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The Way to Bea
Kat Yeh · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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With a charming voice, winning characters, and a perfectly-woven plot, Kat Yeh delivers a powerful story of friendship and finding a path towards embracing yourself.Everything in Bea's world has changed. She's starting seventh grade newly friendless and facing big changes at home, where... |
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The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole
MICHELLE CUEVAS · Dial Books Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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A girl's friendship with a lonely black hole leads her to face her own sadness in this original, funny, and touching middle grade novel for fans of Crenshaw and Flora & Ulysses. When eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez shows up at NASA to request that her recording be included in Carl... |
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Threads of Blue
SUZANNE LAFLEUR · Wendy Lamb Books Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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The thrilling sequel to the acclaimed Beautiful Blue World follows a brave girl who must flee her country during wartime and work undercover to defeat the enemy. For fans of The War That Saved My Life and Wolf Hollow. "A thoughtful, pellucid story . . . [that] gently probes questions... |
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Renegades
David Liss · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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Science fiction super fan Zeke is back in action as he and his friends work to finally take down the evil Phands in this hilarious and exciting conclusion to the Randoms series.Zeke has returned to Earth and, as usual, nothing is going like he planned. The plan was: escape from Junup, rescue... |
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The Glass Town Game
CATHERYNNE M VALENTE · Margaret K. McElderry Books Pages: 544 Format: Hardcover
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Charlotte and Emily must enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings in this adventurous and fiercely intelligent novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.Inside a small Yorkshire... |
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How to Be an Elephant
Katherine Roy · David Macaulay Studio Pages: 48 Format: Hardcover
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The savanna is not an easy place to live, even for African elephants, the largest land animals on earth. If it's a challenge for these 7,000-pound giants, what's it like for their newborn babies?An infant elephant has precious little time to learn the incredible array of skills that are necessary... |
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Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story
SANDRA NEIL WALLACE · Calkins Creek Format: Hardcover
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In the years following the Civil War, ?Arctic fever? gripped the American public, fueled by myths of a fertile, tropical sea at the top of the world. Several explorers attempted to find a route to the North Pole, but none succeeded. Bound by Ice follows the journey of George Washington... |
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The Marvelwood Magicians
DIANE ZAHLER · Boyds Mills Press Format: Hardcover
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Eleven-year-old Mattie Marvelwood comes from a family of traveling performers. Her dad is an illusionist; her mom is a fortune-teller; her brother has a vanishing act; and she herself is a mind-reader. But the Marvelwoods have a deep secret. The acts they perform at carnivals, fairs, and circuses... |
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Biometrics: Your Body and the Science of Security
Maria Birmingham · Owlkids Pages: 48 Format: Hardcover
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Biometrics -- the science of using the body to identify a person -- is everywhere, not just in science fiction, but in everyday life. Today, biometrics is on the cutting edge of security. It's used for access into banks and airports, as well as to keep money and personal information... |
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