Jammin' with the Jonas Brothers: An Unauthorized Biography
by Lexi Ryals
from Price Stern Sloan
These brothers are already a tween sensation!
Girls can’t get enough of these adorable boys who have recorded two successful albums, guest starred on Disney’s Hannah Montana, are special guests on Miley Cyrus’s Best of Both Worlds Tour, and have just filmed a pilot for a Disney Channel series. We’ve got the inside scoop on these crooning cuties from their younger years to their current star status—complete with four pages of color photos!
Escape!: The Story of The Great Houdini
by Sid Fleischman
from Collins
How did he walk through walls, escape drowning, and shatter iron chains that were tightly wrapped around him?
The rare photos in this book might help you figure it out. So might the exclusive update about the rumor that Houdini was poisoned. But just remember, a true magician never reveals his tricks. . . .
Jonas Brothers Unauthorized (Star Scene)
by Michael-Anne Johns
from Scholastic
This 48 page, 4-color scrapbook is full to the brim of fun facts about the hottest group around: the Jonas Brothers!
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
from Square Fish
Disney: Ultimate Sticker Book (Ultimate Sticker Books)
by DK Publishing
from DK CHILDREN
Building on the success of such titles as Toy Story: The Essential Guide and Dinosaur: The Essential Guide, the DK creative team has been given unlimited access to Disney's considerable archives to chart the development of the Disney Company, from its early days in the 1920s to the present. Kids and collectors will treasure this sticker book filled with Disney facts and lovable characters. The more than 60 stickers include images of film cells, sketches, theme parks, and more.
Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare
by Peter Vennema
from HarperTrophy
William Shakespeare was the son of a glovemaker, a small-town boy with a grammar school education. Yet he grew up to become the greatest English-speaking playwright in the world. Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare is both his story and that of a great art rediscovered in the modern world.
Drama had been forgotten since the days of ancient Greece, but it reemerged in Elizabethan London with the building of the first modern theater. Its impact can still be imagined today. There were the theaters, open to the weather and featuring neither sets nor curtains, but equipped with dramatic special effects. There were the companies of actors--the leading men, the comedians, the boys who played women's roles--and the playwrights who gave them all lines to say.
Best of all, there was William Shakespeare, who rubbed shoulders with noblemen and royalty as well as with the rowdy crowds at the foot of the stage. He was suspected of involvement in a treasonous rebellion, and his last play literally brought down the house when cannon effects set fire to the famous Globe theater and it burned to the ground.
Award-winning collaborators Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema have once again created a feast of words and pictures to celebrate the life of a remarkable person from the pages of history: William Shakespeare, a man for all time."
Johnny Depp Photo Album
from Plexus Publishing
Walt Disney: Young Movie Maker (Childhood of Famous Americans)
by Marie Hammontree
from Aladdin
Who Was Elvis Presley? (Who Was...?)
by Geoff Edgers
from Grosset & Dunlap
Put on your blue suede shoes and get ready for the latest title in the Who Was…? series! The King could not have come from humbler origins: Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, during the Depression, he grew up with the blues music of the rural South, the gospel music of local churches, and the country-western classics. But he forged a sound all his own—and a look that was all his own, too. With curled lip, swiveling hips, and greased pompadour, Elvis changed popular music forever, ushering in the age of rock and roll. Geoff Edgers’s fascinating biography of this icon of American pop culture includes blackand- white illustrations on nearly every spread.
Who Was Annie Oakley? (Who Was...?)
by Stephanie Spinner
from Grosset & Dunlap
You want girl power? Meet Annie Oakley! Born in 1860, she became one of the best-loved and most famous women of her generation. She amazed audiences all over the world with her sharpshooting, horse-riding, action-packed performances. In an age when most women stayed home, she traveled the world and forged a new image for American women.
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