In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.

Twelve-year-old Ron Baker finds a minibike while scuba diving and, with the help of a former motorcycle rider and racer, restores the bike and enters competition.

Three mice brothers, ignoring the class system separating the four clans of rodents in their farmhouse, befriend a lower class mouse and form a team to fight cats.

Eleven-year-old Sam Abernathy, extremely overprotected and a reluctant celebrity since he was trapped in a well at age four, dreams of becoming a chef and starts by entering a local cook-off.

"When a storm-tossed river sweeps Ripple away from the park he's always known, he commits himself to the life of a peaceful loner. Still, as his new island home starts to become a sanctuary for other rogues, he can't help but feel responsible for their safety, and for the community--and Clan--they are beginning to build. But when an old friend from the park resurfaces with terrible news just as the forest cats' fights begin to escalate into bloodshed,...

Just in time for the 50th anniversary of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe comes the only picture-book adaptation of the most popular and best-selling title in The Chronicles of Narnia. Younger readers can now take the first of many trips to Narnia in a brand-new edition of the story that has enchanted millions. Beautifully evocative art by renowned British illustrator Christian Birmingham complements this carefully abridged text of one of the...

Stevie Lake can't get Scott Forrester to forgive her for the car accident that injured his sister. And now Scott and her boyfriend Phil are hanging out together!

Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur and that entraps them in the eternal battle between the forces of the Light and the forces of the Dark

William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.

Soon after his family's move to small-town Nevada, rising seventh-grader Gideon befriends an intriguing neighbor, Rooney, who is hiding secrets about her past.