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!
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
from Square Fish
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!
Going for Gold: The 2008 U.S. Women's Gymnastics Team
by Leigh Olsen
from Price Stern Sloan
With the hottest gymnasts in the country flipping their way into the spotlight, the U.S. has the team to beat in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. After the USAÂ’s six-medal performance in 2004, the 2008 team has a lot to live up to, but theyÂ’re up for the challenge! Get the inside scoop on one of the most popular summer Olympic sports with biographies on the gymnasts and information on the sportÂ’s history, events, and competition.
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.
Robert Pattinson: Eternally Yours
by Isabelle Adams
from HarperEntertainment
Here's everything you need to know about gorgeous Robert Pattinson. From his early days in amateur theater . . . to landing the role of Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire . . . to the amazing moment he found out he would play Edward Cullen in the movie of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight!
Sigh over eight pages of glossy photos, be surprised by what Robert loves and loathes, and discover exactly what he looks for in a girlfriend in this inside scoop on a megawatt star!
Walt Disney: Young Movie Maker (Childhood of Famous Americans)
by Marie Hammontree
from Aladdin
In the childhood story of an American original, readers learn how a farm boy in Missouri grew up to be the father of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto, Goofy, and scores of other beloved characters.
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."
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
by Siena Cherson Siegel
from Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Dancers are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six -- and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico, to dance class in Boston, to her debut performance on stage with the New York City Ballet.
To Dance tells and shows the fullness of her dreams and her rhapsodic life they led to. Part family history, part backstage drama, here is an original, firsthand book about a young dancer's beginnings -- and beyond.
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. . . .
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