| 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: | Dick King-Smith |
| Category: |
5-8+ Years |
The Sheep-pig is one of Dick King-Smith's most famous tales. It shot to further fame when the film adaptation, Babe, was released in 1995. 'Why can't I learn to be a Sheep-Pig?' When Babe, the little orphaned piglet, is won at a fair by Farmer Hogget, he is adopted by Fly, the kind-hea... read more
| 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: | Ian Beck |
| Category: |
Youth Fiction |
| Series: | Little Gem |
When a newly-qualified fairy loses the third wish of three she must deliver to a woodcutter, young Dickon finds it. There is no limit to the number of times a lost wish may be used, and soon there are sparkly cats and magic lemonade bottles all over the place Can fairy Cobweb find the wish and put a stop to Dickon's magic?
| 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: | Michael Rosen |
| Category: |
Youth Fiction |
Once there was a very fierce cat. Not just fierce: well fierce, totally, terrifyingly, stupendously fierce. Everyone was afraid of this cat. Her name was Dread and everyone dreaded Dread Cat. But then Dread Cat started to run out of luck catching mice. She hadn't cau... read more
| Author: | Tamera Will Wissinger |
| Category: |
5-8+ Years |
"Just the thing for readers with a burgeoning interest in poetry--or angling."--"Publishers Weekly" Nine-year-old Sam loves fishing with his dad. So when his pesky little sister, Lucy, horns in on their fishing trip, he's none too pleased. All ends well in this wins... 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
