Father-and-son writing team Gary and Jim Paulsen pick up where their Road Trip left off. Ben has been invited to try out for a special hockey academy. But Dad wants Ben to catch up to the school field trip instead. So Ben, Dad, and their dogs, Atticus and Conor, jump into their truck. Ben concocts a secret plan to make the tryout, but Atticus and Conor are on to him. Ben and Dad's road trip turns into a wacky adventure full of new friends and surprises.
Deckawoo Drive's intrepid Animal Control Officer meets her match-or does she? A funny, heartfelt, and fast-paced romp from the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.
Francine Poulet is the greatest Animal Control Officer in Gizzford County. She hails from a long line of Animal Control Officers. She's battled snakes, outwitted squirrels, and stared down a bear. "The genuine article," Francine's dad always called her. She is never scared-until, that is, she's faced with a screaming raccoon that may or may not be a ghost. Maybe Francine isn't cut out to be an Animal Control Officer after all! But the raccoon is still on the loose, and the folks on Deckawoo Drive need Francine back. Can she face her fears, round up the raccoon, and return to the ranks of Animal Control? Join a cast of familiar characters-Frank, Stella, Mrs. Watson, and Mercy the porcine wonder-for some riotous raccoon wrangling on Deckawoo Drive.
"Huge laughs and great science-the kind of smart, funny stuff that makes Jon Scieszka a legend."
-Mac Barnett, author of Battle Bunny and The Terrible Two
Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial intelligence entity), create the BrainTurbo to power-boost the human body and help their baseball-pitching pal Janegoodall make the team. But when Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity) goes missing, they must first rescue their robot pal and stop T. Edison-Frank's classmate and archrival-from stealing their latest invention and using it against them!
Everyone has a girlfriend except Charlie Joe! But he won't be left in the dust. Look out for make-ups, break-ups, and hilarious romance tips as Charlie Joe figures out this crazy little thing called love. There's a crisis at Eastport Middle School! It appears that everyone has a boyfriend or girlfriend except...Charlie Joe Jackson??!? Yup-he's the only single guy out of all his friends. How is this possible? Even Pete Milano snagged a girl! Well, Charlie Joe refuses to be left out. He quickly goes looking for help in the last place anyone would think to find him-the library. And what he finds is the gem of all gems, the guidebook of all guidebooks, the key to finally getting a girl! Now, everyone is suddenly coming to him for love advice. (Oh, how the tables have turned.) But Charlie Joe's world is swiftly turned upside down when he realizes the girl he actually likes...might not actually be the girl he likes.
If you had a million wishes, what would you do with them? Eleven-year-old Sam has a problem. Well, quite a few problems. So when he sees a shooting star, he naturally wishes on it - for a million wishes. Of course, he doesn't expect the wish to come true, but somehow it does... But then he discovers that changing stuff has consequences he hadn't anticipated. And what's the point of doing anything, if you can just wish for it and make it happen?
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Danger is STILL Everywhere: Beware the Dog, written and read by David O'Doherty.
Will Docter Noel Zone's second book tell you how to combat a CROCUUM*? YES
And reveal the secrets of the world's greatest (and only) Dangerologist? THAT TOO.
Has he written it yet? NO
Is it because he's hiding in a wardrobe? MAYBE
Docter Noel is facing his most terrifying situation EVER - a little dog called Napkin has come to stay. That may not sound particularly dangerous, but every POD (Pupil of Dangerology) knows the only safe pet is a pet rock. So now Docter Noel is stuck in a wardrobe while Napkin wreaks havoc around the Dangerzone. And all the while Docter Noel is supposed to be writing his new VERY IMPORTANT handbook on Dangerology (Level 2).
That is until the Pet of the Year competition is announced and Docter Noel hatches a plan to impress his neighbor Gretel. There's only one problem. Serial safety-flouter Max WURST is the judge. . .
For Docter Noel, it's never been clearer that DANGER IS STILL EVERYWHERE
*A crocodile that looks like a vacuum cleaner that lives under the stairs.
A SHIVERING OF WORLDS
Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength.
This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad.
As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land.
There will be a reckoning . . .
THE FINAL DISCWORLD NOVEL
When Joe tells a local news reporter exactly what he would do if he were leader of the country, the video goes viral and Joe's speech becomes famous all over the world! Before long, people are calling for the current leader to resign and give someone else a go... and that's how an ordinary boy like Joe ended up with the most extraordinary job. Now the fun can really start!
Es geht los! Lotta und die 6b fahren auf Klassenfahrt an die Ostsee. Im Landschulheim erwarten sie neben einer Herde Pferde (samt Lama) auch eine Horde Achtklässler. Um die in die Flucht zu schlagen, müssen sich die Wilden Kaninchen mit ihren schlimmsten Feinden verbünden - den Rockern und den Lämmer-Girls. Zum Glück hat Lotta ihr Anti-Berenike-Spray dabei. Und ihre Blockflöte.
Das gleichnamige Buch ist im Arena Verlag erschienen.
The third entry in the mesmerizing adventure series from the masterful, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Gordon Korman!
Is it a gift or is it a curse? Jax Opus can use his color-changing eyes to make people do what he wants. But soon Jax is pulled into a dangerous conspiracy devised by a mysterious group...and now they're going to make Jax do what THEY want.
Ogden is a gnarly, man-eating ogre . . . with the dream of becoming a dancer. But no one will dance with him - not when they think they're going to be his next meal! Then Ogden meets Willow, a gutsy girl who lives in a tree house. She makes a deal with him: if he'll stop eating humans, she'll teach him to dance. A laugh-out-loud beastly story for 7-9 year olds. Will Ogden the ogre achieve his dancing dreams?
The most embarrassing dad in the world is back in this hilarious series for girls from TV and radio-comedy writing talent, Nigel Smith.When Dad posts an embarrassing video of Nat online as a joke, she's furious. Things are set to get much worse, however, when the video goes viral and she finds herself centre of the nation's attention for all the wrong reasons - even the prime minister is imitating her!But when a local care home for abandoned pets is threatened with closure, Dad convinces Nat to use her new-found celebrity to raise money for it - with him acting as her agent, of course! Cue: a disastrous appearance hair-modelling job, a not-so-glamorous campaign for a local optician and a call to turn on the town's rubbish autumn illuminations (the one with the miserable face off The X-Factor cancelled at the last minute). And as if Nat didn't have enough to deal with, school isn't exactly easy when you're a minor celebrity...
