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PETE HAUTMAN · Candlewick
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover
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Competitive eating vies with family expectations in a funny, heartfelt novel for middle-grade readers by National Book Award winner Pete Hautman.David can eat an entire sixteen-inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and thirty-six seconds. Not bad. But he knows he can do better. In fact,... |
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Amazon Adventure: How Tiny Fish Are Saving the World's Largest Rainforest
Sy Montgomery · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 65
Format: Hardcover
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Considered the "lungs of the world," the Amazon provides a full fifth of the world's oxygen, and every year unsustainable human practices destroy 2.7 million acres. What can be done to help? That's where Project Piaba comes in. Join the award-winning author Sy Montgomery... |
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Ivy
Katherine Coville · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 134
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Jessica Day George and E. D. Baker comes a charming young fantasy about a girl, her grandmother, and an animal hospital devoted to fantastical creatures. Ivy's grandmother is a healer - to mostly four-legged patients of the forest. Although the woodland creatures love her,... |
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
DUSTI BOWLING · Sterling Children's Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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"Aven is a perky, hilarious, and inspiring protagonist whose attitude and humor will linger even after the last page has turned." - School Library Journal (Starred review) Chosen for the Autumn 2017 Kids' Indie Next List! Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms... |
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Tricked
Jen Calonita · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Things are changing at Fairy Tale Reform School.At least, that's what Gilly's heard through the Enchantasia rumor mill. Word is, notorious trickster Rumpelstiltskin has taken over management from Headmistress Flora, and he's locked down the school tighter than the Pied Piper's... |
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Cucumber Quest: The Ripple Kingdom
Gigi D. G. · First Second
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The quest to save Dreamside continues! After a surprise attack at sea, Cucumber finds himself in the Ripple Kingdom, home to white sand, blue waves . . . oh yeah, and the giant, terrible squid monster holding Almond and Sir Carrot captive. Can our so-called "legendary hero" rescue... |
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The Stone Girl's Story
Sarah Beth Durst · Clarion Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Exploring the power of stories and storytelling, Sarah Beth Durst presents the mesmerizing adventure of a girl made of living stone who braves unforeseen dangers and magical consequences on a crucial quest to save her family. Mayka and her stone family were brought to life by the stories... |
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You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!
ALEX GINO · Scholastic Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister Emma is born Deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn. A big fantasy reader, Jilly connects with another fan, Derek, who is a Deaf Black ASL user. She goes to Derek for advice but doesn't always know the best way to ask for it and makes... |
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Wish
Barbara O'Connor · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 227
Format: Hardcover
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A touching story about a girl and her dog, perfect for young animal loversEleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing... |
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Nothing But Trouble
Jacqueline Davies · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of The Lemonade War comes a new book starring two smart girls determined to liven up their town - one epic prank at a time.Odawahaka has always been too small for Maggie's big scientific ideas. Between her stuck-in-a-rut mom, her grumpy grandpop, and the lifetime... |
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You Go First
ERIN ENTRADA KELLY · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed and award-winning author Erin Entrada Kelly's You Go First is an engaging exploration of family, bullying, spelling, art, and the ever-complicated world of middle school friendships. Her perfectly pitched tween voice will resonate with fans of Kate DiCamillo's Raymie Nightingale.Twelve-year-old... |
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Pie
Sarah Weeks · Scholastic Press
Pages: 183
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of SO B. IT, a story about family, friendship, and...pie! When Alice's Aunt Polly passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous pie-crust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily surly cat Lardo . . . and then... |
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A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
Linda Sue Park · Clarion Books
Pages: 121
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond... |
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Secret Coders
Gene Luen Yang · First Second
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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Welcome to Stately Academy, a school which is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founder of the school left many clues and puzzles to challenge his enterprising students. Using their wits and their growing prowess with coding, Hopper and her friend Eni are going to solve the mystery... |
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