Farrar Straus And Giroux imprint: 2581 books
by Jack Gantos
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
The sequel to Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, a National Book Award Finalist.
When Joey Pigza meets his dad for the first time in years, he meets a grown-up version of his old out-of-control self. Carter Pigza is as wired as Joey used to be -- before his stint in special ed, and before he got...
by Rachel Bright
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Love Monster is a slightly hairy monster trying to fit in with the cuddly residents of Cutesville. But as it turns out, it's hard to fit in with the cute and the fluffy when you're a googly-eyed monster. And so, Love Monster sets out to find someone who will love him just the way he is. His journey...
The 57 Bus
A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
One teenager in a skirt.
One teenager with a lighter.
One moment that changes both of their lives forever.
If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they...
Claudette Colvin
Twice Toward Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
"When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.'" – Claudette Colvin
On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat...
Escape from Saigon
How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
An unforgettable true story of an orphan caught in the midst of war
Over a million South Vietnamese children were orphaned by the Vietnam War. This affecting true account tells the story of Long, who, like more than 40,000 other orphans, is Amerasian -- a mixed-race child -- with little future...
Invisible Allies
Microbes That Shape Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2022
Mmm-mmm, microbes!
Although we are accustomed to equating the presence of microbes with disease, in fact most microbes play a vital "friendly" role in shaping our lives. It is not just that one hundred million microbes can populate a thimbleful of fertile soil, or that many millions...
by Watt Key
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
In this gritty, realistic wilderness adventure, thirteen-year-old Cort is caught in a battle against a Gulf Coast hurricane. Cort's father is a local expert on hunting and swamp lore in lower Alabama who has been teaching his son everything he knows. But when a deadly Category 3 storm makes landfall,...
by Jack Gantos
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
Becoming a writer the hard way
In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin...
Invisible Enemies
Stories of Infectious Disease
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2022
In this fully revised third edition of the 1998 original, Jeanette Farrell tells the gripping stories of mankind's struggles against deadliest diseases in human history—including malaria, leprosy and cholera—updated to reflect new medical and social developments such as the continuing ravages...
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler
Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery...
Snow Falling in Spring
Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Most people cannot remember when their childhood ended. I, on the other hand, have a crystal-clear memory of that moment. It happened at night in the summer of 1966, when my elementary school headmaster hanged himself.
In 1966 Moying, a student at a prestigious language school in Beijing, seems...
Leaving Glorytown
One Boy's Struggle Under Castro
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Eduardo F. Calcines was a child of Fidel Castro's Cuba; he was just three years old when Castro came to power in January 1959. After that, everything changed for his family and his country. When he was ten, his family applied for an exit visa to emigrate to America and he was ridiculed by his schoolmates...
Flying to the Moon
An Astronaut's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In this entrancing account, space traveler Michael Collins recalls his early days as an Air Force test pilot, his astronaut training at NASA, and his unparalleled experiences in orbit, including the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar landing. The final chapter to his autobiography, revised...
Survivors Club
The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A New York Times bestseller
“Both moving and memorable, combining the emotional resolve of a memoir with the rhythm of a novel.” —New York Times Book Review
In 1945, in a now-famous piece of World War II archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers...