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Emma Just Medium: The Beach Dilemma

Laura Wiltse Prior (author) Marta Kissi (illustrator)

Publisher: Red Chair Press LLC ISBN: 9781947159600

Even though her family calls her Emma Bemma, Emma knows she is really just a dilEmma because she is just medium. That’s because she’s the middle kid between her two brothers, who everyone calls Big and Little. Big thinks he's the coolest kid on the planet now that he's 10. That means he doesn’t want to play with LEGOs, or play anything with Emma anymore. And everyone thinks Little is just adorable even when he picks his nose and eats it! Ugh! What’s a middle child to do? What if she could get out of being the middle by taking on a new role? What if she acted BIG? Or even bigger than that? Will things go as planned? Or will she have another huge dilemma?

Monster Match: Frankinschool Book 1

Caryn Rivadeneira (author) Dani Jones (illustrator)

Publisher: Red Chair Press LLC ISBN: 9781643712413

While Fred is out sick, a visiting author signs Fred's book "To Frank". When Fred's desk-mate Luisa suggests Fred must really be Frank in school, this sparks an idea for Fred's creative writing assignment. Fred's What-If poem is coming together wonderfully, until--a mist fills the room and the writing assignment come to life. Suddenly Fred--now Frankinschool--and Luisa--now Princessa Luisa--need to save the school from the mysterious potion--and the even more mysterious and devious ghost living in the school attic.

Silent Journey

Carl Watson (author) Andrew Bosley (illustrator)

Publisher: Red Chair Press LLC ISBN: 9781947159303

Scott Schroeder dreams of a day when he and his father can have a home of their own. Following an accident that took his mother’s life eight years before, doctors discovered Scott was suddenly deaf. Blessed with being an accomplished gymnast, and even though he signs and reads lips, Scott’s biggest challenge is convincing others he is just as able in doing all things as those in the hearing world. Picking up on conversations he observes along the way, Scott figures out a big family secret concerning his father and uncle and makes his mind up to play a part in their reconciliation.

Roosevelt Banks: Good-Kid-in-Training

Laurie Calkhoven (author) Debbie Palen (illustrator)

Publisher: Red Chair Press LLC ISBN: 9781947159181

When ten-year-old Roosevelt Banks discovers that his two best friends are planning a bike and camping trip, he wants more than anything to go along. There’s just one problem—he doesn’t have a bike. Roosevelt’s parents agree to buy him a bike if he can manage to be good for two whole weeks. How can Roosevelt be good and be the same fun guy his friends want on the camping trip? Trying to be good leads to more trouble than expected—and to the discovery that being a good friend is more important than any bicycle.

Roosevelt Banks and the Attic of Doom

Laurie Calkhoven (author) Debbie Palen (illustrator)

Publisher: Red Chair Press LLC ISBN: 9781947159709

With a new sister on the way, Roosevelt Banks has to give up his bedroom and move into the attic, which must be haunted because of all the squeaks and groans coming from the spooky place at the top of the stairs. After his plan to move into a fort in the woods fails, and a ghost-busting exercise goes terribly wrong, Roosevelt—with the help of Tommy, Josh, and Eddie Spaghetti—has to find the courage to defeat the biggest, spookiest ghouls ever and turn the Attic of Doom into a Room with a View.

Into the Wind

William Loizeaux (author) Laura Jacobsen (illustrator)

Publisher: Red Chair Press LLC ISBN: 9781947159426

Into the Wind is a middle-grade novel about the unlikely friendship between a boy and an elderly woman. Both moving and joyful, this is a poignant story about loss and love, and the surprising and sustaining bonds that can grow between the old and young.

The One Great Gnome

Jeff Dinardo (author) Jhon Ortiz (illustrator)

Publisher: Red Chair Press LLC ISBN: 9781947159594

In the spirit of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, this story introduces readers to the hidden magical—and mysterious—world of gnomes, elves, and trolls.

Pop Flies, Robo-Pets, and Other Disasters

Suzanne Kamata (author) Tracy Nishimura Bishop (illustrator)

Publisher: Red Chair Press LLC ISBN: 9781947159365

Thirteen-year-old Satoshi Matsumoto spent the last three years living in Atlanta where he was the star of his middle-school baseball team—a slugger with pro potential, according to his coach. Now that his father’s work in the US has come to an end, he’s moved back to his hometown in rural Japan. Living abroad has changed him, and now his old friends in Japan are suspicious of his new foreign ways. Even worse, his childhood foe Shintaro, whose dad has ties to gangsters, is in his homeroom. After he joins his new school’s baseball team, Satoshi has a chance to be a hero until he makes a major-league error.

Book 3: Bully for You!

Dana Sullivan (author)

Publisher: Red Chair Press LLC ISBN: 9781634408646

Derrick finally feels like he’s getting the hang of Middle School. But when Derrick’s cartoons protesting racism backfire, the Muslim kids turn against him and the paper is in danger of being shut down, along with Derrick’s cartooning career. 

Book 4: Furball of the Apocalypse!

Dana Sullivan (author)

Publisher: Red Chair Press LLC ISBN: 9781643710747

Derrick’s goldfish, Finn and Gillian, have gone missing! Things take a turn for the weird when Derrick realizes his two science teachers are also nowhere to be found. What do plankton, plastic, and the fate of oceans have to do with missing persons and fishy pets?

Book 2: The Rocking Dead

Dana Sullivan (author)

Publisher: Red Chair Press LLC ISBN: 9781634408585

7th grader Derrick’s “Dead Max Comix” are such a hit in the school paper he and Max start their own advice column. Derrick and Doug should have asked for advice before they started a band without inviting Kim and Keisha to join. Will the Battle of the Bands mean the end of Derrick and Kim? Not if Dead Max can help out.

Book 1: The Deadening

Dana Sullivan (author)

Publisher: Red Chair Press LLC ISBN: 9781634408523

Derrick Hollis is a 7th grader at Zachary Taylor Middle School and an aspiring cartoonist too shy to show his work to anybody. Derrick is devastated when his dog Max dies. But after being cremated, Max returns as a ghost giving Derrick advice. Will Dead Max be good for Derrick?

Trevor Lee and the Big Uh-Oh!

Wiley Blevins (author)

Publisher: Red Chair Press LLC ISBN: 9781947159068

If there’s one thing everyone knows, it’s that Trevor Lee and school don’t mix. Like pickles and peanut butter. When his new teacher announces all the third graders must read in front of everyone at Parents Night, Trevor Lee and his best friend Pinky take action before his secret of not being able to read gets out. After several over-the-top attempts at getting out of Parents Night, Trevor Lee enlists the help of his Mamaw. “Some days are just bad. You gotta hold your head high and keep moving,” she always says. Can Trevor Lee remember her advice as he stands in front of a crowd on the biggest night of third grade?