Eleven days. Thirteen clues. And one kid who won't give up. Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe is "part treasure hunt, part wilderness adventure, and all heart."--Alan Gratz, New York Times Bestselling author of RefugeeHow far would you go to find something that might not even exist?All her life, Cricket's mama has told her stories about a secret room painted by a mysterious artist. Now Mama's run off, and Cricket thinks the room mi...

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren DeStefano comes a delightful tale of a girl who can talk to ghosts that's perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Holly Black.Pram Bellamy is special--she can talk to ghosts. She doesn't have too many friends amongst the living, but that's all right. She has her books, she has her aunts, and she has her best friend, the ghostly Felix.Then Pram meets Clarence, a boy from school who has also lost a parent and...

It's been five years since Rose's mother Kathy went missing and, after recent events, all Rose wants to do is get on with her life. Which means taking a break from her complicated stepbrother, Joshua.Then police officer Henry Thompson comes calling with bad news: a body has been found buried in the garden of Rose's old house. A body that has lain undiscovered for five years. The body of a missing teenage girl.With Kathy and Brendan implicated in her death, Rose and Joshua h...

Join the Berenstain Bears as they celebrate Papa Bear and teach children about the importance of family. Makes a perfect gift for Father's Day with fun for the whole family--including over 50 bonus stickers!Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic storybook from Stan and Jan Berenstain. It’s Father’s Day, and Papa thinks that Mama and the cubs have forgotten all about it . . . but they are actually planning something very special for him.Continue ...

Art, mystery, fun and friendship, combine in this illustrated middle grade series debut. Sixth grader Edmund Xavier Lonnrot, codename "Eddie Red," has a photographic memory and talent for drawing anything he sees. When the NYPD is stumped by a mastermind art thief, Eddie becomes their secret weapon to solve the case, drawing Eddie deeper into New York's famous Museum Mile and closer to a dangerous criminal group known as The Picasso Gang.With page-turning adventure and fun characte...

This book is a story . . . a story about Leland. He is in fourth grade and has not done well in school. He become acquainted with a Certified Zentangle Teacher, a CZT, and learn how to create beautiful artwork by drawing tangles. Zentangle is a focused method of drawing repetitive patterns to make tiles. Children as well as adults can learn to create these patterns by following along as Leland learns to draw these repetitive patterns called tangles. Some of the tangles Leland (and the read...

Trapped in a toy store?Sounds like a mission for four furry friends.Bertie, Susan, and the Misfit Menagerie—Smalls the sun bear, Rigby the Komondor dog, and Wombat the wombat—have at long last escaped from evil Grand Master Claude’s Most Magnificent Circus and are finally free to live life at their leisure. But there’s something missing. Something that’s keeping them from moving on. Or rather, someone. Tilda the Angora rabbit—and fourth member of the Misfit ...

My eyes sparkle as my friend Hamlet, who is a mouse, and I fly on a magical reindeer. We go on a fun journey to the North Pole. We meet green elves that make Christmas toys. Santa Clause helps us build a snowman that sings and dances. It is made from magic snow dust. Bana, the magical reindeer, flies us into the enchanted forest to help me find friends for Hamlet. We meet Rufus, a friendly talking wood bug.I think that this has been the coolest Christmastime adventure ever. We had ...

"Girl germs," Billy Smythe sneered. It was a kindergarten taunt, just plain dumb, but his buddies snickered.Can Fran pull her game together before it's too late?Fran Cullers is having a horrible summer. She was a star player on the Little League team in her old town, so the Highwater Hardwares should be thrilled to have her-except that they hate girls. She can run rings around these guys, but they won't even give her a chance. So Fran sets out to d...

A father's diary, an artist's memoir.By the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys.While my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary, which was later locked in a red box. We weren't allowed to touch the box. The stories I heard as a little boy faded to a hazy dream, and my drawings from that time make no sense. I cannot decipher them. It was not until I myself had gone far, far away and received the message from my father that I became interested in the red box ...

A charming bedtime story about a child with very specific ideas on the appropriate time for sleeping, now available in a soft padded board book edition.As the day comes to an end, bedtime draws near. But the little boy in this book is quite sure it is not time for sleeping.As each piece of his evening routine is completed—helping with the dishes, playing with the dog, getting into pajamas, brushing teeth with Dad, being tucked in by Mom, and listening to a story—he becomes ...

The touching, magical story of a boy in a war-torn country and the stone lion that rescues him.Renato loves his home in Florence, Italy. He loves playing with his friends in the Piazza della Signoria. He loves walking home by the beautiful buildings and fountains with his father in the evenings. And he especially loves the stone lion who seems to smile at him from a pedestal in the piazza. The lion makes him feel safe.But one day his father tells him that t...