![Boy + Bot](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375867562.jpg?itok=w1fIsFZC)
When a boy meets a robot they became fast and caring friends who worry about each other and share everyday activities and play. Simple language and bright, precise illustrations combine to present a fantastic and very gratifying friendship.
Boy + Bot
![The Boy Who Cried Alien](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0786838256.jpg?itok=v1fnhSen)
Larry, like the boy who cried wolf, is known for his prevarication. He winds up a hero, however, when he tells the truth about space aliens. Illustrations in comic book format and jazzy rhyming text and coded alien-speak are sure to tickle funny bones.
The Boy Who Cried Alien
![Time Train](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/006443351X.jpg?itok=l6fI3e__)
Join Miss Pym’s students as they take a memorable train trip across the U.S. to a time and place where dinosaurs roamed. Humor and adventure combine as Miss Pym is horrified but her students delight in getting to know the huge creatures firsthand.
Time Train
![Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0805072705.jpg?itok=3LqB7lh2)
Gareth, Jason’s cat, knows that a cat’s nine lives are really nine trips. Since a cat can take a friend along, Jason & Gareth travel to long ago places and times. This modern classic is certain to intrigue readers while introducing them to a bit of history and historical sites.
Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth
![On the Blue Comet](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/076363722X.jpg?itok=FgOrwMxh)
The Great Depression changed everything for 11-year-old Oscar and his widowed dad. Oscar’s prized model trains are sold, his dad leaves Illinois to find work in California, and Oscar begins an adventure through time and places after he jumps onto a model train.
On the Blue Comet
![The Fran that Time Forgot (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist)](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0689862989.jpg?itok=oCfvFe9x)
It’s tough to be a scientist but especially hard when kids find out Fran’s middle name. To change it, Fran Kissypie Stein invents a machine to go back to change it with near-disastrous but with laugh out loud results.
The Fran that Time Forgot (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist)
![Back in Time with Benjamin Franklin](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0689878842.jpg?itok=SIKEROlc)
Travel back in time with young Qwerty (aka Robert) as he finds research much more intriguing when it involves experiencing 1776 in person via a time machine. Action and humor bring the past alive in this fast-paced novel.
Back in Time with Benjamin Franklin
![Dinosaur Dig!](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763658715.jpg?itok=rrQbiyJg)
Dinosaurs from one to 10 use various trucks to build a swimming pool together. This is a unique take on working together, construction, and dinosaurs (which are all identified).
Dinosaur Dig!
![Squish: Super Amoeba](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375843892.jpg?itok=5W1UiUFv)
Even though Squish and his pals are one-cell amoebas, children will recognize themselves in the frenetic adventures of bullies and saving the world from evil.
Squish: Super Amoeba
![The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0061914622.jpg?itok=gsiSoeCh)
After an awesome adventure, Awesome Man returns to the Fortress of Awesome where he is once again a child in his mom’s awesome embrace in this over-the-top fantasy.
The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man
![Dear Tyrannosaurus Rex](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375856080.jpg?itok=3Uwn-a6r)
Erin loves dinosaurs and so describes all the fun they’ll have in a letter inviting a tyrannosaurus to her birthday party. The broad humor of the huge dinosaur playing party games and similar activities conveyed in comic illustration and understated text is sure to create giggles galore.
Dear Tyrannosaurus Rex
![Clink](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/006192928X.jpg?itok=bsS1d9OL)
Clink is a robot that used to be state of the art; now he’s outdated and missing parts. Nobody wants Clink until he meets Milton, a boy who brings out the best in Clink and gives him a new home. The satisfying story is illustrated with full color illustrations.
Clink
![Among the Hidden](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0689824750.jpg?itok=Exl2wKqa)
In the first book of the Shadow Children series about a futuristic dystopia where only two children per family are allowed, readers meet Luke, a third child forbidden by the Population Police.
Among the Hidden
![Phantom Tollbooth](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0394815009.jpg?itok=mpeaXrcR)
A tollbooth appears in bored Milo’s room beginning an adventure that has delighted readers since it was first published in 1961. Clever wordplay and double entendre has made this a book that can be read again and again with delight and discovery.
Phantom Tollbooth
![The Fantastic Owen Jester](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0374368503.jpg?itok=6rBjCADZ)
Owen Jester finally captures the biggest frog in the world and names him Tooley Graham, but Owen has an even bigger secret — after hearing a crash in the night, he discovers that a two-passenger submarine that has fallen off a passing train.. What Owen and his buddies along with a know-it-all girl do with that secret creates a memorable adventure, deftly told.
The Fantastic Owen Jester
![Dinotrux](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0316027774.jpg?itok=WRt0p73G)
Millions of years ago, huge, hungry prehistoric ‘dinotrux’ ruled the world. A terrible storm caused some dinotrux to seek better weather. Those that shed their “misbehaving ways” over the millennia are still on the job today. This imaginative take on trucks and dinosaurs is sure to make readers young and old view subjects anew while making them laugh out loud.
Dinotrux
![The Super Hungry Dinosaur](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0803734468.jpg?itok=-dIvli2G)
A boy and his dog foil the ravenous intentions of a super hungry T-Rex that shows up unexpectedly in the backyard. After taming the creature, mom provides a huge plate of pasta to make a “super full dinosaur” who happily leaves, but only after after a very large, satisfying burp. Child-like illustrations add appeal in this very silly, engaging tale.
The Super Hungry Dinosaur
![Superhero School](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1599901668.jpg?itok=FfSgoFGu)
Leonard is disappointed in superhero school; the only thing his teacher, The Blue Tornado, talks about is math and other dull stuff. Fractions and division come in quite handy for the student team, however, when Ice Zombies appear! Exaggerated humor in both text and illustration make this a real champ.
Superhero School
![A Wrinkle in Time](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0312367546.jpg?itok=eEQuGMnk)
How the Murray children search through time to find and save their missing scientist father continues to enthrall readers even 50 years after its publication. The author was awarded the Newbery Medal for what has become a classic time travel fantasy.
A Wrinkle in Time
![True Talents](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0765309777.jpg?itok=zlfQaqyn)
When their secret gets out and the bad guys close in, Trash, Martin, Flinch, and the gang find themselves in a fight for survival against a brutal enemy. An action-packed adventure where things blow up, people die, and Torchie buys an accordion.
True Talents
![Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375855831.jpg?itok=Actob04v)
Traction Man is back! In this adventure Traction Man takes on a compost heap, loses his trusty Scrubbing Brush, and meets Turbo Dog — all with tongue-in-cheek humor in both comic-strip-like illustrations and understated language.
Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog
![Eve of the Emperor Penguin](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375837337.jpg?itok=MuqJPCrA)
Annie and Jack find themselves in remote and frozen Antarctica in contemporary times on a mission to save a small orphan — and Merlin himself. In this Magic Tree House story, fact combines with fantasy though readers can learn more about the place and its inhabitants in a companion volume, Penguins and Antarctica: A Magic Tree House Research Guide (opens in a new window).
Eve of the Emperor Penguin
![Magic Pickle](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0439879957.jpg?itok=K4XIa6yh)
Sophisticated readers will appreciate the over-the-top adventures of a cryogenic pickle that emerges with superhero skills through the bedroom floor of Jo Jo Wigman. This full-color comic is distinguished by funny puns and wordplay as well as the combination of familiar school problems and Magic Pickle’s fantastic dilemmas.
Magic Pickle
![Here There Be Dragons](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0152017054.jpg?itok=8KPXQsvF)
Yolen wrote all of these varied entries about the delightful dragon, and relates the poems, and short stories from a variety of genres, complete with a background as to their inspiration.