K.L. Going

• Jul-2003
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A Michael L. Printz Honor BookTroy Billings is seventeen, 296 pounds, friendless, utterly miserable, and about to step off a New York subway platform in front of an oncoming train. Until he meets Curt MacCrae, an emaciated, semi-homeless, high school...

• Jun-2005
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Maybe Frita was going to be brave, but I knew I was headed to almost certain death. I said I'd do five other things off my list if we stayed home, but Frita was being a locomotive again. "Just wait," she told me. "After this you'll feel so brave, yo...

• Sep-2006
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I AM NOT SO BAD A PERSON ONCE YOU GET TO KNOW ME When Iggy Corso gets kicked out of high school, there's no one for him to tell. His mother has gone off, his father is stoned on the couch, and because the phone's been disconnected, even the social w...

• Oct-2007
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Evie doesn't believe in magic anymore. After all, if magic were real, her mom would still be alive. But when Evie moves to Beaumont, New York, where her father has bought a withered apple orchard that the townspeople whisper is cursed, she lear...

• Apr-2009
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Liam Geller is Mr. Popularity. Everybody loves him. He excels at sports; he knows exactly what clothes to wear; he always ends up with the most beautiful girls in school. But he's got an uncanny ability to screw up in the very ways that tick off his ...

• May-2012
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When the going gets tough, Dog . . . takes a nap Dog can Sit. He can Stay. He can even Dance. But when he's in charge, can he keep the cats in line? All one, two, three, four, five of them? With slapstick silliness and utterly earnest charm...

• Sep-2015
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Tia lives with her mom in a high-risk neighborhood in New Orleans and loves singing gospel in the Rainbow Choir with Keisha, her boisterous and assertive best friend. Tia's dream is to change the world with her voice; and by all accounts, she might b...

• Oct-2017
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Two toddlers go on a bumpety berry hunt in this darling picture book that’s perfect for preschoolers. Wagon on gravel goes bumpety-bump. Pebbles in the pond fall plunkey-plunk. Toes in the grass dance thumpety-thump. Bumpety-plunkety-thumpety...

• May-2020
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From award-winning author K. L. Going comes a happily-ever-after story of a girl who discovers the true secret to all good writing--through an unlikely friendship, some well-intentioned matchmaking, and little bit of science.Jane Brannen wants nothin...

• Mar-2023
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This picture book celebrates and honors the interconnectedness of everything here on planet Earth.The planet where we live is full of people, animals, insects, birds, trees, clouds, rain, oceans -- and everything is interconnected. With a cumulative ...

• Mar-2025
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New babies get lots of kisses from their mommas in this warm and bouncy picture book that perfectly captures baby love. All the new mommas just can’t stop kissing their new babies, and who can blame them? This celebration of motherhood is a joyful ...

• Jul-2025
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A vibrant and relatable picture book about first-day-of-school nerves that encourages young readers to celebrate new experiences and the big buddies they're sure to make along the way.  It’s the first day of school and everywhere our s...