Dear God,My book is out and I'm in the dog box. Tom says I've ruined his authority at St Jude's with the bit about his Tom and Jerry underpants and his penchant for Sugar Puffs.The boys say their girlfriends have dropped them like hot cakes and that they'll never leave home with a mother like me who reveals all.And there's a deathly hush from St Jude's congregation who are slowly going into shock as a single copy does the rounds.The only bright light is John...

Like thousands of other kids throughout the United States, Rachael Peterson is the victim of a bully. What's unusual about this story is the uncommon way that she and her parents deal with this all too common situation. Loosely based on a true story, the Peterson family chooses to reach out with love and compassion, rather than acting in anger and vengeance. Lessons are learned, harsh things are exposed and transformations miraculously occur, as a family rides through the storm, coming out...

It’s an honest-to-jeepers mystery! Agent Judy Drewdy sets out to solve the case of the missing puppy when a canine-cop-in-training vanishes into thin air.Judy Moody is in a mood. A sleuthing, Nancy Drew kind of mood. So what’s a WBMS (world’s best mystery solver) to do? Go find a mystery, that’s what! And she doesn’t have to snoop for long: when Mr. Chips, a beloved crime-dog-in-training, goes missing, Judy Drewdy and her chums, agents Dills Pickle (Frank)...

In No Talking, Andrew Clements portrays a battle of wills between some spunky kids and a creative teacher with the perfect pitch for elementary school life that made Frindle an instant classic.It’s boys vs. girls when the noisiest, most talkative, and most competitive fifth graders in history challenge one another to see who can go longer without talking. Teachers and school administrators are in an uproar, until an innovative teacher sees how the...

“Complex, captivating, and gorgeously written.” —Karen M. McManus, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying and Two Can Keep a SecretWe Were Liars meets Goodbye Days in this “gripping and atmospheric” (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel that sweeps readers away as they try to solve the mystery of what happened then to make Ellory so broken now—now with a brand-new look!...

What’s better than being best friends? Being best friends who volunteer together at the Roxbury Park Dog Shelter! With a focus on friendship, family, and cute canines, Roxbury Park Dog Club is perfect for tween readers who snap up books from series like Cupcake Diaries and Candy Apple, or for anyone who loves dogs.This first book follows Kim, who’s great with dogs. She’s the only person who can get her neighbors’ dog, a sweet but lazy basset hound named Humphrey, to go on his daily...

A charming story of a cat and a dog who live on the same street for younger readers, from bestselling author Ruth Rendell.Archie the cat and Archie the dog live next door to each other on a street full of feline friends and foes. Read about their adventures - including Archie the cat spending a scary night trapped in a neighbour's attic - in this gentle, lyrical, completely charming book for younger readers. Perfect for all animal lovers.

A new series from the bestselling author of Dear Dumb Diary and Franny K. Stein!MEET VICTOR, TOTAL EXPERT IN EVERYTHING(except Guy Who Cleans Up Bedrooms) With his confidence, imagination, and trusty sidekick Dumpylumps (who happens to be a duck), there's no telling what trouble he'll get into. Lucky for him, he has a knack for getting himself out of trouble, too. So when he finds himself at the center of an intergalactic conflict, he's pretty sure the only way out is his top-secre...

When a crush goes both ways, it’s the sweetest thing!Rachel has had a secret crush on Brody—the cute, sweet guy from her church choir—for a while now. But when Brody becomes a famous pop star and leaves school to go on tour, he becomes the object of every girl’s crush. Rachel is happy for Brody, but she’s also a little heartbroken that things between them might never be the same.But when Brody releases a new song about his own secret crush, some of...

Would I Lie to You? Not This Year.Veteran author and speaker Phil Callaway is no stranger to daunting challenges. He has been laughed at—repeatedly—by large crowds of people from Halifax to Hong Kong. He fathered three children in three years, spent much of last year on airplanes built by the lowest bidder, and flipped an out-of-control ATV, which doesn’t mean he sold it for a profit. So who better than Phil Callaway to boldly accept a challenge that would make the average person r...

Is there an ‘Anglican identity’? Or is living with the tension between different temperaments and histories itself at the heart of the genius of Anglicanism? Anglican Identities draws together studies and profiles by Rowan Williams that sympathetically explore approaches to scripture, tradition, and authority that are very different – yet at the same time distinctively Anglican. William Tyndale, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, B. F. Westcott, Michael Ramsey, and John A. T. Robinson are amo...

"In this unexpectedly delightful little book, two Bible professors and a journalist unpack some of the more outrageous interpretations of the Hebrew Bible." — Publishers WeeklyDid you know:that King David swore like a sailor?that the Book of Ecclesiastes encourages drinking, especially beer?that mandrakes were the biblical equivalent of Viagra®?that the law of Moses prescribes bikini waxing?...