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England, 1919. Alyce – with a Y – lives with her grandmother, the original Alice, having lost her father during the Great War. When a mysterious invitation to a tea party hits her square in the face, Alyce realises her grandmother’s strange stories of a place called Wonderland might have some truth to them after all. But the land Alyce finds herself in feels different from the Wonderland of her grandmother’s stories – for it is trapped in its own war. The Sun King and the Queen of the Moon are fighting over a stolen hour, and soon Alyce is tasked with setting it right. With the help of the Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and a Sailor Fox, Alyce will have to solve Wonderland’s problems and, eventually, find her way back home. |
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The Littlest Voyageur by Margi Preus It is 1792 and unbeknownst to a group of voyageurs traveling from Montreal to Grand Portage, an intrepid squirrel, Jean Pierre Petit Le Rouge, sneaks onto their canoe. Le Rouge is soon discovered because he can't contain his excitement. The smells! The vistas! The comradery! The voyageurs are not particularly happy to have him, especially because Le Rouge rides, but he does not paddle. He eats, but he does not cook. He doesn't even carry anything on portages--sometimes it is he who has to be carried. He also has a terrible singing voice. What kind of voyageur is that? When they finally arrive at the trading post Le Rouge is in for a terrible shock--the voyageurs have traveled all those miles to collect beaver pelts. With the help of Monique, a smart and sweet flying squirrel, Le Rouge organizes his fur-bearing friends of the forest to ambush the men and try and convince them to quit being voyageurs. |
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The Boy, the Boat, and the Beast by Samantha M. ClarkA boy washes up on a mysterious, seemingly uninhabited beach. Who is he? How did he get there? The boy can't remember. When he sees a light shining over the foreboding wall of trees that surrounds the shore, he decides to follow it, in the hopes that it will lead him to answers. The boy's journey is a struggle for survival and a search for the truth--a terrifying truth that once uncovered, will force him to face his greatest fear of all if he is to go home.
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| Roar by Varsha BajajWhile visiting a Bengal tiger sanctuary in India, Texas fifth-grader Rohan develops a special interest in tiger Arya and her twin cubs. But with the sanctuary under threat, Rohan must rally the community to save it. |
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You’ve just won the sweetest contest on Earth—a tour of the Fantastical Fudgeworks Factory, run by the mysterious robot genius, ChocoTron-9000. Your winning candy recipe might even be chosen for production! But as soon as the factory gates close, things get sticky.
Lollipop trees hum in the orchards. Caramel rivers roar underground. Machines malfunction, drones gossip, and candy starts talking back. Every room is a new experiment—and every choice could lead to sweet success or total meltdown.
Will you uncover ChocoTron’s true purpose, save your fellow contestants, and make it out with all your fillings intact—or will you become part of the factory forever?
With 32 different endings, every bite, bubble, and button press counts. Pick carefully…or recklessly. The candy doesn’t judge!
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Bad Badger: A Love Story by Maryrose WoodSeptimus is not good at being a badger. He adores the sunset. He dreams of going to Venice. And he lives alone in a charming cottage by the sea. He's not unhappy with his tidy, solitary life, but there are times when being so bad at badgerdom makes him wonder if he's even a badger at all. When a gull of very few words lands on the windowsill, Septimus leaps at the possibility of friendship. However, his new confidant soon goes missing and Septimus is bereft. Determined to find his best--and only--friend, he ventures into new territory and encounters a cast of surprising characters. Can Septimus be as brave and bighearted as he'll need to be to find Gully? Or is he really a bad badger after all?
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The Beach Dilemma by Laura Wiltse PriorMiddle-kid Emma is stuck between her two brothers, again. She has to ride in the middle seat as her family heads out on a weeklong beach vacation with friends, where Emma knows that being just medium will only get worse! Then she has an idea. What if she could get out of being in the middle by taking on a new role? What if she acted BIG? Will Emma's plan work, or will she have another huge dilEmma?
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Oil-Soaked Wings by Emma BernayAn oil spill spells trouble for Seaside Sanctuary and the birds and other marine animals that live along the beach, including a young pelican that Elsa and Olivia rescue. All the birds need to be carefully cleaned and given medical attention--but there's another problem: until the spill is cleaned up the birds can't be released, and the company responsible for the spill doesn't seem interested in doing its part.
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The Adventures of Invisible Boyby Doogie HornerIt’s his first day at a new school, and Stanley wishes he could disappear. He can hardly believe it when, after a big spill at the science fair, POOF! Stanley is invisible! It’s awesome! He can do anything he wants, and no one will know!
But Stanley isn’t the only one who turned invisible. The inventor of the potion is not happy about the accident and takes his anger out on kids all over town.
Stanley wants to use his power for good . . . which means going up against the one person who can make him visible again. |
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Off the Map by Meika HashimotoFormer best friends Marlo and Amos are already stressed about being stuck together on a canoe trip down Alaska's Yukon River…and then they get separated from their group. Now, they'll have to work together if they want to survive the hazardous wilderness.
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