Fifth Annual Random House Author Event Invitation

You Are Invited to the Fifth Annual Author Event for nyc Educators Friday, June 28, 2013 Noon–3:00 PM Lunch will be served at noon at the Random House Office 1745 Broadway New York, New York (between W. 55th and W. 56th Streets)

Space is limited. Please RSVP by June 15 at Tinyurl.com/bn5h4xj *This event is open to educational professionals only (no students) Questions? Email TeacherEvent@RandomHouse.com

Emily Bazelon STICKS AND STONES

Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy

CARLIN FLORA

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Kids & Bullying: Audiobooks for Conversation CD sampler

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The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are

Discover the unexpected ways

Being a teenager has never been easy,

friends influence our personalities, choices, emotions, and even physical health in this fun and compelling examination of friendship. Journalist Carlin Flora uses new scientific research and ever-relatable anecdotes to show how friends may have greater hand in our development and well-being than do our families and romantic partners, and helps everyone evaluate and navigate their own important friendships.

but in recent years, with the rise of the Internet and social media, it has become exponentially more challenging.

Blending keen journalistic and narrative skills, Emily Bazelon explores facets of bullying through the stories of three young people who found themselves caught in the thick of it, bringing readers on a deeply researched, clear-eyed journey into the ever-shifting landscape of teenage meanness and its sometimes Random House HC: 978-0-8129-9280-9 • 400pp. • $27.00 devastating consequences. The result is Audio CD: 978-0-3853-6281-8 ▪ $40.00 a groundbreaking book that will help Audio DL: 978-0-3853-6282-5 • $76.00 parents, educators, and teens themE-book: 978-0-679-64400-2 • $13.99 selves better understand what kids are going through today and what can be done to help them through it.

Doubleday HC: 978-0-385-53543-4 • 528 pp • $25.95 E-book: 978-0-385-53544-1 • $12.99

“Flora’s easy-to-read prose blends narrative and scientific research seamlessly. You will finish the book with a better understanding of why good friends are worth keeping.”

“Essential reading for any educator trying to negotiate the minefield of bullying.”

—Jane Gradwohl Nash, Professor of Psychology, Stonehill College

EMILY BAZELON is a senior editor at Slate, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. She lives in New Haven, CT. For speaking engagements, please email RHSpeakers@RandomHouse.com.

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—Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed

CARLIN FLORA was on the staff of Psychology Today for eight years, most recently as features editor. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University School of Journalism.

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ADELE GRIFFIN

BYRON HOLLINSHEAD

ALL YOU NEVER WANTED

I Wish I’d Been There

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Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events That Changed America

ith my eyes closed and Alex’s core friends all around me, it was like I’d become my big sister, or something just as good.

And so who cared if they were calling it Alex’s party? One thing I knew: it would be remembered as mine.

Alex has it all—brains, beauty, popularity, and a dangerously hot boyfriend. Her little sister Thea wants it all, and she’s stepped up her game to get it. Even if it means spinning the truth to win the attention she deserves.

Even if it means uncovering a shocking secret her older sister never wanted to share. Even if it means crying wolf.

I Wish I’d Been There Book Two:

European History Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events in the History of Europe

I Wish I’d Been There books Alfred A. Knopf HC: 978-0-375-87082-8 • 240 pp • $16.99 GLB: 978-0-375-97082-5 • $19.99 Audio CD: 978-0-8041-2380-8 • $55.00 Audio DL: 978-0-8041-2381-5 • $56.00 E-book: 978-0-307-97466-2 • $10.99

H “A sumptuously written examination of sibling

one and two bring together some of our most distinguished historians to answer the question “What scene or incident in history would you most liked to have witnessed—and why?”

Exploring events in American history and European history respectively, the books illuminate crucial moments in our past and give students a front-row seat at some of history’s most dramatic events.

Anchor Book I PB: 978-1-4000-9654-1 352 pp • $15.95 E-book: 978-0-307-38764-6 | $11.99 Book II PB: 978-0-307-27764-0 336 pp• $15.00 E-book: 978-0-307-45655-7 • $11.99

“Fun. . . . Poses new and intriguing questions. . . .

The essays are crammed with knowledge and are as thought-provoking as they are entertaining.”

rivalry and socioeconomic class.”

—Kirkus Reviews, Starred

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—The Buffalo News

ADELE GRIFFIN is the acclaimed author of many books for young readers, including Sons of Liberty and Where I Want to Be, both National Book Award finalists. She is also the author of Tighter, Picture the Dead, The Julian Game, and the Witch Twins and Vampire Island middle-grade series. Her upcoming novel, Loud Awake and Lost, will be published this October.

BYRON HOLLINSHEAD is president of American Historical Publications, a producer of books in history for adults and for children. As an editor and publisher, Mr. Hollinshead has worked with many of the authors in these anthologies on their previous books and articles.

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DR. KIMBERLY N. PARKER A Time to Break Silence

THE EXPATS

The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students

A Novel

The Expats is an international thriller

Untangling the Common Core State

Standards can be challenging, especially when thinking about how to incorporate more nonfiction into classrooms. The publication of A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students (Beacon Press) provides an excellent opportunity to combine nonfiction literature with history and social justice. Dr. Parker helps teachers think about how to use the writings of MLK and the accompanying curriculum from the King Institute in interdisciplinary classrooms to help students read, write, and think critically.

CHRIS PAVONE

that Patricia Cornwell declared is “bristling with suspense” and John Grisham asserts is “smart, clever suspense, skillfully plotted.” Protagonist Kate Moore, mother, wife, and recently transplanted expat in Europe, suspects that another American couple are not who they claim to be, and discovers a complex web of deceit that threatens her family, her marriage, and her life.

Beacon Press TR: 978-0-8070-3305-0 • 240pp. • $14.00 HC: 978-0-8070-3318-0 • $24.95 E-book: 978-0-8070-3306-7 • $14.00

DR. KIMBERLY N. PARKER currently teaches English at the Cambridge, Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, MA. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, and her research looks at the literacy practices of young Black men.

Kim blogs about teaching and learning at ClassRoomLinerNotes.WordPress.com

“ Amazing. . . . Impossible to put down. . . . Pavone invokes memories of the great writers of spy fiction of the past, and he has the chops to be mentioned with the best of them.”—Associated Press

Broadway TR: 978-0-7704-3572-1 • 352pp. • $15.00 Audio CD: 978-0-3079-9031-0 • $40.00 Audio DL: 978-0-3079-9032-7 • $85.50 E-book: 978-0-307-95637-8 • $11.99

Author CHRIS PAVONE, a book editor for nearly two decades, grew up in a family of New York City schoolteachers, and briefly taught himself. He also briefly lived in Luxembourg, where he started writing his first novel, The Expats, which was a New York Times and international bestseller, and is nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an Edgar Award, and a Strand Critics Award.

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