Beginning Chapter Books (Grades 1-3)
by Kara West
Looking forward to perfecting her x-ray vision so she can see through walls and crack secret codes, Mia Mayhem struggles to adjust to her classmates' pace in spite of her embarrassingly clunky glasses.
by Thomas Flintham
It is time for the All-Star games, and Super Rabbit Boy wants to be crowned the Ultimate All-Star Champion, but with so many contestants, including the evil King Viking, he will need help from Sunny and his video game console to claim his prize.
by Troy Cummings
It is time for the Stermont Derby, a race around downtown Stermont in homemade vehicles, and Alexander, Nikki, and Rip are planning to compete, but so is a new monster, a Speedah-cheetah--in addition to a diet of rotten eggs it plans on eating the race losers, especially the members of the Super Secret Monster Patrol.
by Wendy Mass
On a visit to the Natural History Museum, Chase and Ava seem on the verge of finding out something important about the mysterious Randall, the missing scientist Finn, and the woman who gave them the suitcase filled with magical objects, when the dinosaur egg from the suitcase (they thought it was a potato) sends them back to dinosaur times--where they have to return the egg to the correct brontosaurus nest, while eluding hungry dinosaurs, and Randall, who it turns out is working for somebody called The Collector.
by A. I. Newton
When Zeke learns that his parents' research mission is over and they must return to their home planet Tragas, he and his friends seek a way to keep the family on Earth.
Chapter Books (Grades 3-5)
by Lamar Giles
Otto and Sheed Alston are local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched powers of deduction. As summer winds down and the first day of school looms, the boys are craving just a little more time for fun, even as they bicker over what kind of fun they want to have. That is, until a mysterious man named Mr. Flux appears with a camera that literally freezes time. Now, with the help of some very strange people and even stranger creatures, Otto and Sheed will have to put aside their differences to save their town--and each other. The Legendary Alston Boys have always lived in the moment, but if they don't do something fast, they may be living this moment forever.
by Joshua Levy
In 2299, seventh-grader Jack and his classmates find themselves in hostile alien territory after Jack accidentally launches their rickety public school spaceship light years away from home.
by Michael Buckley
When Earth is threatened by an invading race of bugs called the Hunger, 11-year-old Finn, his arch-nemesis, Lincoln, his crush, Julep, and one pink unicorn lunchbox become Earth's last best hope against destruction.
by Carlos Hernandez
When best friends Sal and Gabi try to repair the damage they created when they altered the universe to help their families, they end up creating even more chaos.
by Jeffrey Brown
Jide and Petra are just two normal kids until they are selected to leave Earth and join their new alien classmates on an intergalactic research mission to Mars. Too bad Petra has no idea how she ended up in the program, seeing as the closest she wants to get to space is being a sci-fi writer. Jide, on the other hand, is the brains of the mission, but his helicopter parents make it clear he hasn't left their gravitational pull behind quite yet.
Stephani Lindsey
Youth Specialist
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