Tiring of unpromising party and holiday jobs while longing for fame, seventeen-year-old Latina singer and guitarist Ali Montero competes in a Latin superstar contest and finds herself overwhelmed by an ensuing maelstrom of glitzy ward...
Princess in Training: Princess Diarie...
Meg CabotWith Michael, her geeky but gorgeous boyfriend, at Columbia Mia is sure there's absolutely nothing to look forward to in 10th grade. She discovers just how wrong she is when best friend Lily's nomination forces Mia to run against arch...
Going to Israel with her estranged father is the last thing Amy wants to do this summer. A spoiled American teenager with an attitude that matches her killer Jimmy Choo slides, she's got a serious grudge against her dad, a.k.a Sperm D...
Half-human, half-angel, Meridian Sozu has a dark responsibility.Sixteen-year-old Meridian has been surrounded by death ever since she can remember. As a child, insects, mice, and salamanders would burrow into her bedclothes and die. A...
The Nine Lives of Chloe King: The Fal...
Celia ThomsonChloe King is a normal girl. She goes to class (most of the time), fights with her mom, and crushes on a boy…or two. But around her sixteenth birthday, Chloe finds that perhaps she isn't so normal after all. There's the heightened n...
"Top-notch" —USA Today"Illuminating" —Washington Post"A breath of fresh air" —Entertainment Weekly"Memorable" —People After the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from...
Best Family Ever (A Baxter Family Chi...
Karen KingsburyMuch-loved storyteller Karen Kingsbury's Baxter Family books have captured the hearts of millions who have come to think of the Baxter family as their own. Now Karen Kingsbury and her son Tyler Russell tell the childhood stories of th...
She thinks she has nothing to hide? Ally has everything under control. She's about to move into a house full of strangers and have her life broadcast to the world, but as long as she still has her long-distance boyfriend, Corey, nothi...
Sometimes you find trouble, and sometimes trouble finds you. The mischief continues in the second book of a trouble-loving middle grade series!It's Seamus Hinkle's second semester at Kilter Academy, where he's quickly become an ace tr...
A fabulous school story about fads and friendship from the bestselling author of Frindle.This is war. Okay--that's too dramatic. But no matter what this is called, so far I'm winning.And it feels wonderful.Grace and Ellie have been be...
Peppa Pig and her family are going on a trip to Italy. They pack their bags, fly on an airplane, meet a new friend, and even learn how pizza is made! But what will happen when Peppa keeps leaving her teddy bear behind everywhere they ...
There's never a dull moment in Odyssey! Join Whit and the gang in the latest collection of stories from the popular Adventures in Odyssey. radio show. With each story centering around a critical moment that could be a "Danger Sig...
Completely Clementine (A Clementine B...
Sara PennypackerSummer is coming, and Clementine is not ready. She is not ready to start speaking to her father again, because she's still mad at him for eating meat. Instead, she has to express her sadness by giving him drawings of animals she knows...
Alternate universes exist! Perfect for moviegoers who loved 17 Again, Sliding Doors, and The Family Man, as well as the novel Before I Fall.When plain and unpopular Annie Nutter gets zapped by one of her dad's whacked-out inventions, ...
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld comes a "masterful" (Cory Doctorow) novel-within-a-novel that you won't be able to put down.Darcy Patel has put college on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterw...
I Am Too Absolutely Small for School ...
Lauren Child'The children's relationship is refreshingly noncombative, with Charlie as the protective and affectionate older brother who is appreciative of, rather than annoyed by, his sister's quirkiness.' - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred revi...
A quick trip to the supermercado? Not with Bebe in the shopping cart. Just as Mama is ready to throw up her manos, she gives sweet Bebe a box of animal cookies. A dulce, at last! Then they're off to the checkout line, smiling all the ...
Clickity, clackity.Clickity, clackity.The roller coaster car is going up, up, up to the highest spot. And at least one of the people in the car has never ridden on a roller coaster before . . . ever. Wheeeeeeee!
Arthur, For the Very First Time
Patricia MacLachlanArthur Rasby is ten years old and having the worst summer of his life. His parents don't listen to him, so he writes everything down -- everything that's real -- in his journal. But when he goes to stay with his Great-Aunt Elda and Gr...
The Long Way to a New Land (I Can Rea...
Joan Sandin'We will go to America!' It is 1868, and Carl Erik's family faces starvation in Sweden. As their hopes fade, they must endure a journey over land and sea to reach a better life in a new country thousands of miles away.
Eloise is a young artist who loves to mix colors. Sitting on the front stoop of her house, she tells her neighbor, Rainbow Joe, how she combines red and white to make fish, and red and blue to make monkeys. Rainbow Joe explains that e...
Gila Monsters Meet You At the Airport...
Marjorie Weinman SharmatA young boy who must move from New York out West really believes that 'Gila monsters meet you at the airport.' Three-color illustrations.
Mittens is a small, shy kitten in a big, new house. Will he find a place just for him?
Raccoon On His Own (Picture Puffins)
Jim ArnoskyWhen a baby raccoon is swept downstream in an abandoned canoe, he feels afraid. But soon he notices all kinds of things he has never seen before, and from the safety of his little boat, he begins to explore the world around him. Paral...
Woof! IIt's time for a sleepover! Will Biscuit ever be able to get to sleep? IIt's fun to have a sleepover with friends! Have more fun with Biscuit!
Ira confronts several emotions when he learns his best friend Reggie is moving away.
Recognizing herself as the missing child on a school milk carton, Janie is compelled to investigate and has to choose between her love for the people she has always known as her parents and needing to learn the truth. Reissue.
Killing Miss Kitty and Other Sins
Marion Dane BauerThe time is 1950. The place is a small town in the Midwest. The girl is Claire, and she has a new black friend. But in an all-white town, how open can the girls be about their friendship?Now Claire faces being the 'new girl' in school...
Amber Brown and Justin Daniels are best friends. They've known each other for practically forever, sit next to each other in class, help each other with homework, and always stick up for each other. Justin never says things like, '...
The Berenstain Bears' Moving Day (Fir...
Stan BerenstainThis is the story of the Bear family's move to their now-famous tree house in Bear Country. Would Brother Bear like it? Would he find new friends? He wasn't sure until he got there.