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“O’Neal deftly draws a protagonist to root for.” —Publishers Weekly
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Interested in booking a visit with Kristin Clark Venuti, author of Leaving the Bellweathers and The Butler Gets a Break? Click here to download her author appearance brochure!
The authors of Jaguar Stones: Middleworld discuss dream vacations with kids. Bugs, snakes, jungles…what’s not to love?!
We are delighted to announce that Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can’t Have by Allen Zadoff has been awarded the Sid Fleischman Humor Award, presented annually by the SCBWI to an outstanding book that uses humor to establish its voice.
We have a treat for all you thriller fans out there. A brand new trailer for Wish You Were Dead, in stores now!
Click here to view the newest trailer for Wish You Were Dead, by Todd Strasser.
Is the power of the Candle Man out of control? That’s the question Scotland Yard is asking tonight, as top members of the underworld have disappeared after tangling with London’s mysterious crime fighter, Lord Wickland.
All citizens are advised to upload an image here and imaging a confrontation with the Candle Man.
Glenn Dakin has written for many comics and children's TV shows, including the BBC's Shaun the Sheep, for which he won an International Emmy Award; Temptation; and the semi-autobiographical strip Abe. He lives in Cambridge, England.
Julia Keller was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia. She won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for her work at the Chicago Tribune. Julia lives in a high-rise in Chicago and a stone cottage on a lake in rural Ohio.
Todd Strasser, author of Give a Boy a Gun, Boot Camp, If I Grow Up, and the Help, I’m Trapped . . . series, has written wildly popular middle-grade and teen books of all genres. When he’s not speaking at schools and conferences, he makes his home in a suburb of New York City. Todd is active in a number of sports but enjoys surfing most of all.
Pam Bachorz’s debut novel was inspired by the six years she lived in a certain “model” town in Florida—when she thought, What if . . . ? She now lives just outside of Washington, D.C., with her husband and son.
Kristin Clark Venuti wrote on many things while growing up, including her father’s prized dictionary, her mother’s walls, and the family dog (with blueberry ink, of course). Now a children’s-theater producer, scene painter, and two-time black belt, she lives with her husband, children, and their ink-free dog in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Leaving the Bellweathers is her first novel.
Pride & Prejudice meets Veronica Mars in this slick romantic spy-thriller where nothing’s as it seems.
Berry Fields is not looking for a boyfriend. She's busy trailing cheaters and liars in her job as a private investigator, collecting evidence of the affairs she's sure all men commit. And thanks to a pepper...
Fans of The Mother Daughter Book Club (Heather Vogel Fredericks) and The Wedding Planner's Daughter (Coleen Paratore) series will fall in love with the humor, classic charm, and very determined heronine of Lindsay Eland's sophomore novel.
When you're the third of six kids, it's easy to get lost in the shuffle, but...
A cross between the Gone series and Lord of the Flies, Quarantine #2: The Saints continues this frenetically paced and scary young adult series that illustrates just how deadly high school can be.
Nothing was worse than being locked in--until they opened the door...
McKinley High has been a battle ground for eighteen...
Noble is a knight with a heart that's true and, well, noble. With his not-so-trusty sword, Smite, he fights his way through a vicious, unfriendly landscape, sure (or at least, he thinks he's sure) that one day he'll defeat the bad guys (whoever they are) and win the heart (at least...
After the Contamination - an epidemic caused by the super-trendy diet drink SlimPro that turned ordinary citizens into shambling creatures unable to control their violent impulses - the government rounded up the "Connies" to protect the remaining population. But now, two years later, the government's started sending the rehabilitated back home,...
A hint of Recovery Road, a sample of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, and a cut of Juno. A Really Awesome Mess is a laugh-out-loud, gut-wrenching/heart-warming story of two teenagers struggling to find love and themselves.
Two teenagers. Two very bumpy roads taken that lead to Heartland Academy.
Justin was just...
The stakes have risen even higher in this third book in the Hourglass series.
The Hourglass is a secret organization focused on the study of manipulating time, and its members -- many of them teenagers -have uncanny abilities to make time work for them in mysterious ways. Inherent in these powers...
Why must you always ask what my latest opus is about? Shouldn't the fact that I wrote it be enough to convince you to buy billions of copies of my blisteringly brilliant book? Do I need to release my canbot army on you . . . again?
Well if you want us...
Readers who loved Guinea Dog have been sitting, begging, and rolling over for a sequel. The beloved Patrick Jennings returns with the follow up to his award-winning and state list hogging title!
When his classmates learn about Fido, the guinea pig that acts like a dog, they all want a piece of...
Fans of Dav Pilkey's The Adventure of Ook and Gluke and Paricia Reilly Giff's ZigZag Kids series will flock to this chapterbook series full of slapstick humor and silly situations by the wildly popular Tony Abbott, author of The Secrets of Droon Series.
When the Goofballs--Jeff, Brian, Mara, and Kelly--hear about a...
The Changed are on the move. The Spared are out of time. The End...is now.
When her parents died, Alex thought things couldn't get much worse--until the doctors found the monster in her head.
She headed into the wilderness as a good-bye, to leave everything behind. But then the end of the...