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Author Joey Green is a lifelong world explorer and life hacker extraordinaire. His newest book tackles the travel industry: Last-Minute Travel Secrets: 121 Ingenious Tips to Endure Cramped Planes, Car Trouble, Awful Hotels, and Other Trips from Hell (on sale in May 2016). In it, Joey reveals his b…
We're excited to publish Krystyna Poray Goddu’s A Girl Called Vincent: The Life of Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay during National Poetry Month 2016. This is the first biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Millay, who went by Vincent, published for middle-grade readers since 1969. Here Go…
In April 2014 we published Ben Montgomery’s Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail. Two years later, we’re thrilled to bring out the paperback edition of the New York Times bestseller and National Outdoor Book Award winner.
In 1955, 67-year
…Louis Grumet and John Caher are the authors of The Curious Case of Kiryas Joel: The Rise of a Village Theocracy and the Battle to Defend the Separation of Church and State. Here, they talk with us about their book—which reveals a true story that took place over 20 years ago—and why the case rema
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As a journalist with more than 25 years of experience in the science and medicine fields, Luba Vikhanski has often reported on cutting-edge technologies and treatments for publications such as the New York Times and Nature Medicine. For the past decade, though, she’s investigated the century-old s…
As an award-winning journalist, Alison has covered a broad range of topics of national and special interest. In her latest book, she sets her sights on a problem most Americans are familiar with: junk. Namely, how we define it, where it comes from, and why we have such a hard time giving it up.
Comic books and superheroes have been a constant presence in Tim Hanley's life. He can’t remember a time without them, from reading old yard-sale copies of Archie, Harvey, and DC comics to skimming the comic racks at the grocery store. And he didn't stack his long boxes in the corner as he got
When Ada Blackjack and the four other members of a Canadian team first stepped foot on Wrangel Island, north of Siberia, in 1921 to claim its craggy Arctic terrain for Great Britain, they had no idea how doomed their expedition was. Blackjack, an Inuit woman, was along to cook and sew in order to ma
On the eastern edge of Concord, Massachusetts, just off Virginia Road, there stands a simple white and red Georgian-style home surrounded by a quaint stone fence. It’s where Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817, and now, nearly two hundred years later, it’s where Henry David Thoreau for Kids aut…
Kerrie Logan Hollihan’s sixth book with CRP is her second for YA readers. In the Fields and the Trenches traces the true experiences of 18 young adults who came of age during World War I—the Great War. The century-old tales convey surprisingly modern, universal themes of love, death, power, co…