After escaping her elementary school gym class, Shayna Gladstone is almost crushed by a giant hot air balloon. She makes the acquaintance of the Balloon Lady of Terramanna, and as fate would have it, Shayna is just the young girl shes been looking for! Terramanna is the world of fun, frivolity, and merriment; however, an Age of Gloom approaches, and only Shayna can stop it. An ancient prophecy from the Terraman Oracle tells of a hero who will save Terramanna from the Age of Gloom. The fore...

Adam's band, Sick on a Snow Day, is challenged by more than just an unusual name. Adam is mistakenly accused of cheating on a test and must maintain a clean record and B-average if he wants to stay in the band. When lead singer Daniela Olafson gets hit with stage fright at the last minute, Adam creates her alter-ego, Olaf Danielson, the Swedish exchange student who becomes an instant tween sensation. But one kid holds the key to both Adam's and Daniela's fates, is Adam's nemesis, the dorky...

Pre-teens will enjoy the spooky twists on situations recognizable from their own lives. Here you will jockey with a ghost at a sleepover, battle otherworldly monsters in a crosswalk at school, and risk your fate on a fiendish roller coaster. Plus meet a shadow with an unusual ambition, pursue an eerie solution for impossible homework, and face the creature that won't let go of your loose tooth. Seven additional stories lurk, each equally hair-raising. Vlad Pale's Crick Crack, 13 Ghoulish T...

Over 500 giggles, groans, and belly laughs!Kids can't resist sharing jokes (even you try to stop them), so they always need a fresh supply. We've stuffed the pages of this little joke book with the funniest jokes we could find. Old favorites, new favorites, and a few festering stinkers, all guaranteed to make kids laugh out loud. You'll find Q&A jokes, knock-knock jokes, riddles, and one-liners. And, of course, we've included entire chapters of those all-time kid-p...

Meet the princess who'd rather wear a suit of armor than a crown!Princess Serena (or as she prefers, Princess Pulverizer) doesn't want to be a princess--she wants to be knight! But her father, King Alexander of Empiria, thinks she still has a lot to learn when it comes to exhibiting valiant behavior. So he presents a challenge: the princess must first go on a Quest of Kindness and perform good deeds to prove that she truly deserves to go to knight school. With help...

FEUDAL LANDGovernment Acronym:Forced Economic United Domestic Alliances LimitedEveryone is in the game.Cam McGee’s school bus grinds to a halt from an EMP blast, which is part of a series of carefully planned terrorist attacks. Seventeen-year-old Cam, the daughter of a doomsday prepper, and Jaren, a foster teen she barely knows, head to a prepper’s enclave deep in the Carolina Mountains.The glitch in her surviv...

Even with eternity on his side, can he save her in time?Jackson's life is about to change. Again. In 1906, the San Francisco earthquake took everything from him. It took, but it also gave. He soon found he had been given the ability to...stop time, to "freeze" the world around him. That's not all. Even after eighty years of roaming the world, he hasn't aged a day.He lives the good life among tiny mortals. ...

In the forest there once lived a chipmunk by the name of Chipper.He was a cute little creature, but greedy. He didn't like to share with anyone else, so he had no friends; and when evening came, he sat bored and alone, surrounded by shelves stacked with food. But one night, Old Man Chipmunk appeared out of thin air for a visit...