Back Ages 9-12 | July Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Ages 9-12  
National Geographic Kids Everything Soccer: Score Tons of Photos, Facts, and Fun

Blake Hoena · National Geographic Children's Books

Score! Finally, a book that explains everything about soccer -- a favorite team sport played by millions of kids around the globe. From patches of dirt to gleaming turf, soccer is a game for all. Meet soccer's superstars. Learn the rules. Get kitted up, get out on the field, and show...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Stick Dog Tries to Take the Donuts

Tom Watson · Harpercollins, 2016.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

The Stick Dog series continues in Tom Watson's hilarious Stick Dog Tries to Take the Donuts!Stick Dog and his team of strays are off on another outrageous canine caper. To snatch some breakfast treats for his hungry pals, Stick Dog will need to stop a moving truck, outfox a man on a telephone...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Miss Felicity Beedle's The world of poo

Terry Pratchett · Doubleday, 2015. ©2012
Pages: 117
Format: Print book

Staying with his grandmother in Ankh-Morpork, Geoffrey collects specimens for the world's first museum of poo.
Read More check catalog
 
 
Island of Shipwrecks

Lisa McMann · Aladdin Paperbacks
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Alex and his friends from Artime' are stranded on a newly-discovered island, and they are not alone. While in Quill, his twin Aaron's power base grows as he joins with an unlikely ally in a risky plan to finally conquer Artime'.
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Police Officer's Job

Linda Hayward · DK Children; 1st edition

Offers a look at the different ways police officers help keep you safe.
Read More check catalog
 
 
Quinny & Hopper

Adriana Brad Schanen · Disney-Hyperion Books, 2014.
Pages: 230
Format: Print book

Quinny has a lot to say. Hopper gets to the point.Quinny has one speed: very, very, extra-very fast. Hopper proceeds with caution.Quinny has big ideas. Hopper has smart solutions.Quinny and Hopper couldn't be more different. They are an unstoppable team.But when summer ends, things suddenly...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Alistair Grim's Odd Aquaticum

Gregory Funaro · Disney Hyperion
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

* "Dive head-, feet-, or face-first into this delicious danger." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Read More check catalog
 
 
Big Nate: Say Good-bye to Dork City

Lincoln Peirce · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 222
Format: Print book

Wanted: Nate Wright, better known as Big Nate, four-and-a-half feet tall, black hair with seven spikes, age eleven, sixth-grader at P.S. 38, record holder for school detentions. Reward: Big Nate: Say Good-bye to Dork City!Can Nate Wright get any cooler? Not according to Nate himself. He's...
Read More check catalog
 
 
I, Q The Windy City

Roland Smith · Cherry Lake Pub
Pages: 231
Format: Hardcover

After Q and Angela help foil a Ghost Cell plot in San Antonio, they head to Chicago, the next stop on the Match tour. Since they've been busy fighting international terrorism, they're behind on their school assignments. Their parents tell them if they don't get caught up, it's...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Switch

Ingrid Law · Dial Books for Young Readers
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

Ingrid Law delivers another heartwarming story about the magic of friendship and the power of family in this companion to her Newbery Honor winning Savvy Gypsy Beaumont has always been a whirly-twirly free spirit, so as her thirteenth birthday approaches, she hopes to get a magical ability...
Read More check catalog