A heartfelt story that sensitively tackles the everyday inner turmoil of growing up and staying true to oneself. Twelve-year-old Agnes hates everything about her life: her name, her parents' divorce, her best friend's abandonment, her changing body . . . . So while staying with her dad over the summer, she decides to become someone else. She tells people she meets that her name is Chloe, she's fourteen, her parents are married, and she's a dancer and actor—just the life she wants. But Agnes's fibs quickly stack up and start to complicate her new friendships, especially with Fin, whose mysterious relative runs a local raptor rehab center that fascinates Agnes. The birds, given time and care, heal and fly back home. Agnes, too, wants to get back to wherever she truly belongs. But first she must come to see the good in her real life, however flawed and messy it is, and be honest with her friends, her family, and herself.
Ellie and her friend Kate get to spend time with Ellie's grandparents at their beach cottage. It's their first trip without their parents. The girls are excited and share everything on social media. But then a solar storm knocks out power to the entire state. People have to learn to live without electricity, running water, or technology. Will the girls be bored to tears?
Explores the world of friendship through poems meant for rapping. Includes suggestions for how to create raps about friends.
This girl finds a surprising way to make friends at a new school.
Quinn was afraid of the dark--until Dylan's sleepover.
Edward is unhappy as a frog. Emily is unhappy as a worm. Can "magic" help both of them?
Two friends win more than the Egg Drop Challenge.
Lucky's luck finally changes for the better.
A big mistake actually helps Chance and Iggy win the talent contest.
Hannah who feels as if she cheated gives her prize to another bicyclist.
Who says that friends have to be the same age?
Nathan selects just the right gift for himself even though it's Claire's birthday.
Fox's way of doing the chores cheers up Bear.
Fox's fear is relieved when he finds that Bear is helping the birds not hurting them.
Jan has a problem--her secret admirer is a kindergartner.
When Tara makes a friend from faraway Australia she pretends she's from Mars.
What this new family needs is a Thanksgiving tradition.
Mr. Petalucha isn't called a painter extraordinaire for nothing.
Darren takes a classmate's suggestion to play smart when he finally gets a chance at bat.
A series of misadventures turn into fun for Derrick and Steve.
How can the school ski trip be fun if Carly has no friends?
Real teamwork wins the game for the Hawks.
The first installment in the new Graphic Guide Adventure Series. Devin, Nadia and Marcus are on their way to visit their environmentalist parents who are working to stop a logging company from clear-cutting a remote valley. When their plane crashes and the pilot is killed, the kids are left to survive in the wild with Wiley, a government bureaucrat, who is the only other passenger on the plane. Learning to build a shelter and make a fire in the woods, they discover that Wiley is working with the logging company and will do anything to stop the secret getting out. On the run and in mortal danger, the three must outrun Wiley, escape a raging forest fire and outwit a hungry grizzly bear to make it to safety.
Darren Dirkowitz thought his life was over when his tippity-top-secret alter ego, Dirk Daring, Secret Agent, was outed to the entire Preston Middle School student body. If only he’d been so lucky. Now the Wolf Lords—a gang of teen thugs bent on wringing every last penny out of Preston students—are breathing down his neck. There’s only one solution: Dirk Daring must embark on his most daring mission yet. A mission so audacious, so cunning, so doggone crazy, that if it succeeds, the Wolf Lords will wind up begging for mercy. But first, Darren must bring his own disobedient “associates” to heel. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie is the sequel to the runaway bestseller Dirk Daring, Secret Agent.
School's almost over, and best friends Ava and Sammi are heading to summer camp as volunteer camp counselors.