An all-ages adventure by the three-time Nebula nominee: "Cog is a gem of a robot, and his robotic observations are comedic gold. Readers will be charmed." — BooklistFive robots are on a mission to rescue their inventor from the corporation that controls them all—and their programming will never be the same . . .Cog looks like a normal twelve-year-old boy. But his name is short for "cognitive development," and he was built to learn. After a...

Dogs in space! Share this book with middle graders who enjoy stories about dogs, space adventures, or action adventure stories—or all three! Perfect for fans of Homeward Bound and Woof.Lopside is a Barkonaut, a specially trained dog who assists human astronauts on missions in space. He and the crew aboard the spaceship Laika are en route to set up an outpost on a distant planet.When the mission takes a disastrous turn, the Barkona...

From the author of Cog and Voyage of the Dogs, Weird Kid is a hilarious and heartfelt homage to everyone who feels like they don’t belong. Perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and Stuart Gibbs.Jake Wind is trying to stay under the radar. Whose radar? Anyone who might be too interested in the fact that he has shapeshifting abilities he can’t control. Or that his parents found him as a ball of goo when he was a baby.Keeping his powers in check is crucial, though, if he wants to ...

When Daniel Blackland was six, he ingested his first bone fragment, a bit of kraken spine plucked out of the sand during a visit with his demanding, brilliant, and powerful magician father, Sebastian.When Daniel was twelve, he watched Sebastian die at the hands of the Hierarch of Southern California, devoured for the heightened magic layered deep within his bones.Now, years later, Daniel is a petty thief with a forged identity. Hiding amid the crowds in Los Angeles—the capita...

A golem must save Los Angeles from a fiery monster in this thrilling urban fantasy sequel to California Bones ."Set in the same world as California Bones , van Eekhout delivers another engaging adventure that, surprisingly for the genre, doesn't require readers to have read the previous book. Readers will empathize with Sam as he longs to be a "normal" boy and tries to f...

This is what he knew:His name was Fisher.The world was dangerous.And he was alone.Fisher is the last boy on Earth - and things are not looking good for the human race. The carefully crafted survival dome where Fisher and dozens of other humans have been sleeping for millenia has been destroyed. Through a lucky accident, only Fisher survived.The world Fisher wakes up in is a lot like ours - but it's changed, too. Af...

Stay calm and remain HAPPY. Help is on the way.Perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and Jennifer L. Holm, this adventure-packed middle grade story, set in a world not too far from our own, follows a family that moves to a remote company town that seems perfect on the surface....Keegan knows there’s something off about Happy Town.The isolated, high-tech company town is too perfect—with a dome keeping out bad weather and self-driving vehicles rumbling throughout the town...

In a world where magic is power, Daniel Blackland must pull off the most daring heist of all to save his son.Dragon Coast is the thrilling sequel to Greg Van Eekhout's California Bones and Pacific Fire. Daniel's adopted son Sam, created from the magical essence of the defeated Hierarch of Southern California, is lost—consumed by the great Pacific firedrake secretly assembled by Daniel's half-brother, Paul.But Sam is still alive and aware, trapped i...

Urban fantasy meets espionage thriller in this prequel novelette to Greg van Eekhout's acclaimed Daniel Blackland trilogy. Talented magic-user Sebastian Blackland works at the La Brea Tar Pits for the Los Angeles Ministry of Osteomancy, extracting power from the fossils of magical creatures. Sent by the rival kingdom in Northern California, Maria Sigilo is charged with bringing Blackland north by any means necessary. But despite her training and expertise, nothing is simple when it comes t...

Spending the summer after sixth grade at his great-uncle’s seaside Museum of the Strange and Curious, Thatcher teams up with new friends to save the town and the cursed survivors of Atlantis from a monster squid, a tidal wave, creepy jellyfish boys, and the living severed head of a witch.From School Library JournalGrade 4-6 Thatcher is reluctantly sent to spend the summer between sixth and seventh grades helping his great-uncle Griswald run his Museum of th...

A short story by the author of California Bones, Norse Code, The Boy at the End of the World, and Kid vs. Squid.A teen and his robot companion cross a dangerous city landscape filled with monsters and machines to reach the fabled, faraway sea.

Is this Ragnarok, or just California?The NorseCODE genome project was designed to identify descendants of Odin. What it found was Kathy Castillo, a murdered MBA student brought back from the dead to serve as a valkyrie in the Norse god’s army. Given a sword and a new name, Mist’s job is to recruit soldiers for the war between the gods at the end of the world—and to kill those who refuse to fight.But as the twilight of the gods descends, Mist makes other plans.Journe...