New Releases by Rachel Vail

Vail''s most lauded book to date, "Do-Over" is the story of 13-year-old Whitman, who has to deal with the anger he feels towards his father when his parents separate, his own interest in several girls, and the heady feeling of acting in his first play.

The appearance of a new girl in her community changes the relationship between 14-year-old Molly and her best friend Vicky, and complicates Molly''s attempt to pinpoint her own identity.

Newbery Medalist Avi teams up with acclaimed author Vail for this double-sided, fun-filled chronicle of dueling twins, told in alternating voices.

T is having trouble learning to read. But when his teacher shows him a special trick, he finds that reading is F-U-N. Full color.

T is frustrated when he first tries to read, but when his teacher shows him some simple rules, he finds out that reading can be fun.

T Rex tries to make breakfast for his mother for Mother''s Day, but manages to help her have a great day in spite of it.

On a stormy Saturday, T and Mama Rex stare at the television until the electricity goes off and they must find something else to do.

Mama Rex and T are two dinosaurs living in the city. T, a young dinosaur, is just like any other kid--he stays up late, he messes up his room, he gets in trouble, and he loves his mom. And Mama Rex is just like any other single working mom--she drinks lots of coffee, she''s always running late, and she loves T more than anything else in the whole world. Now T has to make a diorama about pigs for school. But T doesn''t know what a diorama is, and T doesn''t know anything about pigs! Mama Rex and T have one night to pull this project together--can Mama Rex save T from diorama disaster?

When Katie Honors feels angry and out of control, her mother helps her to be herself again.

On a stormy Saturday, T and Mama Rex stare at the television until the electricity goes off and they must find something else to do.

T Rex tries to make breakfast for his mother on Mother''s Day, but manages to help her have a great day in spite of almost spoiling it.

T helps Mama Rex by decorating a folder to carry her work.

When T Rex and his mother wrap the presents they just bought and find they are out of tape, they come up with some creative solutions.

While rehearsing a Broadway-style production of the familiar nursery rhyme, Hiram Diddle Diddle and a violin-playing cat encourage a cow to keep jumping until she makes it OVER the moon.

What kind of shoes can a Tyrannosaurus Rex wear? Lots! Just ask Mama Rex and T. They are off to the store to buy a new pair of shoes for T. But there are so many to choose from. There are snow boot, sneakers, sandals and more. What are the right shoes for T. Find out in this funny story.

When T Rex and his mother have a difficult morning rushing out in a rainstorm, they return home and T finally gets his waffle breakfast.

In the fifth book in the series, downtoearth Zoe Grandon competes for the office of class president and the approval of all her friends. Original.

Twelve-year-old CJ, an accomplished ballet student, struggles with her conflicting desires to continue her ballet study and please her mother or to quit ballet and finally be like all the other kids in school.

During her summer at Camp Nashaquitsa, eleven-year-old Abby tries to reinvent herself, while worrying about her mother, missing her dead father, and getting to know her equally self-conscious bunkmates.

Everything changes for twelve-year-old Jessica when she enters junior high school and finds herself a social outcast, ignored by all her former friends.