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Apex Predators: The World's Deadliest Hunters, Past and Present
Steve Jenkins · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 32
Format: Print book
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What does it take to be the "top dog"? In his latest book, the award-winning author and illustrator Steve Jenkins introduces readers to apex predators - the animals that are at the top of their food chains and have no natural enemies. Using his signature art style, Jenkins... |
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Serafina and the Splintered Heart
ROBERT BEATTY · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The storms are coming... Something has happened to Serafina. She has awoken into a darkness she does not understand, scarred from a terrible battle, only to find that life at Biltmore Estate has changed in unimaginable ways. Old friends do unthinkable things and enemies seem all around. |
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How to be a Scientist
INC DORLING KINDERSLEY · DK Children
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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A bold and playful approach to science that makes the subject relevant to kids and encourages them to discover it in the real world with more than 40 fun questions, science games, and real-life scenarios.Why does mold grow? Why is the sea salty? What makes day and night?Kids can have all these... |
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Moto and Me: My Year as a Wildcat's Foster Mom
Suzi Eszterhas · Owlkids Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
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Moto and Me tells the remarkable firsthand story of wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas's care for an orphaned baby serval - a small, spotted wildcat - in Kenya. When a grass fire separates the serval from his family, a ranger asks Suzi, who is living in a bush camp and is skilled with... |
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Science Year by Year
Dk. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Packed with fascinating discoveries and facts, this visual reference takes kids on a fantastic journey through time, from stone tools and simple machines to space travel and robots.Easy-to-follow illustrated timelines of pivotal scientific developments explore the ideas, experiments, and technologies... |
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Where on Earth? Atlas
Dk. · DK Children
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Unlike any other you have ever seen before, this atlas brings our amazing world to life in 3-D. With its more than 60 specially commissioned 3-D maps and artworks, it takes kids on a continent-by-continent tour of the world and even includes an introductory visual explanation of Earth's... |
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Our Country's Presidents: A Complete Encyclopedia of the U.S. Presidency
Ann Bausum · Natl Geographic
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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National Geographic presents the 43 individuals who have led the U.S., plus America's newest commander-in-chief, in this up-to-date, authoritative, and lavishly illustrated family, school, and library reference. It features comprehensive profiles of the 43 former presidents along with... |
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Balderdash!: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books
Michelle Markel · Chronicle Books
Pages: 44
Format: Hardcover
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This rollicking and fascinating picture book biography chronicles the life of the first pioneer of children's books - John Newbery himself. While most children's books in the 18th century contained lessons and rules, John Newbery imagined them overflowing with entertaining stories, science,... |
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How to Tame a Triceratops
Will Dare · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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Welcome to The Lost Plains! A wild west frontier where dinosaurs never went extinct.Josh Sanders wants to be the next great dinosaur cowboy! Ropin' raptors and ridin' bucking brontosauruses just like his hero Terrordactyl Bill.Too bad he's stuck working on his family's... |
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Operation: Secret Recipe
GERONIMO STILTON · SCHOLASTIC (US)
Pages: 128
Format: Print book
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My family and I traveled to Milan, Italy, for a special event: the unveiling of the precious ancient parchment containing the secret, original recipe for panettone, a traditional sweet holiday bread. But right before the big moment, the recipe was stolen! And the thief was masquerading... |
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Lola Levine and the Ballet Scheme
Monica Brown · Little
Pages: 112
Format: Print book
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When new classmate Bella, a ballet dancer, walks into Lola's class at Northland Elementary, all Lola can see is pink everywhere--pink ribbons, a pink sweatshirt, and pink tennis shoes. Yuck! Pink is Lola's least favorite color. Plus, Ballet isn't nearly as hard as soccer, is it? |
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Pixel Craft with Perler Beads: More Than 50 Super Cool Patterns: Patterns for Hama, Perler, Pyssla, Nabbi, and Melty Beads!
Choly Knight · Design Originals
Format: Print book
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Bring the quirky world of pixel art to life with fusible craft beads. Colorful, inexpensive beads from Perlerr, Hamar, Nabbir, or Artkalr are perfect for recreating the retro 8-bit era of blocky video games. Making trendy pixelated wearables, jewelry, and home decor is as simple as following... |
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Karina Garcia's DIY Slime
Karina Garci?a C · Sizzle Press
Pages: 79
Format: Paperback
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Create your own slime at home by following these 15 easy, borax-free slime recipes from YouTube sensation Karina Garcia.Get ready to become a slime master with these fifteen DIY recipes from YouTube sensation Karina Garcia! This full color book, with step-by-step instructions, will teach... |
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The Quest for Z: The True Story of Explorer Percy Fawcett and a Lost City in the Amazon
GREG PIZZOLI · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning author comes a picture book biography that feels like Indiana Jones for kids!British explorer Percy Fawcett believed that hidden deep within the Amazon rainforest was an ancient city, lost for the ages. Most people didn't even believe this city existed. But if Fawcett... |
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Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE · Walden Pond Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning author Frank Cottrell Boyce returns with another one-of-a-kind story of heart, humor, and finding one's place in the universe. Prez knows that the best way to keep track of things is to make a list. That's important when you have a grandfather who is constantly forgetting.... |
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The Great Treehouse War
Lisa Graff · Philomel Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Kids vs. parents! An epic treehouse sleepover! An awesome group of friends! An exciting new book from National Book Award finalist Lisa Graff.Winnie's last day of fourth grade ended with a pretty life-changing surprise. That was the day Winnie's parents got divorced, the day they decided... |
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How to Rope a Giganotosaurus
Will Dare · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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Welcome to The Lost Plains! A wild west frontier where dinosaurs never went extinct.Josh Sanders will do whatever it takes to become the next great dinosaur cowboy! He's pretty confident in his skills -- after all, he did win this year's Settlement Race with Charge, his speed-demon... |
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Stick Dog Craves Candy
Tom Watson · HarperCollins
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Perfect for fans of Big Nate, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and the previous Stick Dog books, Tom Watson's hilarious series continues with Stick Dog Craves Candy - a fun Halloween adventure!Stick Dog and the gang are on their usual hunt for food, but there is something unusual going on. Little... |
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Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
RITA WILLIAMS-GARCIA · Amistad
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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From beloved Newbery Honor winner and three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia comes a powerful and heartfelt novel about loss, family, and love that will appeal to fans of Jason Reynolds and Kwame Alexander. Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather,... |
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Beyond the Bright Sea
LAUREN WOLD · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From the Newbery-honor winning author of the critically acclaimed Wolf Hollow comes a moving story of identity and belonging. Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift on a small... |
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Bird & Squirrel on the Edge!
James Burks · Graphix
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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Bird and Squirrel are almost home. All that's left for them to do is cross the Great Mountains. But before they can, the duo stops to chase off wolves hunting a baby bear and in the process Bird gets a knock on the noggin that gives him amnesia. Now Squirrel has to set aside his fears... |
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Ultimate Fidget Spinner Guide
Jonathan Cook · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
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OK, you made your parents run out and buy you a fidget spinner. . . . Now what do you do with it? Sure, you can spin. But can you High Hop? Mega Stack? Do the Jumping Jack? Packed with more than 80 tricks and interactive challenges, this book will teach you all the coolest tricks and show... |
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Newton's Rainbow: The Revolutionary Discoveries of a Young Scientist
Kathryn Lasky · Farrar
Pages: 48
Format: Print book
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Famed for his supposed encounter with a falling apple that inspired his theory of gravity, Isaac Newton (1642-1727) grew from a quiet and curious boy into one of the most influential scientists of all time. Newton's Rainbow tells the story of young Isaac -- always reading, questioning,... |
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Mark of the Plague
Kevin Sands · Aladdin
Pages: 529
Format: Hardcover
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Christopher Rowe is back and there are more puzzles, riddles, and secrets to uncover in this follow-up to the Indie Next pick The Blackthorn Key, which was called a "spectacular debut" by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.The Black Death has returned to London, spreading disease... |
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That One Spooky Night
Dan Bar-el · Kids Can Press, Ltd.
Format: Hardcover
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There can only be one night a year when a broom will go in search of a witch, when mermaids might swim in a bathtub and when a house party can get a little too batty. Here are three strange stories about that one spooky night! |
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The Survival Guide for Kids in Special Education
Wendy Moss · Free Spirit Publishing Inc.
Pages: 152
Format: Print book
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When kids learn they might receive special education, they often have questions and worries. This book gives kids lots of tools and strategies they can use to deal with their concerns, whether they are in the process of being evaluated for special ed or already receiving special ed services.... |
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Two Truths and a Lie: It's Alive!
AMMI-JOAN PAQUETTE · Walden Pond Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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Two Truths and a Lie is the first book in a fascinating new series that presents some of the most crazy-but-true stories about the living world as well as a handful of stories that are too crazy to be true - and asks readers to separate facts from the fakes! Did you know that there is a fungus... |
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It's a Fungus Among Us: The Good, the Bad & the Downright Scary
CARLA BILLUPS · MoonDance Press
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover
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In It's a Fungus Among Us, you'll meet the wild group of organisms that can turn ants into zombies and eat trillions of pounds of feces every day. They also make cheese stretchy, add sour tastes to candy, and make bread rise! Historically, they've been blamed for the potato famine and the Salem... |
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