My monkey Jack becomes a detective! Don’t worry, I don’t let him go it alone. I am Mac, the other half of this amazing crime solving duo. Jack has the knowledge of Sherlock Holmes—with some bizarre twists, the instincts of a monkey, and an obsession with candy. As for me, my passion was ice hockey, now it is sleuthing—the catalyst for that change shook my world and catapulted me and Jack into an imaginary realm of crime solving. Your imagination will allow you to join us as we take on pira...

Based on true events! It's the summer of 1916 and the Jersey shore is being terrorized by a Great White shark. Can 10-year-old Chet and his friends survive a swim in the local creek? In the summer of 1916, ten year-old Chet Roscow is captivated by the local news: a Great White shark has been attacking and killing people up and down the Atlantic Coast, not far from Chet's hometown of Springfield, New Jersey. Then one day, swimming with his friends, Chet sees something in the water. . .

**AN ALA NOTABLE BOOK • Another gripping novel of two friends in a world out of control from the internationally bestselling author of The Outsiders."A mature, disciplined novel which excites a response in the reader . . . Hard to forget."—The New York Times“S. E. Hinton gave a realistic portrayal of teenage slum life in The Outsiders. [That Was Then, This Is Now] is equally remarkable—it is brutal, harsh, yet always incredible.”—Publ...

Everyone has a destiny. Sometimes it takes an adventure to find it.Liberty Aimes has spent all of her ten years captive in her parents' crooked house on Gooch Street. Her spry father, Mal Aimes, is a crook who sells insurance, while her overweight mother sits at home in front of the TV, demanding that Liberty cook nonstop. Liberty’s only knowledge of the outside world comes from the secret stash of children’s books and fairy tales she discovers beneath the floorboards. One...

Courtney's unleashed on the city of New York again!  She's sworn off boyfriends to concentrate on her career, but Cathy wonders for how long!  She's a movie star, a filmmaker and has a date with the movie producer.  But she's still the same old fun-loving (translate into Trouble) Courtney.  Whether she's looking for vampires or calling for a mass hug–in in Greenwich Village, she's about as predictable as a ticking bomb.

VERONICA SPARKS IS hitting the road and she is going to shake the dust of her little town off her shoes and see the world!Well, someday. For now, she’s hitting the road in an RV with her cantankerous grandfather and her hyperactive little brother. Ronnie’s grandfather is a wind prospector, and they are heading across Kansas in search of a good stiff breeze. Okay, so it’s not the trip of her dreams. But with her newly affirmatized attitude, Ronnie figures that traveling somewhere is...

Two best friends are caught in a love triangle with fatal consequencesPauly and Oakley have been best friends since they were kids. When newcomer Lilly moves to their small New England town, both boys fall in love with her immediately. Unbalanced Pauly becomes Lilly's boyfriend, and Oakley becomes the one she confides in—the one who always puts things right. But a love triangle can't stay peaceful for long, and erratic, obsessive Pauly can't be trusted. How can Oak...

One of School Library Journal's Best Fiction Books of 2011When Ollie's daddy, the Reverend Everlasting Love, pulls their travel trailer into Binder to lead a three-day revival, Ollie knows that this town will be like all the others they visit— it is exactly the kind of nothing Ollie has come to expect. But on their first day in town, Ollie meets Jimmy Koppel, whose mother is in jail for murdering his father. Jimmy insists that his mother is innocent, and Ollie believes him....