New Titles

Dungeon club

Ostertag, Molly Knox,


Olivia loves being the Dungeon Master of her after-school club, and she's always felt at home inside her game, but with new members and new plotlines, things are getting more and more complicated. Soon, Olivia starts to doubt herself even more when her older sister, Lu, comes home from college and tells her D&D is a waste of time and she needs to grow up. Olivia, Jess, and their new friends must find a way to navigate the changes they face as they approach the end of the middle school.
Date Published:2025

Olivia loves being the Dungeon Master of her after-school club, and she's always felt at home inside her game, but with new members and new plotlines, things are getting more and more complicated. Soon, Olivia starts to doubt herself even more when her older sister, Lu, comes home from college and tells her D&D is a waste of time and she needs to grow up. Olivia, Jess, and their new friends must find a way to navigate the changes they face as they approach the end of the middle school.

Date Published:2025

Diary of a wimpy kid [10] : old school /

Kinney, Jeff.


Numbering on spine. Horn book guide, Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive?
Date Published:2015

The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg

Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman),


Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into service in the Civil War.
Date Published:2019

The house at the edge of magic

Sparkes, Amy,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Nine is an orphan pickpocket whose life is turned upside down when she steals a beautiful house-shaped ornament from someone's purse and it grows into an enormous house filled with magic, mystery, and eccentric residents. She soon learns that the residents have been placed under a magical spell, and they need Nine's help to break it.
Date Published:2025

Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Nine is an orphan pickpocket whose life is turned upside down when she steals a beautiful house-shaped ornament from someone's purse and it grows into an enormous house filled with magic, mystery, and eccentric residents. She soon learns that the residents have been placed under a magical spell, and they need Nine's help to break it.

Date Published:2025

The tower at the end of time

Sparkes, Amy.


Kirkus Review, April 2025. Nine and her friends have broken the curse on their marvelous, magical house and are free to travel the worlds once more! Their first stop: the Wizarding Hopscotch Championships. There's only one problem: the house is nervous about traveling and gets the hiccups! Bouncing from world to world with every hic!, they finally land at the championships, only for Flabberghast to have an unfortunate run-in with square number nine that leaves them all faced with the terrible Tower at the End of Time. But their sinister new location may be just the place to cure the house's hiccups and even uncover who left Nine her beloved music box as a baby and who Nine really is--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2022

Kirkus Review, April 2025. Nine and her friends have broken the curse on their marvelous, magical house and are free to travel the worlds once more! Their first stop: the Wizarding Hopscotch Championships. There's only one problem: the house is nervous about traveling and gets the hiccups! Bouncing from world to world with every hic!, they finally land at the championships, only for Flabberghast to have an unfortunate run-in with square number nine that leaves them all faced with the terrible Tower at the End of Time. But their sinister new location may be just the place to cure the house's hiccups and even uncover who left Nine her beloved music box as a baby and who Nine really is--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2022

Belly up

Gibbs, Stuart, 1969-


Wilson's Children, September 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011. School Library Journal, May 2010. Booklist, May 2010. Horn Book, October 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), June 2010. Kirkus Review, April 2010. Library Media Connection, October 2010. Teacher Librarian, February 2015. Horn Book Guide, Library Media Connection, School Library Journal, Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered.
Date Published:2010

Wilson's Children, September 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011. School Library Journal, May 2010. Booklist, May 2010. Horn Book, October 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), June 2010. Kirkus Review, April 2010. Library Media Connection, October 2010. Teacher Librarian, February 2015. Horn Book Guide, Library Media Connection, School Library Journal, Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered.

Date Published:2010

How we got to the moon : the people, technology, and daring feats of science behind humanity's greatest adventure /

Rocco, John.


School Library Journal, September 2020. Booklist starred, September 2020. Horn Book Starred, November 2020. Pub Weekly, September 2020. Kirkus Starred, August 2020. Junior Library Guild. Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, "[A] . . . guide to the people and technology of the moon landing . . . is a must-have for space fans, classrooms, and tech geeks"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2020

School Library Journal, September 2020. Booklist starred, September 2020. Horn Book Starred, November 2020. Pub Weekly, September 2020. Kirkus Starred, August 2020. Junior Library Guild. Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, "[A] . . . guide to the people and technology of the moon landing . . . is a must-have for space fans, classrooms, and tech geeks"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2020

Waste of space

Gibbs, Stuart, 1969-,


Junior Library Guild. In 2041 on Moon Base Alpha, thirteen-year-old Dash must solve the mystery of how Lars was poisoned before the base loses oxygen, forcing the colonists to return to Earth.
Date Published:2018

Fins

White, Randy Wayne,


Junior Library Guild. "A middle-grade novel about three kids that are hired to tag sharks by a Florida marine biologist"--Provided by the publisher.
Date Published:2020

The earth dragon awakes : the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 /

Yep, Laurence, 1948-


Booklist, March 2006. Children's Literature. Horn Book, July 2006. Kirkus Review. School Library Journal, May 2006. School Library Journal, May 2006. Book Links (A.L.A.), November 2006. Booklist, March 2006. Horn Book, October 2006. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), June 2006. Kirkus Review, March 2006. Library Media Connection, January 2007. Wilson's Children, October 2007. Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes, then both witness real courage trying to survive an earthquake.
Date Published:2006

Booklist, March 2006. Children's Literature. Horn Book, July 2006. Kirkus Review. School Library Journal, May 2006. School Library Journal, May 2006. Book Links (A.L.A.), November 2006. Booklist, March 2006. Horn Book, October 2006. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), June 2006. Kirkus Review, March 2006. Library Media Connection, January 2007. Wilson's Children, October 2007. Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes, then both witness real courage trying to survive an earthquake.

Date Published:2006

The walk on

Feinstein, John.


School Library Journal, November 2014. Booklist, September 2014. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2014. Kirkus Review, August 2014. After moving to a new town his freshman year in high school, Alex Myers is happy to win a spot on the varsity team as a quarterback but must deal with the idea of not playing for two years since the first-string quarterback is not only a local hero, he is also son of the corrupt head coach.
Date Published:2014

School Library Journal, November 2014. Booklist, September 2014. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2014. Kirkus Review, August 2014. After moving to a new town his freshman year in high school, Alex Myers is happy to win a spot on the varsity team as a quarterback but must deal with the idea of not playing for two years since the first-string quarterback is not only a local hero, he is also son of the corrupt head coach.

Date Published:2014

The Expeditioners : and the treasure of Drowned Man's Canyon /

Taylor, Sarah Stewart,


"Book 1"--Spine. "Includes a neak look at book 2!"--Cover page [4]. Library Media Connection, Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, School Library Journal, January 2013. Publisher's Weekly, November 2012. Kirkus Review, October 2012. Library Media Connection, August 2013. In a future world where electricity has ceased to exist, the nations of Earth race to find new lands. The genius explorer Alexander West has just died, leaving his three also-brilliant children half of a strange map to a land no one has seen before. Kit--the brains of the operation--M.K. the mechanic, and Zander--the heroic one--must evade secret government agents who want to use the map for their own purposes. The three Expeditioners plan on finding the secrets of the map by themselves.
Date Published:2013

"Book 1"--Spine. "Includes a neak look at book 2!"--Cover page [4]. Library Media Connection, Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, School Library Journal, January 2013. Publisher's Weekly, November 2012. Kirkus Review, October 2012. Library Media Connection, August 2013. In a future world where electricity has ceased to exist, the nations of Earth race to find new lands. The genius explorer Alexander West has just died, leaving his three also-brilliant children half of a strange map to a land no one has seen before. Kit--the brains of the operation--M.K. the mechanic, and Zander--the heroic one--must evade secret government agents who want to use the map for their own purposes. The three Expeditioners plan on finding the secrets of the map by themselves.

Date Published:2013

Quinny & Hopper

Schanen, Adriana Brad.


School Library Journal, May 2014. Publisher's Weekly, April 2014. Booklist, July 2014. Horn Book, October 2014. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2014. Kirkus Review, May 2014. "Two polar-opposite eight year olds who become summer best friends find their friendship threatened by the uncertainties of a new school year"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2015

The Book of Bad Things

Poblocki, Dan.


ALA Booklist. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2014. Kirkus Review, July 2014. Booklist, August 2014. Horn Book, April 2015. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2014. Horn Book Guide, Although twelve-year-old Cassidy Bean keeps a book of bad things, but this year Ursula, a local hoarder, has died under mysterious circumstances, and Cassidy finds that there a great many bad and dangerous things hidden in her house, including, perhaps, her vengeful ghost.
Date Published:2014

ALA Booklist. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2014. Kirkus Review, July 2014. Booklist, August 2014. Horn Book, April 2015. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2014. Horn Book Guide, Although twelve-year-old Cassidy Bean keeps a book of bad things, but this year Ursula, a local hoarder, has died under mysterious circumstances, and Cassidy finds that there a great many bad and dangerous things hidden in her house, including, perhaps, her vengeful ghost.

Date Published:2014

Addie Bell's shortcut to growing up

Brody, Jessica.


School Library Journal, December 2016. Publisher's Weekly, November 2016. Booklist, December 2016. Horn Book, October 2017. Kirkus Review, November 2016. "Seventh grader Addie Bell can't wait to grow up. Her parents won't let her have her own phone, she doesn't have any curves, and her best friend, Grace, isn't at all interested in makeup or boys. Then, on the night of her twelfth birthday, Addie makes a wish on a magic jewelry box to be sixteen ... and wakes up to find her entire life has been fast-forwarded four years!"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2017

School Library Journal, December 2016. Publisher's Weekly, November 2016. Booklist, December 2016. Horn Book, October 2017. Kirkus Review, November 2016. "Seventh grader Addie Bell can't wait to grow up. Her parents won't let her have her own phone, she doesn't have any curves, and her best friend, Grace, isn't at all interested in makeup or boys. Then, on the night of her twelfth birthday, Addie makes a wish on a magic jewelry box to be sixteen ... and wakes up to find her entire life has been fast-forwarded four years!"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2017

The great catnapping

Ecton, Emily,


School Library Journal, During a television appearance at a supermarket opening, chaos erupts and Walt and Princess Jubilee (the spokes-cat for Beautiful Buffet Cat Food) are catnapped! Now it's up to Butterbean and the other pets to take matters into their own paws and bring the two cats home.
Date Published:2025

The great pet heist

Ecton, Emily,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Connection, School Library Journal, Butterbean the wiener dog throws up in the hallway after chasing her tail all morning, causing her owner, Mrs. Food, to fall and hurt herself. Now, Butterbean fears Mrs. Food will not get better, and so she and her fellow pets in the house--Oscar the mynah bird, Walt the cat, and Marco and Polo the rats--stage a great heist to keep themselves fed and from being sent to the pound.
Date Published:2021

Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Connection, School Library Journal, Butterbean the wiener dog throws up in the hallway after chasing her tail all morning, causing her owner, Mrs. Food, to fall and hurt herself. Now, Butterbean fears Mrs. Food will not get better, and so she and her fellow pets in the house--Oscar the mynah bird, Walt the cat, and Marco and Polo the rats--stage a great heist to keep themselves fed and from being sent to the pound.

Date Published:2021

The great ghost hoax

Ecton, Emily,


Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, Butterbean is bored until Mrs. Third Floor visits and reports paranormal activity in her rental unit on the fifth floor. When Butterbean and the other pets set out to investigate, they find they're competing against professional ghost hunters who are trying to scam Mrs. Third Floor. The furry friends race to uncover the truth about the apartment and save Mrs. Third Floor from losing her life's savings.
Date Published:2022

Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, Butterbean is bored until Mrs. Third Floor visits and reports paranormal activity in her rental unit on the fifth floor. When Butterbean and the other pets set out to investigate, they find they're competing against professional ghost hunters who are trying to scam Mrs. Third Floor. The furry friends race to uncover the truth about the apartment and save Mrs. Third Floor from losing her life's savings.

Date Published:2022

The demigod diaries

Riordan, Rick.


Four short stories plus original art, interviews, puzzles, and games, reveal new insights into the world of Percy Jackson and the other heroes of Olympus.
Date Published:2012

Aven Green, baking machine

Bowling, Dusti.


"Aven knows she's an expert baker of cakes and cookies since she's been baking with her mom for a really long time. Plus no one bakes quite like her. She cracks eggs with her feet and measures sugar and flour with her feet (plus measuring cups) since she was born without arms. And now Aven has her eye on the prize: a beautiful blue ribbon for baking at the county fair. So she teams up with her friends Kayla, Emily, and Sujata. But It turns out they all have very different tastes and a lot of opinions about baking. Talk about a recipe for disaster!"
Date Published:2021

"Aven knows she's an expert baker of cakes and cookies since she's been baking with her mom for a really long time. Plus no one bakes quite like her. She cracks eggs with her feet and measures sugar and flour with her feet (plus measuring cups) since she was born without arms. And now Aven has her eye on the prize: a beautiful blue ribbon for baking at the county fair. So she teams up with her friends Kayla, Emily, and Sujata. But It turns out they all have very different tastes and a lot of opinions about baking. Talk about a recipe for disaster!"

Date Published:2021