| Author: | Kersten Hamilton |
| Category: |
8-12+ Years |
| Series: | Gadgets and Gears Ser. |
Welcome to the Amazing Automated Inn, home of twelve-year-old inventor Wally Kennewickett, his genius scientist parents, and his dashing dog, Noodles. From the lightning harvester on the roof to the labs full of experiments in the dungeon, the inn is a wonderful pl... read more
| Author: | Beth Fantaskey |
| Category: |
8-12+ Years |
It's 1920s Chicago--the guns-and-gangster era of Al Capone--and it's unusual for a girl to be selling the Tribune on the street corner. But ten-year-old Isabel Feeney is unusual . . . unusually obsessed with being a news reporter. She can't believe her luck when she stum... read more
| Author: | Sarah Beth Durst |
| Category: |
8-12+ Years |
Exploring the power of stories and storytelling, award-winning author Durst presents the mesmerizing adventure of a girl made of living stone who braves unforeseen dangers and magical consequences on a crucial quest to save her family.
| Author: | Kersten Hamilton |
| Category: |
8-12+ Years |
| Series: | Gadgets and Gears |
| Reading Level: | Children's - Grade 3-4, Age 8-9 |
Wally and Noodles are back to the business of scientific innovationand fun. In London, they meet a young pickpocket named Dobbin who works for a mysterious criminal called the Tick-Tock Man. Soon they are racing through secret tunnels in a bid to help Dobbin's litt... read more
| Author: | Kersten Hamilton |
| Category: |
8-12+ Years |
The Wild, Wild West meets Tom Swift: book two of a inventive series filled with history and cool scientific fact.Someone is smuggling secrets out of the Kennewicketts' lab and sabotaging their experiments, putting everyone at the Amazing Automated Inn at risk. I... read more
| Author: | Karina Yan Glaser |
| Category: |
8-12+ Years |
| Series: | The Vanderbeekers |
From New York Times best-selling author Karina Yan Glaser comes one of Times' Notable Children's Books of 2017: "In this delightful and heartwarming throwback to the big-family novels of yesteryear, a large biracial family might lose their be... read more
| Author: | Karina Yan Glaser |
| Category: |
8-12+ Years |
| Series: | The\Vanderbeekers Ser. |
A New York Times Bestseller While Isa is off at sleepaway orchestra camp, Jessie, Oliver, Hyacinth, and Laney are stuck at home in the brownstone with nothing to do but get on one another's nerves. But when catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighb... read more
| Author: | Sarah Beth Durst |
| Category: |
8-12+ Years |
A ritual journey takes on urgent significance as two princesses and their winged-lion companion travel across their island kingdom to confront a dragon in this action-filled, funny, and heartwarming middle grade fantasy from the author of The Girl Who Could Not Dre... read more
| Author: | Sarah Beth Durst |
| Category: |
8-12+ Years |
"A perfect combination of adventure, humor, and pure imagination!" --Jessica Day George,New York Times best-selling author ofTuesdays at the Castle "Funny, scary, and endlessly inventive." --Bruce Coville, author ofJeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher Sophie lo... read more
| Author: | Terry Lynn Johnson; Jani Orban (Illustrator) |
| Category: |
8-12+ Years |
| Series: | Survivor Diaries |
A high-stakes adventure series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and Hatchet. Twelve-year-old twins Ashley and Ryan are skiing with their parents in Wyoming's Grand Teton Mountains where there is a ground-shaking rumble. Unstable snow rushes downhill and buries ... read more
| Author: | Virginia Zimmerman |
| Category: |
8-12+ Years |
| Reading Level: | Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11 |
Part mystery, part literary puzzle, part life-and-death quest, and chillingly magical, this novel has plenty of suspense for adventure fans and is a treat for readers who love books, words, and clues. Best friends Rosie and Adam find an old book with blank pages that fill with ha... read more
| Author: | Terry Lynn Johnson; Jani Orban (Illustrator) |
| Category: |
8-12+ Years |
| Series: | Survivor Diaries |
In this thrilling addition to the high-stakes Survivor Diaries series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and Hatchet, a geocaching field trip goes awry when two tweens wander off into the desert of New Mexico.Stay calm. Stay smart. Survive. Stranded after a dus... read more
