Carl is down on his luck. His life is not very colorful anymore. He's disappointed he was not able to buy gifts for the children of his old orphanage. He may have found exactly the job he was looking for in a newspaper. But, he has to pass the interview process first. Becoming Santa is not as easy as just putting on a red coat. Will Carl get the Santa job and bring color back to his life and to others?

Seed is, well, a seed. He is taken from his parent tree and deposited in a strange place with strange plants that are not very nice. In spite of bullying from the weeds, he takes root and grows to be a beautiful tree.

13 Minutes is a psychological thriller with a killer twist. From the #1 internationally bestselling author Sarah Pinborough. “Mean Girls for the Instagram age.” —The Times (London)The New York Times bestselling author known for her thrilling twists is backThey say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but when you're a teenage girl, it's hard to tell them apart.Natasha doesn't remember how she ended u...

After parting ways with her troubled mermaid tribe, Luce just wants to live peacefully on her own. But her tranquility doesn’t last long: she receives news that the tribe is on the verge of collapse and desperately needs her leadership. The tribe’s cruel queen wants Luce dead. Dorian, the boy Luce broke mermaid law to save, is determined to make her pay for her part in the murder of his family. And while the mermaids cling to the idea that humans never suspect their existence, there are su...

In critically acclaimed author Sarah Darer Littman's gripping new novel what happens online doesn't always stay online . . .Lara just got told off on Facebook. She thought that Christian liked her, that he was finally going to ask her to his school's homecoming dance. It's been a long time since Lara's felt this bad, this depressed. She's worked really hard since starting high school to be happy and make new friends.Bree used to be BBFs with overweight, depressed Lara in middle sch...

Sarah hadn’t wanted to come to Australia. She’s been perfectly happy with things how they were in Singapore where school was for learning, and ‘being cool’ was a non-issue. Now Dad was trying his best to make her into a ‘fair dinkum’ Aussie while Mum was determined to hang on to all the old Asian traditions. During the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts Sarah meets the ghost of Pei, a Chinese girl who was not much older than Sarah when she died. As the story unfolds, it becomes apparent that th...

When high school senior Noah Gallagher and his adopted teenage sister, Lo, go to live with their grandmother in her island cottage for the summer, they don’t expect much in the way of adventure. Noah has landed a marine biology internship, and Lo wants to draw and paint, perhaps even to vanquish her struggles with bulimia. But then things take a dramatic turn for them both when Noah mistakenly tries to save a mysterious girl from drowning. This dreamlike, suspenseful story—deftly told from...

From Newbery Medal-winning author Linda Sue Park, this is a captivating fantasy-adventure about a boy, a bat, and an amazing transformation. The first book in an enchanting trilogy, Forest of Wonders richly explores the links between magic and botany, family and duty, environment and home.Raffa Santana has always loved the mysterious Forest of Wonders. For a gifted young apothecary like him, every leaf could unleash a kind of magic.When an injured ...

After a massive earthquake, an orphaned giant panda cub escapes from its sanctuary in China's Sichuan Province. With no bamboo to eat, and hungry leopards on the prowl, the cub is in serious trouble. Ben and Zoe have their work cut out for them if they want to save this endangered animal.

Justine McKeen is back, and she’s on a deadline.With only days left before Earth Day, Justine enlists the help of her classmates to count flower buds, frogs, spiders and ants in their natural habitat as part of an environmental science project. But there’s a species right in her own classroom that she’ll have to tackle first--a class bully. Savannah Blue, aka the Queen of Mean, criticizes Justine’s secondhand clothes and calls being green a waste of time. Their tea...

Will Sam’s best friend turn out to be a bully? He’s about to find out in this “strong and refreshingly straightforward” (School Library Journal) MAX novel.Sam Lewis is going to get his butt kicked in exactly thirty-three minutes. He knows this because yesterday his former best friend Morgan Sturtz told him, to his face and with three witnesses nearby, “I am totally going to kick your butt tomorrow at recess.”All that’s standing between Sam and this...

Within our solar system, the balance of Nature has been critically disturbed. Warmongering alien forces are exploiting fertile planets to fuel their military resources. As a consequence, Earth is experiencing unprecedented high tides and strange weather anomalies. Crops are failing and the smaller animals are dying. Susan Grey and her friends, the guardians of Earths magical Heart Stone, are called upon to intervene. They are contacted by Celestial Witch Zelda; she sends them a hand writte...