Planet Omar: Epic Hero Flop

Planet Omar: Epic Hero Flop
Author: Zanib Mian
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-06-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593407172

Omar and his friends are up to a new heroic adventure in the fourth installment of this highly-illustrated middle-grade series starring a Muslim boy with a huge imagination. Is there ever a good time to tell a lie? When his best friend Daniel messes up at school, Omar decides to take the blame to save Daniel from getting in trouble—which makes Omar feel like a total hero! Being treated like a hero feels great, so he does it again. But then something more serious happens, and all eyes land on Omar. Uh-oh. The principal is convinced that Omar must have done it. Will he and his friends be able to prove his innocence, or is his good reputation ruined forever?

Epic Hero Flop

Epic Hero Flop
Author: Zanib Mian
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-07-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1444960997

Welcome back to Planet Omar! The fourth book in Zanib Mian's laugh-out-loud series, with amazing cartoon-style illustrations. Perfect for fans of Tom Gates and Wimpy Kid. When Omar's best friend Daniel messes up at school, Omar decides to take the blame to save him from getting in trouble - which makes him feel like a hero! With this taste of heroism, Omar takes the blame for a couple of small things other kids in the class have done - without realising that when something more serious happens, the signs will point to him since he's been so unusually troublesome. The teachers are SURE the culprit must be Omar. Can his friends prove his innocence and show that he wasn't responsible for the chaos? *Zanib Mian is a World Book Day author for 2021 with her Planet Omar title, Operation Kind.* Have you read the first book in the series, Accidental Trouble Magnet? Love Reading 4 Kids called it 'irresistible reading!'

Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet

Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet
Author: Zanib Mian
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2022-01-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593109236

The first book in the exciting middle-grade series starring a Muslim boy with a huge imagination—now in paperback! Welcome to the imaginative brain of Omar! Omar and his family have just moved, and he is NOT excited about starting at a new school. What if the work is too hard or the kids are mean or the teacher is a zombie alien?! But when Omar makes a new best friend, things start looking up. That is, until a Big Mean Bully named Daniel makes every day a nightmare! Daniel even tells Omar that all Muslims are going to be kicked out of the country . . . Could that possibly be true? Luckily, Omar's enormous imagination and goofy family help him get through life's ups and downs. Omar's funny, relatable narrative is the perfect answer to the call for both mirrors and windows to fill bookshelves with diverse stories. An NPR Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Best Book of the Year A USBBY Outstanding International Book Selection A Top 10 NYPL Best Book of the year A Middle East Book Award Nominee A Fuse #8 Great Middle Grade Novels of 2020 list A Bluestem Book Award Nominee (Illinois) A Maine Student Book Award Nominee A Sasquatch Award Nominee (Washington)

Bark Park

Bark Park
Author: Brandi Dougherty
Publisher: Bark Park
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781524860424

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The Big Apple Effect

The Big Apple Effect
Author: Christy Goerzen
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2014-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459807405

Fifteen-year-old Maddie has won an art contest and gets to visit New York City.

Flood Warning

Flood Warning
Author: Jacqueline Pearce
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459802438

Tom loves running through cow fields with his best friend, Peggy, and his dog, Amos—especially when he's pretending to be his favorite radio hero, the Lone Ranger. But when Tom learns the nearby Fraser River is about to flood, he may have to become a real-life hero and help save his family's herd of dairy cows. This story is based on real events that happened in the farming community of Agassiz during the Fraser River flood of 1948.

The Great Garage Sale

The Great Garage Sale
Author: Marilyn Helmer
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2013-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459800613

DJ mistakenly sells the wrong jewelry box to his friend at his grandma's garage sale and has to sacrifice his beloved skateboard to make things right.

Operation Kind

Operation Kind
Author: Zanib Mian
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2021-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781444959932

The Paper House

The Paper House
Author: Lois Peterson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459800524

Life is hard for ten-year-old Safiyah in the Kibera slum outside Nairobi. Too poor to go to school, she makes a meager living for herself and her grandmother Cucu by selling things she finds at the garbage dump. After using scavenged paper to fix up the inside of the hut, Safiyah starts a mural on the outside. As word of the paper house spreads, Safiyah begins to take pride in her creation. When Cucu collapses after a fire, Safiyah stays at the hospital to help care for her grandmother. While Safiyah is away, her friend Pendo works on the mural, which upsets Safiyah. But when Pendo attracts media attention to the paper house, Safiyah and her grandmother are given a chance of a better life.

Maren's New Family

Maren's New Family
Author: Jen Jones
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2015
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1496505409

Maren has been very close to her mother, so she is not happy when she discovers that she will soon have a new stepfather, and when she meets his twin children she is not sure that even her three friends, Delaney, Ashley, and Willow, can pull her through--especially after the twins shave Ashley's dog Coco during a particularly disastrous sleepover.