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A boy and his best friends set out to discover the aliens who crash-landed next to their Roswell, New Mexico, farm in this charming novel packed with adventure and heart, perfect for fans of Ali Benjamin's The Thing About Jellyfish and Jennifer L. Holm's The Fourteenth Goldfish. Mylo never...

One minute the guys are wrestling around in Joe's room. The next minute The Book has transported them back to ancient Rome—and face-to-face with one big ol' gladiator. Luckily, Joe, Sam, and Fred, the Time Warp Trio, have seen enough professional wrestling to make it through gladiator...

Escape one danger. Jump into another. . . . Twelve-year-old Hope has always felt a little different from everyone else who lives in White Rock. She tries hard, but she doesn’t always think before she acts. She takes big risks. Sometimes her risks pay off, but sometimes they fail. Sometimes...

When Clare Gisborne and Little John return to school after the Locksley Riot, there's rebellion in the air and Robin Hood's name graffitied on every wall. Power dynamics are shifting - now, instead of being a feared bully, the daughter of Locksley's most hated criminal finds herself shunned by classmates and pelted with yoghurt and rotting fruit. Meanwhile at Sherwood Designer Outlets, Robin has plans of his own. He is determined to hack Sheriff Marjorie's office so that the rebels know her every move.

Ten-year-old Chase is the descendant of an ancient family entrusted with recording a forgotten, impossible world. Gifted with the ability to teleport into a parallel universe shaped by his ancestors’ collective memory, Chase is not alone—he’s joined by Oliver, another Map Keeper. Now in their second year of adventures, the boys find their journey bound to a mysterious child named Buggy Bug—a boy born from his dead father’s body in a snake-infested mountain, then captured and held hostage by the Emperor as leverage against his banished tribe.

The bestselling author of the Septimus Heap series, Angie Sage, delivers a gripping and darkly humorous tale of Maximillian Fly—a human with cockroach features—whose quiet life is upended when he aids two human children in their escape from an oppressive governing power. Perfect for fans of...

Brady Steele watches in awe as a fireball comes crashing through the roof of his house. Brady immediately calls up his cousin, Quinn. They both love all things extreme, and this is the most extreme thing ever! Fred, as Brady names his space rock, turns out to be one of the rarest meteorites ever found. Brady is discovering he's able to do strange and wonderful feats that shouldn't be possible.But he's developing some frightening symptoms. Could he be infected with long-dormant microbes from space?

Serena and Jason Murray never expected a tablet to suck Jason into a living world of moody apps, corrupted code, and homework that fights back. Book III: Riddles on the Storm Battery: 40% The battle with the terrifying Master Homework was not as bad as Jason feared. Sometimes you can win by not fighting. But not every battle can be won with kindness. When Jason faces Medea again, he finds that she doesn't believe in kindness. She and her Harpies rule over the Social App, measuring everything in likes and follower counts. And Medea is ready to spread her influence to the real world too. Now ...

After young Henry Babbitt tragically loses his father, he can't help but remember the promises of the great adventures they would now never take. Then, on a snowy Christmas Eve, his grandfather reveals that he's tracked down a series of mysterious century-old clues left by Hunter S. Skavenger, the eccentric magnate who launched the first and greatest scavenger hunt. Hours later, on Christmas Day, Henry finds himself magically transported back to 1885, where he teams up with a ragtag band of youngsters in a quest to solve Skavenger's elaborate puzzle.

Welcome to Flood City, the last inhabitable place left above the waters that cover Earth. It's also the last battleground between the Chemical Barons, who once ruled the planet and now circle overhead in spaceships, desperate to return, and the Star Guard, who have controlled the city for decades. Born and raised in Flood City, Max doesn't care about being part of either group. All he wants is to play his music with the city band, keep his sister from joining the Star Guard, and be noticed by his crush, the awesome drummer Djinna.

Jack and Gwen are back in this dynamic follow-up to The Lost Property Office. It’s been a year since Jack Buckles discovered the Keep beneath Baker Street, an underground tower no Section Thirteen was ever supposed to see; a year since his dad fell into a coma. Nothing has been the same since...

A thrilling new adventure series for children: what would the world look like if dinosaurs had never died out? Imagine a world where dinosaurs have survived and evolved as...supersaurs! This is the world that Bea Kingsley lives in, a world where humans live side by side with supersaurs, sometimes in peace but often in conflict. Bea is the daughter of explorer parents who went missing when she was just a baby.

When the bees die out, a new pollinator arrives. Deathflies help grow crops but there's a nasty side effect . . . zombies. Laying their eggs in people, deathflies turn people into dangerous zombies when they die. But the world must adapt or there won't be enough to eat. Can Merian and her scientist mum convince others to save the zombies? Or will the big corporation succeed in convincing people to kill them? And just what does it mean when a docile zombie shows up?

After escaping the clutches of Mayor Highshine for a second time, Scrap, Paige, and Gnat make the perilous journey to the ocean jungles in search of the last rocket ship on Somewhere 513. As they struggle to liberate the ship from a family of vicious frogbears, disaster strikes and it suffers a near-fatal crash. As Scrap works to repair the ship, things go from bad to worse when he makes a discovery that means leaving is impossible.

Zero Adedji dreams of joining one of the Saba guilds—groups of intergalactic travelers who explore space, retrieve lost treasures, and hunt down criminals. Instead, he must scrape by as a guide to travelers stranded on his home planet of Anansi 12. Then he meets Wanderblatch, a strange creature with an even stranger object: a golden pyramid that houses a legendary Kobasticker called the Jupiter. When the Jupiter chooses Zero as its next host, he is recruited by a top Saba guild so he can harness his newfound powers.

Palmen, glitzernder Sandstrand und leuchtend blaues Meer! Sind Philipp und Anne mit dem Baumhaus etwa ins Paradies gereist? Da erblicken die beiden plötzlich ein gigantisches Schiff am Horizont. Die Fregatte mit der schwarzen Flagge steuert direkt auf sie zu. Noch ahnen Philipp und Anne nicht, wer an Bord ist: Piraten auf Schatzsuche.

Liam O'Connor, Maddy Carter, and Sal Vikram all should have died. But instead, they have been given a second chance-to work for an agency that no one knows exists. The TimeRiders' mission: to prevent time travel from destroying history-and the future... When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where and when she shouldn't, Liam is marooned sixty-five million years in the past, in the hunting ground of a deadly, and until now undiscovered, species of prehistoric predator.

Todavía no sabes de lo que eres capaz... Cuando mi padre y yo nos mudamos a Lonely Town, un pueblo gris y solitario alejado de cualquier cosa interesante, estaba convencida de que mi vida se había acabado. Pero lo que realmente pasó fue mucho peor. Todo empezó con el incidente con Mike Sullivan, un abusón que se empeñó en hacerme la vida imposible. Aquello desató en mí un poder sobrehumano que me cambió… para siempre. De pronto, me vi obligada a huir de todo cuanto conocía y a luchar por mi vida mientras aprendía a utilizar una habilidad que todavía no comprendía. ***** ...

Ready to Go Where No One Has Gone Before? Meet Captain Luna, the bravest kid explorer in the Solar System, and her best friend, Astro, a fluffy, six-legged robot-dog with a talent for sniffing out trouble (and space treats!). Luna and Astro are tired of the same old planets. They’ve decided to take their cozy spaceship, the Stardust Drifter, past Pluto, past the icy Kuiper Belt, and into the mysterious Deep Dark, the very edge of our cosmic neighborhood! Join them on an epic, colorful adventure where they will: Navigate a maze of silent, shimmering Iceberg Armadas.

From the renowned author of the Popularity Papers series Amy Ignatow comes the first installment in a new series about a diverse crew of middle-school kids who develop very limited superhero powers after a strange accident and manage to become unlikely friends on the adventure of a lifetime.