrick Read more...

Dragonhaven Robin McKinley Read more...		The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids Michael Pollan Read more...		Let It Snow John Green Lauren Myracle Maureen Johnson Read more...

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