At 5:40 p.m. on Monday, October 29, Hazel Wong runs back to the school gymnasium to grab the sweater she left behind — and there lying on the floor under the balcony is her science teacher, Miss Bell. She’s dead. Hazel rushes to get her friend Daisy, president of their two-person Detective Society. When they return to the gym five Read More …
Nick and Eryn are twelve-year-old twins. Their parents have been divorced for ages, ever since the twins were little, so Nick and Eryn are surprised when their mother suddenly announces she’s getting re-married. They don’t believe her when she says their life won’t change much. After all, they’re moving into a new house. They’ll have a stepdad. They’ll have new stepsiblings. Read More …
In the second world, Kinchen’s little brother Pip is kidnapped by Raftworld’s king. In West Africa in 1781, twin sister and brother, Venus and Swimmer, are forced aboard the slave ship Zong. In the Mekong River Delta in 1978, Thanh and his sister Sang try to flee postwar Vietnam by boat. Somehow, marvelously—and with the help of the kraken—these three Read More …
The Great Northern Race is not an ordinary dog sled race. It happens only once a generation, and the prize is remarkable: The first team to arrive at the Snowfather’s Palace at the top of the world has its greatest wish granted. (The last winner became enormously rich.) Shen and Sika want to win the race so they can help Read More …
When Great-Granddad dies, Lewis and his parents move into Shornoway, a big tumbling down house that has been in the family for generations. Lewis is drawn to the round tower room at the top of the house. It used to be his great-grandfather’s bedroom when he was a kid. Lewis can tell there’s something special about that room. It has Read More …
Eleven-year-old Tamaya attends the prestigious Woodridge Academy on scholarship. She walks to and from school every day with her neighbor, Marshall, a seven grader. The walk is extra long because they have to go around a big wooded area. Once they’re at school, Marshall pretends like he doesn’t know Tamaya. He can’t be seen being friends with someone so much younger, especially this Read More …
Imagine if you could go into any book and experience the story all around you. Sort of like a 3-D movie, only it would be real. You could eat chocolate from Willy Wonka’s factory, go to Camp Half-Blood with Percy Jackson, get your own wand at Ollivander’s… Owen never dreams such a thing would be possible. Then one day in Read More …
D.J. is sitting at his clubhouse one day, feeling kind of lonely, when all of a sudden, there’s a flash of light, a giant boom—and a boy falls out of the sky. The boy doesn’t know who he is, where he’s from, or why he’s there. D.J. takes him home and feeds him—mainly to keep him from eating grass—and bit Read More …
The class field trip to Philadelphia doesn’t go well from the beginning. Most of the students get to ride on a deluxe coach with comfy seats, air conditioning, and a DVD player, but Nick ends up on the overflow bus—a patched-together old minibus—with kids he never talks to. At the museum, Nick’s friend Jay accidentally alerts the teachers that Cookie, the Read More …
Ted is a master at playing escape-the-room games on the computer. At the start of a game, it’ll show a room and there’s only one way out. He’s got to find the clues and puzzle out the solution. There might be a bunch of drinking glasses on a tray—at first it doesn’t look like there’s anything special about them, but Read More …