He's scrawny. He's got huge glasses. He's bad at sports. He's Dodson, and he's a great big dork. But somehow he always seems to get into zany situations with his best friend Squishy. Join him this time as he learns about responsibility and faces a problem that's, well...STINKY! Kids of all ages will love Dodson's second journal entry, which includes lots of fun pictures to go with the story.

Robot ninja monkeys. Flying bears. Week-long guitar solos. This is the kind of stuff you see every day when you're an awesome adventurer like Alec! Join Alec and his loyal dragon-dog Blaster as they traverse epic landscapes, experiencing all things AWESOME! In this episode they follow rumors of a gnarly, nasty, monsterly monster living in the mountains. But are rumors always true...?(Note to parents: While Alec the Awesome does a lot of fighting, none of the violence is graphic and...

He's scrawny. He's got huge glasses. He's bad at sports. He's Dodson, and he's a great big dork. But somehow he always seems to get into zany situations with his best friend Squishy. Join him this time as he and Squishy learn the value (and occasional terror) of a job well done. Kids of all ages will love Dodson's third journal entry, which includes lots of fun pictures to go with the story.

He's scrawny. He's got huge glasses. He's bad at sports. He's Dodson, and he's a great big dork. But somehow he always seems to get into zany situations with his best friend Squishy. Join him this time as he faces the most challenging foe he could ever imagine: GYM CLASS. Kids of all ages will enjoy Dodson's very first journal entry, which includes lots of fun pictures to go with the story.

Robot ninja monkeys. Flying bears. Week-long guitar solos. This is the kind of stuff you see every day when you're an awesome adventurer like Alec! Join Alec and his loyal dragon-dog Blaster as they traverse epic landscapes, experiencing all things AWESOME! In this episode they must stop the evil (and very boring) Lord Borning and his nefarious plot to destroy Alec's home, Fort Tigersplosion!(Note to parents: While Alec the Awesome does a lot of fighting, none of the violence is gr...

Join Rafe as he survives white-water rafting, camp counselors, and rock climbing in this hilarious New York Timesbestseller from the Middle School series.After a rough summer, Rafe is heading back to the dreaded Hills Village Middle School, the site of the very worst years of his life. And as if that's not bad enough, he's learned that he's going to be held back a year unless he can prove himself on an outdoor survival excursion—complete with dangerous whi...

Drawing is her world...but when her new pencil comes alive, it's his world too.Her... Storey Dalton is seventeen and now boyfriendless after being dumped via Facebook. Drawing is her escape. It's like as soon as she gets down one image, a dozen more are pressing in on her. Then she realizes her pictures are almost drawing themselves...or is it that her new pencil is alive?Him... Eric Jordan is a new Ranger and the only son ...

Join Briar Beauty, daughter of Sleeping Beauty, as she taps into her adventurous spirit to investigate and track down mischievous thieves who are causing trouble around the castle. Read all about it in this exclusive Ever After High short story by Newbery Honor author Shannon Hale.

Raven Queen, the daughter of the Evil Queen, is destined to give the poisoned apple to Snow White's daughter. But Raven has a spark of rebelliousness in her heart and she knows one thing for sure-evil is so not her style. Read all about her getting ready to return to Ever After High in this excerpt from the upcoming book The Storybook of Legends.

Gangsta Granny, from Children's author David Walliams.Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma s house. She’s the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble, and eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn’t know about his grandma:She was once an international jewel thief.All her life, she has been plotting to steal the Crown Jewels, and now she needs Ben’s help…

A storybook adventure ...It's a natural phenomenon -- a small country in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean hidden from the rest of the world by a circle of unnavigable fog. It's called Giggleswick, and twelve-year old Elliot Bisby has never heard of it, that is until he and his family are approached by an unusual man and asked to move there. Before they know it, the struggling Bisby family finds themselves on a tiny boat captained by a man who prefers a sin...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It was first published in 1900. The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone. The novel is one of the best-known stories in American literature and has been widely translated.