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On his 11th birthday, Jackson is nervous about moving up to middle school where he knows he'll be bullied by older kids, so he makes his wish, "I don't want to grow up!" When his 12th birthday rolls around, he discovers his wish came true: he's still 11, and he's starting fifth grade (again). At first, this is the perfect life. Jackson is the smartest kid in his class, the best on his baseball team, and the star of the school band. But after a few years of being eleven, he realizes his life is passing him by. 

It’s fifth grade, and the Dudes are ready to rule the school. The mission: inflate the class economy, rock down the walls, race to the state capitol, take over the governor’s office. The goal: to take possession of the most powerful dart gun ever invented. You won’t want to miss Deven’s hilarious election speech, Jayden’s Dude-themed birthday bash, or the battle with baby-stealing bandits!

Baby Zeke returns! It has been many months since Baby Zeke learned he was the warrior in the Balance of The Four. In his new book, Baby Zeke: Return of the Warrior: An Unofficial Minecraft Book, you will learn what Baby Zeke has been doing during his months of silence. And, you will follow his surprising adventures in pursuit of a magical llama.

At the very southern tip of South America looms an isolated finishing school. Legend has it that the land will curse those who settle there. But for Mavi - a bold Buenos Aires native fleeing the military regime that took her mother - it offers an escape to a new life as a young teacher to Argentina’s elite girls. Mavi tries to embrace the strangeness of the imposing house - despite warnings not to roam at night, threats from an enigmatic young man, and rumors of mysterious Others. But one of Mavi’s 10 students is missing, and students and teachers begin to behave as if possessed.

A life-threatening accident reveals to Finn that he is a werewolf; the next morning, he receives an invitation to a secluded high school. Finn quickly realizes that the school is in fact an academy for monsters that is far more perilous and full of adventure than he ever expected. But Haunted High has had a dangerous history with werewolves.

To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future. Elisha Wilder’s family has been ruined by debt, handed down to them from previous generations. His mother never recovered from the Dociline she took during her term as a Docile, so when Elisha decides to try and erase the family’s debt himself, he swears he will never take the drug.

Now, get the popular unofficial Minecraft series, Baby Zeke: The Diary of a Chicken Jockey, in one convenient package.

Tim Lane’s tried to get away for 38 years. He still can’t get more than 20 paces from his childhood home. And now, the demon responsible for his death looks like he’s getting ready for a repeat of his homicidal mayhem. To save his family, Tim needs to haunt them straight out of their home. To find a way into the afterlife proper, he’ll have to do it before the demon catches on to his plan. But when Tim uncovers the demon’s secret, he sees a way to stop him for good - if he’s willing to risk any hope of getting away.

They’ve watched us for centuries through the Rift. They’ve prepared. Invasion is inevitable. The Earth Fleet has known of the Watchers for years, unwilling to share the knowledge with humanity. Now it might be too late. Hidden away from the Fleet, one man is creating a new colony ship destined for the other side of the Rift, but he’s missing a few pieces. Three other people have varied paths to get there. Ace goes from the streets of Earth to the Fleet training facility on the moon. Flint, an ex-Fleet pilot, must decide if a job is worth his life.

Will Tavares is the dream summer fling - he’s fun, affectionate, kind - but just when Ollie thinks he’s found his happily ever after, summer vacation ends and Will stops texting Ollie back. Now Ollie is one prince short of his fairy-tale ending, and to complicate the fairy tale further, a family emergency sees Ollie uprooted and enrolled at a new school across the country. Which he minds a little less when he realizes it’s the same school Will goes to...except Ollie finds that the sweet, comfortably queer guy he knew from summer isn’t the same one attending Collinswood High.

A dangerous force is about to attack Haunted High. This time, everyone at the school is needed to defend it. But Finn has other problems that start with his own kidnapping and end with a revelation of such magnitude it has the potential to change the way he sees his entire world. Can Finn stop the demon prince and end the threat to Haunted High once and for all, or will the school he has come to love become the demon's latest victim? 

A life-threatening accident reveals to Finn that he is a werewolf; the next morning, he receives an invitation to a secluded high school. Finn quickly realizes that the school is in fact an academy for monsters that is far more perilous and full of adventure than he ever expected. But Haunted High has had a dangerous history with werewolves. Can Finn survive monster politics, life-threatening pranks, and teachers more likely to kill him than help him?

When Professor Briggs vanishes with the piece of demon heart, Finn choses to go after him. But the coordinates lead to the feared mythic labs where even Finn’s friends are afraid to go. Searching for leads, Finn comes across the one thing he doesn’t expect, the scent of another werewolf. Jumping down a rabbit hole of gruesome experiments, a deadly demon bite, and creatures straight from his nightmares, Finn risks losing everything, including his heart, to rescue the girl and unveil the secret she's vowed to keep.

When a message confirms Finn's worst nightmare, he plunges into a desperate rescue. While using himself as bait might not be the best move, it just might work if he can convince his best friend to let him take the risk. But werewolves don’t do well in cages. Can Finn hold the wolf at bay long enough for the ruse to work, or will the trap he set become his doom?

When Finn awakens to find a ghost staring at him from the foot of his bed, he realizes that if he can’t close the doorway his uncle opened, everyone in the Academy will be in danger. But the answer lies much closer to home. Finn has to face the heartache of his past and find out why his mother really left Haunted High. Fighting to survive ghosts, parent night, and possessed animals, Finn knows if he wants to end the threat to the Academy forever, he has to face his own demons, as well as those who threaten the school.

Trapped behind enemy lines on the eve of revolution, Major William Pomeroy thanks his luck. The village he’s stumbled across looks empty of colonial militia. His chances look good until he finds something much worse prowling the dark woods. To have any hope of stopping the undead, Pomeroy needs to rally the remaining villagers - which means first convincing them he’s not the worst danger they’re facing.

It’s summer in Sherwood Heights, and that means a ninja stealth picnic, supervillain jail, and a zombie apocalypse. The Dudes are five friends who set out to save one of their number from the doom of private school. But code-names, battle training, and a campout of doom don’t help as much as you’d think they would. Can the Dudes use inadvisable stunts and madcap plans to save the day? That’s how they roll!

When a tourist girl disappears on a vacation island - and the police investigation goes nowhere - 11-year-old local boy Billy Wheatley steps in to help. He’s a little young to play detective, and he can’t tell anyone what he’s up to. But he's kind of a child prodigy, or at least, he thinks he is. Either way, he’s got a very good reason to want the police off his beach. His style of investigation is unlike anything you’ve ever heard of before, but he gets results.

Zeke and Harold continue on their quest to reunite with their friends, but what can they do to escape the mysterious and evil minion who hunts them? Can they survive alone? Will anyone help them? Is this their final adventure?

Zeke and his friends have just escaped from a horrible player plan, and now they want to turn their cave from a hideout into a home. Things are going well. A farm is planned and defenses are being built. But then, Zeke finds a mysterious object, and things go bad very quickly. So bad, that this could be the beginning of the end...of the world!