20 Books Published by Turtleback on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

A guy whose father ripped his heart out too.

You and me, Ishmael, we’re brothers, two dark sons.

Destroyed, lost, and isolated, the perspectives of two teenage boys—modern-day Sam, and biblical Ishmael—unite over millennia to illustrate the power of forgiveness.

The beloved and award-winning novel now available in a new format with a great new cover!

When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon they’re having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are opening up and taking on the risky challenge of self-revelation. There’s Lupe Alvarin, desperate to have a baby so she will feel loved. Raynard Patterson, hiding a secret behind his silence. Porscha Johnson, needing an outlet for her anger after her mother OD’s. Through the poetry they share and narratives in which they reveal their most intimate thoughts about themselves and one another, their words and lives show what lies beneath the skin, behind the eyes, beyond the masquerade.

A hilarious and spunky new heroine in the vein of the heroines of such beloved books as Ramona the Pest , Ivy and Bean , and Clementine , from Crystal Allen-the acclaimed author of How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy . Nine-year-old Mya Tibbs is boot-scootin’ excited for the best week of the whole school year-SPIRIT WEEK! She and her megapopular best friend, Naomi Jackson, even made a pinky promise to be Spirit Week partners so they can win the big prize: special VIP tickets to the Fall Festival! But when the partner picking goes horribly wrong, Mya gets paired with Mean Connie Tate-the biggest bully in school. And she can’t get out of it. Good gravy. Now Naomi is friend-ending mad at Mya for breaking a promise-even though Mya couldn’t help it-and everyone at school is calling Mya names. Can Mya work with Mean Connie to win the VIP tickets and get her best friend back?

Check out Nikki Maxwell’s tenth diary in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!

Springtime brings crazy adventures to Nikki and her friends Chloe, Zoey, and Brandon.

Everyone’s been rooting for Nikki Maxwell and her crush, Brandon-and fans will finally learn if they had their first kiss in this seventh book of the New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series! Nikki’s juggling a lot this month. A reality TV crew is following Nikki and her friends as they record their hit song together, plus there are voice lessons, dance practice, and little sister Brianna’s latest wacky hijinks. Nikki’s sure she can handle everything, but will all the excitement cause new problems for Nikki and Brandon, now that cameras are everywhere Nikki goes? The Dork Diaries series has more than 13 million copies in print worldwide!

Love and crushes are in the air for Nikki Maxwell in this sixth book of the New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series. It’s the biggest dance of the year and Nikki Maxwell is hoping her crush, Brandon, wants to be her date. But time is running out. What if he doesn’t want to go with her? Or worse—what if he ends up going with Mackenzie?!! In the sixth book in the blockbuster Dork Diaries series-now with more than 8 million copies in print, join Nikki, Chloe and Zoey as they tackle the topic of love, Dork Diaries style!

When Miss Know-It-All’s inbox overflows with pleas for guidance, Nikki Maxwell, the school newspaper advice columnist, turns to her best friends for help.

When her crush Brandon reveals that the animal shelter where he volunteers is in danger of being closed, Nikki and her friends enter an ice skating competition to help raise money, an effort that is compromised by an interfering Mackenzie.

When Nikki Maxwell loses the diary at school that records her sometimes embarrassing experiences and candid opinions, she records her reactions and attempts to recover it in a notebook, in a story that is also a guide to writing a diary.

When scholarship student Nikki Maxwell, whose father is the school exterminator, decides to enter the talent show at her expensive private school, her nemesis MacKenzie threatens to reveal Nikki’s status to the rest of the school.

Settling in at a new school with new friends and cute lab partner Brandon, Nikki agrees to go to a kids’ party with her little sister because mean-girl Mackenzie lies that she will be attending the Halloween dance with Brandon, in a tale complemented by comic-style artwork.

Through journal entries, sketches, and drawings, the complicated life of eighth grader Nikki Maxwell is presented through revelations about her relationship with her mother, secret crushes, dealings with her biggest rival at school, passion in pursuing art as a career, and overall views on the world in which she lives.

Two Coretta Scott King Award winners celebrate the participation of children during the Civil Rights movement, with this story of two young girls who sneak out of their house at night to go across town where men and women gather for a march for justice.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When a brother and sister are taken to stay with their aunt because their mother neglects them, they wonder if they will see their mother again.

For use in schools and libraries only. A boy enjoys every moment of a special day with his father, as they play in the park, share french fries, and see a movie together. Includes activity ideas for parents and children.

For fans of thrilling contemporary suspense, Rachel Howzell Hall’s brilliant stand-alone novel brings seven sinners to a private island for a reckoning that will leave you breathless.

It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime.

Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sails off to a luxurious private island off the coast of Mexico with six other strangers. Surrounded by miles of open water in the gloriously green Sea of Cortez, Miriam is soon shocked to discover that she and the rest of her companions have been brought to the remote island under false pretenses—and all seven strangers harbor a secret.

Danger lurks in the lush forest and in the halls and bedrooms of the lonely mansion. Sporadic cell-phone coverage and miles of ocean keeps the group trapped in paradise. And strange accidents stir suspicions, as one by one …

They all fall down

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Twelve stories about the African experience of slavery in America, by the National Book Award- winning novelist.

Illustrations by John Ward

Twelve-year-old Margie and her younger cousin forget their boredom when Margie’s father entertains them with stories about people and events in their small Missouri town’s past.