School Disasters

In this blockbuster installment of the bestselling Middle School series, Rafe and the other favorite characters from James Patterson's books for kids join forces for the first time in a hilarious adventure! Rafe and Jimmy, two misunderstood “troublemakers”, are finally up to something good...

You are invited to a Genovian Royal Wedding in this second audiobook pulled From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess, a Princess Diaries spin-off series, written and illustrated by New York Times-bestselling author Meg Cabot. Olivia Grace Clarisse Mignonette Harrison still finds it hard to...

In this hilarious sequel to the New York Times bestseller Worst Broommate Ever, witch-in-training Heidi Heckelbeck wants her crush to notice her. Heidi is settling in at Broomsfield Academy. She and Melanie are trying to get along and Heidi is getting used to her classes, all her new friends...

In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since...

In this hilarious sixth middle grade book in the Middle School and Other Disasters series that started with New York Times bestseller Worst Broommate Ever!, witch-in-training Heidi Heckelbeck has a new rival. When a new student comes to Broomsfield Academy, Mrs. Kettledrum informs the students...

In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary school - one of the most modern in the Midwest - Andrew P. Kehoe had other plans. The local farmer and school board treasurer was educated, respected, and an accommodating neighbor and friend. But behind his ordinary demeanor was a narcissistic sadist seething with rage, resentment, and paranoia. On May 18 he detonated a set of rigged explosives with the sole purpose of destroying the school and everyone in it.

Jason and Sophie are teachers at a rural high school north of Tampa, Florida. When an EMP attack spreads chaos and lawlessness, they are unexpectedly left responsible for a group of their former students. Without electricity, phones, or transportation, civilization collapses, and terror reigns. Jason's background as a decorated Army Ranger former officer and his history as a prepper help them. But can they survive in a world where organized predators prey on the young and innocent?

In this hilarious follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Worst Broommate Ever, witch-in-training Heidi Heckelbeck struggles to keep a secret. Heidi is making new friends at Broomsfield Academy—in particular, a popular girl named Isabelle. But it turns out Isabelle has a big secret that...

A Best Book of 2025 from Chicago Review of Books For fans of Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, Great Disasters is a stirring debut novel about six young men coming of age, and the enduring friendships that make us who we are—even as our paths diverge. This is...

After forty years away, Cam Carpenter returns home for her mother’s funeral—and into the arms of a stranger. But when morning comes, she finds out that Shiloh Sampson, the woman whose arms she woke up in, is the daughter of Cam’s first girlfriend—the woman who ruined her life. Shiloh thinks she'll settle for the commission on the sale of Cam’s house; neither she nor Cam expects their sudden attraction. A tornado ripping down Cam’s family’s house causes a series of events that reveal long buried truths about Shiloh’s mother leading her to turn to Cam for understanding and the...

On March 1, 2007, an EF4 tornado with winds in excess of 170 miles per hour struck Enterprise High School in Enterprise, Alabama. The tornado resulted in the deaths of eight students. It destroyed the school as well as the sense of safety of the community. Over the days, weeks, and years that followed, the students, teachers and community of Enterprise struggled to make sense of the tragedy and find a path toward healing. Carol Dean, a Licensed Professional Counselor employed by the school system, was on the front lines of the healing process. In this book, she shares interviews of the ...

In this hilarious fourth book in the Middle School and Other Disasters series that started with New York Times bestseller Worst Broommate Ever, witch-in-training Heidi Heckelbeck tries to keep magic hidden when Lucy Lancaster comes to visit. Featuring black-and-white illustrations and doodles...

A New York Times bestseller! In this hilarious first book in the Middle School and Other Disasters series, witch-in-training Heidi Heckelbeck juggles magical mishaps and everyday mayhem at her new boarding school. It’s goodbye, Brewster Elementary and hello, Broomsfield Academy when Heidi...

For fans of Gary Paulsen’s classic Hatchet and Lauren Tarshis’s bestselling I Survived series, J. L. Esplin's 96 Miles is a story of survival and desperation as two young brothers confront the worst in humanity—and themselves. Dad always said if things get desperate, it’s okay to drink...

This stunning audiobook from the survival story master, set along a rugged coastline centuries ago, does for the ocean what Hatchet does for the woods, as it relates the story of a young person’s battle to stay alive against the odds, where the high seas meet a coastal wilderness. When a...

August 1918. Everybody likes twelve-year-old Josie Winslow. While she helps in the family drug store and plans for the first day of school, her pharmacist father is puzzled by newspaper articles about influenza arriving in New York on ships from Europe. It is still summer. Flu is a winter disease. Billy Detwiler has been kicked out of prep school. No one, not even Billy, is happy he will be in Josie’s school let alone her eighth-grade class. He is a bully of the first order and is looking for his next victim. He calls Josie “Pharmacy Girl,” but it is no compliment. By mid-October, ...

Eleven-year-old Japanese American Owen has been in Japan for his sixth-grade year. By March he finally feels like he's getting the hang of the new culture, making friends at school, and feeling at home with the "weird" food. But early one morning, everything changes - and Owen suddenly finds himself just trying to survive one of history's most devastating disasters.

Our school system is in shambles. Kids are learning less than even 20 years ago with more teachers than ever. There is no discipline and fear is everywhere. To top it off, the subjects have been changed to reduce country pride, self respect, honor and integrity. History and science have been changed to insure that no God can be addressed, while not hurting the feelings of abstractions of religion. All these things together have spelled disaster.

Course A Time Academy Examination At the Time Academy, students do not study disasters. They learn how to guide them. In the Examination known as Course, Professor Elion Calder teaches the redirection of catastrophe already in motion. The village they observe depends on the river that feeds it. It waters their fields. Turns their mills. Sustains the valley. But rivers remember older paths. With careful spellwork, the students begin nudging the water away from the course it has followed for generations. At first the change is small. A field dries. A mill slows. The valley begins to fracture....

A girl who struggles to breathe befriends a boy who seems shrouded in dust, in this unmissable tour de force from bestselling and award-winning author Dusti Bowling. After Avalyn nearly died from an asthma attack, her parents moved her to the clear, dry air of Clear Canyon City, Arizona. And for...