13th Street #3: Clash of the Cackling Cougars

13th Street #3: Clash of the Cackling Cougars
Author: David Bowles
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062947877

A silly and spooky new highly illustrated series that’s perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book! Ivan, Malia, and Dante are excited about their ski trip. There’s no chance they’ll stumble onto 13th Street in the mountains, right? WRONG! After being sucked through a portal, the cousins come face-to-face with joke-telling cougars that are more dangerous than they seem. How will the kids get out of trouble this time? Each story in this hilarious and scary new series from award-winning author David Bowles is designed to set independent readers up for success—with short, fast-paced chapters, art on every page, and progress bars at the end of each chapter!

13th Street #2: The Fire-Breathing Ferret Fiasco

13th Street #2: The Fire-Breathing Ferret Fiasco
Author: David Bowles
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062947842

A silly and spooky new highly illustrated series that’s perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book! Cousins Dante, Malia, and Ivan are happy to be back in their home town. But then their school bus takes a wrong turn and they end up on 13th Street! There are new monsters to fight, but at least they have their friend Susana and their bus driver to help them. Will the gang ever make it to their first day of class? Each story in this hilarious and scary new series from award-winning author David Bowles is designed to set independent readers up for success—with short, fast-paced chapters, art on every page, and progress bars at the end of each chapter!

Top 20 Daredevils

Top 20 Daredevils
Author: Melvin Berger
Publisher: Scholastic Nonfiction
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781338253375

From swallowing a cup full of needles to tightrope-walking across the Grand Canyon, these top 20 daredevils have attempted some of the most dangerous stunts of all time! Have you ever tried to skydive from thousands of feet in the air, or free climb a 20-story building with nothing but your bare hands? Well, these daredevils have! Read all the elaborate (and gory!) details of the most dangerous stunts of all time carried out by the 20 biggest risk takers to ever exist. Melvin and Gilda Berger deliver a thrilling introduction to each of these daredevils, including a short biography, breakdowns of that person's most death-defying stunts, jokes, and more. Readers will even learn the science behind some of these shocking feats! The countdown to number one includes legends like Harry Houdini and Bessie Coleman, as well as newer or lesser known daredevils, such as Jeb Corlis, Alain Robert, and Mabel Stark. Chockful of unbelievable facts, and a mix of action-packed comic-style illustrations and photographs, this book will keep any kid who loves cool stunts busy for hours!

The Frost Festival

The Frost Festival
Author: Melody Mews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1665912049

Includes an excerpt from: Mystery at Mermaid Cove.

Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #15: Lost in New York

Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #15: Lost in New York
Author: Jeff Brown
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2018-11-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062366114

Flat Stanley is taking over the world, one city at a time! In this thrilling fifteenth book in the renowned Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures chapter book series, the Lambchops visit the Big Apple, New York City! Stanley Lambchop has been invited to New York City to take part in an International Declaration of Friendship at the United Nations! But before anyone signs the declaration, the group goes on a whirlwind tour of New York City. What should be an adventure quickly turns scary when Stanley and his new friend Ian get separated from their group. But Stanley and Ian manage to find the fun in their situation, traveling around Manhattan: through the subway, across Times Square, and—finally—to the top of the Empire State Building. But at the end of the day, Stanley and Ian are still on the search to find their families and friends before it’s time to sign the Declaration of Friendship. Will they meet up with their group before it’s too late? This unforgettable adventure features fun, fascinating facts about New York City! And for parents and teachers, each Flat Stanley book is aligned to the Common Core State Standards, like multicultural adventure, plot and character development story elements, and compare and contrast! Don’t miss any of Flat Stanley’s worldwide adventures!

The Width of the World

The Width of the World
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780545831963

Having discovered the truth about the town of Wormwood before surviving the dangerous wilderness of the Quag, heroine Vega Jane, who's endured more than anyone before her, is confronted by devastating forces unlike any she's ever encountered.

A Burnable Book

A Burnable Book
Author: Bruce Holsinger
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2014-01-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007493312

A stunning debut historical thriller set in the turbulent 14th Century for fans of CJ Sansom, The Name of the Rose and An Instance of the Fingerpost.

The Smoking Mirror

The Smoking Mirror
Author: David Bowles
Publisher: Ifwg Publishing
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781925496024

Carol and Johnny Garza are 12-year-old twins whose lives in a small Texas town are forever changed by their mother's unexplained disappearance. Shipped off to relatives in Mexico by their grieving father, the twins soon learn that their mother is a nagual, a shapeshifter, and that they have inherited her powers. In order to rescue her, they will have to descend into the Aztec underworld and face the dangers that await them. American Library Association, 2016 Pura Belpre Author Honor winning novel.