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Katie and the Cupcake Cure
By Coco Simon. 2011
This first book in The Cupcake Diaries is told through the perspective of Katie Brown. We find Katie miserable on…
the first day of middle school. Her best friend Callie came back from camp boy-crazy and part of a whole new group of friends. When it's made clear that Callie is in the PGC (Popular Girls Club) and Katie is not invited to join, Katie suddenly feels incredibly alone. Katie realizes if she's going to survive middle school she needs to seriously regroup and find some new friends. But how? She bites into the cupcake her mother packed her for lunch and for a second closes her eyes. The sweet treat makes her happy--finally something goes right! Looking around her table, Katie notices the other students seeming a bit lost, as well. Which gives her an idea...With three new friends Katie forms a club as a way to spread the cupcake love and earn some cupcake cash.SPHDZ 4 Life!
By Jon Scieszka, Shane Prigmore. 2013
Don't miss the stunning, riveting, hilarious, and 100% fresh conclusion to the interactive Spaceheadz saga!The SPHDZ accomplished their goal of…
recruiting 3.14 million and one SPHDZ. But the brainwave has been stolen by the chief of the Anti Alien Agency, and it's up to Michael K., the SPHDZ, and their allies to get it back. With three potential Chief sightings, the team is spread around the world, leaving Michael K., Venus, TJ, and the SPHDZ to hold down the fort and finish fifth grade. But with a mysterious new principal and graduation fast approaching, will they be able to find the missing brainwave before the Chief uses it to destroy a planet?Someone has a crush on Heidi Heckelbeck! Can she figure out who it is--with a little help from her Book…
of Spells?The Brewster Science Fair is approaching, and Heidi and Stanley are busy working on their project. But when Heidi finds treats in her cubby and her desk, she realizes that she has a secret admirer! Who can it be? Heidi starts to investigate, and she eventually turns to her Book of Spells for help. Will she discover her admirer's true identity? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Heidi Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.Triple Trouble
By Julia Devillers, Jennifer Roy. 2013
When Payton and Emma take on a trio of triplets at the Twin Festival, it's double--make that triple--the twin-switch fun!Emma…
and Payton are home from Hollywood, but the drama continues: Not only is the Homecoming Dance coming up fast, but there's someone new in school! Three someones, actually: triplets. Oliver, Dexter, and Asher look exactly the same, dress exactly the same, and--worse--have exactly the same superior attitude. When the triplets mention they're participating in a regional Twins & SuperTwins Festival that has a Tweens Division and twin-related contests, Payton and Emma are instantly interested. Emma's been suffering from competition withdrawal ever since Jazmine James managed to get her disqualified from the upcoming science fair, so she's got her game face on. And once Payton convinces Mrs. Burkle that the festival is perfect for a VOGScast field trip, the whole gang takes a road trip and the games really get going. But attempts to take down the triplets threaten to land everyone in hot water. Can Emma and Payton switch their way out of trouble, or are they stuck in a multiples mess?Don't Chicken Out
By Shawn K. Stout, Victoria Ying. 2013
In addition to ballet, Fiona Finkelstein is out to prove she has other talents. It's a flat-out fact that the…
world needs more love, and Fiona is just the person to make some excellent romantic matches--or so she thinks. Fiona sets out to start a club with her friends and classmates to pair up pals and even teachers...but in the end, learns that she is much better at match-BREAKING.SPHDZ Book #2!
By Jon Scieszka, Shane Prigmore. 2010
The campaign is going well. The SPHDZ word is getting out. 1000's of kids have signed up to say they…
are SPHDZ. But things haven't gotten any easier for Michael K. The SPHDZ are still trying to blend in to our Earth culture, but not very successfully. They're still mixing up Thanksgiving, cartoon plots, holidays, and commercials. This makes it especially hard for Michael K. to both hide the SPHDZ from Agent Umber and accomplish the SPHDZ Mission. He's forced to enlist the help of fellow fifth graders, Venus and TJ. When they (Michael K. and the SPHDZ) are given the assignment to write and perform the school play, Umber thinks he's closing in on the aliens...the kindergartners playing the turkeys.Emma on Thin Icing
By Coco Simon. 2011
When Mia asks the girls in the club to be junior bridesmaids in her mother's wedding, everyone is superexcited about…
the idea...especially when they find the perfect dress for the occasion! It's Emma's dream dress, except it's a little more than she expected. And with her mom now out of a job (she's been put on furlough at the library) there's not a lot of room at the Taylor's house for extras. But not wanting to disappoint her friends, Emma decides to take on a few more jobs and chores around the house to help cover the cost. Between babysitting her bratty brother, a dog-walking business, flute practice, the Cupcake Club--and oh yeah, being a typical tween girl--Emma may have bitten off more than she can chew. Can she handle it all?SPHDZ Book #3!
By Jon Scieszka, Shane Prigmore. 2011
The SPHDZ are about to reach their recruitment quota--and that's when the real story STARTS! Michael K. and the gang…
only have 100 SPHDZ left to sign up. But something is about to go horribly wrong that will change EVERYTHING forever. What if the 3.14 million and one brainwaves aren't for saving the world at all? What if Agent Umber finally catches up with the SPHDZ? What if the AAA Chief has a new plan? What if Fluffy can speak...baby? New twists and new turns await readers. And in the end, Michael K. may not know whom he can trust anymore.... The third book in the out-of-this-world series is full of twists and turns--and a bigger mystery is about to be revealed!Trading Faces
By Julia Devillers, Jennifer Roy. 2009
In Trading Faces, identical twin sisters Emma (the smart one) and Payton (the popular one) start seventh grade at a…
brand-new school and discover they've been assigned entirely different schedules--so when they get sick of their respective cliques, they secretly switch places. What ensues is a hilarious yet poignant romp from middle school to the mall as the twins learn what it means to be true to yourself, even when the rest of the world isn't making it easy.My Teacher Fried My Brains
By Bruce Coville. 2005
Brains are sizzling in the seventh grade... The first day of seventh grade is probably the worst day of Duncan…
Dougal's life. He knows that things are really bad when he finds an alien's hand in a Dumpster and then gets plugged into an alien brain fryer! Can Duncan find out which of the four new teachers in his school is an alien before his brains get fried to a pulp--or before the aliens try to fry the whole planet?The Frandidate
By Jim Benton. 2008
Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist, has always had her eye on world domination, and she has to start somewhere...like her…
class elections! If people vote for her, they'll be giving her all the control she wants. But Franny's platform doesn't have the same appeal as her competitors who are offering new playground equipment, so she creates The Frandidate. Made of DNA samples from a dog, a chameleon and a parrot, along with a scrap of carpet (so she'll know where people stand), Franny's special suit helps her say and do exactly what people want! But when The Frandidate starts making promises she knows she can't keep, Franny realizes she might have gone too far...The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
By Adam Rex, Mac Barnett. 2009
Seventh-grader Steve Brixton is an avid reader of the Bailey Brothers series, and he's about to get a chance to…
put the detective tactics he's read so much about into practice. He's out to solve a mystery being investigated by America's most secret crime solving agency: the United States Department of Library Sciences. It will take all of Steve's skills to navigate this story of intrigue and crime as he tracks down the missing quilt (yes, quilt) containing all of America's secrets.The Year of Living Awkwardly: Sophomore Year (Chloe Snow's Diary Ser. #2)
By Emma Chastain. 2018
Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Mean Girls as lovably flawed high school student Chloe Snow chronicles another year in her life…
while she navigates the highs and lows of family, friendship, school, and love in a diary that sparkles with humor and warmth.It’s Chloe Snow’s sophomore year of high school, and life has only grown more complicated. Last year, Chloe was the star of the musical. This year, after an audition so disastrous she runs off the stage in tears, she’s cast as a lowly member of the ensemble. Will she be able to make it through the show knowing everyone’s either pitying her or reveling in her downfall? Chloe’s best friend, Hannah, is no help: she’s been sucked into the orbit of Lex, the velvet-gloved, iron-fisted ruler of the sophomore class. Chloe’s dad is busy falling in love with Miss Murphy, and Chloe is no longer speaking to her mother, who is sending her increasingly desperate and unhinged emails from Mexico. As her parents’ divorce negotiations unravel, a custody battle looms. If only Chloe could talk to Grady about it: his parents are divorced, and he’s easy to talk to. Or he was, until he declared his love for Chloe, and she turned him down because despite all her rational brain cells she can’t seem to get over Mac, and then Grady promptly started going out with Lex. As the performance of the show approaches, Chloe must find a way to navigate all the messy elements of her life and make it through to the end of the year.Happy Haunting (My Little Pony)
By Louise Alexander. 2016
Stand firm and prepare for a big fright because Nightmare Night is here! Everypony is excited for this spooky holiday-except…
Fluttershy. She'd rather snuggle with cuddly animals than creep with sinister skeletons, but she'll do what it takes to spend time with her friends! What has Fluttershy gotten herself into?Includes Read-Aloud/Read-to-Me functionality on supported devices.© 2016 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved.The Room
By Jonas Karlsson. 2015
Funny, clever, surreal, and thought-provoking, this Kafkaesque masterpiece introduces the unforgettable Bjorn, an exceptionally meticulous office worker striving to live…
life on his own terms. Bjorn is a compulsive, meticulous bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the government office where he works--a secret room that no one else in his office will acknowledge. When Bjorn is in his room, what his co-workers see is him standing by the wall and staring off into space looking dazed, relaxed, and decidedly creepy. Bjorn's bizarre behavior eventually leads his co-workers to try and have him fired, but Bjorn will turn the tables on them with help from his secret room. Debut author Jonas Karlsson doesn't leave a word out of place in this brilliant, bizarre, delightful take on how far we will go--in a world ruled by conformity--to live an individual and examined life.Winning
By Lara Deloza. 2016
Who ever said being nice would get you to the top?Certainly not Alexandra Miles. She isn't nice, but she's more…
than skilled at playing the part. She floats through the halls of Spencer High, effortlessly orchestrating the actions of everyone around her, making people bend to her whim without even noticing they're doing it. She is the queen of Spencer High--and it's time to make it official.Alexandra has a goal, you see--Homecoming Queen. Her ambitions are far grander than her small town will allow, but Homecoming is just the first step to achieving total domination. So when peppy, popular Erin Hewett moves to town and seems to have a real shot at the crown, Alexandra has to take action.With the help of her trusted friend Sam, she devises her most devious plot yet. She'll introduce an unexpected third competitor into the mix, one whose meteoric rise--and devastating fall--will destroy Erin's chances once and for all. Alexandra can run a scheme like this in her sleep. What could possibly go wrong?Lara Deloza's crackling depiction of a perpetually two-steps-ahead popular girl makes for a fun, wicked story with a protagonist that readers will love to hate.Epic Tales from Adventure Time: The Virtue of Ardor
By T. T. Macdangereuse. 2016
Join Flame Princess (also known as Phoebe) as she leaves her home for the city of Confectorium, a Candy Kingdom…
version of Ancient Rome. Will Phoebe's fire and passion lead her to danger and destruction, or will she find her place in this strange new land? The Epic Tales series, based on an idea from Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward, features the show's beloved characters in stories inspired by classic pulp novels (with a touch of romance) in a fan-fiction version of Ooo.A Hint of Hydra (The Mystic Cooking Chronicles)
By Heidi Lang, Kati Bartkowski. 2018
Thirteen-year-old chef Lailu Loganberry must stop a war between the elves and scientists in this follow-up to A Dash of…
Dragon, which Kirkus Reviews calls “a recipe for success.”It’s the Week of Masks, a festival held to chase away evil spirits. But Lailu doesn’t have time to worry about demons. She has bigger fish to fry—or rather, griffons, now that she’s been asked to prepare a mystical feast for the king’s executioner, Lord Elister. Unfortunately Lailu’s meal is overshadowed by the scientists’ latest invention: automatons, human-shaped machines that will respond to their masters’ every order. Most people are excited by the possibilities, but the mechanical men leave Lailu with a bad taste in her mouth. Even worse, the elves still blame the scientists for the attacks on them weeks ago, and Lailu worries that the elves might be cooking up revenge. So when she and her sorta-rival-turned-almost-friend Greg stumble across the body of a scientist, the elves are the prime suspects. With help from Greg, her best friend Hannah, and the sneaky, winking spy Ryon, Lailu has to discover the truth behind the murder, and soon—because hostilities between the elves and the scientists are about to boil over faster than hydra stew. And just ask any chef: war is bad for business.Cauldron: Unstoppable Nazi Zombies in Outback Australia. Yep.
By Colin Wicking. 2016
Two men stand guard over the entrance to a forgotten Cold War bunker. There's something down there. Something locked behind…
ancient steel doors. Something that scrapes around in the dark. If you come looking for it, you die. Naturally, somebody comes looking for it...Not so best-selling author Ross Vittachi becomes convinced a lost Nazi artefact - a golden cauldron once in the hands of Heinrich Himmler - may be hidden somewhere in Outback Australia, and he's on a mission to find it. Teaming with newspaper reporter Larry Kirby and Larry's no-nonsense girlfriend, Jasmine 'Jazz' Reilly, Vittachi embarks on an unlikely hunt for Nazi treasure - a hunt that will soon see them chopping their way through hordes of ravenous, reanimated corpses and straight into the malevolent heart of the Third Reich's darkest secret. Bon appétit.Taft 2012: A Novel
By Jason Heller. 2012
HE'S BACK.AND HE'S THE BIGGEST THING IN POLITICS.He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican résumé. Liberals…
love his peaceful, progressive practicality. The media can't get enough of his larger-than-life personality. And all the American people love that he's an honest, hard-working man who tells it like it is.There's just one problem. He is William Howard Taft . . . and he was already president a hundred years ago. So what on earth is he doing alive and well and considering a running mate in 2012? A most extraordinary satire, Jason Heller's debut novel follows the strange new life of a presidential Rip Van Winkle: a man who never even wanted the White House in the first place, yet finds himself hurtling toward it once more--this time, through the media-fueled madness of 21st-century America.