| Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum by Alasdair Beckett-King; illustrated by Claire PowellAfter discovering a murdered museum guard in a locked room, ten-year-old Bonnie Montgomery knows just what to do: she puts on a costume (complete with fake mustache) and becomes famous detective Montgomery Bonbon! |
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The Umbrella Maker's Son by Katrina LenoIn a city where it's always raining, Oscar Buckle, the son of an umbrella maker, becomes suspicious of their business rival and with his best friend, Saige, sets out to discover if there's more than nature involved in their city's weather.
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Growing up in Aleppo, Yara’s childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara’s doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family’s home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother, Saad, can’t speak—struck silent by everything he’s seen. Now, with her friend Shireen and Shireen’s charismatic brother, Ali, Yara must try to find a way to safety. With danger around every corner, Yara is pushed to her limits as she discovers how far she’ll go for her loved ones—and for a chance for freedom. |
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Doug and Abby love everything about being Bug Scouts: their super-duper top-secret headquarters, earning bug badges, wearing scout gear, and, of course, snacks. Josh, meanwhile, is a grump and doesn’t like anything (except the snacks). The Bug Scouts begin to work on earning the "foraging" bug badge, which they can only get if they successfully find an edible plant. Together, they head into the woods in search for adventure and something to eat. But will they be able to avoid the poisonous plants and manage to not get eaten by a clever frog?!
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A Hundred Horses by Sarah LeanBringing her late father's suitcase filled with horse figurine pieces with her in order to endure what she believes will be a boring vacation at her relatives' farm, Nell encounters unexpected surprises in the country, including a magical horse and a half-wild suitcase thief.
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The Explorer by Katherine RundellWhen their plane crashes in the Amazon on their way back to England from Manaus, Brazil, four kids work together to survive before discovering a map that leads them to a ruined city and an astonishing secret.
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Big Tree by Brian SelznickWhen she and her brother, two Sycamore seeds who hope to set down roots one day, are forced to leave their mama tree prematurely, they are hurled into the unknown, discovering their mission in life is much bigger than either of them could have imagined.
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After planting a seed packet in the backyard, things don’t go as expected for best friends Anna and Tess. They fall asleep in the sun and wake up to blooms as tall as buildings! Did the seeds really grow that fast?
All is explained when Anna and Tess meet May, a little garden gnome whose magic is responsible for the transformation. The girls are May’s size now, and they follow her through the flower garden and into May’s underground gnome home—discovering new things about their world and themselves along the way.
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The Painting by Charis CotterAnnie and her mother don't see eye to eye. When Annie finds a painting of a lonely lighthouse in their home, she is immediately drawn to it, and her mother wishes it would stay banished in the attic. To her, art has no interest, but Annie loves drawing and painting.
When Annie's mother slips into a coma following a car accident, strange things begin to happen to Annie. She finds herself falling into the painting and meeting Claire, a girl her own age living at the lighthouse. Claire's mother Maisie is the artist behind the painting, and like Annie, Claire's relationship with her mother is fraught. Annie thinks she can help them find their way back to each other, and in so doing, help mend her relationship with her own mother.
But who IS Claire? Why can Annie travel through the painting? And can Annie help her mother wake up from her coma?
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The Secret of Moonrise Manor by Stephanie BearceRaven Gallows lives in a funeral home and is determined to become a detective, and when a mummified man is discovered behind a wall at Moonrise Manor Hotel, Raven is shocked to see her dead mother's gold and silver locket.
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Twig Friends by Andrew McDonaldThe world is big when you're a twig, but problems, surprises and even volcanoes are no match for Red, Ziggy, Noodle and Stump! Red Twig discovers that not all surprises are good when he accidentally ruins his friends' snail zoo, Ziggy and Stump discover a volcano (or is it?), and Noodle tries and fails to find blue paint in nature.
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Buyer Beware by Kelly RogersEllie buys a snake egg from the sinister science teacher Ms. Fleek in room 201, and hides it in a cage in her closet, but when it finally hatches--well, snakes are not supposed to have legs and wings, are they?
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