Boyds Mills Press imprint: 53 books

Planet Hunter

Geoff Marcy and the Search for Other Earths

by Vicki Oransky Wittenstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

He has discovered more planets than anyone in history. In this inspiring true story, winner of the American Institute of Physics Award, Geoff Marcy's love of space helped him overcome struggles in his studies until finally he became an astronomer. But he was not on track to make major discoveries....

My Librarian Is a Camel

How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World

by Margriet Ruurs
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

Do you get books from a public library in your town or even in your school library? In many remote areas of the world, there are no library buildings. In many countries, books are delivered in unusual way: by bus, boat, elephant, donkey, train, even by wheelbarrow. Why would librarians go to the...

Babe Conquers the World

The Legendary Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias

by Sandra Neil Wallace, Rich Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

Babe Didrikson Zaharias had one driving goal: to become the greatest athlete who ever lived. And she made good on that promise with a meteoric rise to famed basketball player, Olympic medalist, and top female golfer. But there was more to Babe than just sports. Noted novelists and sportswriters Rich...
by Douglas Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

Every kid’s dream is to be named Most Valuable Player. But how many ever dream that the game is a race around the world (no flying allowed) in just forty days? That’s the challenge Adam faces in the Great Global Game. As the player for the Magellan Voyage Project, he competes against others for a four-million-dollar prize! Trackers with blowguns and a nefarious baron don’t make things easy.

Fortune's Bones

The Manumission Requiem

by Marilyn Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

There is a skeleton in the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut. It has been in the town for over 200 years. In 1996, community members decided to find out what they could about it. Historians discovered that the bones were those of a slave name Fortune, who was owned by a local doctor. After Fortune's death,...

Carver

A Life in Poems

by Marilyn Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department...

Deadly Flowers

A Ninja's Tale

by Sarah L. Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016

Kata, a ninja, embarks on her first solo mission to enter a warlord’s castle and make sure that a certain sleeping occupant never awakens. When Kata discovers that her target is a young boy and that her new accomplice is that boy’s slightly older sister, she suddenly realizes her mission is much...
by Julie Sternberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

Ten-year-old Celie’s grandmother has moved in with her family, and Granny’s forgetfulness is starting to worry Celie. In the meantime, she can tell her parents are keeping secrets, but she can’t talk to her best friend Lula or her sister Jo, because they’re both keeping secrets, too! Why is...
by Julie Sternberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

Ten-year-old Celie has quite a few things on her mind—fights with her sister Jo, secrets at school, an increasingly forgetful grandmother, and worst of all, a best friend who won’t speak to her. How can a girl who hates change survive, when everything in her life is changing? By writing, of course....

Walter

The Story of a Rat

by Barbara Wersba
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

This is the story of a writer and a reader. The writer is a person. The reader is a rat. They share an old house on Long Island, but have never met. How these two lonely creatures discover one another is the essence of this story.

Century Farm

One Hundred Years on a Family Farm

by Cris Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

The Peterson family farm is one hundred years old and about to enter a new century. Here, in wonderful family anecdotes, the author shares the story of the farm as it grew from a barn and house and granary in the 1890s to a thriving dairy farm in the 1990s. There has been plenty of hard work--sawing...
by Martine Leavitt
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

Martine Leavitt offers a spellbinding story, interweaving elements of classic fantasy and high romance in this National Book Award Finalist. Keturah follows a legendary hart into the king's forest, where she becomes hopelessly lost. Her strength diminishes until, finally, she realizes that death is near....
by Martine Leavitt
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Heck is used to getting by on his own; his mother is unreliable, at best. But even a boy with a rich imagination is going to have a tough time managing when he and his mother find themselves without a home. It’s a good thing Heck has wit, strength, and a lot of optimism.
by Judith Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

In this Michael L. Printz Honor Book, Lily wishes she could be like the other girls in her class. But how can she? As the only sensible person in her family, she never has time to hang out with friends. Someone has to stay home to look after her brother. Maybe she should fall in love! What could...
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