Random House Children's Books

Clair de Lune

by Cassandra Golds & Sophie Blackall

Clair-de-Lune lives with her grandmother in the tippy-top of a peculiar old building. Every day she practices ballet, just like her mother before her-the famous ballerina who died when Clair-de-Lune was just...

Anna Maria's Gift

by Janice Shefelman & Robert Papp

When Anna Maria's father, a famous violin maker, dies, she is sent to live in the Pieta, an orphanage in Venice. Though she misses her father, she knows he will always be with her, as long as she has the beautiful...

Into the Outdoors

by Susan Gal

In Susan Gal's delightful young-concept book, a family travels up a mountain, over a bridge, and under a canopy of trees to reach their campsite in the great outdoors.  A forest hike offers more opportunities...

Subway Story

by Julia Sarcone-Roach

Never was there a subway car who loved her job more than Jessie. From morning to night she carried all sorts of people all sorts of places—to work and school and World's Fairs, over bridges and through tunnels—sometimes...

A Mother to Embarrass Me

by Carol Lynch Williams

Now that Laura is 12 years old, she realizes that everything about her mother is totally embarrassing. Like the way she yodels at the top of her lungs while she works (okay, she calls it singing). And plays...

The Destiny of Linus Hoppe

by Anne-Laure Bondoux & Catherine Temerson

Linus Hoppe has always lived in Realm One, an ideal world. Now, at 14, he must be tested by the Great Processor to determine where he deserves to live from here on. If he achieves a high score, nothing in his...

The Jungle Book

by Diane Wright Landolf & John Rowe

Mother and Fatherwolf aren't looking for trouble, but when a small man-child toddles by their cave, they decide they can’t leave him alone in the jungle. They take the boy into their pack, name him Mowgli,...

The Dragon's Tooth

by N.D. Wilson

The Lacey Chronicles #1: The Other Countess

by Eve Edwards

Mistress of the Storm

by M. L. Welsh

Welcome to Bordertown

by Ellen Kushner & Holly Black

Lexie

by Audrey Couloumbis & Julia Denos

Wheels!

by Annie Cobb

Train wheels.  Plane wheels.  Gear wheels.  Rear wheels.  What if there were NO wheels?  How would people go?  

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Ready? Set. Raymond!

by Vaunda Nelson & Derek Anderson

Raymond likes to do everything fast-from brushing his teeth to going to school to making new friends. In three easy-to-read stories, readers follow Raymond on a typical super-fast day, see him make a new friend,...