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Time Tracers: The Stolen Summers

Annabeth Bondor-Stone · HarperCollins
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Taj Carter is on a high-stakes mission to track down the time thieves who stole his entire summer vacation - before they steal all the fun on earth! It's an all-new action-packed series by the authors of the critically acclaimed Shivers! series, Annabeth Bondor-Stone...
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Wild Rescuers: Guardians of the Taiga

NOT AVAILABLE. · HarperCollins
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

From StacyPlays, creator of the mega-popular YouTube series Dogcraft, comes a thrilling illustrated novel about a girl raised by a pack of wolves and her quest to protect their shared forest home. The first in a new Minecraft-inspired fantasy adventure series! Stacy was raised by wolves....
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Stinkiest!: 20 Smelly Animals

Steve Jenkins · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins is back with more Extreme Animals, perfect for young readers looking for accessible nonfiction chock full of incredible art. Stinkiest! will focus on the smelliest members of the animal kingdom. Through illustrations, infographics, facts, and figures,...
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Front Desk

Kelly Yang · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Mia Tang has a lot of secrets.Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests.Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner,...
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Two Dogs in a Trench Coat Go to School: Book 1

JULIE FALATKO · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Sassy and Waldo are good dogs. They spend the day keeping their house safe. Has a squirrel ever gotten inside? No! But every day their boy, Stewart, comes home from this terrible place called school smelling like anxiety and looseleaf paper. Sassy and Waldo decide to save Stewart. But they...
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William Wenton and the Secret Portal

Bobbie Peers · Aladdin
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

William Wenton is a code-breaking genius, but now he faces a new threat - one that's lurking inside him - in the second book in the William Wenton series that School Library Journal calls "part Alex Rider, part Da Vinci Code for kids, and part Artemis Fowl."After William begins...
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Grump: The

LIESL SHURTLIFF · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Library Binding

From the New York Times bestselling author of Rump, comes the true story behind another unlikely hero: a grumpy dwarf who gets tangled up in Snow White's feud with the wicked queen.Ever since he was a dwarfling, Borlen (nicknamed "Grump") has dreamed of visiting The Surface,...
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Annie's Life in Lists

Kristin Mary Mahoney · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

If you love kids like: 1. Anatastia Krupnik2. Ramona Quimby3. The Penderwicksthen you will love Annie! For Annie, lists are how she keeps her whole life in order. And there is a lot to keep track of!Annie's a shy fifth grader with an incredible memory and a love of making lists. It helps...
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A Whale in Paris

Daniel Presley · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A hopeful and heroic girl befriends a small, lost whale during World War II and together they embark on a journey to liberate France and find their families in this charming debut novel.Ever since the Germans became the unwelcome "guests" of Paris in the early days of World War II, Papa...
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Flying Deep: Climb Inside Deep-Sea Submersible Alvin

Michelle Cusolito · Charlesbridge
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Climb aboard Alvin, the famous deep-sea submersible credited with helping to find the Titanic, and take a trip two miles down to the bottom of the ocean.Experience a day in the life of an Alvin pilot and join scientists at the seafloor to collect samples and conduct research. Along the way,...
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