New Releases by Bruce Balan

This is a story about home. Buoy lives in the middle of the sea, far from land and people. Some might think that Buoy would be lonely, but for him, the sea is home. Inspiring and poetic, Buoy''s tales convey the joys, the challenges, and the wonders of life. Full of drama and humor as well as reflection, and concluding on a wave of celebration, This award-winning book has filled readers of all ages with wonder and enlightenment for years.

Is Stanford actually The Magic Hippo, or is it just an amazing combination of events involving jealousy, train track heaven, a belligerent zebra, The Ten Condiments, convict ducks, pygmy elephants, underground trains, angry volcanoes, and delicious melons that make us think so? Is true love at the end of the huff-trek? Is it wrong to steal someone’s chutney? The only way to find out is to read The Magic Hippo!

Come along for a ride and see . . .COWS! A black cow in a green field. A white cow in a brown field. A red cow under a green tree staring at a dog. Bow-wow, cow! This is one car trip that preschoolers won''t want to miss!

With modern technology, a world-wide connection among the Cyber.kdz, and a tech nomad traveling through the French Alps on a computerized bicycle, the Cyber.kdz hope to uncover an art-theft ring and clear the name of a French patriot.

The techno-savvy of the Cyber.kdz saves the day again when Sanjeev discovers a multi-million dollar computer smuggling ring aboard a cruise ship.When Sanjeev''s sister runs away to join her boyfriend Raj, a crewman on a cruise ship, they get word she''s been killed in a train wreck. Sanjeev goes in search of Raj, and instead finds his sister alive, but bound and gagged aboard ship. He also discovers a multi-million dollar computer chip smuggling operation and calls on Cyber.kdz to help him track down the thieves.

When Becky''s consistently good grades are threatened by a sudden "F" in history, her best subject, the Cyber.kdz chat group realizes that someone is tampering with the school''s database.

The Cyber.kdz are on to a terrorist gang of network hackers who are plotting to take their sabotage worldwide. Now the kids are in a cyber race to stop the deadly scum.

While spending his summer at the Kennedy Space Center, where his father is working on an artificial intelligence program for shuttle launches, Deeder and his fellow computer sleuths must eradicate a deadly virus that made the entire system go completely bonkers.

When Josh, a computer whiz kid, and his friend Tereza become the target of tree poachers during a vacation in the Amazon, they must enlist the help of Cyber.kdz Sanjeev and Loren to help them get out alive.

Is a young boy visited by a moose every night or is it a shadow from the curtains?

A butterscotch pie takes a long journey across the U.S. and the rest of the world.

Much to his family''s dismay, Jeremy the duck would rather make other animal sounds instead of quacking.

A bottle of cherries confronts problems of terrain, leadership, and the search for direction in their journey to escape their fate as the topping for ice cream sundaes.