MANIFESTOR
All Nic Blake wants is to be a powerful Manifestor like her dad. But before she has a chance to convince him to teach her the gift, a series of shocking revelations and terrifying events launch Nic and two friends on a hunt for a powerful magic tool she's never heard of...to save her father from imprisonment for a crime she refuses to believe he committed.
Lindsey Currie IT FOUND US J CURR, L
Twelve-year-old Hazel Woods has always had an unusual knack for sleuthing. So, when she not-so-accidentally overhears her brother Den planning to sneak into the cemetery at night for an epic game of hide-and-seek, she decides to secretly tag along. This seems like the perfect opportunity to investigate the claims that the cemetery is haunted. But the moment the game ends, Hazel realizes something is very, very wrong: her brother's best friend, Everett, is missing. It's as if he just . . . vanished.
Martha Freeman TRASHED! J FREE, M
After Arthur finds a chipped teacup on a shelf at his family's store, he embarks on an adventure involving stolen jewels, a treacherous friendship, prairie dogs, the Grateful Dead, and even the ghost of a pet mouse.
J JOHN, J
FINAL WORD
Janet Sumner Johnson
Thirteen-year-old twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a last-ditch effort to save their family from financial ruin, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to uncover a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they have never known.
Natalie D. Richards 15 SECRETS TO SURVIVAL J RICH, N
Forced to participate in an extra credit project in the middle of nowhere, classmates Baxter, Abigail, Turner and Emerson must survive the wilderness with only a survival handbook and each other after their instructor goes missing.
mes--but everyone calls me DJ. At my old school, I was the go-to guy for all kinds of tricky problems that needed creative solutions. But at my new school, I'm just trying to blend in. Well, I was, anyway, until my best friend, Conor, got himself transferred too. Now Conor owes 100,000 arcade tickets to the biggest bully around--and he only has two weeks to make it happen. Impossible? Not with my head in the game.
Erika J. Kendricks COOKIE MONSTERS J KEND, E
As twelve-year-old Brooklyn goes head-tohead against her rival to win her school's cookie-selling competition, her friends help her cope with the death of her mother and help her try to clinch the Cookie Queen title.
Jennifer A. Nielsen ICEBERG
Twelve-year-old Hazel Rothbury y aboard the Titanic and, with the help of a porter named Charlie and a first-class passenger named Sylvia, she sets out to explore the great ship, uncovering a haunting mystery--until the ship hits an iceberg and she must fight to save herself and her friends.
Using popular superheroes and their powers as a starting point for imagining what could be, “Becoming Bionic” explores how science is constantly searching for and discovering new ways to augment the human body and the human experience.
J Heather Camlot
Janine Ungvarsky
Readers will get an in-depth look at everything weather related in this encyclopedia. Alongside photos, readers will learn about weather basics and extreme storms including thunderstorms, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, hailstorms, blizzards, ice storms, droughts, wildfires and firestorms, dust storms, and heat waves How climate change impacts extreme storms is covered
Megan Wagner Lloyd SQUISHED J GN LLOY, M
Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland But she's tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! They're noisy and chaotic and the younger kids love her a little too much. All Avery wants is her own room -- her own space to be alone and make art So she's furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his own room instead, and her wild baby brother, Max, moves into the room she already shares with her clinging sister Pearl!
How did our extraordinary species go from living as simple apes to becoming the planet's dominant lifeform? This beautifully illustrated book traces the journey of humanity from prehistory to the silicon age. Explore how we developed into modern humans, and how we've organized ourselves into civilizations that have risen, fallen, and reshaped the Earth itself.
Richard Mauer THE WOMAN IN THE MOON
A stunning and intimate biography of Margaret Hamilton, the computer engineer who helped Apollo 11 and mankind get from the Earth to the moon. First-hand accounts, exclusive interviews with the legendary Margaret Hamilton, and detailed science populate the pages of this remarkable biography.
