New Releases by Suzanne Weyn

After the Russian Revolution, Empress Marie, the czar’s mother, who escaped to Paris, offers a reward for the return of her missing granddaughter, the princess Anastasia. Eager to collect the large sum, two friends hatch a plan to fool Empress Marie and convince Nadya, a mischievous and quick-witted kitchen girl at a Russian tavern, to accompany them to France. Nadya resembles the famous Anastasia, but can’t remember her life before the revolution. Eager for the future, Nadya and her new friends venture across Europe, discovering new terrain of friendship, family, and love.

Under the stars, in a secret world... Rowena, the youngest of twelve sisters, loves to slip out of the castle at night and dance in a magical forest. Soon she convinces her sisters to join her. When Sir Ethan notices that his daughters'' slippers look tattered every morning, he is certain they''ve been sneaking out. So he posts a challenge to all the suitors in the kingdom: The first man to discover where his daughters have been is free to marry the one he chooses. Meanwhile a handsome young knight named Bedivere is involved in a challenge of his own: to return the powerful sword, Excalibur, to a mysterious lake. While looking for the lake, Bedivere meets the beautiful Rowena and falls for her. Bedivere knows that accepting Sir Ethan''s challenge is the only opportunity for him to be with Rowena forever. But this puts both Bedivere and Rowena in a dangerous situation...one in which they risk their lives for a chance at love.

The only tie-in book to the summer family movie about a 16-year-old girl who fought for and won the right for girls everywhere to play competitive soccer, inspired by one family''s real story. Set in 1978 in South Orange, New Jersey, Gracie tells the moving story of 16-year-old Gracie Bowen (Carly Schroeder of TV''s Lizzie McGuire), whose middle-class family life revolves almost entirely around soccer. Tragedy unexpectedly strikes when Gracie''s older brother, star of the high school varsity team and her closest confidant, is killed in a drunk-driving accident. Wracked with grief over her family''s loss, Gracie decides to fill the void left on her brother''s team by petitioning the local school board to allow her to play in the boys'' soccer league. At first, no one can understand what Gracie is up to, not her mom (Elisabeth Shue), her former soccer star dad (Dermot Mulroney), the team or school officials. Everyone warns Gracie that pursuing her dream is a waste of time—that soccer is a sport for boys and boys only. Undeterred, Gracie finds reserves of strength she never knew existed, and persists in changing everyone''s beliefs in what she is capable of, including her own. Based on true events in the lives of the Shue family (producer and co-star Andrew Shue, Academy Award®-nominated actress Elisabeth Shue and their family), Gracie is an exciting and emotional sports story that marks the dramatic feature debut of Academy Award®-winning director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth). This young adult novel includes an eight-page color photo section and a Q&A with Andrew Shue and Elisabeth Shue about the real-life story behind the film. 8-page color photo insert.

Welcome to Mr Magorium''s Wonder Emporium, the most amazing toyshop in the world. Run by the eccentric 243 year-old Mr Magorium, the shop is loved by customers and employees alike. But when Mr. Magorium announces he''s giving the shop to his young assistant Mahoney, a dark and ominous change begins to take over the Emporium. The problem is that this magical toyshop is really alive - the only rule is that to see it, you have to believe it!

Read all about the world of Mr. Magorium''s Wonder Emporium in this novelized retelling of the entire movie.

"Kevin is stumped when it comes to math. When he helps a squirrel, he gets some unusual help."--

A new horse arrives at River Run Ranch. However, because she is an older horse, no one want to ride her, except Ava.

Jimmy tries to invent his way to coolness.

Tweety and Bugs Bunny use the Space Replacer to travel back to Boston in the time of the American Revolution.

When Maddie learns that her father''s insurance will not cover a life-saving operation, she enlists the help of her friends to rob the bank where her mother has just installed a new security system, only to have to bring her little brother along on the nig

When Scooby-Doo and Shaggy get a gig as DJs in a local dance club, the gang is super-psyched. ''Scoob-Doggy-Dogg and Baggy" are a hit! But as Scooby spins the tunes, a three-headed figure appears and puts a spellbinding trance on the crowd. Now it''s up to Scooby and the gang to track this hypnotic villain before it strikes again!

Anna Coleman is having one of the worst days of her fifteen-year-old life. Her teacher is picking on her for no reason; the boy of her dreams doesn''t know she''s alive; and to top it all off, her mom''s about to get married to a guy Anna can''t stand. And just when Anna thinks it can''t get any worse ... it does. After a huge fight with her mom, Anna wakes up the next morning to find herself stuck in her mother''s body! Now she and her mom have to survive one long, freaky Friday in each other''s body. But will the experience bring them together ... or just tear them further apart?

Abby, an Abyssian housecat, wanders outside after one of her owners leaves a door ajar, but, after being chased up a tree, she can''t get down.

When ten-year-old Lindsey worries that she may have to go to live with an aunt in Boston and leave her widowed father alone, her friends from school and ballet class support her in various ways.

Hortense Parker becomes involved in helping a runaway slave and her child cross the Ohio River.

Illustrations and text present the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, and social life and customs of New Jersey, the home of Thomas Edison''s laboratory and the Campbell Soup Company.

Grizzly leads a tour of Grouchland with Elmo following close behind in a colorful "Pictureback Shape Book."

Grizzy isn''t like the other grouches. She''s too nice and gets kicked out of class for lacking proper grouchy manners! But with a little help from Elmo and Oscar, Grizzy discovers that she can be a good grouch after all!

While a film is being made at Pine Manor Ranch, Christina believes the angels have connected her to a young movie star whose parents are going through a painful divorce.

Oh no! minnie''s picnic basket is missing! Will solving riddles help her find it?