When a mysterious growling hamster appears at the back of his class, Sam knows just what to call him: Ham-stersaurus Rex. Sam tries to protect Hammie from an overzealous Hamster Monitor, and from the meanest bully in the history of Horace Hotwater Middle School.
Roz the robot discovers that she has been left on a remote island without any memory of how she got there. She knows she must survive and does so by befriending the animals and adapting to her surroundings. When a sudden fierce storm and a bear attack occur, she is suddenly flooded with memories of what happened to land her there.
When Maxine—Max, for short, brings her robot to her middle school’s new “robot integration program”, they try to survive the seventh grade. However, it soon becomes a game of life and death when Max learns that her robot has an evil program at heart—BARBARA—designed to shape the perfect student!
Claire, a wisecracking girl, feels like she just doesn’t fit in - with her family or her friends. She can’t dance as well as her friends and they are moving on without her. The “mean” girls at school are living up to their name, too.
When their favorite teacher announces she is sick and will be unable to finish out the school year, three boys decide to take action to show her how special she is to them.
Michael O’Shaunessey lives in war-torn Berlin with his parents who are the Irish ambassadors to Nazi Germany. Michael detests all that Nazis stand for, but he joins the Hitler Youth and takes part in the terrible games and book burnings to gain insider knowledge to bring back to his parents. He learns of the top secret Projekt 1065, a Nazi jet plane that can change the course of the war.
The Playbook provides information on the court of life. Each rule contains wisdom from inspiring athletes and role models from all sports and all walks of life. Kwame Alex-ander also shares his personal poetic and uplifting words, and provides stories of overcoming obstacles and winning games in this book for individuals needing encouragement.
Daniel Anderson is thirteen and his sister Erica is seven years old. When they hear stories of an old witch in the woods who takes little girls every 50 years, Daniel believes the stories are just a mean trick kids are telling to scare newcomers. Erica turns to her look-alike doll as her only friend in this strange community. Soon Erica believes the doll is talking to her and that the doll is telling her to go into the woods. Daniel begins to believe the stories just as Erica disappears.
Castle “Ghost” Cranshaw wants to be an NBA star when he grows up. One day, he raced a boy at the neighborhood track and is noticed by the coach, who invites him to join the team. He gets into trouble a lot in school and his mother is hesitant to allow him to participate. She makes a deal with the coach that as long as he behaves at school and doesn't neglect his school work, he can join the team.
In a postmodern world where all diseases have been cured, old age no longer kills you, and you can be brought back to life after almost any accident, population control must still be addressed. It is up to the Scythes to determine who will be “gleaned” (killed is such an antiquated word) and all Scythes have their own methods for deciding.
Quarterback Travis Gardner is the talk of the sports world when he is promised a scholarship before he plays his first high school game. Travis struggles with fame both from the opposing team’s focus on sacking him to his own team trusting his talents. When you mix in an injury and increased media scrutiny, you are left to wonder if Travis is a Top Prospect at all.
For Ben Coffin life has always had its ups and downs. After spending most of his life in foster care, he is finally adopted. Even though his life is better- he spends his time at the library among his favorite sci-fi books, life and death has a way of sneaking into reality. One day as he is avoiding some bullies, he rescues a lost and scruffy dog and his life really changes.
Things go from strange to dangerous as the NEED Network recruits more teens from Nottawa, Wisconsin to the exclu-sive social networking site. NEED deliv-ers members their desires in exchange for the completion of a small task. The actions required of members steadily result in worse consequences.
The Greek god Apollo has been punished by his father and made mortal- specifically a 14 year old pimple-faced boy named Lester. During a fight with bullies, Lester/Apollo is saved by a young demigod named Meg. Together they travel to Camp Half-Blood and face the challenges of a mysterious villain who is planning to destroy the camp and the world, but first he has to get rid of Apollo and his oracles.
Timothy is under house arrest for stealing a credit card to pay for his baby brother’s medical bills. He is also court-ordered to keep a journal for a year. This novel in verse is his journal where he records his thoughts on being under house arrest and life with a baby broth-er who has a serious medical condition.
Maisie is out running when a near-by tree is struck by lightning and she is burned severely. She receives a face transplant that changes everything. Her boyfriend tries to help her transition back to school, but nothing is what it used to be.
