I designed this series of books to address some of the problems that our children face in today's difficult world, after finding a lack of books while raising my son, that taught any lessons or dealt with any of the pertinent issues that our children deal with growing up. My hope is that this series will teach kids values and lessons in a way that they can relate to, with a bit of humor, and a good scary story. This first book touches on a number of subjects including, as the title suggest...

Welcome to The A-List, a wickedly funny and risqué paperback original novel that takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati.Seventeen-year-old Upper East Side blueblood Anna ("pronounced Aaaanah") Percy is on her way to Beverly Hills, California, where she'll live with her estranged dad for the rest of the school year while her mother travels to Europe with a friend. On the plane, Anna drinks too much champagne and gets hit on...

**Three childhood best friends spend 10 weeks apart for the first time ever during senior year, and apparently that’s enough time for everything to change.“A warm, humorous, and smoothly readable story . . . tender even when painful.”—Kirkus Reviews**The Bermudez Triangle is:Nina Bermudez, who TiVos every episode of Trading Spaces because watching people rip down bad decorations soothes her.Avery Dekker, wh...

The Spiderwick Chronicles meets Stranger Things in this thrilling new series for only the bravest of children. After a chance encounter in a dark and stormy forest, two siblings are caught up in the dangerous underworld of fairies and must fight their way free.A storm is raging around the forests of Transylvania, where siblings Anna and Max are visiting with the Professor. Left alone to explore a creepy old inn, the children disco...

On Lisa's first day at a new school, she and bossy classmate Angel begin playing a series of tricks on each other, with the class guinea pigs as unwitting accomplices. The conflict escalates until Lisa devises a creative plan for converting her new enemies into friends.

Lisa Atwood thinks she is finally getting a horse of her very own. A new horse has arrived at Pine Hollow and Lisa is convinced that her parents are planning to buy it for her, so of course she volunteers to help school it. But training this horse is a lot more difficult then Lisa thought--in fact, it turns out to be dangerous. Meanwhile, Carole Hanson is having schooling problems of her own. She's about to fail a course, and she doesn't know where to turn for help. Should she try to strug...

Everyone needs dreams ...Twins Nina and Alex Popadopolus live on the beautiful island of Naxos. Their lives are simply happy, until their blind grandfather senses something terrible is coming.The islanders need a plan to save their village and themselves, they need a dream. Could Alex's ice-cream invention really be the answer?Nina and Alex just have to make Papa, and all the others, believe in their dreams … or one by one the lights will go out and the village will...

Nine-year-old Danielle and her dog Echo have started every new day the same way. But one Sunday afternoon when Danielle learns that Echo is missing from the backyard, she knows it is her fault and is afraid that tomorrow morning might be different.

New York Times bestselling adult novelist Adriana Trigiani and beloved illustrator Amy June Bates team up for a heartwarming picture book about a how a family comes together to celebrate Valentine's Day.Mia Valentina Amore loves valentines. After all, her name means My Valentine. When she wakes up on Valentine's Day, it looks like just another morning in the rickety old Amore house in the Blue Ridge mountains of Appalachia. But over the course of ...

At twelve, Brandy knows the truth about Santa Claus, but the secret of his identity is safe with her because she doesn't want to ruin Christmas for her little brother Alex. Plus, to be completely honest, she doesn't want to miss out on getting her own fair share of "Santa gifts" on Christmas day, either.So when Alex wakes her up late on Christmas Eve insisting he's seen Santa in the living room, Brandy knows he's wrong. The only people home with them are Daddy and Papa. But Alex wa...

The fifth book in the beloved Poppy series by Newbery Medal–winning author Avi, with illustrations from Caldecott Medal–winning artist Brian Floca, is available as an ebook for the first time!There's trouble at Gray House, the girlhood home that Poppy left long ago. Poppy's family has called her back to save them all—mother, father, sisters and brothers, and dozens and dozens of deer mouse cousins.Poppy invites her rebellious son, Junior, to join her on the long trip across...