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The 13-Story Treehouse
Andy Griffiths - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover
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Andy and Terry live in a treehouse. But it's not just any old treehouse, it's the most amazing treehouse in the world!This treehouse has thirteen stories, a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a secret underground laboratory, and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically... |
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Charlie Joe Jacksons Guide to Not Reading (Charlie Joe Jackson Series, 1)
Tom Greenwald - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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Charlie Joe Jacksons Guide to Not Reading by Tommy Greenwald is the hilarious story of an avid non-reader and the extreme lengths to which hell go to get out of reading a book. Charlie Joe Jackson may be the most reluctant reader ever born. And so far, hes managed to get through life without... |
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Platypus Police Squad: The Frog Who Croaked
Jarrett J. Krosoczka - Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover
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Platypus Police Squad: The Frog Who Croaked is the first in a series of zany, action-packed middle-grade mysteries featuring platypus police detectives Rick Zengo and Corey O'Malley. When a call comes in about a crime down at the docks involving a missing schoolteacher and a duffle bag full... |
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Herberts Wormhole
Peter Nelson - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Greetings. This story concerns a scientific anomaly that opens a portal, allowing us to traverse the space-time continuum and triggering an adventure that those of limited intelligence might simply describe as "awesome."Hey! This is a book about how we get sucked into this wormhole... |
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Better Nate Than Ever
Tim Federle - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and a Slate Favorite Book of the Year. A small-town boy hops a bus to New York City to crash an audition for E.T. The Musical. Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life, hes wanted to star in a Broadway... |
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Hamstersaurus Rex
Tom O'Donnell - Harper
Format: Print book
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BEWARE: Rampaging Mutant Dino-Hamster! Fans of My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish and The Terrible Two will be scrambling to get their hands on this hilarious classroom comedy. When a mysterious growling hamster appears at the back of his class, Sam knows just what to call him: Hamstersaurus Rex.... |
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Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Stephan Pastis - Candlewick
Format: Print book
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Meet "detective" Timmy Failure, star of the kids' comedy of the year. Created by New York Times best-selling cartoonist Stephan Pastis.Take Timmy Failure - the clueless, comically self-confident CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps even the nation. Add his impressively... |
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I Funny: A Middle School Story
James Patterson - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world's greatest standup comedian--even if he doesn't have a lot to laugh about these days. He's new in town and stuck living with his aunt, uncle, and their evil son Stevie, a bully who doesn't let Jamie's wheelchair... |
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Lawn Boy
Gary Paulsen - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Hardcover
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One day I was 12 years old and broke. Then Grandma gave me Grandpa's old riding lawnmower. I set out to mow some lawns. More people wanted me to mow their lawns. And more and more. . . . One client was Arnold the stockbroker, who offered to teach me about "the beauty of capitalism.... |
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Big Nate: In a Class by Himself
Lincoln Peirce - Harper
Format: Print book
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For fans of the hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Get ready to meet Big Nate! In the first novel in the New York Times bestselling series, Big Nate is in a class by himself!Nate knows he's meant for big things. REALLY big things. But things don't always go your way just because you're... |
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A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
Richard Peck - Dial; 1st edition
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This Newbery Honor Winner and National Book Award Finalist is an unforgettable modern classic and features the debut of the larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice—two city slickers from Chicago—make their annual summer visits... |
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When Life Gives You O.J.
Erica S. Perl - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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For years, 10-year-old Zelly Fried has tried to convince her parents to let her have a dog. After all, practically everyone in Vermont owns a dog, and it sure could go a long way helping Zelly fit in since moving there from Brooklyn. But when her eccentric grandfather Ace hatches a ridiculous... |
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Freaky Friday
Mary Rodgers
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Like Mother, Like Daughter...Annabel Andrews is tired of her mother telling her on what to do. She's tired of being told to do her homework, clean up her room, and be nice to her little brother, Ape Face. If she were an adult, she could do anything she wanted, like watch TV all |
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Dork Diaries 1: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life
Rachel Renée Russell - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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Meet Nikki Maxwell! She's starting eighth grade at a new school - and her very first diary packed with hilarious stories and art in this SUPER SQUEE updated edition of Book One of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!Nikki confesses all in her first diary ever: her epic... |
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The Templeton Twins Have an Idea: Book One
Ellis Weiner - Chronicle Books LLC
Format: Hardcover
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Suppose there were 12-year-old twins, a boy and girl named John and Abigail Templeton. Lets say John was pragmatic and played the drums, and Abigail was theoretical and solved cryptic crosswords. Now suppose their father was a brilliant, if sometimes confused, inventor. And suppose that... |
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It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Firoozeh Dumas - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block . . . for the fourth time. California's Newport Beach is her family's latest perch, and she's determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name - Cindy. It's the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes... |
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The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
Jeanne Birdsall - Knopf Books for Young Readers; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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With over one million copies sold, this series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick family from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller Jeanne Birdsall is perfect for fans of Noel Streatfeild and Edward Eager. This summer the Penderwick sisters have a wonderful... |
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The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher
Dana Alison Levy - Yearling Books
Format: Print book
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"Fans of Beverly Cleary's Quimbys, Judy Blume's Hatchers, and, more recently, Jeanne Birdsall's Penderwicks will fervently hope that more Fletcher misadventures are yet to come." - School Library Journal, Starred The start of the school year is not going as the Fletcher... |
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