Title Author Description Copies Available Discover a world full of color in this delightful board book inspired by the works of legendary children's book author and A Little Book About Colors Leo Lionni's Friends 1 illustrator Leo Lionni. With sturdy pages and engaging artwork, this colorful book is perfect for boys and girls ages 0 to 3. Everybody sing along—because it's time to do-si-do in the barnyard with a high-spirited animal crew! From Boynton on Board, the bestselling series of board books, here is BARNYARD DANCE, with Sandra Boynton's twirling pigs, fiddle- Barnyard Dance! Sandra Boynton playing cows, and other unforgettable animals. Extra-big, extra-fat, and extra-fun, BARNYARD DANCE features lively 3 rhyming text and a die-cut cover that reveals the wacky characters inside. Guaranteed to get kids and adults stomping their feet. Giraffes Can't Dance is a touching tale of Gerald the giraffe, who wants nothing more than to dance. With crooked knees and thin legs, it's harder for a giraffe than you would think. Gerald is finally able to dance to his own tune when he gets some Giraffes Can't Dance Giles Andreae 3 encouraging words from an unlikely friend. With light-footed rhymes and high-stepping illustrations, this tale is gentle inspiration for every child with dreams of greatness. Beep! Beep! Beep! Meet Blue. A muddy country road is no match for this little pick up--that is, until he gets stuck while pushing a dump truck out of the muck. Luckily, Blue has made a pack of farm animal friends along his route. And they're Little Blue Truck Alice Schertle willing to do whatever it takes to get their pal back on the road. With a text full of truck sounds and animal noises to read 3 aloud, here is a rollicking homage to the power of friendship and the rewards of helping others. Board Books The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful board book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a My Heart Fills with Happiness Monique Gray Smith reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy. International speaker 2 and award-winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote My Heart Fills with Happiness to support the wellness of Indigenous children and families, and to encourage young children to reflect on what makes them happy. Colorful pictures and simple rhyming texts help children guess what's peeking through the die cut windows in these two fun Peek-A Who? Nina Laden board books. The anticipation of what's hiding on the next page and the bright, engaging illustrations will keep youngsters 3 guessing and giggling all the way to the surprise endings. Rocket, the beloved dog from the New York Times bestselling picture books How Rocket Learned to Read and Rocket Writes a Story, is back for new readers. Preschoolers watch the little yellow bird teach Rocket simple words, like n-e-s-t and Rocket's Mighty Words Tad Hills 1 m-u-d. And beginning readers will love practicing their new literacy skills alongside another brand-new reader—Rocket!

There's something special about each season of the year, wherever we live in the world. Follow the children in this book as Winter/Invierno Ailie Busby they discover and explore the unique character of winter, through indoor and outdoor play. Sensory, detailed and child- 1 centered, this is the perfect introduction for young children to the cycles of the year. Up and down, over and under, through and around . . . five big and brightly colored elephants are on a mission in this picture book for young children by Caldecott Medalist Kevin Henkes. Where are they going? What will they do when they get there? A Parade of Elephants Kevin Henkes It’s a surprise! With a text shimmering with repetition and rhythm, bright pastel illustrations, large and readable type, and an 3 adorable parade of elephants, Kevin Henkes introduces basic concepts such as numbers, shapes, adjectives, adverbs, and daytime and nighttime. A is for Alligator, B is for Bear, C is for . . .? Children love animals, and this A-Z picture book presents 26 exciting creatures to discover—including dolphins, elephants, kangaroos, sharks, tigers, and whales. Along with the appealing illustrations, A - Z of Animals Tom Jackson there’s a short description of each animal, including its size and appearance, where it lives, what it eats, and other fascinating 2 facts. A fun read for the entire family, ABC Mindful Me is not only perfect for teaching toddlers their ABCs, but also for introducing them to key mindfulness tenants which promote physical and mental wellness, proper breathing, compassion, gratitude, and kindness. These key concepts will help to grow young readers' concentration, listening skills, and ability to ABC Mindful Me Christen Engel manage emotions, stress, and anxiety. Plus, a handy index provides at-a-glance reference for 26 different mindfulness pillars 2 for children to explore. With endearing illustrations and mindful concepts, the ABC for Me series pairs each letter of the alphabet with words that promote big dreams and healthy living. A late-spring night sky fills with bats flocking to a theater already echoing and booming with delightful sounds of Bats in the Band Brian Lies music—bat music! Join this one-of-a-kind music festival as the bats celebrate the rhythm of the night and the positive power 2 of music. Brian Lies’s bats and their dazzling, dizzying world will lift everyone’s spirits with joyous noise and cheer.

Picture Books Sing, dance, and read along to this brand-new bedtime song, featuring Baby Shark, Mama Shark, Daddy Shark, and more underwater friends. Kids and caregivers alike will delight in this silly illustrated story of a shark family's bedtime routine, full Bedtime for Baby Shark John Bajet of funny, eye-popping illustrations and a catchy tune you won't be able to stop singing. Also features helpful picture guides 2 so readers can dance along, act out the hand and foot movements, and develop their fine motor skills. By the end of the story, little ones will be laughing, singing, and dancing their way off to sleep with this charming and catchy read-aloud! Clifford's ABC Norman Bridwell Everyone's favorite red dog teaches the ABC's in his own playful manner. 4 It’s the formula for success for preschoolers—Curious George and fire trucks! Curious George and the Firefighters is a story Curious George and the H.A. Rey based on H. A. and Margret Rey’s popular primate and painted in the original watercolor and charcoal style. Firefighters are 2 Firefighters a famously brave lot, but can they withstand a visit from one curious monkey? It's time for Mousopolis's First Annual Barbecue Cook-Off. But just when the fun is about to begin, the irresistible aroma of barbecue sauce awakens the most frightening creature known to mousekind: the dreaded Dogzilla. As her horrible doggy Dogzilla Dav Pokey breath fills the streets, the residents of Mousopolis must run for their lives. Can they get rid of that big stinky dog before it's 2 too late? Horace and Hattie are hedgehogs, and the very best of friends. Together, they make daisy chains, splash in puddles, and have Steve Wilson & Lucy tea parties. But there is one thing they can't do―hug! They are just too spiky. Throughout the seasons, these two hedgehogs Hedgehugs 2 Tapper will try many different ways of hugging. But will Horace and Hattie find a hug that feels just right?

Adam Wallace & Andy Try to catch one of the world's most elusive mythical creatures―the unicorn! Filled with zany traps and lots of rainbow How to Catch a Unicorn 1 Alkerten unicorn fun, this is the unicorn book of the year! When a little girl gets a new puppy, they have a lot to learn about each other. The new friends can be shy, messy, and I Got a New Friend Karl Newsom Edwards sometimes get into trouble. They get lost, but they always get found. Their friendship may be a lot of work—but at the end of 4 the day, they love each other! Libby's great aunt, Lobo, is from Mexico, but the United States has been her home for many years, and she wants to become a U.S. citizen. At the end of the week, Lobo will say the Pledge of Allegiance at a special ceremony. Libby is also learning Pat Mora & Libby I Pledge Allegiance the Pledge this week, at school—at the end of the week, she will stand up in front of everyone and lead the class in the 2 Martinez Pledge. Libby and Lobo practice together—asking questions and sharing stories and memories—until they both stand tall and proud, with their hands over their hearts. Meet Mouse and Chipmunk, two young rodents who want the same thing—a big, beautiful nut! But who deserves it more? After all, Chipmunk and the Nut read together and lie in the grass and stare at the clouds. Chipmunk wants that nut! And I Want that Nut! Madeline Valentine Mouse and the Nut play tic-tac-toe and have a dance party together. Mouse also wants that nut! But then Squirrel comes 2 Picture along and claims the Nut for his own. What’s a rodent to do? Books Even though sharks can be scary, we need them to keep the oceans healthy. Unfortunately, due to overfishing, many shark If Sharks Disappeared Lily Williams species are in danger of extinction, and that can cause big problems in the oceans and even on land. What would happen if 2 this continued and sharks disappeared completely? This time, Mr. Panda's black-and-white animal friends are curious what he's making, but only one has the patience to stick I'll Wait, Mr. Panda Steve Antony around. An alpaca, an aardvark, rabbits, and a bird all wind up missing out. It's the penguin who declares, "I'll wait, Mr. 2 Panda." The penguin is rewarded with a big SURPRISE: a giant doughnut! The winter fun has just begun--time to ski and ice-skate with Little Critter! Children ages three to seven will love this winter- Just a Snowy Vacation Mercer Mayer 1 themed storybook. What the world needs now is love--and who better than Todd Parr to share a message of kindness, charity, and acceptance. Touching upon themes including self-esteem, environmentalism, and respect for others, Todd uses his signature silly and Love the World Todd Parr accessible style to encourage readers to show love for themselves and all the people, places, and things they encounter. 2

Beaver is good at making just about everything...but not friends. One winter day, Beaver sees some snowflakes in the sky and gets a great idea: he’ll make a friend. Yes! A snowman will be a great friend! Raccoon passes by as Beaver sets to work and Making A Friend Tammi Sauer 2 offers a helping hand. The two work side by side to give their snowman everything a friend needs. But when the snowman proves to be a little cold, Beaver discovers that he may have unknowingly “made” another buddy instead. Picture Books

Grandpa Tu is famous for his special noodles, and as the emperor's birthday approaches, he teaches his granddaughter, Mei, the family trade. Mei struggles to find the magic needed to make noodles. Ultimately, she finds the magic--and the ability to Rozanne Greenfield succeed--within. Mei doesn't just make noodles--her magic noodles in varied shapes and sizes rain down from the sky! Noodle Magic 2 Thong NOODLE MAGIC is written in the style of a Chinese folk story, with engaging cultural and community aspects. The family connection that's at the heart of the story has universal appeal. The grandfather and granddaughter work together to accomplish what one could not do alone. Peppa, George, Mummy Pig, and Daddy Pig visit the museum to learn about outer space. They take a pretend trip through the Peppa in Space Scholastic 1 planets, all the way to the moon! Peppa Pig: George's New George's favorite toy is Mr. Dinosaur. When Mr. Dinosaur breaks, George gets a new toy: Dino-Roar! Dino-Roar walks, Scholastic 4 Dinosaur talks, and even sings--but can he replace George's old toy? Blaze, AJ, and all their fast friends from Nickelodeon's Blaze and the Monster Machines are the stars of this fun-filled Police Officer Blaze! Mary Tillworth 4 storybook! Follow the footprints to big fun by helping the Yetis get to know all about the Smallfoot! Uncover hidden images, get an Smallfoot: Yeti, Set, Go May Nakamura insider’s view into the Smallfoot Evidentiary Society headquarters, and reveal what the Yetis think about Smallfoot’s 2 existence with the help of the decoder inside! When the queen kicks Snow White and Clifford out of the castle, they have nowhere to go. Luckily, they find seven tiny Clifford's Fairy Tales: Snow Scholastic puppies to take them in! Will Snow White and Clifford find a happily ever after? 4 White and the Seven Puppies

Little Red Hen is a time-tested cautionary tale about how we reap what we sow. When the hen asks a cat, dog, and mouse for help planting some wheat, she gets no takers: "‘Not I!’ said the cat. ‘Not I!’ said the dog. ‘Not I!’ said the mouse." They won’t water, cut, or grind the wheat . . . or help bake a cake with it, either. So guess who eats the cake by herself in the end? The Little Red Hen Paul Galdone The Caldecott Honor artist Paul Galdone’s delightfully detailed ink and wash illustrations—packed with charming 1 details—add plenty of sly humor to the well-loved story that not only offers a sage message but also shows children what it takes to make a cake from the ground up! The Rooster Who Would Not La Paz is a happy but noisy village. A little peace and quiet would make it just right. So the villagers elect the bossy Don Be Quiet / ¡El gallo que no se Carmen Agra Deedy Pepe as their mayor. Before long, singing of any kind is outlawed. But there is one noisy rooster who does what roosters are 2 callaba! born to do - he sings! Scholastic's bestselling OLD LADY returns in this adventure series with a nonfiction twist that will make you laugh AND There was an Old Astronaut learn! In this spin-off, the OLD LADY turns into an OLD ASTRONAUT who travels through space, swallowing a moon... Lucille Calandro 2 who Swallowed the Moon along with a star, a planet, a comet, a meteor, a rocket, and a satellite... Why? Well, it went down just right, that bright satellite! Kathleen Krull and Marcellus Hall bring witty insight, jazzy style, and a globe-trotting eye to our millennia-long history of What's New? The Zoo! Kathleen Krull 2 keeping animals -- and the ways animals have changed us in turn. Crabby is NOT happy. Sun is in Crabby's eyes. Salt is in Crabby's teeth. Sand is in Crabby's shell. Plankton tries again and A Crabby Book: Hello Crabby Jonathan Fenski again to cheer Crabby up -- with laugh-out-loud results! Will Crabby ever crack a smile? Or will Crabby always be crabby? 6

Biscuit's Snow Day Race Violet Findley Snow days are snow much fun! Will Biscuit the little yellow puppy get to play in the sledding race? 1 Christopher Columbus (Step Independent readers can learn about Columbus's fateful voyage in this dramatic, easy-to-read account of a pivotal moment in Steven Krensky 1 into Reading) American history. Easy Reader Biographies: A beautifully illustrated storybook about the life of our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. Violet Findley 1 Abraham Lincoln Easy Reader Biographies: Cesar Cesar Chavez spent more than 40 years helping farmworkers have a better life. This full-color storybook tells about this Eric Charlesworth 4 Chaves leader who fought for change. Easy Reader Biographies: This vividly illustrated storybook tells about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. It includes many historical facts and a Alyse Sweeney 1 Martin Luther King Jr. glossary! In the latest installment of the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Fly Guy series, Buzz and Fly Guy spend a day together playing some spooky games and doing arts and crafts projects. When Buzz goes to bed, Fly Guy stays awake and is "bizzie"! Easy Fly Guy and the Franken-fly Tedd Arnold Buzz has a nightmare that a gigantic Frankenfly monster is out to get him! But when he wakes up, all he sees is Fly Guy, who 4 Readers fell asleep making posters showing that he and Buzz are best friends. Easy Readers Hedgehog loves his new bike. His best friend Harry says he likes it, too. But when Hedgehog asks Harry to go bike riding Hello Hedgehog!: Do you Like Norm Feuti with him, Harry says he does not want to go. Does Harry not like his friend's new bike? Or could this all have something to 3 my Bike? do with training wheels? I Am Kind follows a little girl who sees kindness all around her. Her mother is kind when she volunteers in the community, and her neighbor is kind when he gives her strawberries from his garden. Even her nature troop is kind when they take care I Am Kind Suzy Capozzi of the earth! The little girl realizes that she, too, has the power to be kind, and that even small actions can have a big impact. 2 In this new installment of the Positive Power early reader series, children will learn the affirmation “I am kind” through an encouraging story of community and everyday kindness. Let's Read About… Martin This biography of Martin Luther King Jr. tells how he grew up in the South and learned about racism. He eventually became Courtney Baker 2 Luther King Jr. a leader and taught the world about equality. Pete the Cat's Trip to the Kimberly and James Along with his dad and brother, Pete the Cat heads off to the supermarket. But what happens when Dad loses the grocery 4 Supermarket Dean list before they even get there? It’s up to Pete and Bob to help remind Dad what was on their list! The Adventures of Otto: Look Look out, Otto and Olly! Look out, Flip and Flop! With a storm heading their way Otto and his friends must go, go, go. David Milgrim 3 Out! A Storm!

Travel to a galaxy far, far away in the first volume of an all-new series as a rotating cast of characters (and creators!) journey through Star Wars history! Stories range from before the events of Episode I: The Phantom Menace all the way up to Episode Star Wars Adventures: Heroes Various IV: The Rise of Skywalker. Characters major and minor, classic and new, expand the world of Star Wars into new territory, 1 of the Galaxy telling larger-than-life stories that encapsulate the breadth of the galactic struggle between good and evil for a new generation of fans. When the junk boss Unkar Plutt is kidnapped, Rey realizes her future may be better with the devil she knows.

Victor Starspeeder is back at Jedi Academy for year two, but it's not going the way he'd planned. He was thrilled about Drama Club and hoped to get the lead in this year's musical... But a new kid got the role! What gives?! Plus, he keeps Star Wars Jedi Academy #5: oversleeping and getting to class late . . . Worst of all, his big sister Christina is getting ready to graduate from Jedi Academy, Jared J Krosoczka 6 The Force Oversleeps and there are rumors going around that she's a Sith! What's a Padawan to do? In times when he feels more alone than ever, Victor will have to trust the ways of the Force and his friends if he's going to survive year two in this all-new chapter in the Jedi Academy series. Heed the call for adventure, with all your favorites from Disney's hit animated show! Gorgeously illustrated stories starring Tangled the Series : Adventure Disney Rapunzel, still finding her way in the kingdom of Corona, with Eugene at her side! But will she be able to be a princess, 4 is Calling make her family happy, and ALSO follow her adventurous heart? They sound like bad guys, they look like bad guys . . . and they even smell like bad guys. But Mr. Wolf, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Snake, and Mr. Shark are about to change all of that... Mr. Wolf has a daring plan for the Bad Guys' first good mission. They The Bad Guys #1: The Bad Juvenile Aaron Blabey are going to break two hundred dogs out of the Maximum Security City Dog Pound. Will Operation Dog Pound go 2 Guys smoothly? Will the Bad Guys become the Good Guys? And will Mr. Snake please stop swallowing Mr. Piranha?! Graphic Novels The Bad Guys next mission? Rescue 10,000 chickens from a high-tech cage farm. But they are up against sizzling lasers, one The Bad Guys #2: The Bad Aaron Blabey feisty tarantula, and their very own Mr. Snake...who's also known as "The Chicken Swallower." What could possibly go 2 Guys in Mission Unpluckable wrong? The Bad Guys are about to have a very BAD day! Mr. Wolf and his bad buddies have messed with the wrong guinea pig -- The Bad Guys #3: The Bad one who is secretly an evil mad scientist. And the nasty little furball wants revenge! Will they survive? Will they be heroes? Guys in The Furball Strikes Aaron Blabey And will they ever stop trying to eat each other?!? It's time for the Bad Guys to spring into action! 2 Back

It's a zombie kitten apocalypse! Can the Bad Guys save the world from evil Dr. Marmalade's meowing monsters?!? They'll The Bad Guys #4: The Bad Aaron Blabey need help from foxy Agent Fox, a swampy secret zombie antidote, and the feistiest, toothiest, hungriest granny around. Get 2 Guys in Attack of the Zittens ready to watch the fur fly! The bad news? The world is ending. The good news? The Bad Guys are back to save it! Sure, they might have to "borrow" a The Bad Guys #5: The Bad Aaron Blabey rocket. And there might be something nasty in one of the spacesuits. And Mr. Piranha miiiight have eaten too many bean 2 Guys in Intergalactic Gas burritos. Surviving this mission may only be one small step for man, but it's one giant leap for the Bad Guys. Juvenile Graphic Novels

When Mr. Wolf is blown up to Godzilla proportions, the Bad Guys find themselves in monster-sized trouble. They must The Bad Guys #9: The Big Bad figure out how to stop an alien invasion and get Wolfie back to his old self before the world is totally destroyed. Good thing Aaron Blabey 1 Wolf they have the International League of Heroes on their side, and some newly honed superpowers ready to put to the test... Everyone's favorite hero has become a menace to society! Can the Bad Guys save the day? You know it! And action! Z knows what she's doing when it comes to making movies. She's an expert at stop-motion video. In this first book about the aspiring filmmaker, Z has to make a whole new kind of movie--a documentary--and it's harder than she thought. Z wants to wow the judges, but she's not sure her ideas are good enough for a film festival. With the help of her American Girl: The Real Z Jen Calonita friends, Z shoots a lot of footage, but something about it doesn't feel right. Should she start over? As she tries to make a 1 movie she can be proud of, Z discovers that to be a real filmmaker, she'll first have to be her real self.

Treasure hunters and protectors of the Overworld, Noah and Violet stumble upon a chest in a jungle temple. The treasure An Unofficial League of chest includes a rare enchantment book that can make diamond swords and armor extremely powerful. Daniel, who runs the Griefers Adventure Series: powerful league of griefers, wants the enchantment book for himself. Noah and Violet have to battle the league of griefers, Thrilling Stories for Winter Morgan including the tricky and powerful rainbow griefers. Can the duo do it alone, or do they need more people to help them protect 2 Minecrafters #1: The Secret the Overworld from this powerful league of evil griefers? With unpredictable hostile mobs attacking without warning, can Treasure Noah and Violet come up with a good plan to hide the book from the griefers and stay alive? Noah and Violet are busy rebuilding their town when the Ender Dragon flies above the village streets. The following day the An Unofficial League of Wither attacks them. As the town battles these harsh, hostile mobs, Noah and Violet, with their good friends, Hannah and Griefers Adventure Series: Ben, set out to search for Daniel, whom they suspect is behind these vicious attacks. As they search for the griefers, they find Thrilling Stories for Winter Morgan clues leading them to believe the griefers haven’t disappeared but are actually planning a master attack. Instead of battling 2 Minecrafters #2: Hidden in The the griefers, the gang has to find head griefer Daniel and his friends before they stage their next attack Will Violet and Noah Overworld take down the league of griefers and survive all the mob attacks they face? Noah and Violet's village is hosting the Olympics for Minecrafters. The events are disrupted when a TNT attack destroys the An Unofficial League of Olympic stadium. Noah and Violet are forced to gather the townspeople to wage a battle against Daniel and his powerful Griefers Adventure Series: griefers. They all must stop the griefers before they destroy the games entirely. With a full agenda of Olympic games, from Thrilling Stories for Winter Morgan relay races to boat races, the group has to save the legendary competition. The griefers, angered by their recent defeat, are 2 Minecrafters #3: The Griefer’s getting their revenge on Noah and Violet. They are planning a serious attack on the town, which could have devastating Revenge consequences on the duo and their hometown. Can Violet and Noah stop the griefers in time? Will the Olympic Games go on safely? Violet and Noah's village is celebrating the new amusement park opening in town. Everyone is enjoying the fun rides and An Unofficial League of tasty food. But when Noah spots a rainbow griefer in the village carrying blocks of TNT, the celebration suddenly stops. Griefers Adventure Series: Before the townspeople can do anything about the dangerous interloper, the roller coaster explodes! The accident with the Thrilling Stories for Winter Morgan roller coaster is blamed on Noah and Violet's frequent enemy, Daniel. The duo must stop Daniel and his new crop of rainbow 2 Minecrafters #4: The Return of griefers before they do any more damage to the village - or the world of Minecraft. It will be a team effort to stop the rainbow The Rainbow Griefers griefers in this battle, but are the Minecrafters up for the challenge? When skeletons corner Noah and Violet, the duo escapes through a portal to the Nether. Trouble brews as Noah accidently An Unofficial League of leaves the portal open, and the mobs from the Overworld enter the Nether. Noah and Violet must battle hostile mobs from Griefers Adventure Series: both worlds to survive. Taking shelter in a Nether Fortress, they befriend treasure hunters who help them battle the mobs. Thrilling Stories for Winter Morgan Just when they think they are about to defeat the mob attack, they realize their new friends might be setting them up for a 2 Minecrafters #5: The Nether bigger attack in this story of trickery and friendship. Are Daniel and the rainbow griefers behind this? Or is it an even more Attack sinister enemy? Someone has changed the environment from survival to hardcore. Now if you get destroyed, you can't respawn. Noah and An Unofficial League of Violet must find a way to get the world back to survival while fighting off another griefer war staged by the evil Daniel and Griefers Adventure Series: his band of Rainbow Griefers. There's no room for error in this battle against time. With Creepers lurking in the dark and Thrilling Stories for Winter Morgan teleporting Endermen appearing out of nowhere, the duo have a lot more on their hands than only Griefers. They must use all 2 Minecrafters #6: The Hardcore their knowledge and skills to fight off nearly every kind of mob known to Minecrafters. Can they stop the Griefers and War restore the world to the way it was before they get destroyed?

Juvenile Fiction Princess Anna, Queen Elsa, Olaf the snowman, and the rest of the stars from Disney Frozen are back in an all-new magical chapter book series that is perfect for girls ages 6 to 9. Now that the castle gates are open, Anna and Elsa are thrilled to be Anna & Elsa: All Hail the Erica David finally getting to know their kingdom. Anna bubbles with enthusiasm for all the things to do and the people to meet in 6 Queen Arendelle, and Elsa loves using her magic to help the town. But sometimes even a queen needs a day off.

Having a little sister like four-year-old Ramona isn’t always easy for Beezus Quimby. With a wild imagination, disregard for order, and an appetite for chaos, Ramona makes it hard for Beezus to be the responsible older sister she knows she ought to Beezus and Ramona Beverly Cleary be…especially when Ramona threatens to ruin Beezus’s birthday party. Will Beezus find the patience to handle her little 1 sister before Ramona turns her big day into a complete disaster? Mitchie, a stage-shy 14-year-old, loves to sing. so when her mom takes a job as a cook at a summer camp for aspiring rock stars, Mitchie is ecstatic. Before she has even picked a bunk, Mitchie's voice catches the attention of the 2 most popular Camp Rock Disney campers, Tess, the reigning camp queen, and Shane, a pop star and total hottie who is searching for his sound. it is shaping 1 up to be the best summer ever! George and Harold are behind bars for a crime they didn't commit! But just as they are settling into their new life, they are pulled from prison by a time-traveling tyrant named Tippy Tinkletrousers! Now the boys are taking a trip back in time to the Captain Underpants and the carefree days of kindergarten, when the scariest thing they had to face was not evil mad scientists or alien cafeteria ladies but Terrifying Return of Tippy Dav Pokey a sixth-grade bully named Kipper Krupp, the nephew of their clueless school principal. And because George and Harold 3 Tinkle-Trousers don't invent Captain Underpants until they're in fourth grade, the clever kindergartners are on their own. Can they beat the bullies with brainpower instead of Wedgie Power? Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents Charlie and the Chocolate are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Roald Dahl 1 Factory Teavee, a toy-pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, a boy who is honest and kind, brave and true, and good and ready for the wildest time of his life!

When she's not hanging out at her family's sweets shop, Libby loves walking her dog. Especially since she always meets the most interesting people -- like Cedric, who's her age and also has a dog. They become fast friends, until Libby finds out his Charmed Life: Libby's Sweet Lisa Schroeder family are the new owners of a competing store! Libby tries to keep her family's business a secret, because she really likes 1 Surprise Cedric and wants to be his friend. But the secrets start adding up, and Libby needs the charm bracelet she shares with her besties to bring her some luck . . . right now! Clementine has been picked for Friend of the Week, which means she gets to be line leader, collect the milk money, and feed the fish. Even better, she'll get a Friend of the Week booklet, in which all the other third-grade kids will write why they like her. Clementine's best friend Margaret has all sorts of crazy ideas for how Clementine can prove to the class she is a good Clementine: Friend of the Week Marla Frazee friend. Clementine has to get a great booklet, so she does everything Margaret says she should do. But what begins as one of 1 the best weeks ever starts turning into the worst, and being a good friend might turn out harder than Clementine thinks.

Meet Sadie. When she's not mixing it up on the basketball court, she's mixing the perfect batter with her friends in the cupcake club. Sadie's definitely no stranger to competition, but the oven mitts are off when the club is chosen to appear on Cupcake Club: Winner Bakes Sheryl and Carrie Berk Battle of the Bakers, the ultimate cupcake competition on TV. But the real battle happens off camera when the club's baking 1 All business starts losing money. With the clock ticking and the cameras rolling, will the club and their cupcakes rise to the occasion? Join Katie, Mia, Emma, and Alexis as they form the Cupcake Club—and fast friendships. This book includes three stories in Cupcake Diaries: 3 books in 1 Coco Simon the Cupcake Diaries series: Emma All Stirred Up!, Alex Cool as a Cupcake, and Katie and the Cupcake War. 1

A villain acting vile is merely part of the job description . . . but which of Disney’s famed scoundrels is the evilest of them Disney Villains: The Evilest of all? Dive into the devilish thoughts of The Evil Queen, Jafar, Ursula, and more as they recall their most wicked Rachael Upton 2 them all achievements. With gatefolds and lift-the-flaps, readers can dive into minds of the best of the worst in this fun read for Disney fans of all ages.

Juvenile Fiction In the first book in this fully-illustrated series, 8-year old Drake is snatched up by King Roland's soldier and taken to the castle. He is to be trained as a Dragon Master. At the castle, he is joined by three other young Dragon Masters-in-training: Dragon Masters #1: Rise of the Tracey West Ana, Rori, and Bo. The Dragon Masters must learn how to connect with and train their dragons--and they must also uncover 1 Earth Dragon their dragons' special powers. Does Drake have what it takes to be a Dragon Master? What is his dragon's special power?

In the ninth book, a Dragon Master named Mina arrives at the castle. She tells Drake and his friends that her kingdom in the Dragon Masters: Chill of the Far North Lands was attacked by a magical Ice Giant. Everything there was frozen -- but Mina escaped! Only a fire dragon Tracey West 4 Ice Dragon can unfreeze her land and defeat the terrible Ice Giant. But Rori and Vulcan are no longer at the castle! Can the Dragon Masters find them in time to help their new friend? Pets come in all different shapes and sizes. But enchanted little pets have one thing in common: They are the beloved companions of the students at Ever After High! Lizzie Hearts loves her hexcellent hedgehog, Shuffle. Darling Charming Ever After High: Once Upon a Suzanne Selfors gallops confidently on her horse, Sir Gallopad. Dexter Charming hangs out with his well-mannered jackalope, Mr. 1 Pet Cottonhorn. Duchness proudly parades her swan, Pirouette. Ginger Breadhouse adores her gummy candy fish, Jelly. And Hopper Croakington II delights in his fire-breathing dragonfly, Drake. At Ever After High, everyone is expected to sign the Storybook of Legends, pledging to follow in their fairytale parent's footsteps. But when Raven Queen came along, things became fairy, fairy confusing. Now no one's destiny is certain, not even for the most royal of them all, Apple White. When a mysterious being from Wonderland begins to infect Ever After High with a strange magic, everything goes topsy-turvy. The students transform into animals and objects, palace mice talk, and the Ever After High: A Shannon Hale beautiful green grounds on campus fade to black-and-white. Lizzie Hearts, Wonderland's future queen, Cedar Wood, 1 Wonderlandiful World daughter of Pinocchio, and Madeline Hatter, heir to the Mad Hatter's Hat and Tea Shoppe, seem to be the only ones who haven't completely lost their heads. It's up to them to save their best friends forever after from a curse that threatens to give their school-and their lives-a very unhappy ending.

This time, we follow Flat Stanley as he explores San Francisco, California. The Lambchops are on a family vacation to San Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Francisco. But when Stanley saves a girl from barreling down one of San Francisco's steep hills in her wheelchair, he's Adventures #12: Escape to Jeff Brown shocked to find that she's actually been looking for him. The girl, Lily, is trying to perform an amazing trick that no one has 2 California done before—escaping from Alcatraz prison—and she needs Stanley's help! Can the famous flat boy help in this sticky situation? When the Lambchop family gets to Boston, Stanley is excited to go on a Duck Tour, eat lunch at Quincy Market, and see Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Fenway Park baseball stadium. Stanley even gets to be in a reenactment of American Colonist Paul Revere’s famous Adventures #13: The Midnight Jeff Brown midnight ride. But Stanley has a problem. The Lambchops’ friend, Dr. Dan, is in town, too, and he’s giving a speech about 2 Ride of Flat Revere his cure for flatness. And he wants Stanley to talk about being flat! But does Stanley want to change and be a regular kid, or would it be better to stay flat after all? Stanley and his family receive an unexpected phone call from Scotland Yard. Stanley has been invited to London to help Flat Stanley’s Worldwide with a top-secret case. One of the crown jewels was stolen years ago. The Queen has long suspected Lady Laura, her distant Adventures #14: On A Mission Jeff Brown cousin, of the theft, and Lady Laura will be in London to attend a formal ball at Buckingham Palace. If she has the jewel, this 2 for Her Majesty will be the perfect time to wear it. And that’s where Stanley comes in. Stanley loves the idea of being a spy, even if being flat has nothing to do with his mission. Or so he thinks... It all started when my sister, Thea, discovered a mysterious map. It showed a secret treasure on a faraway island. And before Geronimo Stilton #1: Lost Geronimo Stilton I could let out a squeak of protest, Thea dragged me into her treasure hunt! In no time at all, we'd set sail for the island. It was 2 Treasure of the Emerald Eye an adventure I'd never forget.... Geronimo Stilton #2: The Curse I'm off to Egypt! I climbed onboard a crabby old camel that would take me across the desert to the Great Cheese Pyramid. Geronimo Stilton 1 of the Cheese Pyramid There, among mummies and hieroglyphics, I would learn the secret of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient Mouse World… I was lost in a dark, spooky forest! Until I stumbled upon Curlypaw Cannycat's Castle. The castle was completely empty, or Geronimo Stilton #3: Cat and Geronimo Stilton so I thought. But I quickly discovered that it was haunted - by cats! Let me tell you, this was one case where curiosity almost 2 Mouse in a Haunted House! killed the mouse! Geronimo Stilton #4: I’m Too I was on my way 'round the world to Mouse Everest! The trip was long and dangerous. I almost froze my tail off on the way. Geronimo Stilton 1 Fond of My Fur! And then I was kidnapped by the Abominable Snowman! Yes, it was truly an amazing adventure...

Juvenile Fiction No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes -- and always goes back to sleep. But Marcus is afraid. He knows I Survived the Destruction of Lauren Tarshis something is terribly wrong -- and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees. When Vesuvius explodes 2 Pompeii, AD 79 into a cloud of fiery ash and rocks fall from the sky like rain, will they have time to escape -- and survive the epic destruction of Pompeii? Eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe has grown up with the beautiful Mount St. Helens always in the background. She's hiked its winding trails, dived into its cold lakes, and fished for trout in its streams. Just looking at Mount St. Helens out her window I Survived the Eruption of made Jess feel calm, like it was watching over her somehow. Of course, she knew the mountain was a volcano...but not the Lauren Tarshis 2 Mount St. Helens, 1980 active kind, not a volcano that could destroy and kill! Then Mount St. Helens explodes with unimaginable fury. Jess suddenly finds herself in the middle of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic event in U.S. history. Ash and rock are spewing everywhere. Can Jess escape in time? It's been four years since Carmen and Papa moved from Italy to Boston. Life here is exciting, but not always easy. And then there's the massive metal tank that rises up over their crowded North End neighborhood. The ugly tank, filled with sticky I Survived the Great Molasses Lauren Tarshis brown molasses, has always leaked. But nobody imagined that it could one day explode apart, sending a tsunami of molasses 1 Flood, 1919 into the streets. Caught in the flood, Carmen must fight for her life - the life that she and Papa built together in America. But where will she find the strength? Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets I Survived Hurricane Katrina, terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But Lauren Tarshis 2 2005 overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone? Visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his father's death would be hard enough for Ben. But one morning the pain turns to fear: first, a massive earthquake rocks the quiet coastal village, nearly toppling his uncle's house. Then the I Survived the Japanese Lauren Tarshis ocean waters rise and Ben and his family are swept away-and pulled apart-by a terrible tsunami. Now Ben is alone, stranded 2 Tsunami, 2011 in a strange country a million miles from home. Can he fight hard enough to survive one of the most epic disasters of all time? Eleven-year-old Dexter has always wanted to see a tornado. So when he gets the incredible opportunity to go storm chasing with the famous Dr. Norman Rays, he has to say yes! Dr. Rays is the host of Tornado Mysteries, the show that Dex and his Juvenile I Survived the Joplin Tornado, older brother, Jeremy, watched every night until Jeremy joined the U.S. Navy SEALs and left Joplin. Dex certainly knows Lauren Tarshis how deadly tornadoes can be, but this one isn't heading toward Joplin, and wouldn't it be great to have a brave and exciting 2 Fiction 2011 story of his own to tell Jeremy when he comes home? But when the tornado shifts direction, Dexter's bravery is about to get seriously tested... Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the I Survived the San Francisco streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems Lauren Tarshis 2 Earthquake, 1906 possible. But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally -- and he finds himself stranded in the middle of San Francisco as it crumbles and burns to the ground. Does Leo have what it takes to survive this devastating disaster? Judy Moody is in a royal purple-mountain-majesties mood. Make that Majesty with a capital M! With Grandma Lou’s help, Judy has dug up proof that some old-timey Moodys (aka the brave Mudeyes) lived in merry olde England. In fact, if her grandpa’s notes are right, Judy might even be related to — royal fanfare, please — the Queen herself! Should Judy start Judy Moody and the Right packing her purple robe for a sleepover at Buckingham Palace? But then Judy’s family tree gets a few more shakes — thanks Megan McDonald 4 Royal Tea Party to her nemesis, Jessica “Fink” Finch — and some more surprises come tumbling out. Crikey! These new gems are not nearly as shiny or sparkly as the crown jewels. Now Judy has some right royal family secrets she’d like to keep hidden away in a dungeon somewhere — and especially away from Jessica, the princess in pink herself! Juvenile Fiction

To start, Judy Moody doesn't have high hopes for third grade. Her new desk won't have an armadillo sticker with her name on it. Her new classroom will not have a porcupine named Roger. And with her luck, she'll get stuck sitting in the first row, Judy Moody: Was in a Mood. where Mr. Todd will notice every time she tries to pass a note to her best friend, Rocky. An aspiring doctor, Judy does have a Megan McDonald 1 Not a good mood. A bad mood. little brother who comes in handy for practicing medicine, a cool new pet, and a huge Band-Aid collection. Judy also has an abundance of individuality and attitude, and when Mr. Todd assigns a very special class project, she really gets a chance to express herself! PLAY BALL! Jack and Annie aren’t great baseball players . . . yet! Then Morgan the librarian gives them magical baseball caps that will make them experts. They just need to wear the caps to a special ballgame in Brooklyn, New York. The magic Magic Tree House: A Big Day Mary Pope Osborne tree house whisks them back to 1947! When they arrive, Jack and Annie find out that they will be batboys in the game—not 2 for Baseball ballplayers. What exactly does Morgan want them to learn? And what’s so special about this game? They only have nine innings to find out! In this second book in the My Weirder-est School series, A.J. and his friends are getting a substitute. Miss Porter isn’t your average teacher, though. She’s a Personal Digital Assistant that literally knows everything. She can tell My Weird-est School: Miss Dan Gutman a million hundred weird jokes and get pizza delivered by drone in seconds! But what happens when Miss Porter’s system is 2 Porter is Out of Order no longer set to fun? Will anyone be able to shut her down before she takes over Ella Mentry?

King Viking has a new giant robot to help him take over the Animal Town. Super Rabbit Boy must stop him, but he needs a Press Start #6: The Super Quest secret item. And to get the item, he has to defeat a dragon, escape a dungeon, and avoid lots and lots of robots. Can Super Thomas Flintham 2 Test Rabbit Boy finish all these quests in time to save Animal Town? Or will this latest Press Start! adventure put our hero to the test? Uh-oh, Super Rabbit Boy is in big trouble. He's been kidnapped by Queen Spooky and her ghost troop! Without Super Rabbit Press Start #7: Robo Rabbit Boy, Animal Town is scared. So meanie King Viking creates Robo-Rabbit Boy to help. Robo-Rabbit Boy is fast like Super 2 Boy Go Thomas Flintham Rabbit Boy and strong like Super Rabbit Boy, but is he a hero like Super Rabbit Boy? This latest Press Start! adventure is fully charged! When Pumpkin the miniature horse was born, there was something wrong with her legs. It hurt the little horse to walk or even stand. She needed help--and fast. Luckily, Pumpkin and her mom were rescued by Twist of Fate Farm and Sanctuary. Pumpkin's Story Aubrey Andrus The sanctuary's founder knew that Pumpkin was special. She would do whatever it took to help her. Pumpkin got lots of love 2 from her animal and human families--plus the support of thousands of online fans from across the globe. Together they helped Pumpkin beat the odds and learn to run! Rainbow Magic: The Sweet Kirsty and Rachel are delighted to be invited to Fairyland for the annual Candy Harvest. But when Monica the Marshmallow Fairies #1: Monica The Daisy Meadows Fairy's magical object goes missing, they find themselves in a sticky situation! Can the girls defeat Jack Frost in time to save 2 Marshmallow Fairy the Fairyland Sweet Factory from a bitter end? Rainbow Magic: The Sweet Gabby's special magic means sweets and treats everywhere taste delicious. But when Jack Frost steals her magical item, her Fairies #2: Gabby The Bubble Daisy Meadows bubble is well and truly burst! Can Rachel and Kirsty defeat him and return the sweetness to Fairyland? 2 Gum Fairy Rainbow Magic: The Sweet Rachel and Kirsty are having a great time at the Fairyland Candy Harvest. But when Franny the Jelly Bean Fairy's magical Fairies #3: Franny The Jelly Daisy Meadows object goes missing, all the treats lose their sweetness! Can the girls help save the day before everything turns sour? 2 Bean Fairy Rainbow Magic: The Sweet All of Fairyland and the human world enjoys Shelley the Sugar Fairy's tangy treats. But when Jack Frost steals her magical Fairies #4: Shelley The Sugar Daisy Meadows popping candy, it all starts exploding everywhere! Can the friends defeat him before Fairyland loses its fizz? 2 Fairy Seven-year-old Ramona world is turned upside-down when her father unexpectedly loses his job. Things grow tense in the Ramona and Her Father Beverly Cleary Quimby house, but Ramona resolves to help in any way she can—even downsizing her Christmas list. But with bills piling 1 up and her parents constantly stressed, Ramona wonders if life will ever go back to normal. Ramona Quimby is no longer seven, but not quite eight. She's "seven and a half right now," if you ask her. Not allowed to stay home alone, yet old enough to watch pesky Willa Jean, Ramona wonders when her mother will treat her like her older, Ramona and Her Mother Beverly Cleary more mature sister, Beezus. But with her parents' unsettling quarrels and some spelling trouble at school, Ramona wonders if 1 growing up is all it's cracked up to be. No matter what, she'll always be her mother's little girl…right? Juvenile Fiction

Life can move pretty fast—especially when you're in the third grade, your teenage sister's moods drive you crazy, and your mom has a suspicious secret she just won't share. Plus, Mr. Quimby's new job offer could have the entire family relocating. Ramona Forever Beverly Cleary It's a lot to handle for Ramona. But whatever trial comes her way, Ramona can count on one thing for sure—she'll always be 1 Ramona…forever! Ramona likes that she’s old enough to be counted on, but must everything depend on her? Mrs. Quimby has gone back to work so that Mr. Quimby can return to school, and Ramona is expected to be good for Mrs. Kemp while her parents are Ramona Quimby Age 8 Beverly Cleary away, to be brave enough to ride the school bus by herself, and to put up with being teased by Danny the Yard Ape. In 1 Ramona’s world, being eight isn’t easy, but it’s never dull! For a girl as enthusiastic about life as Ramona, starting the first grade should be easy! But with a teacher who doesn't understand her, a tattletale classmate, and a scary dog who follows her on the walk home from school, Ramona has a hard Ramona the Brave Beverly Cleary time acting like the big girl everyone expects her to be. But when she shows up to school with a missing shoe, Ramona gets a 1 fresh grip on her courage in order to make it through a mortifying situation. Ramona Quimby is excited to start kindergarten. No longer does she have to watch her older sister, Beezus, ride the bus to school with all the big kids. She's finally old enough to take the bus too! Then she gets into trouble for pulling her classmate's Ramona the Pest Beverly Cleary boingy curls during recess. Even worse, her crush rejects her in front of everyone. Beezus says Ramona needs to quit being a 1 pest, but how can she stop if she never was trying to be one in the first place? Ramona Quimby can't wait to start fourth grade. With a new baby sister to brag about, new calluses to show off, and a new best friend to get to know, everything's going to be great! Or is it? When Ramona's spelling is atrocious, her teacher, Mrs. Ramona's World Beverly Cleary Meacham, is firm about her needing to improve. Then a scary incident at a friend's house leaves Ramona feeling at fault. 1 Who knew growing up could be filled with such complicated situations? Are you made fainthearted by death? Does fire unnerve you? Is a villain something that might crop up in future nightmares of yours? Are you thrilled by nefarious plots? Is cold porridge upsetting to you? Vicious threats? Hooks? Uncomfortable Series of Unfortunate Events: Lemony Snicket clothing? It is likely that your answers will reveal A Series of Unfortunate Events to be ill-suited for your personal use. A 1 The Bad Beginning librarian, bookseller, or acquaintance should be able to suggest books more appropriate for your fragile temperament. But to the rarest of readers we say, "Proceed, but cautiously." At Aly and Brooke’s new nail salon, anything goes. Well, almost anything. One of their mother’s regular clients doesn’t go anywhere without her beloved dog Sadie, who’s a canine star. One paw leads to another, and the girls not only polish Sadie’s Sparkle Spa #2: Purple Nails Jill Santopolo nails, but also hatch a scheme to do doggy makeovers for the Annual Pup Adoption Day at the local shelter. But dogs aren’t 1 and Puppy Tails exactly ideal mani-pedi customers, are they? The girls are finding out the ruff way!

Aly and Brooke are up to their glittering fingertips in manis and pedis for the annual Fall Ball dance at Auden Elementary Sparkle Spa #3: Magic Jill Santopolo School. But when Princess Polish, a flashy new nail salon, opens right across the street, the sisters worry that Sparkle Spa’s 1 Makeover days might be numbered! When Brooke breaks her arm, it’s disastrous timing for the Sparkle Spa. The Auden Angels soccer team needs Rainbow Sparkles pedicures for good luck in the quarter finals. The girls in the Fall Dance recital are counting on the Sparkle Spa to make them look awesome. And Brooke can’t possibly do manis and pedis with one hand! Aly needs help—and she needs it Sparkle Spa #4: True Colors Jill Santopolo fast. So when Brooke’s best friend Sophie proves she’s a super fantastic manicurist, Aly hires her. But when Brooke finds 1 out what her sister’s been up to behind her back, can she see reason instead of red?

Trouble is coming to the Sparkle Spa, in the form of Aly Tanner’s worst nightmare: her arch rival and nemesis since Sparkle Spa #5: Bad News kindergarten is joining the salon! Know-it-all Suzy Davis has plenty of ideas about how the nail salon should be run and isn’t Jill Santopolo 1 Nails shy about telling the sisters what to do and how to do it. How can Brooke and Aly get Suzy out of their hair—and their business? The Tanner sisters must find a way to outshine some not-so-friendly competition—and keep the Sparkle Spa in the spotlight!—as school picture day approaches. It’s almost time for picture day at Auden Elementary School, and the Sparkle Sparkle Spa #6: A Picture Spa will make sure everyone looks picture perfect. But Aly Tanner’s arch rival, Suzy Davis, decides she knows how to make Jill Santopolo 1 Perfect Mess everyone look even better than Aly and Brooke do. Suzy will set up “shop” in the girls’ bathroom at school and let everyone use lip gloss and blush and mascara. Will Suzy’s plan really outsmart—and out sparkle—the Sparkle Spa? Juvenile Fiction

It’s Carnival Day at Auden Elementary School and Aly and Brooke are thrilled to set up a glittering Sparkle Spa booth for Sparkle Spa #7: Bling it On Jill Santopolo festive manicures. But what starts off all fun and games soon ends up in unpolished disaster! Can the girls find a way to 1 repair the damage in time to enjoy the day? Aly and Brooke Tanner are beyond excited! Joan, their favorite True Color’s manicurist, is getting married! Aly and Brooke Sparkle Spa #8: Wedding Bell want to be involved in every sparkly step, but when only one sister is going to be the Flower Girl, this wedding starts to feel Jill Santopolo 1 Blues less fun. Will Brooke and Aly figure out a way to make Joan’s happily-ever-after happy for everyone?

Star Wars: Poe Damron Fight Learn what the best pilot in the galaxy's life was like before joining the Resistance; get complete details of his mission to Michael Kogge 2 Log Jakku; and read the harrowing account of Black Squadron's daring attack on Starkiller Base! Stella is upset when she finds out she needs glasses. But then it turns out her new glasses are magic! When she wears them, Stella And the Night Sprites #1: Stella can see the sparkly night sprites. In this first book, Stella meets Trixie, a knit-knotter sprite. Trixie seems nice, but she Samantha Hay 2 Knit-Knotters ties knots in kids' hair to make it all tingly-tangly. If Trixie doesn't stop tying knots, Stella will have to get a haircut! Can Stella stop her magical new friend from turning her hair into a tangled mess? Stella has a loose tooth! She hopes her magic glasses will let her meet the Tooth Fairy. But Stella meets Piper, a tooth bandit Stella And the Night Sprites #2: Night Sprite, instead. Piper rides a glittery scooter and she's sneaky--she swipes the shiny coins the Tooth Fairy leaves Samantha Hay 2 Tooth Bandits behind. Stella has to find a way to keep her own coin safe from Piper! Will she make a magical new friend, too?

When Mr. Wolf is blown up to Godzilla proportions, the Bad Guys find themselves in monster-sized trouble. They must The Bad Guys in The Big Bad figure out how to stop an alien invasion and get Wolfie back to his old self before the world is totally destroyed. Good thing Aaron Blabey 1 Wolf (The Bad Guys #9) they have the International League of Heroes on their side, and some newly honed superpowers ready to put to the test... Everyone's favorite hero has become a menace to society! Can the Bad Guys save the day? You know it! To Lexi, a new school year means back to baking with her BFFs in the cupcake club. But the club president, Kylie, is mixing things up by inviting new members. And Lexi is in for a no-so-sweet surprise when she is cast in the school's production of The Cupcake Club: Recipe for Sheryl and Carrie Berk Romeo and Juliet. If only she could be as confident onstage as she is in the kitchen. The icing on the cake: her secret crush is 1 Trouble playing Romeo. Sounds like a recipe for trouble. Can the girls' friendship stand the heat, or will the cupcake club go up in smoke? I am Miss Kanagawa. In 1927, my 57 doll-sisters and I were sent from Japan to America as Ambassadors of Friendship. Our work wasn't all peach blossoms and tea cakes. My story will take you from New York to Oregon, during the Great Depression. Though few in this tale are as fascinating as I, their stories won't be an unpleasant diversion. You will make the The Friendship Doll Kirby Larson acquaintance of Bunny, bent on revenge; Lois, with her head in the clouds; Willie Mae, who not only awakened my heart, 1 but broke it; and Lucy, a friend so dear, not even war could part us. I have put this tale to paper because from those 58 Friendship Dolls only 45 remain. I know that someone who chooses this book is capable of solving the mystery of the missing sisters. Perhaps that someone is you. The Pony-Crazed Princess: When her pony, Sundance, goes missing, Princess Ellie blames a mysterious stranger for the disappearance, so Ellie and her Diana Kimpton 1 Princess Ellie to the Rescue best friend Kate must track down the mystery person and get Sundance back before it is too late. A kingdom is at war. A princess has been kidnapped by a dragon queen. A brave squire volunteers to set out on a quest to rescue her. But there's just one small problem. He's Thomas, the shortest of all the squires. With little more than a donkey, a Thomas and The Dragon Queen Shutta Crumb vest, and a sword, Thomas will have to use all of his courage and determination to battle a beast with many heads, reach a 1 forbidden island, and rescue the princess from a most fearsome dragon-and an even more fearsome fate!

Unicorn has a horn and can do magic. Yeti is big and furry and cannot do magic. Yeti likes snowball fights. Unicorn does not Unicorn and Yeti: Sparkly New Heather Ayrys like snowball fights. But Unicorn and Yeti both love sparkly things, magic rainbows, and -- most of all -- being best friends! 3 Friend Juvenile Fiction

Brrrrrrrr. This fairy tale is FREEZING! Even though my brother and I had decided to stay away from the magic mirror, our puppy had other plans -- he bounded right in. What choice did we have but to go in after him? When we land in a winter wonderland, we realize we must be in the story of The Snow Queen. And this fairy tale is nothing like the movie. This Snow Queen is super-mean, and she turns our dog into an ice sculpture! To get home we'll have to: - Defrost our furry friend Whatever After #6: Cold as Ice Sara Mlynowski - Ride a very chatty reindeer 1 - Learn to ice-skate - Escape from a band of robbers And if we're not careful . . . we could end up frozen ourselves!

Beat the Game includes strategies, skills, and tons of hints and tips to help you complete those tricky levels, tough bosses, or epic challenges in order to beat your favorite video games like Overwatch, Star Wars: Battlefront, and Plants vs. Zombies. Beat The Game! Scholastic Gamers will learn how to crack the toughest trophies, unlock achievements, and even hear from YouTube stars and gaming 3 pros like Ghosterobo, Stallion83, and more sharing the secrets of their success. All games featured in Beat the Game are rated T for Teen or younger keeping it appropriate for young gamers. Learn about the characters, locations, themes, and iconic moments of Disney's newest princess tale, Frozen. A fact-filled Disney Frozen: The Essential DK Publishing reference, Frozen: The Essential Guide takes you inside this enchanting world featuring beautiful movie stills and fun and 2 Guide interesting facts! When winter arrives, animals living in cold environments need to cope to survive. Do polar bears build homes? Do penguins snuggle with a friend? Yes! But their homes aren’t made of wood, and they don’t cuddle on a couch. Instead, these animals and many more have adapted in amazing ways to survive chilly weather. Whether it’s whales layering up with 12 inches of Do Frogs Drink Hot Chocolate? Etta Kaner blubber, turtles burrowing into the mud to snooze and wait for spring, or emperor penguins coming together in a giant 2 huddle, this book is full of fascinating tidbits about animal behavior in winter.

Finding Gobi: The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey is the incredible true story of Dion Leonard, a New York Times bestselling author and athlete, who was befriended by a stray dog while running an ultramarathon through the Gobi Desert. Named for the desert in which he found her, Gobi became Dion’s closest companion for 77 miles of the 155-mile race across China. The scrappy little pup ran mile after mile alongside Dion, through treacherous conditions and across Finding Gobi: Young Reader's raging rivers. He let her sleep in his tent and share his food, and eventually, his focus shifted from winning to the newfound Edition: The True Story of One Dion Leonard friendship he and Gobi shared. They crossed the finish line together—not first, but together—and Dion decided to bring 1 Little Dog's Big Journey Gobi home to Scotland. Just before they were about to leave, however, Gobi disappeared, setting off a worldwide search for the stray. In a town of more than 3 million people, the search seemed hopeless, but this tale of friendship will surprise and delight you as you find out what happens!

Impress your friends with your drawing skills! You're the winning bidder of a contract to build vehicles for the armed forces. Discover how to draw these magnificent vehicles, like the B-2 Stealth Bomber, CH-47 Chinook, and the CVN-68 Nimitz How to Draw Military Vehicles Sienna Catz aircraft carrier. The design stencils will help you improve your drawing skills. Get declassified information about each 5 vehicle. Break out your pencil! Your country needs you! Sharpen your pencils and get ready for mortal combat! You can make these monstrous beasts as scary as you like! This mega kit has all the tools you need to draw a whole legion of monsters: hydras, griffins, minotaurs, sea-serpents … all the ones you How to Draw Monstrous Beasts N/A already know not to mess with, and heaps more that you soon will! There are tips on how to make them look realistic, and 3 terrifying facts on how they attack and kill. So draw them and turn them loose! Kit contains a 32-page book, drawing pad, 2 erasers, blending stump, drawing pencils, sharpener, sandpaper block and monster trading cards. Catching Fire, the New York Times bestseller by Suzanne Collins, is now a major motion picture -- and this is your guide to The Hunger Games: Catching all of the movie's excitement, both in front of the camera and behind it.Go behind the scenes of the making of Catching Fire Fire (The Official Illustrated Kate Egan with exclusive materials, including back-stage photos and interviews. From the screenwriting process to the casting 1 Movie Companion) decisions, from the fantastic new sets and gorgeous costumes to the actors' performances and the director's vision, this is the definitive companion to the second Hunger Games film.

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Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the "population" of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life—animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing Where Is the Amazon? Sarah Fabiny creatures and plants that can either cure diseases, or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch. Where Is the Amazon? 2 reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that, in many ways, supports our existence on this planet. There are canyons all over the planet, and the Grand Canyon in Arizona is not the biggest. Yet because of the spectacular colors in the rock layers and fascinating formations of boulders, buttes, and mesas, it is known as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. Starting with a brief overview of how national parks came into being, this book covers all aspects of Where Is the Grand Canyon? 2 Jim O'Connor the canyon--how it formed, which early native people lived there, and what varied wildlife can be found there now. A history of the canyon's end-to-end exploration in the late 1860s and how the Grand Canyon became such a popular vacation spot (5 million tourists visit every year) round out this informative, easy-to-read account. Juvenile Nonfiction

The Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Australia, is the world's largest coral reef system. Stretching more than 1,400 miles, Where Is the Great Barrier Nico Medina it provides a home to a wide diversity of creatures. Designated a World Heritage Site, the reef is suffering from the effects of 2 Reef? climate change but this fascinating book shows this spectacular part of our planet. Jane Goodall, born in London, England, always loved animals and wanted to study them in their natural habitats. So at age twenty-six, off she went to Africa! Goodall's up-close observations of chimpanzees changed what we know about them and Who is Jane Goodall? Roberta Edwards paved the way for many female scientists who came after her. Now her story comes to life in this biography with black-and- 4 white illustrations throughout. Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein-but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really know about Albert Einstein Who Was Albert Einstein? Jess Brallier besides the funny hair and genius label? For instance, do they know that he was expelled from school as a kid? Finally, here's 4 the story of Albert Einstein's life, told in a fun, engaging way that clearly explores the world he lived in and changed. When he was young, Cesar and his Mexican American family toiled in the fields as migrant farm workers. He knew all too well the hardships farm workers faced. His public-relations approach to unionism and aggressive but nonviolent tactics made Who Was Cesar Chaves? Dana Meachen Rau the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. Along with Dolores Huerta, he cofounded the National 1 Farmworkers Association. His dedication to his work earned him numerous friends and supporters, including Robert Kennedy and Jesse Jackson. Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washington Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver enrolled in classes and proved to be a star student. He became the first black student at Iowa Who Was George Washington State Agricultural College and later its first black professor. He went on to the Tuskegee Institute where he specialized in 4 Carver? Jim Gigliotti botany (the study of plants) and developed techniques to grow crops better. His work with vegetables, especially peanuts, made him famous and changed agriculture forever. Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail cells, and locked trunks. But do they know that the ever-ambitious and adventurous Houdini was also a famous movie star and the first pilot to fly a Who was Harry Houdini? Tui Sutherland plane in Australia? This well-told biography is full of the details of Houdini's life that kids will really want to know about 1 and illustrated throughout with beautiful black-and-white line drawings. If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even Who Was Louis Armstrong? Yona Zeldis McDonough tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrong's own passion and genius that pushed jazz 1 into new and exciting realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year life spanned a critical time in American music as well as black history. Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two Who Was Marie Curie? 4 Megan Stine elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.

After moving from Connecticut to New York City in 1834, twenty-four-year-old Phineas Taylor Barnum launched his now- legendary career as a showman. Even though spectators debated whether his exhibitions were authentic wonders, hoaxes, or Who Was P.T. Barnum? Kirsten Anderson a little bit of both, they were always astounded by what they saw. And readers are sure to be amazed by the story of how 2 Barnum went from owning a museum filled with rare and unusual items to transforming the American circus into a popular and thrilling phenomenon. Told in multiple viewpoints, A Tangle of Knots is a magnificent puzzle. In a slightly magical world where everyone has a Talent, eleven-year-old Cady is an orphan with a phenomenal Talent for cake baking. But little does she know that fate has set her on a journey from the moment she was born. And her destiny leads her to a mysterious address that houses a lost A Tangle of Knots Lisa Graff luggage emporium, an old recipe, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent Thief who will alter her 2 life forever. However, these encounters hold the key to Cady's past and how she became an orphan. If she's lucky, fate may reunite her with her long-lost parent. In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning novel THE CROSSOVER, soccer, family, love, and friendship, take center stage as twelve-year-old Nick learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to Booked Kwame Alexander impress the girl of his dreams. Helping him along are his best friend and sometimes teammate Coby, and The Mac, a rapping 5 librarian who gives Nick inspiring books to read. This electric and heartfelt novel-in-verse by poet Kwame Alexander bends and breaks as it captures all the thrills and setbacks, action and emotion of a World Cup match! The code of the wild has been broken. The elephant leader known as Great Mother has been murdered. And Bravelands is on Bravelands: Code of Honor Erin Hunter the edge of chaos. Now a young baboon, elephant, and lion must come together to discover the truth—before the fragile 4 balance of Bravelands is destroyed forever. In Hatchet, 13-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed only with his hatchet. Brian's Winter Gary Paulson Finally, as millions of readers know, he was rescued at the end of the summer. But what if Brian hadn't been rescued? What 1 if he had been left to face his deadliest enemy - winter? Trix can deal with being an orphan charity case at a snotty boarding school. She can hold her own when everyone else tells her not to dream big dreams. She can even fight back against the mysterious stranger in a silver mask who tries to steal the meteorite her parents trusted her to protect. But her life is about to change forever. The Circus Galacticus has come to town, Circus Galacticus Deva Fagan bringing acts to amaze, delight, and terrify. And now the dazzling but enigmatic young Ringmaster has offered Trix the 5 chance to be a part of it. Soon Trix discovers an entire universe full of deadly enemies and potential friends, not to mention space leeches, ancient alien artifacts, and exploding chocolate desserts. And she just might unravel the secrets of her own past—if she can survive long enough. Alfie thought he knew his destiny. He didn't know the half of it. Fourteen year old heir to the throne, Alfie, didn't expect to Mark Huckerbee & Nick Defender of the Realm be King so soon. He DEFINITELY did not expect to be ... DEFENDER OF THE REALM. A legendary superhero, fighting a 2 Ostlur secret, centuries-long, battle to protect the nation from monsters and super-villains. Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team - a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Ghost has a crazy natural talent, but no formal training. If he can stay on track, literally and figuratively, he could be the best sprinter in the city. But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons - it all starting with Ghost Jason Reynolds running away from his father, who, when Ghost was a very little boy, chased him and his mother through their apartment, 1 then down the street, with a loaded gun, aiming to kill. Since then, Ghost has been the one causing problems - and running away from them - until he meets Coach, an ex-Olympic Medalist who blew his own shot at success by using drugs, and who is determined to keep other kids from blowing their shots at life.

The marshals are looking for the perfect girl to join a mother, father, and son on the run from the nation’s most notorious criminals. After all, the bad guys are searching for a family with one kid, not two, and adding a streetwise girl who knows a little something about hiding things may be just what the marshals need. Nicki swears she can keep the Trevor family safe, Greetings from Witness Jake Burt but to do so she’ll have to dodge hitmen, cyberbullies, and the specter of standardized testing, all while maintaining her 2 Protection marshal-mandated B-minus average. As she barely balances the responsibilities of her new identity, Nicki learns that the biggest threats to her family’s security might not lurk on the road from New York to North Carolina, but rather in her own past. When a plane crash-lands in the arctic, eight young survivors step from the wreckage expecting to see nothing but ice and snow. Instead they find themselves lost in a strange jungle with no way to get home and little hope of rescue. Food is running out. Water is scarce. And the jungle is full of threats unlike anything the survivors have ever seen before -- from razor-beaked Horizon (Book 1) 2 Scott Westerfeld shredder birds to carnivorous vines and much, much worse. With danger at every turn, these eight kids must learn to work together to survive. But cliques and rivalries threaten to tear them apart. And not everyone will make it out of the jungle alive. Horizon Book 3: A Warp in National Book Award winner Jude Watson joins the race for survival! The harrowing tale of survival and suspicion takes its Jude Watson 1 Time most dramatic turn yet when Molly, Yoshi, and the rest discover that there are more than just monsters in the rift.

Tween The Starker family is infamous. They’ve been chronicled on blogs, profiled on TV and researched by paranormal investigators. They appear to be cursed: everyone of Starker blood has died after being struck by lightning. Fourteen-year-old Newton Starker is the last of his line—except for his great-grandmother, Enid, a woman as friendly as a pickled Jolted : Newton Starker's Role wolverine—and he’s determined to survive. Newton has spent all of his life surviving, following a list of rules for self- Arthur Slade 7 for Survival preservation, guidelines passed down through generations of Starkers. But Newton wants to try something new. He has enrolled at Jerry Potts Academy of Higher Learning and Survival in Moose Jaw with the hope that he’ll be able to beat the odds—he has a dream of becoming a great chef someday. If he wants to go beyond just getting by, Newton is going to need more than rules. He’s going to need friends. Cleo was the queen bee of the RADs, the normies, and everyone in between at Merston High. But now it's "Frankie this" and Monster High #2: the Goul "Melody that" . . . these new girls sure know how to get her lashes in a tangle. When Cleo lands a golden Teen Vogue photo Lisi Harrison 3 Next Door op for her friends, everything seems to be back on track . . . until they bail to be in some film . . . Frankie and Melody's film! Can't a royal get some loyal? As Doug struggles to be more than the “skinny thug” that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds an unlikely ally in Lil Spicer—a fiery young lady who “smelled like daisies would smell if they were growing in a big field under a clearing sky after a rain.” In Lil, Doug finds the strength to endure an abusive father, the suspicions of a whole town, and the return of his oldest brother, forever scarred, from Vietnam. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning Okay for Now Gary Schmidt about the plates of John James Audubon’s birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage. In this stunning novel, 4 Schmidt expertly weaves multiple themes of loss and recovery in a story teeming with distinctive, unusual characters and invaluable lessons about love, creativity, and survival.

Storm Hall lives to sing. Whisked away on the holiday of a lifetime, Storm misses her first chance to sing nationally. Did she Pop Girl Tallia Storm 1 miss her big break? Randi Rhodes and her best friends, Dario Cruz (D.C.) and Pudge Taylor, have earned their places as Deer Creek's famous ninja detectives. Now they're in New York City, and their crime-fighting instincts are on high alert! While visiting Randi's aunt in Brooklyn, the trio notices some suspicious-looking characters casing the museum across the street-a museum with a Randy Rhodes, Ninja Detective Octavia Spencer 2 new exhibit of precious Fabergé eggs worth millions. There were once fifty Faberegé eggs, but these treasures have a habit of vanishing. The ninja detectives won't let that happen on their watch! Will they be able to unravel this centuries-old mystery before it's too late? Tween Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name. He knows he's Chase. But who is Chase? When he gets back to school, he sees Restart Gordon Korman that different kids have very different reactions to his return. Some kids treat him like a hero. Some kids are clearly afraid of 2 him. One girl in particular is so angry with him that she pours her frozen yogurt on his head the first chance she gets. Pretty soon, it's not only a question of who Chase is -- it's a question of who he was . . . and who he's going to be. Estefania "Stef" Soto is itching to shake off the onion-and-cilantro embrace of Tia Perla, her family's taco truck. She wants nothing more than for Papi to get a normal job and for Tia Perla to be a distant memory. Then maybe everyone at school will Stef Soto, Taco Queen Jennifer Torres stop seeing her as the Taco Queen. But when her family's livelihood is threatened, and it looks like her wish will finally come 2 true, Stef surprises everyone (including herself) by becoming the truck's unlikely champion. In this fun and heartfelt novel, Stef will discover what matters most and ultimately embrace an identity that even includes old Tia Perla. Cassie Bennett is great at being in charge. She always knows what to do to lead her teams to victory, keep her many groups of friends together, or fix any problem that comes her way. So when Sarah Milligan, an autistic girl with unreal softball skills, joins Cassie’s team, Cassie’s sure she can help her fit in with the team. But before long it’s obvious that being around so many people is really hard for Sarah, and the more Cassie tries to reach out and involve her, the more Sarah pushes her away, sometimes literally. It doesn’t help that Cassie’s teammates aren’t as interested in helping Sarah as they are in making Team Players Mike Lupica sure they make it to the new softball All-Star Tournament that’ll be televised just like the Little League World Series. Soon 4 no one seems to even want Sarah on the team anymore besides Cassie, and the harder Cassie tries to bring everyone together, the worse things seem to get. Cassie Bennett never backs down from a challenge, but can she realize that maybe the challenge isn’t fixing a problem in someone else, but in herself? Or will her stubbornness lead her to lose more than just softball games? Tween

In one of the last cities standing after the world fell to monsters, best friends Zed Kagari and Brock Dunderfel have high hopes for the future. Zed desperately wishes to join the ranks of the Mages Guild, where his status as Freestone's only half elf might finally be an asset. Brock, the roguishly handsome son of merchants, is confident he'll be welcomed into the ranks of Zach Loran Clark & the Merchants Guild. But just as it seems the boys' dreams have come true, their lives take a startling turn . . . and they find The Adventurers Guild 2 Nick Eliopulos themselves members of the perilous Adventurers Guild. Led by the fearsome Alabasel Frond, the guild acts as the last line of defense against the Dangers-hungry, unnatural beasts from otherworldly planes. And when the boys uncover a conspiracy that threatens all of Freestone, Zed, Brock, and their new allies-Liza, a fierce noble, and Jett, a brave dwarf-must prove their worth once and for all. Josie always liked visiting her grandmother in the countryside. But when her mother loses her job in the city and they're forced to relocate along with Josie's sister, Annie, she realizes she doesn't like the country that much. Especially because Grandma Jeannie has some strange rules: Don't bring any dolls into the house. And never, ever go near the house in the woods behind their yard. Soon, though, Josie manages to make friends with the most popular girl in the sixth grade, Vanessa. The Collector KR Alexander When Vanessa eventually invites Josie back to her house to hang out, Hosie doesn't question it. Not even when Vanessa 1 takes her into the woods, and down an old dirt road, toward the very house Grandma Jeannie had warned her about. As Josie gets caught up in her illicit friendship with Vanessa, Annie is caught in the crossfire. What follows is a chilling tale of dark magic, friendship, and some very creepy dolls.

Has Gabriel created a monster? Something sinister lurks in the woods outside of Slade. Gabe has seen it, or he thinks he has - a shadow standing at the tree line, watching Gabe's house with faintly glowing eyes. Despite Gabe's misgivings, his new friend, Seth, relishes the creepy atmosphere of the forest. It's the perfect setting for his imaginary struggle against the Hunter, a deformed child-eating creature said to leave the bones of his victims in his wake. It's just a game, but it's all a bit much for The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe Dan Poblocki Gabe, who quickly loses interest as summer ends and the days grow shorter. But then strange things start to happen. 2 Frightening things. And Gabe knows it has to do with the dark figure watching him from the edge of the woods. Is Seth out to teach Gabe a lesson? Or is the Hunter more than just a myth? Gabe isn't sure which option is more horrifying, but he's determined to learn the truth before someone gets hurt . . . or worse.

After Daniel's young sister disappears in the woods, he starts to believe the myth about a witch and her terrifying hog who Took Mary Downing Hahn 2 take little girls and keep them for 50 years. The state of Maine plans to shut down her island's schoolhouse, which would force Tess's family to move to the mainland-- and Tess to leave the only home she has ever known. Fortunately, the islanders have a plan too: increase the numbers of students by having several families take in foster children. So now Tess and her family are taking a chance on Aaron, a Touch Blue Cynthia Lord thirteen-year-old trumpet player who has been bounced from home to home. And Tess needs a plan of her own--and all the 7 luck she can muster. Will Tess's wish come true or will her luck run out?

How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the Trials of Apollo Book 1: four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's Rick Riordan 3 Hidden Oracle favor. But Apollo has many enemies—gods, monsters, and mortals who would love to see the former Olympian permanently destroyed. Apollo needs help, and he can think of only one place to go . . . an enclave of modern demigods known as Camp Half-Blood. Meg and her siblings have been sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with elderly relatives. The children are looking forward to exploring the ancient mansion and perhaps discovering a musty old attic or two filled with treasure, but never in their wildest dreams did they expect to find themselves in the middle of a fairy war. When Rowan pledges to fight Under the Green Hill Laura L Sullivan for the beautiful fairy queen, Meg is desperate to save her brother. But the Midsummer War is far more than a battle between 5 mythic creatures: Everything that lives depends on it. How can Meg choose between family and the fate of the very land itself? Tween

Twelve-year-old Charlotte Lockard and eleven-year-old Ben Boxer are separated by more than a thousand miles. On the surface, their lives seem vastly different—Charlotte lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while Ben is in the small town of Lanester, Louisiana. Charlotte wants to be a geologist and keeps a rock collection in her room. Ben is obsessed with Harry Potter, presidential history, and recycling. But the two have more in common than they think. They’re both highly gifted. You Go First Erin Entrada Kelly They’re both experiencing family turmoil. And they both sit alone at lunch. During the course of one week, Charlotte and 3 Ben—friends connected only by an online Scrabble game—will intersect in unexpected ways as they struggle to navigate the turmoil of middle school. The New York Times-bestselling novel You Go First reminds us that no matter how hard it is to keep our heads above troubled water, we never struggle alone.

It's been a year since the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlie is just trying to move on. Even with the excitement of a new school and a fresh start, she's still haunted by nightmares of a masked murderer and four gruesome 5 Nights at Freddy's: The animatronic puppets. Charlie thinks her ordeal is over, but when a series of bodies are discovered near her school - bearing Scott Cawthon 2 Twisted Ones wounds that are disturbingly familiar - she finds herself drawn back into the world of her father's frightening creations. Something twisted is hunting Charlie, and this time if it finds her, it's not letting her go.

High school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer have made some terrible mistakes, but nothing compares to what they A Pretty Little Liars Novel: did last spring break. Now the girls are packing their bags for a Caribbean cruise, hoping the trip will be a much-needed Sara Shepard 1 Burned vacation from their stalker, A. But they should know by now that A won't be left high and dry. Sure enough, A shows up on deck, ready to send these pretty little liars to a watery grave. . . . .

First Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer claimed they found a dead body in the woods behind Spencer's house, only to have it A Pretty Little Liars Novel: Sara Shepard vanish without a trace. Then, when the same woods went up in flames, they swore they saw someone who's supposed to be 1 Heartless dead rise from the ashes. And even after all that, the pretty little liars are still playing with fire. Call me heartless, but it's about time someone shut these liars up for good. After all, nobody likes a girl who cries wolf, least of all me. . . . Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily have been lying ever since they became friends with beautiful Alison DiLaurentis. And their bad-girl ways didn't die with her. Hanna's on a mission to corrupt Rosewood's youth, starting with a very attractive A Pretty Little Liars Novel: Sara Shepard sophomore. Aria's snooping into her boyfriend's past. Spencer's stealing—from her family. And pure little Emily's abstaining 1 Killer from abstinence. The girls should be careful, though. There's a new A in town turning up the heat. And this time Rosewood is going to burn. Emily’s reconnecting with an old flame, one baby step at a time. But is she headed toward true love or another bundle of heartache? Spencer’s learning about the highs and lows of campus life on a trip to Princeton. Aria’s seeing a whole new side A Pretty Little Liars Novel: to Noel’s dad—and it could drive a wedge between her and Noel. And, for better or worse, Hanna’s getting in touch with her Sara Shepard 1 Stunning inner A. Secret by secret, lie by lie, the girls get tangled in A’s dangerous web. Soon A will have enough ammunition to pull the trigger and end the pretty little liars, once and for all….

For three long years, Hanna, Spencer, Aria, and Emily wondered what happened the night their best friend Alison disappeared. Now that all their questions have finally been answered, they can put this awful chapter of their lives behind A Pretty Little Liars Novel: Sara Shepard them. Or so they think. Not every story has a happy ending, especially when four pretty little liars have done so many wicked 1 Wanted things. Will the girls get everything they've ever wanted? Not if I have anything to say about it.

In idyllic Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four very pretty girls just can't help but be bad. Hanna will do anything to be Rosewood's queen bee. Spencer's digging up her family's secrets. Emily can't stop thinking about her new boyfriend. And Aria approves a A Pretty Little Liars Novel: Sara Shepard little too strongly of her mom's taste in men. The girls think they’re in the clear now that Ali's killer is finally behind bars. 1 Wicked But someone new is mimicking “A’s” blackmailing ways with wicked and mysterious messages. And it’s only a matter of time before they let some secrets slip. Emerson Watts didn’t even want to go to the new SoHo Stark Megastore grand opening. But someone needed to look out for her sister, Frida, whose crush, British heartthrob Gabriel Luna, would be singing and signing autographs there—along with Airhead Meg Cabot the newly appointed Face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard. How was Em to know that disaster would 2 strike, changing her, and life as she’d known it, forever?

Young Adult With harpoons strapped to their backs, the proud whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt, fighting in the ongoing war against the world of men. When they attack a ship bobbing on the surface of the Abyss, they expect to find easy prey. And the Ocean Was Our Sky Patrick Ness Instead, they find the trail of a myth, a monster, perhaps the devil himself... As their relentless Captain leads the chase, they 1 embark on a final, vengeful hunt, one that will forever change the worlds of both whales and men.

As Easy as Falling Off the Face Train. Car. Plane. Boat. Feet. He'll get there. Won't he? Lynn Rae Perkins 3 of the Earth Conor and Aine have barely escaped Seare with their lives. Conor knows he must return to find the harp that could end the Red Druid’s reign of terror, but in the midst of their escape, he and Aine are torn apart once more. Surrounded by despair and Song of Seare #2: Beneath the C.E. Laureano thrown into as much danger as they left behind, Conor and Aine must cling to the whispers of Comdiu’s plans for them and 1 Forsaken City the homeland that depends on their survival. But at what cost? Will they learn to depend on Comdiu completely? Or will they give up hope? They are outcasts. Hal, Stig, and the others - they are the boys the others want no part of. Skandians, as any reader of Ranger's Apprentice could tell you, are known for their size and strength. Not these boys. Yet that doesn't mean they don't have skills. And courage - which they will need every ounce of to do battle at sea against the other bands, the Wolves and the Brother Band Chronicles #1: Sharks, in the ultimate race. The icy waters make for a treacherous playing field . . . especially when not everyone thinks of it John Flanagan 4 The Outcast as playing. John Flanagan, author of the international phenomenon Ranger's Apprentice, creates a new cast of characters to populate his world of Skandians and Araluens, a world millions of young readers around the world have come to know and admire. Full of seafaring adventures and epic battles, Book 1 of The Brotherband Chronicles is sure to thrill readers of Ranger's Apprentice while enticing a whole new generation just now discovering the books. Severely burned as a child, Katherine is now eighteen and trying to make peace between her inner, true self and the scarred Butterflies Susanne Gervay 1 exterior that everyone sees. A captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman. Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose Challenger Deep Neal Shusterman friends are starting to notice his odd behavior. Caden Bosch is designated the ship's artist in residence to document the 1 journey with images. Caden Bosch pretends to join the school track team but spends his days walking for miles, absorbed by the thoughts in his head. Caden Bosch is split between his allegiance to the captain and the allure of mutiny. Caden Bosch is torn. In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when it becomes clear that the mysterious Magister will stop at nothing to use Tessa’s powers for his own dark ends. With the help of the handsome, tortured Will and the devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister’s war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal and fueled by revenge. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist- The Infernal Devices Book 2: shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning Cassandra Clare 3 Clockwork Prince for Will, they realize that the Magister knows their every move—and that one of their own has betrayed them. Tessa is drawn more and more to Jem, though her longing for Will continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa answers about who she really is? As their search leads to deadly peril, Tessa learns that secrets and lies can corrupt even the purest heart.

Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. As she intricately weaves her confession, Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of 3 their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?

Young Adult Prudence Galewski doesn’t belong in Mrs. Browning’s esteemed School for Girls. She doesn’t want an “appropriate” job that makes use of refinement and charm. Instead, she is fascinated by how the human body works—and why it fails. Prudence is lucky to land a position in a laboratory, where she is swept into an investigation of a mysterious fever. From ritzy mansions to shady bars and rundown tenements, Prudence explores every potential cause of the disease to no avail—until the volatile Deadly Julie Chibbaro Mary Mallon emerges. Dubbed “Typhoid Mary” by the press, Mary is an Irish immigrant who has worked as a cook in every 3 home the fever has ravaged. But she’s never been sick a day in her life. Is the accusation against her an act of discrimination? Or is she the first clue in solving one of the greatest medical mysteries of the twentieth century?

Going against Mary Hightower's wishes, Nick, "the chocolate ogre," is slowly trying to reach every kid in Everlost to hand Everwild (The Skinjacker each and every one a coin, which will release them from Everlost. Mikey McGill and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers Neal Shusterman 5 Trilogy Book 2) who have more of an impact on the living world then any other inhabitant of Everlost. Except Mikey can't skinjack and Allie can - and there is a very good reason: Allie is not actually dead. With her rare ability to breathe fire, Jacinda is special even among the draki—the descendants of dragons who can shift between human and dragon forms. But when Jacinda’s rebelliousness forces her family to flee into the human world, she Firelight Sophie Jordan struggles to adapt, even as her draki spirit fades. The one thing that revives it is the gorgeous, elusive Will, whose family 2 hunts her kind. Jacinda can’t resist getting closer to him, even though she knows she’s risking not only her life but the draki’s most closely guarded secret. Where are you guys? Text me back. That's the last message Carver Briggs will ever send his three best friends, Mars, Eli, and Blake. He never thought that it would lead to their death. Now Carver can’t stop blaming himself for the accident and even worse, a powerful judge is pressuring the district attorney to open up a criminal investigation. Luckily, Carver has some unexpected allies: Eli’s girlfriend, the only person to stand by him at school; Dr. Mendez, his new therapist; and Blake’s Goodbye Days Jeff Zentner grandmother, who asks Carver to spend a “goodbye day” together to share their memories and say a proper farewell. Soon 4 the other families are asking for their own goodbye day with Carver—but he’s unsure of their motives. Will they all be able to make peace with their losses, or will these goodbye days bring Carver one step closer to a complete breakdown or—even worse—prison? Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a Hunger Games #2: Catching victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won Suzanne Collins 2 Fire for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones—and in her blood. After all, her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering its secrets. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters out of their comfortable home among the aristocracy and back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there’s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas…or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yeva’s father’s misfortune Hunted Megan Spooner may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he’d 3 been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. The Beast. Deaf to her sisters’ protests, Yeva hunts this strange creature back into his own territory—a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of magical creatures that Yeva’s only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin, or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?

Frey and Rafi are inseparable . . . two edges of the same knife. But only one of them is ever seen in public. Frey is Rafi's twin sister-and her body double. Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world has grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. So while Rafi was raised to be the perfect daughter, Frey has been taught to kill. Her only purpose is to protect her Imposters Scott Westerfeld sister, to sacrifice herself for Rafi if she must. When her father sends Frey in Rafi's place as collateral in a precarious deal, 5 she becomes the perfect impostor. But Col, the son of a rival leader, is getting close enough to spot the killer inside her . . . .

Young Adult As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children. They’ll travel from modern- Library of Souls Ransom Riggs day London to the labyrinthine alleys of Devil’s Acre, the most wretched slum in all of Victorian England. It’s a place where 7 the fate of peculiar children everywhere will be decided once and for all. Young Adult Jonah and Katherine are accustomed to traveling through time, but when learn they next have to return Albert Einstein’s daughter to history, they think it’s a joke—they’ve only heard of his sons. But it turns out that Albert Einstein really did have a daughter, Lieserl, whose 1902 birth and subsequent disappearance was shrouded in mystery. Lieserl was presumed to have Margaret Peterson Caught (The Missing Book 5) died of scarlet fever as an infant. But when Jonah and Katherine return to the early 1900s to fix history, one of Lieserl’s 2 Haddix parents seems to understand entirely too much about time travel and what Jonah and Katherine are doing. It’s not Lieserl’s father, either—it’s her mother, Mileva. And Mileva has no intention of letting her daughter disappear.

Skye Hamilton has scored an invitation to the ultra-exclusive Alphas-only boarding school where beta is spelled LBR . What Movers & Fakers (Alphas series Lisi Harrison happens when the country's best, brightest, and hawtest begin clawing and scratching their way to the top? 3 Book 2)

16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble. When her mother is killed during the siege, Valya is left with one burning desire: to join up with her older sister, a Night Witches: A Novel of Kathryn Lasky member of the famous and feared Night Witches-a brigade of young female pilots. Using all her wits, Valya manages to get 2 WWII past the German blockade and find the Night Witches' base . . . and that's when the REAL danger starts. The women have been assigned a critical mission. If they succeed, they'll inflict serious damage on the Nazis. If they fail, they'll face death . . . or even worse horrors. The last thing Cammie Morgan remembers is leaving the Gallagher Academy to protect her friends and family from the Circle of Cavan-an ancient terrorist organization that has been hunting her for over a year. But when Cammie wakes up in an alpine convent and discovers that months have passed, she must face the fact that her memory is now a black hole. The only traces left of Cammie's summer vacation are the bruises on her body and the dirt under her nails, and all she wants is to go Out of Sight, Out of Time Ally Carter home. Once she returns to school, however, Cammie realizes that even the Gallagher Academy now holds more questions 4 (Gallagher Girls Book 5) than answers. Cammie, her friends, and mysterious spy-guy Zach must face their most difficult challenge yet as they travel to the other side of the world, hoping to piece together the clues that Cammie left behind. It's a race against time. The Circle is hot on their trail and willing stop at nothing to prevent Cammie from remembering what she did last summer.

Paige Turner has just moved to New York with her family, and she's having some trouble adjusting to the big city. In the pages of her sketchbook, she tries to make sense of her new life, including trying out her secret identity: artist. As she makes friends and starts to explore the city, she slowly brings her secret identity out into the open, a process that is equal parts Page by Paige Laura Lee Gulledge terrifying and rewarding. Laura Lee Gulledge crafts stories and panels with images that are thought-provoking, funny, and 4 emotionally resonant. Teens struggling to find their place can see themselves in Paige's honest, heartfelt story.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date. After winter break, the girls at the very prestigious Longbourn Academy become obsessed with the prom. Lizzie Bennet, who attends Longbourn on a scholarship, isn't interested in designer dresses and expensive shoes, but her best friend, Jane, might be - especially now that Charles Bingley is back from a semester in London. Lizzie is happy about her friend's Prom and Prejudice Elizabeth Eulberg burgeoning romance but less than impressed by Charles's friend, Will Darcy, who's snobby and pretentious. Darcy doesn't 1 seem to like Lizzie either, but she assumes it's because her family doesn't have money. Clearly, Will Darcy is a pompous jerk - so why does Lizzie find herself drawn to him anyway? Young Adult

One young woman has raged against those who threaten to keep away what matters most—family, love, choice. Her revolution is about to explode into full-scale rebellion. As an incurable plague sweeps through the Society, Cassia races to Reached (Matched, Book 3) Ally Condie save both the lives and freedom of those she loves. With exquisite prose, the emotionally gripping conclusion to the 4 international–bestselling Matched trilogy returns Cassia, Ky, and Xander to the Society to save the one thing they have been denied for so long, the power to choose. Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the The Scorch Trials (The Maze James Dashner world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them. Friendships will be tested. 4 Runner, Book 2) Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off. There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destruction—and they’re determined to survive. Rich and Jade Chance are once again on the run this time while their father is away. After a breathless chase through an amusement park, Jade is taken hostage by a man from Chance's past who is plotting a political coup in the Middle East with Sharp Shot Jack Higgins nuclear weapons. Worse still, the president of the United States is on his way to the region for a summit meeting. It will take 3 all of the Chance family's wits and skills to find the bomb and defuse the threat and time is running out!

Mickey Bolitar's year can't get much worse. After witnessing his father's death and sending his mom to rehab, he's forced to Shelter Harlen Coben 2 live with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools. Raven never expected to be a mother at sixteen. Is she going to be just another high school dropout, a project girl with few prospects? Could be, except Raven has ambition. Still, when is she going to find the time to finish school? Then her older Spellbound Janet McDonald sister tells her about a spelling bee that promises the winner a scholarship for college. Spelling? There isn't a subject she's 4 worse at. But once Raven's got her mind set, nothing gets in her way... The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and the more hacking skills you have, the more fun it is. Why bother following the rules when it’s so easy to break them? But some rules were made for a reason. Some technology is too The Eye of Minds (The dangerous to fool with. And one gamer has been doing exactly that, with murderous results. The government knows that to James Dashner 6 Mortality Doctrine, Book One) catch a hacker, you need a hacker. And they’ve been watching Michael. If he accepts their challenge, Michael will need to go off the VirtNet grid, to the back alleys and corners of the system human eyes have never seen—and it’s possible that the line between game and reality will be blurred forever. Matt is a clone of El Patrón, a powerful drug lord of the land of Opium, which is located between the United States and Mexico. For six years, he has lived in a tiny cottage in the poppy fields with Celia, a kind and deeply religious servant woman who is charged with his care and safety. He knows little about his existence until he is discovered by a group of children playing in the fields and wonders why he isn't like them. Though Matt has been spared the fate of most clones, who The House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer have their intelligence destroyed at birth, the evil inhabitants of El Patrón's empire consider him a "beast" and an "eejit". 6 When El Patrón dies at the age of 146, 14-year-old Matt escapes Opium with the help of Celia and Tam Lin, his devoted bodyguard who wants to right his own wrongs. After a near misadventure in his escape, Matt makes his way back home and begins to rid the country of its evils. Samara is one of the Knowing, and the Knowing do not forget. Hidden deep in the comfort and splendor of her underground city, a refuge from the menace of a coming Earth, Samara learns what she should have never known and creates a memory so terrible she cannot live with it. So she flees, to Canaan, the lost city of her ancestors, to forget. Beckett has flown through the The Knowing Sharon Cameron stars to find a dream: Canaan, the most infamous social experiment of Earth's antiquity. Beckett finds Samara in the ruins of 1 the lost city, and uncovers so much more than he ever bargained for -- a challenge to all he's ever believed in or sworn to. When planets collide and memories clash, can Samara and Beckett save two worlds, and remember love in a place that has forgotten it? Young Adult

Sarah is no ordinary girl: she can control the weather with her emotions. But in Doolittle Falls where superheroes walk the streets (and fly over them), Sarah’s powers aren’t enough for admission to the prestigious Hero Academy. Not to mention that her mother is a notorious Supervillain and the archnemesis of America’s favorite Hero, Freedom Man. Instead of being accepted to the school of her dreams, Sarah is marked as an outcast with powers – a Misshape. Now she’s stuck with a ragtag The Misshapes: the Coming Alex Flynn group of fellow Misshapes, her dreams of heroism on hold indefinitely. Yet Sarah is determined to harness her powers to win 1 Storm a place at Hero Academy. But the path to greatness won’t be easy. Her brother’s rebellious streak is starting to wear thin, she has an intriguing (and smoking hot) new mentor, and an unexpected romance blooms with superstar Hero Freedom Boy. And when Doolittle Falls comes under threat of annihilation, Sarah has to prove there may be more to the Misshapes than everyone thinks. And she may just kick some Supervillain butt in the process. The thrilling young mystery series from internationally bestselling author John Grisham! In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he’s only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he’s one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerk—and a lot about the law. He dreams of being a great trial lawyer, of a life in the courtroom. Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer John Grisham But Theo finds himself in court much sooner than expected. Because he knows so much—maybe too much—he is suddenly 4 dragged into the middle of a sensational murder trial. A cold-blooded killer is about to go free, and only Theo knows the truth. The stakes are high, but Theo won’t stop until justice is served.

Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. “A place,” he said, “where learning is a game.” Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym “Truly, Devious.” It became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history. True-crime aficionado Stevie Truly Devious Maureen Johnson Bell is set to begin her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. That is, 3 she will solve the case when she gets a grip on her demanding new school life and her housemates: the inventor, the novelist, the actor, the artist, and the jokester. But something strange is happening. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy. The past has crawled out of its grave. Someone has gotten away with murder.

In the world of Draenor, the strong and fiercely independent Frostwolf Clan are faced with increasingly harsh winters and thinning herds. When Gul'dan, a mysterious outsider, arrives in Frostfire Ridge offering word of new hunting lands, Durotan, the clan's chieftain, must make an impossible decision: abandon the territory, pride and traditions of his people or lead them Warcraft: Durotan Christie Golden into the unknown. An original tale of survival, conflict and magic that leads directly into the events of Warcraft, an epic 3 adventure from Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures based on Blizzard Entertainment's global phenomenon.

For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game - it's a way of life. The obsession started 10 years ago, and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down Warcross players who bet on the game illegally. But the bounty-hunting world is a competitive one, and survival has not been easy. To make some quick cash, Emika takes a risk and hacks in to the opening game of the international Warcross Championships - only to accidentally Warcross Marie Lu glitch herself into the action and become an overnight sensation. Convinced she's going to be arrested, Emika is shocked 4 when instead she gets a call from the game's creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year's tournament in order to uncover a security problem...and he wants Emika for the job. With no time to lose, Emika's whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and fortune that she's only dreamed of. But soon her investigation uncovers a sinister plot, with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.

Since her parents' bitter divorce, Mclean and her dad, a restaurant consultant, have been on the move - four towns in two years. Estranged from her mother and her mother's new family, Mclean has followed her dad in leaving the unhappy past behind. And each new place gives her a chance to try out a new persona: from cheerleader to drama diva. But now, for the What Happened to Goodbye Sarah Dessen first time, Mclean discovers a desire to stay in one place and just be herself - whoever that is. Perhaps her neighbor Dave, an 5 academic superstar trying to be just a regular guy, can help her find out. Young Adult

Cassel comes from a shady, magical family of con artists and grifters. He doesn’t fit in at home or at school, so he’s used to feeling like an outsider. He’s also used to feeling guilty—he killed his best friend, Lila, years ago. But when Cassel begins to White Cat Holly Black have strange dreams about a white cat, and people around him are losing their memories, he starts to wonder what really 1 happened to Lila. In his search for answers, he discovers a wicked plot for power that seems certain to succeed. But Cassel has other ideas—and a plan to con the conmen. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World was a blockbuster bestseller and a publishing phenomenon. It has sold nearly a million copies, spawned three children's books, and will be the basis for an upcoming movie. No doubt about it, Dewey has created a community. Dewey touched readers everywhere, who realized that no matter how difficult their Dewey's Nine Lives Vicky Myron lives might seem, or how ordinary their talents, they can-and should- make a positive difference to those around them. Now, 2 Dewey is back, with even more heartwarming moments and life lessons to share. Dewey's Nine Lives offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about cats--all told from the perspective of "Dewey's Mom," librarian Vicki Myron.

Never Quit is the true story of how Jimmy Settle, an Alaskan shoe store clerk, became a Special Forces Operator and war Young Adult hero. After being shot in the head during a dangerous high mountain operation in Afghanistan, Jimmy returns to battle with Nonfiction his teammates for a heroic rescue, the bullet fragments stitched over and still in his skull. In a cross between a suicide rescue Never Quit Jimmy Settle mission and an against-all-odds mountain battle, his team of PJs risk their lives again in an epic firefight. When his helicopter 1 is hit and begins leaking fuel, Jimmy finds himself in the worst possible position as a rescue specialist―forced to leave members from his own team behind. Jimmy will have to risk everything to get back into the battle and save his brothers.

Hunter March has made a career out of interviewing creators about their lives all while putting his own life on the internet too. But what happens when the cameras turn off? Crushes turn to relationships and parents get divorced. Friendships are TBH: 51 Story Collabs Various made and hearts are broken. Tests get flunked and dreams come true. Sometimes creators' real lives happen off-screen, and 1 in TBH: 51 True Story Collabs, they happen on the page. Emma Rose Paley, de doce años, siempre se había sentido diferente a sus padres. Ella era una chica de piel pálida y cabello negro azabache, prefería los días nublados a los días soleados y odiaba el sabor del ajo. Cuando su tía Margo viajó a Colmillos Afilados Ruth Ames visitarios desde Rumania, Emma Rose descubrió un oscuro secreto familiar y tuvo una repentina revelación. ¿Sería posible 1 que ella fuera un vampiro? En el libro #4 de la serie, una nueva lechuza llega a la escuela de Eva y Lucía. Eva, que es muy sociable, está ansiosa de tener Diario De Una Lechuza: Eva y una nueva amiga, pero la nueva lechuza se hace amiga de Lucía, y Eva está un poco celosa. ¿Perderá Eva a su mejor amiga, Rebecca Elliot 2 la nueva lechuza Lucía? ¿O podrá Eva continuar siendo amiga de Lucía y al mismo tiempo ser amiga de la nueva lechuza?

Esperanza Ortega tiene todos los tesoros que una chica pueda desear: hermosos vestidos, una linda casa llena de sirvientes en México, y la promesa de que un día llegará a presidir el Rancho como su mamá. Pero una tragedia inesperada destruye ese sueño, obligando a Esperanza y a su madre a escapar a California dónde tendrán que trabajar en una finca junto a otros Spanish Esperanza Renace Pam Munoz Ryan mexicanos. Allí tendrá que olvidar su pasado y enfrentarse a las nuevas realidades de su vida: trabajo duro, aceptación y 5 dificultades económicas. Esperanza descubrirá que la verdadera riqueza está en la familia y la comunidad.

Hay una nueva mascota en el Aula 26: es una rana y se llama Og. Humphrey está deseando hacerse amigo de Og, pero Og no La amistad de acuerdo a parece interesado. ¡Y, para colmo, los estudiantes están tan fascinados con Og que apenas prestan atención a Humphrey! Betty G. Birney 2 Humphrey Humphrey sabe que la amistad puede ser a veces algo complicado, pero si un hámster es capaz de hacerse amigo de una rana, ¡ese es Humphrey! ¡Abróchense los cinturones de seguridad! El autobús mágico está de regreso y listo para volver a despegar. ¡Un libro en Unidos o nada: Explora bancos español! La nueva maestra de la Escuela de Walkerville, no tiene miedo de arriesgarse, cometer errores y embarrarse. de peces (El autobus mágico Judy Katschke Cuando la clase decide ir a Hawái, los chicos piensan que les espera el descanso y surfear, pero no es así. ¡Vivirán una 1 vuelve a despegar) aventura submarina!