Poof! A Bot!

Poof! A Bot!
Author: David Milgrim
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534411046

A School Library Journal Best Chapter Book of 2019! Zip the unlucky magician gets into another hilarious (and sticky) situation in the second book in the Adventures of Zip Ready-to-Go! series from author-illustrator David Milgrim, who was awarded a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor for his Ready-to-Read, Go, Otto, Go! Zip has zapped a bot. Zip tells the bot what to do. Will the bot listen? (Spoiler alert: The bot does not listen and Zip learns an important lesson, complete with a pie being thrown in his face!) Perfect for kids at the beginning of their reading journeys, Poof! A Bot! was written for children who have learned the alphabet and are ready to start reading! And what better way to get kids excited than with a hilarious out-of-this-world adventure featuring words they can actually read and starring a zany magician? Each Ready-to-Go! Ready-to-Read includes a note to parents explaining what their child can expect, a guide at the beginning for readers to become familiar with the words they will encounter in the story, and reading comprehension questions at the end. Each Ready-to-Go! story contains no more than 100 words and features sight words, rhyming words, and repetition to help children reinforce their new reading skills. In this book, readers will learn thirty-five sight words and six words from one word family. So come on and get reading with Zip!

See Zip Zap

See Zip Zap
Author: David Milgrim
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2018-07-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534411011

Meet the unlucky magician Zip and his friends in the first of the Adventures of Zip Ready-to-Go! books from author-illustrator David Milgrim, who was awarded a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor for his Ready-to-Read, Go, Otto, Go! This is Zip. Zip likes to zap. What will Zip zap today? Perfect for kids at the beginning of their reading journeys, See Zip Zap was written for children who have learned the alphabet and are ready to start reading! And what better way to get kids excited than with a hilarious out-of-this-world adventure featuring words they can actually read and starring a zany magician? Each Ready-to-Go! Ready-to-Read includes a note to parents explaining what their child can expect, a guide at the beginning for readers to become familiar with the words they will encounter in the story, and reading comprehension questions at the end. Each Ready-to-Go! story contains no more than 100 words and features sight words, rhyming words, and repetition to help children reinforce their new reading skills. In this book, readers will learn twelve sight words, and four words from one word family. So come on and get reading!

See Otto

See Otto
Author: David Milgrim
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2016-12-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481467964

Otto the robot lands on Earth, where he is chased by a rhinoceros and befriended by some monkeys.

Go, Otto, Go!

Go, Otto, Go!
Author: David Milgrim
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481467255

Otto the robot builds a spaceship in this funny and poignant Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book. This Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read by New York Times bestselling author/illustrator David Milgrim is part of the award-winning, star-reviewed The Adventures of Otto series! See Otto work. Work, work, work on a spaceship to take him home. Since landing on Earth, Otto has made many friends, but what Otto wants most is to visit his family. Will Otto’s spaceship take him up, up, up, so he can go, go, go? Find out in this Pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read with bright illustrations and minimal text for the true emergent reader.

Dead Lies Dreaming

Dead Lies Dreaming
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Tordotcom
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250267013

When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming: A Laundry Files Novel. As Wendy hunts down Imp—the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves “The Lost Boys”— she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving copy of the long-lost concordance to the one true Necronomicon is up for underground auction in London. He hires Imp’s sister, Eve, to procure it by any means necessary, and in the process, he encounters Wendy Deere. In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons, corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in order to make it out of this chase alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Poof! a Bot!

Poof! a Bot!
Author: David Milgrim
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN: 9781536450699

Zip has zapped a bot. Zip tells the bot what to do. Will the bot listen?

For Otto

For Otto
Author: David Milgrim
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534465677

Otto and his friends are back in this Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read by the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor–winning author-illustrator David Milgrim. For Otto is part of the award-winning, star-reviewed The Adventures of Otto series. Sometimes Otto’s friends have something for him. And sometimes they have something for someone else. See Otto go from sad to glad in this sweet story about friendship. This Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read with bright illustrations and minimal text is perfect for the true emergent reader.

The Stepping Off Place

The Stepping Off Place
Author: Cameron Kelly Rosenblum
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062932098

From debut author Cameron Kelly Rosenblum comes a stunning teen novel that tackles love, grief, and mental health as one girl must process her friend’s death and ultimately learn how to stand in her own light. Perfect for fans of All the Bright Places and We Were Liars. It’s the summer before senior year. Reid is in the thick of Scofield High’s in-crowd thanks to her best friend, Hattie, who has been her social oxygen since middle school. But summer is when Hattie goes to her family’s Maine island home. Instead of sitting inside for eight weeks, waiting for her to return, Reid and their friend, Sam, enter into a pact—to live it up, one party at a time. But days before Hattie is due home, Reid finds out the shocking news that Hattie has died by suicide. Driven by a desperate need to understand what went wrong, Reid searches for answers. In doing so, she uncovers painful secrets about the person she thought she knew better than herself. And the truth will force Reid to reexamine everything.

Alternate Beauty

Alternate Beauty
Author: Andrea Rains Waggener
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2005-07-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553901788

She couldn’t change the way the world looked at her, so she changed the world.… Ronnie Tremayne is a big girl with big dreams: she wants to be a fashion designer. But as her model-thin mother never fails to remind her, in fashion, image is everything—and Ronnie is a size 28. When she learns that her job managing a plus-size boutique is in jeopardy because her weight is “disturbing” to the clientele, Ronnie loses control. After a late-night binge, she dozes off wishing for a world where fat is beautiful. When she awakens the next morning…it is. Now the ideal woman, Ronnie is thrust into the spotlight. She attends the best parties. She has her mother’s approval. Her boss invests in her clothing line. And the men! But as her appetite for life grows, Ronnie’s appetite for food shrinks. She soon becomes unrecognizable—inside and out. And while navigating the giddy highs and miserable lows of this so-called perfect world, Ronnie discovers what she should have known all along: it’s not the size of your body that matters, but the size of your heart. Wise, witty, and compassionate, this stunning debut novel speaks to anyone who has ever engaged in the battle of the bulge—or the exasperatingly elusive pursuit of perfection.

Max and the Midknights

Max and the Midknights
Author: Lincoln Peirce
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101931108

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES • Join Max's quest to become a knight in this laugh-filled, New York Times bestselling adventure from the author of the Big Nate series! "Max is epic fun!" --JEFF KINNEY, New York Times bestselling author of the DIARY OF A WIMPY KID series Max wants to be a knight! Too bad that dream is about as likely as finding a friendly dragon. But when Max's uncle Budrick is kidnapped by the cruel King Gastley, Max has to act...and fast! Joined by a band of brave adventurers--the Midknights--Max sets out on a thrilling quest: to save Uncle Budrick and restore the realm of Byjovia to its former high spirits! Magic and (mis)adventures abound in this hilarious illustrated novel from the New York Times bestselling creator of the Big Nate series, Lincoln Peirce. "Fantastic! I loved it!" --DAV PILKEY, New York Times bestselling author of the DOG MAN series