"One of the best stories about bullying for middle grades. Highly recommended."-- School Library Journal, starred reviewBell Kirby is an expert at systems, whether he's designing the world's most elaborate habitat for his pet chinchilla, re-creating Leonardo da Vinci's greatest inventions in his garage, or avoiding Parker Hellickson, the most diabolical bully Village Green Elementary has ever seen.Since third grade, Parker has torme...

In a future forever changed by a pandemic, a girl survives in total isolation.A woman is dying. Cleo Porter has her medicine. And no way to deliver it.Like everyone else, twelve-year-old Cleo and her parents are sealed in an apartment without windows or doors. They never leave. They never get visitors. Their food is dropped off by drones. So they're safe. Safe from the disease that nearly wiped humans from the earth. Safe from everything. The trade-off?...

A thrilling middle-grade mystery, The Ghoul of Windydown Vale is from the author of Cleo Porter and the Body Electric." Don't miss this book! It takes you to another world—and then terrifies you with surprise after surprise. Great ghoulish fun!" — R. L. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear StreetIn this action-packed mystery from award-winning author Jake Burt, Copper Inskeep holds Windydo...

**"Part coming of age tale and part spy thriller," this funny, suspenseful middle grade novel "could be a collaboration between Judy Blume and Ian Fleming." —Ann M. Martin, New York Times–bestsellingNicki Demere is an orphan and a pickpocket. She also happens to be the US Marshals' best bet to keep a family alive. . . .The marshals are looking for the perfect girl to join a mother, father, and son on the run from the nation's most notorious criminal...

Copper Inskeep holds Windydown Vale’s deepest and darkest secret: He is the ghoul who haunts the Vale, donning a gruesome costume not only to scare travelers away from the dangers of the surrounding swamps, but also to keepthem from discovering Windydown Vale’s best-kept secret. When a terrified girl claims she and her father were attacked by a creature, one that could not have been Copper, her accusation threatens Copper’s secret, his closest friendship, and the fate of all Windydo...

Nicki Demere is an orphan and a pickpocket. She also happens to be the U.S. Marshals’ best bet to keep a family alive. . . .The marshals are looking for the perfect girl to join a mother, father, and son on the run from the nation’s most notorious criminals. After all, the bad guys are searching for a family with one kid, not two, and adding a streetwise girl who knows a little something about hiding things may be just what the marshals need.Nicki ...

From the author of Greetings from Witness Protection! comes another unforgettable middle-grade novel about friendship and family.Devin wants to hit it big on the internet by pulling a stunt at an NBA game—one the entire nation will be watching. Addison can't turn Devin down, but he can barely manage talking to his teachers without freezing up. How's he supposed to handle the possibility of being a viral sensation?Addi's not sure why Devin is bent on pulling off this ...

**From the author of When It Happens and Take Me There comes this funny and moving tale of friendship, frustration, and falling in love.“Chick lit for girls who think.”—Kirkus Reviews“An authentic picture of how complicated it is to be a teenager, especially one in love.”—Publishers WeeklyDerek:**Friendly & popularStyle: Cali surfer boyAwesome at flirtingFuture career: l...

Everyone's sorry. But no one can explain why.Harper Scott's older sister, June, took her own life a week before high school graduation, leaving Harper devastated. So when her divorcing parents decide to split up June's ashes, Harper steals the urn and takes off cross-country with her best friend, Laney, to the one place June always dreamed of going-California.Enter Jake Tolan, a boy with a bad attitude, a classic-rock obsession…and an unknown connection to June. Wh...

I've lit a fuse and I'm waiting for the explosion.All her life, sixteen-year-old Neva has lived in Homeland, completely cut off from the rest of the world.All her life, she has been told everything beyond is an unlivable wasteland.All this time, the government has fed her nothing but lies.Now, Neva keeps a tattered notebook under her mattress and fills it with the names of The Missing, those who have vanished with no explanation.

A teenager reveals anxieties about personal identity issues in "one of the first YA books to deal with the complex issue of gender fluidity."*A Lambda Literary Award FinalistAn ALA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult ReadersA Rainbow Book List selectionRiley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Snarky. Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as ...

Ashlyn Baptiste is falling. One moment she was nothing--—no memories, no self—--and then suddenly, she's plummeting through a sea of stars. Is she in a coma? She doesn't remember dying, and she has no memories of the life she left behind. All she knows is that she's trapped in a consciousness without a body and she's spending every moment watching a stranger.Breckon Cody's on the edge. He's being ripped apart by grief so intense it literally hurts to breathe. On the surface, Brecko...