Seatbelts, everyone! Ms. Frizzle's class learns all about the role of technology on farms!Wanda proudly hosts this year's school harvest feast, but she was so busy promoting it she forget to get the food! Luckily, Ralphie happens to know of a farm that grows the finest produce around, but there's a problem: he thinks it's haunted! There are tractors driven by ghosts, plants that climb walls, and so many robots! Could the spooky discoveries actually be helping the farm?

**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!Edward Scissorhands meets Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children in this action-packed and not-so-scary chapter book series!A mad professor with a penchant for perfection . . . . The professor’s monstrous creations, tossed aside and left to fend for themselves in the creepy castle . . . . And Stitch Head—the forgotten one with a heart of gold, who is determined to save them all.Join Stitch Head and an endearing cast of misfits in th...

*My name is Mischa “Ish” Love, and I am twelve years old. I know quite a lot about Mars.Mars is where I belong. Do you know how sometimes you just know a thing? My mom says that falling in love is like that, that the first time she saw Dad, she just knew. That’s how I feel about Mars: I just know.I’m smart and interesting and focused, and I’m working on getting along better with people. I’ll learn some jokes. A sense of humor is going to be important. It al...

Ten-year-old Mary Mae loves to sing hymns with her Granny, go to Sunday School, and learn about trilobites. She has lots of questions about how the earth looked millions of years ago. Trouble is, Mary Mae’s mother thinks it's wrong to believe the world is that old. Mama believes God created it six thousand years ago and she believes that nobody should teach Mary Mae otherwise. When Mary Mae starts taking her questions to church, asking how God created the earth in six days or how eight peo...

The rifts within Earth Force continue to widen as Jasper and his friends head back into space in the third novel in what Shannon Messenger calls the “richly detailed, highly imaginative” Bounders series!Jasper can’t wait for his sister, Addy, to finally join him at the EarthBound Academy. But as soon as they arrive at the space station, Jasper and Addy are separated when Jasper’s pod is sent on a secret mission to the underwater planet of Earth For...

In book 8 of the Smartboys Club, Monkey and his friends visit the Museum of Natural History. Unfortunately for them, someone who cares more about money than dinosaurs is also there. The Smartboys and Girls have to out-race, out-fight, and out-think a pack of robot Velociraptors and a very angry T-rex to stop a cunning identity thief.

Sophia quickly learns her new pet comes with two giraffe-sized problems in this enterprising sequel to One Word from Sophia, which was named one of the best picture books of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews.Sophia and Noodle, her One True Desire, are together at last.But Noodle comes with two gigantic problems, and those problems are tearing Sophia’s family apart!Can a little creative experimenting save Noodle? Or will Sophia have t...

Helicity is well aware that her name is unusual - kind of like Helicity herself. The word Helicity means to spin, and for as long as she can remember, Helicity has been fascinated by the weather. The weather is Helicity's escape from her own reality - may that be school, her father's strict discipline, or her brother's imminent departure for college where he's all set to play football. One fateful day, Helicity and her horse head out on a long ride to take a break from life at home. Even w...

**From graphic novel superstar, former computer programming teacher, and New York Times-bestselling author Gene Luen Yang, Secret Coders: Potions & Parameters is the fifth volume in a wildly entertaining series that combines logic puzzles and basic coding instruction with a page-turning mystery plot!Dr. One-Zero won't stop until the whole town—no, the whole world—embraces the "true happiness” found in his poisonous potion, Green Pop. And now that he has t...

Tabitha is thrilled to be attending a summer forensics camp, even if she has to go with her sort-of friend Mason. Soon she is learning to dust for fingerprints, photograph a crime scene and take footprint impressions. Even though the camp instructors have set up a “crime” for the kids to solve, Tabitha longs to use her newfound skills to solve a real-life mystery. She’s pretty sure a dognapping ring is active in her Montreal neighborhood, and when her beloved dog, Roxie, is stolen, she con...

Max is buggy about bugs. If it crawls, slithers, or buzzes, he want to know everything about it. On a whirlwind vacation around the world, his dreams come true. In Japan, Indonesia, Australia, South America, Great Britain, and Africa, Max gets to see, learn about - and best of all - collect some of the biggest insects in the world. Beautiful full color pictures, a Glossary, and the Order of Insects.For any kid with an interest in entomology, this book is a treasure trove of informa...

The fastest man in the West meets his match in this deliciously clever original tall tale. With his extra-long legs, Jackrabbit McCabe can outrun anything on the American frontier: horses, trains, and even twisters. So of course, everyone in the town of Windy Flats always counts on his speed when a message has to get out fast. Then something new comes to town: the telegraph, which can send Morse code messages with the speed of electricity. At first, no one believes the newfangled contrapti...