At the heart of her family’s war against the wraith king, Anna makes the only decision she can—to fight back.

Humans have always called the land of Istamba home, yet Roland, King of the Wraiths, is intent on claiming it for himself. When Fort Lieay is attacked, thirteen-year-old Anna Lieay is the only survivor. Distraught from the death of her parents, she...

This is a hi-lo novel. Victor and Isaac aren’t sure how long they’ll make it in their foster homes. Isaac is comfortable around his foster parents, but afraid they’ll give him up. Victor has just landed in a new, crowded home with lots of rules, and is accused of stealing. The brothers make a secret plan to run away from their foster parents and make a home...

Ever since his mom left, Riley has been a mess. He feels nervous all the time. His heart pounds, his neck is tight, and he can't seem to turn off his brain. His dad signs him up for aikido, hoping it will help.

In the dojo, Riley meets boys who are much rougher than he is and a girl who is tougher than all the rest of them put together. For Wafaa, aikido is...

Thirteen-year-old Chloë left her whole life back in Montreal, including her mom and her best friend. Now she's stuck in Victoria with her dad and her estranged grandfather, Uli, who recently had a stroke. When Chloë agrees to help Uli look after his garden, she's determined to find out why he and her dad didn't speak to each other for years.

For decades Uli...

Sid, Axl, and Ivan volunteer to make a late-night fast-food run for the high school theater crew, and when they return, they find themselves. Not in a deep, metaphoric sense: They find copies of themselves onstage. As they look closer, they begin to realize that the world around them isn’t quite right. Turns out, when they went to the taco place across...

A contemporary story for teens about heart-wrenching decisions and the anguish of missing loved ones.

Tasha Spillett's graphic-novel debut tells a story of kinship, resilience, cultural resurgence, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan is Anishinaabe; Dez is lnninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of...

Centuries ago, Terra, the world, was nearly destroyed by humans. In the wake of that destruction, Terra created the Guardians—a group sworn to protect Her. But humans have returned to their plundering ways and Terra needs the Guardians. The Guardians are now fractured, their leader murdered years before. They need a new leader—a new Terra Protectorum—but...

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it wasn’t just one man who got us to the moon. Rocket to the Moon! explores the people and technology that made the moon landing possible. Instead of examining one person’s life, it focuses on the moon landing itself, showing...

Fourteen-year-old Ronan Boyle is the youngest and lowliest recruit to the secret Garda, an Irish police force that handles the misdeeds of numerous magical creatures. Ronan’s parents are in jail, but Ronan is convinced that they were framed by the wee people. So, despite his small size, poor eyesight, and social awkwardness, he’s determined to learn all he...

Saskia, a one-eyed 10-year-old girl, meets a skeleton in the Spooky Woods and, delighted with his tailcoat and the bird nesting in his ribcage, befriends him; together, they go on to have many horrible adventures and find themselves in a lot of wonderful trouble. Saskia lives in a castle with her Princess and Franz (a nice-cat-turned-nasty-human)...

Popular New Yorker cartoonist Paul Noth continues his illustrated middle grade series about a boy, his wacky family, and an out-of-this-world adventure in this laugh-out-loud sequel to How to Sell Your Family to the Aliens.

Happy Conklin Jr. is still the only 10-year-old who has to shave three times a day, thanks to being tested on by his inventor...

PSS 118 is just your typical school—except that it's a rickety old spaceship orbiting Jupiter. When the school is mysteriously attacked, thirteen-year-old Jack receives a cryptic message from his father (the school's recently-fired-for-tinkering-with-the-ship science teacher). Amidst the chaos, Jack discovers that his dad has built humanity's first...

For Ages: 8-12

Description: Kelli talks to objects, and the objects talk back. However, Kelli has kept her powers of ESP and telekinesis hidden until a psychological study notices her potential. Kelli agrees to the psychologist's program, interested in learning more about her abilities. She also meets other people with powers of their own. But when test...

B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree: This tells a reader that this book is well worth their time and money! Finalist "The Wishing Shelf Book Awards" Only a short time after a strange nightmare about Bluerorcs (what the heck are they?) Will again feels like he is caught in a dream—but this time the best dream he has ever had. For Mr Chevalier visits him at his...

Thomas thinks he's an ordinary twelve year old, but when a strange man with gold-flecked eyes gives him an ancient text called The Book of Sorrows, the world he knows is turned upside down. Suddenly he’s faced with a secret family legacy, powers he can hardly begin to understand, and an enemy bent on destroying everything he holds dear. The more he reads...

Twelve-year-old Peter Michaels is accustomed to weird things happening with a regularity that seems to be a part of his life.

But when an old man dressed in strange clothes falls from the sky and lands in Peter’s front yard, the weird quotient, as his dad would put it, gets ratcheted way up. Peter does the only thing he can. He helps the man into his house.

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In this follow-up to Dewey Fairchild, Parent Problem Solver, our genius problem solver, Dewey, takes up the challenge of troublesome teachers after a client shows up desperate to pacify his teacher. It turns out that tons of kids have problem teachers, so he’s soon up to his neck in cases—from classic cases of teachers who are soo boring to bizarre cases...

Twelve-year-old Electra Firma plans to win an Olympic Gold medal in ice skating when she’s old enough to compete. Her coach is convinced she has the talent. That’s the problem. Electra’s talent comes from her part-alien heritage, which gives her superhuman abilities, and her parents forbid her from competing. Depressed, Electra rejects her inheritance and...

Harriet Flores struggles with boredom and an unrequited crush while learning to manage her chronic illness through a long, hot, 1990s summer in Chicago. She uses her imagination to cope, which sometimes gets her into trouble, as she makes up fantastical fibs and wonders if there are ghosts upstairs. One neighbor, Pearl, encourages Harriet to read and write...

Zert Cage accepts a dare. The 13-year-old sneaks out of his house to engage in a Trash War with his friends. Nothing out of the ordinary about that. Except that it’s 2083, and the world is falling apart. The Nuclear Mistake has left the oceans dead and brown, and grime and pollution are the way of life for anyone not wealthy enough to live in the Up Cities...

From Bestselling Author Peter Scottsdale Comes His First Children's Chapter Book For Ages 8 and Up It’s Christmas Eve and Nathan’s cat is wrecking the holidays by destroying the Christmas tree.

Fed up with Shadow’s antics, Dad wants the kitty out of the house – for good! So Nathan pleads for help in hope the magic of the holidays will allow him to keep his...

Gray Owl is the chief of a small Lakota tribe. He foresees the Indian wars with Union troops will end badly, so refuses to join other tribes in the fight. Follow the lives of two Indian boys, Little Horse and Traveler, from birth, growing up, getting married, growing old and living in harmony with the white people.

2017 NYC Big Book Award winner for Juvenile Fiction and 2018 Readers' Favorite finalist in Children - PreTeen category.

Lily Brooke, where small town charm and a hidden secret converge one fateful late autumn night. The demons of the past are determined to never be locked away again. 

MALB, the Mystical Alliance of Lily Brooke, consists of six childhood...

On a future Earth, humans cling to scattered enclaves, giant lizards roam the wasteland, and a paternalistic corporation rules every aspect of life. Thirteen-year-old Nubbin Beck knows there is only one way to live her sheltered, microchipped life: obey The Company. But when she helps her family hide a fugitive, the only human The Company can't trace, she...

Good grief! The Peanuts gang is back in this new collection of comic strips!
 

Is your baseball team getting beat sixty-eight to nothing? Are you caught in the rain without an umbrella? Have you finally worked up the courage to call your crush only to get the wrong number? Don't worry! The Peanuts gang has the cure for your worries. Join Linus as he...

Jordan and Justin are best friends and the only two kids in their class’s advanced math group. So it isn’t until Stephanie Lewis marches into their classroom that they meet someone who’s as good with numbers as they are. Their shared interest in math quickly draws them together, and the three soon form The Math Kids.

Unfortunately, life as math...

All they wanted was their forever homes. But when a motley group of orphans steals an ancient artifact from the Golden Age of Piracy and a treasure map drawn in blood, what they get is an epic adventure.

Following the overwhelming success of AWKWARD and BRAVE, Svetlana Chmakova's award winning Berrybrook Middle School series continues with its next installment - CRUSH!

Jorge seems to have it all together. He's big enough that nobody really messes with him, but he's also a genuinely sweet guy with a solid, reliable group of friends. The only time he...

The May 2018 issue features include interviews with Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes, Julian Lennon, Katherine Applegate, Mara Wilson, Shelley Lekven, Kerry Teeple, and Lois Brandt. Our special contributor is Larissa Juliano, who opens up her teaching toolbox, and be sure to check out our newest book reviews, spring reading list, Nick's review of Isle of...

A spellbinding story discovering the power of magic from Amy Wilson, critically acclaimed author of A Girl Called Owl and A Far Away Magic.

When daydreamer Clementine discovers a mysterious house standing in the middle of town that was never there before, she is pulled towards it by the powerful sense of a mother she never knew. The place is full of...

What do you do when you discover you’re a witch?
And that using your new powers destroys your soul a little each time?

Set in the Swiss countryside, this story blends ancient folklore with a coming of age tale about a young witch on the brink of womanhood. Anna Sophia has always known she was different. She didn’t know just how different until now.

Through a...

A full-colour gift book of ten darkly-comic and hilarious cautionary tales by Astrosaurs author Steve Cole, illustrated by Tim Archbold.

In these delightfully humorous tales of a decidedly blackish hue, ten follysome toads can never change their beastly habits despite the efforts of goodly witch Madame Rana who reminds them 'It's never too late to change.'

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Lily has lived with her mom since her parents got divorced several years ago, and her dad has recently remarried to a woman with a daughter her age named Hannah. But now, Lily's mom has gotten a once-in-a-lifetime work opportunity in Morocco and she'll be gone for a year, so Lily is moving in with her dad—and new stepmom and new stepsister. It'll be as easy...

Ages 8-12 

"Love ain't like that.""

How is it then?" Peaches asked, turning on her stomach to face me.

"It's like sky. If you keep driving and driving, gas will run out, right?"

"That's why we gotta go to the gas station."

"Yep. But have you ever seen the sky run out? No matter how far we go?"

"No, when we look up, there it is."

"Well that's the kind of love...

Have fun on this poetic tour through the leaf litter layer and dig into the fascinating facts about the tiny critters who live there. 
Nineteen poems in a variety of verse forms with accompanying science notes take readers on a decomposer safari through the "brown food web," from bacteria through tardigrades and on to rove beetle predators with other busy...

A little box turtle has a big impact on a well-meaning couple who rescue him from a busy road near his hatching site. Buttons, as the plucky turtle is named, soon becomes a cherished member of the family. Pet lovers of all ages will appreciate the stories, both humorous and serious, that offer insight into the lives of these hard-shelled creatures.

Told from...

Abi becomes stranded at an old country inn that’s rumored to be haunted. Is it true? Did the innkeeper’s ghost really appear to her and ask for her help?

Abi and her new friend, Jess, must search for answers. In the process, Abi discovers strengths she didn’t know she possessed, including the ability to see her first ghost!

The name is Arthur Monsento. I'm the sole paranormal specialist for Morton Town, USA.

Not so long ago, three kids--claiming to be detectives with supernatural clients--hired me to help them contact a missing ghost called Robert Brown.

But then some creepy bounty hunter from the Underworld showed up at my door, also seeking my services in locating the same...