![Pirates Go to School](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0545206294.jpg?itok=7EDjA_Ia)
What happens when pirates and their parrots go to school? Aargh! They learn to follow rules (like cleaning up their messes and enjoying story time) just like the regular kids in class. Wacky, exaggerated illustrations combine with the rhyming tale for a funny romp and different take on a typical school day.
Pirates Go to School
![The Big Something](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0545244595.jpg?itok=CoHEotTt)
Best friends, Jilli and Jim fret, when Jilli’s dog, Fiercely, digs under the fence and into another yard. The children muster their courage and some gummy bears to confront the witch but discover that she’s a trusted teacher who’s preparing for school. This gentle, easy-to-read story, provides readers with an important reminder.
The Big Something
![Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0811874958.jpg?itok=amXfl-zA)
In this rhyming adventure, Mr. Magee and his dog Dee learn to ski. They didn’t expect to run into a very curious moose, however, which turns their outing a real cliffhanger!
Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee
![The Best Bike Ride Ever](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0803738501.jpg?itok=Nkrgf1-_)
Bonnie O’Boy’s first bike ride is a humdinger, taking her (and readers) on an animated, imaginative jaunt through her backyard. It lasts until Bonnie bumps into reality again. Child-like illustrations and lively language combine for an unforgettable ride.
The Best Bike Ride Ever
![Victory](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1416914781.jpg?itok=I9z0gxmu)
Eleven year old Molly is homesick when her family moves to Connecticut from London. But a book entitled The Life of Nelson connects Molly to her home and to 11-year old Sam, a boy pressed into service in the English navy as an aide to Admiral Nelson during war. Told in two distinct voices, past and present gradually come together bringing both into clear focus.
Victory
![Over Sea, Under Stone](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/141694964X.jpg?itok=Fc0DNsD1)
While on holiday, the Drew children Barney, Simon, and Jane find a map in a hidden room in the Cornwall house, involving them and their great uncle, Merry, in a struggle between good and evil steeped in Arthurian legend. The first in the Dark is Rising sequence, the entire series exudes a strong sense of place and traditional tales. (The sequence continues with The Dark is Rising (opens in a new window) followed by Greenwitch (opens in a new window), The Grey King (opens in a new window), and concludes with Silver on the Tree (opens in a new window).
Over Sea, Under Stone
![Magician's Boy](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1416915559.jpg?itok=8g4Jd8nH)
Boy is transported to the Land of Story when the Magician’s Saint George puppet disappears. There Boy meets well known characters from traditional tales, demonstrates great bravery, and gains a real name. Gentle humor and familiar characters are hallmarks of this fantasy for younger readers.
Magician’s Boy
![King of the Shadows](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/068984445X.jpg?itok=ZKAP8nbe)
Nat Field finds friendship and relief from the loss of his parents when acting and is thrilled when chosen to go to England to perform in the new Globe Theater. Instead, he is transported back in time to perform in the original and meet William Shakespeare. Past and present come alive for contemporary readers in this riveting look at the connections between time and place.
King of the Shadows
![Boggart](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0689869304.jpg?itok=sfpNd5mk)
When the Volnick family accidentally brings a Boggart home to Toronto from Scotland, the results are tumultuous and very funny. It’s up to Jess and Emily to figure out how to return the rascally spirit. The family meets the Boggart again on another visit to Scotland with similar outrageous results (which include a renowned water creature) in The Boggart & the Monster (opens in a new window). Both books are steeped in the magic and traditions of the region in which they are set.
Boggart
![Lunch Lady and the Mutant Mathletes](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375870288.jpg?itok=AK85RhIA)
Can the Lunch Lady protect the Breakfast Bunch of Thompson Creek School from evil mutants posing as “mathletes” in a school math competition? Readers will find out in the latest installment of kids and their offbeat superhero done in signature black/white illustration in graphic format.
Lunch Lady and the Mutant Mathletes
![Captain America Joins the Mighty Avengers](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1423160320.jpg?itok=nLLFdV4T)
How Captain American becomes one of the Avengers — superheroes that included Thor and the Hulk — is told in this new picture book format sure to please young Marvel Comic book fans and superhero aficionados. Bright illustrations move the text along to its exciting conclusion — and likely the next book.
Captain America Joins the Mighty Avengers
![Scooter in the Outside](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0823423263.jpg?itok=3skoXNXC)
Scooter, a pudgy golden hound, explores the outside — all by himself — after Lucy (his friend and owner) leaves for school. His adventure is exciting and exhausting until Scooter and Lucy are reunited at her school. Cartoon illustrations and humorous dog-speak present a rollicking tale.
Scooter in the Outside
![Ride, Fly Guy, Ride](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0545222761.jpg?itok=-DRtIGc1)
Join Buzz, his pet fly Fly Guy, and Buzz’s dad on a car ride that turns into an exciting adventure when Fly Guy is swept out of an open window and into the mouth of a passing truck driver. Can Fly Guy survive? Will he be reunited with Buzz? This installment of the funny saga is presented in short, easier to read chapters, and signature illustrations of bug-eyed characters.
Ride, Fly Guy, Ride
![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
![A Nest for Celeste](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0061704105.jpg?itok=B1g3VIk5)
An unlikely friendship develops between a small, basket-weaving mouse named Celeste and the young apprentice to the great naturalist, Audubon. They meet when Joseph accompanies Audubon to New Orleans to paint the birds of Louisiana. Evocative pencil drawings add information as well as emotion in this unique, attractive, sometimes sad, but always riveting blend of fact and fantasy.
A Nest for Celeste
![Meanwhile...](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0062059335.jpg?itok=MqYccLt7)
Absorbed in his book, a child ignores his mother’s persistent calls, creating his own outrageous, imaginative adventures with the use of the word “meanwhile…” Wit and ingenuity abound in text and illustration until the boy’s adventures — and the book — conclude.
Meanwhile…
![When You Reach Me](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0385737424.jpg?itok=aCWnISo1)
Bits and pieces in Miranda’s life in New York City in 1978 mysteriously come together to reveal a surprising whole in which Miranda’s favorite book, Madeline L’Engle’s Wrinkle in Time, figures prominently. (2010 Newbery Medal Winner)
When You Reach Me
![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
![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
![Leprechaun in Late Winter](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/037585651X.jpg?itok=9gJLtJJl)
Annie and Jack travel to a long-ago Ireland to inspire Augusta to share her creativity with near calamitous results. How the sibling team solves the problem and achieves their mission is a worthy addition to the appealing Magic Tree House series.
Leprechaun in Late Winter
![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
![The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0670342599.jpg?itok=EUXqjzxZ)
By 1909, Louis Bleriot’s persistence had paid off: this Frenchman became the first aviator to fly across the English Channel in an “air machine.” This Caldecott Medal winner is a quiet account of one man’s perseverance and passion.
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909
![Boy of the Three Year Nap](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/039566957x_0.jpg?itok=cI9uOYbs)
Though Taro is known for his laziness, he is also clever and so finds a way to become wealthy. Realistic illustrations place Taro and his mother in a long ago Japan in this spritely retelling of a traditional trickster tale.