New Releases by Marissa Moss

Gossip is fun—especially juicy gossip—until it’s about Amelia herself! Amelia learns the consequences of spreading rumors in this important Amelia story. Amelia likes gossip as much as the next person—after all, it’s fun and doesn’t hurt anyone, right? There’s rumor reading, urban legends, and best of all, gossip about teachers! Then when completely untrue gossip starts to travel about Amelia telling on a girl for writing mean emails—gossip isn’t so fun or harmless anymore. How can Amelia stop gossip about her that’s like a piece of gum stuck to her shoe?

A humorous guide for students with tips for succeeding in school.

Now available in a backpack-size format are the hand-lettered contents of nine-year-old Amelia''s notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister. Full color.

Problems arise for Amelia when she starts sixth grade at the same middle school where her older sister Cleo is an eighth-grader, and she gets the school''s meanest teacher for three of her classes.

In 1931, seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell pitches against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game, becoming the first professional female pitcher in baseball history.

Publisher Description

Amelia had expected to have a quiet summer, but instead she makes friends with a deaf boy who moves in next door, deals with her grouchy older sister, has an asthma attack, and goes to a family reunion. Features hand-printed text and drawings and thirty-two sign language flash cards.

Le journal intime d''Amélia fait pénétrer dans l''univers de la vie quotidienne d''une fillette de neuf ans. Elle y raconte son déménagement, la perte de sa meilleure amie, ses relations avec sa soeur Cléo...

The year is 1774 and the British Army has blockaded Boston. When Papa gives 10-year-old Emma a secret code the militia uses, she finally gets her chance to change the course of history. Full-color illustrations.

Amelia is confused when her older sister starts acting goofy around boys, and Amelia herself likes wood shop better than sewing class. Does she have to like girly things to be a girl? Illustrations.

In her diary, Madame Amelia can be a fortune-teller with lots of activities and quizzes.

For the first time since her grandfather''s death, Rachel feels close to him as she and her grandmother celebrate Hanukkah with the simple menorah that he had made many years ago.

Amelia shows you how to draw to draw great pictures.

After successfully commanding the Discovery shuttle mission at Space Camp, Amelia returns to fifth grade where she deals with the bully who has been making her life miserable.

When Amelia and her big sister, Cleo, are stuck together in the backseat of a car for a family road trip, there are fights, plenty of sights, and Amelia''s best friend, Nadia, at the end of the road

Mabel enjoys helping her father and mother run their diner, a friendly and comfortable place where she loves to spend time.

Kate compares herself to the other kids in school and fears that there is nothing special about her, until she becomes the magician''s helper in an assembly.

In this variation and extension of the traditional counting song, "this old man" ends up blasting off and flying to the moon.

After Isabelle breaks the cookie jar, she and her brother Jerome invent a variety of wild stories to explain the damage to their mother.