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Up the Creek!
Four best friends, one raging creek. What could possibly go wrong?
When four friends set out on a canoe trip down Milligan Creek during spring runoff season, little do they realize their voyage through small town Saskatchewan is about to turn into one of the wildest experiences of their lives–if they survive! Facing raging rapids, frigid “icebergs,” spinning whirlpools, roaring culverts, and their own recklessness, soon the boys find themselves in uncharted waters with no clue how they’re going to get home. With night falling fast and no one to rely on but each other, the boys must figure out how to work together or risk falling victim to the merciless powers of nature–and their parents’ wrath!
This is a perfect book series for boys and girls ages 7-12 who love humor, adventure, mischief, and the outdoors.
Books in the Milligan Creek Series:
- Up the Creek!
- Unlimited
- The Water War
- The Great Grain Elevator Incident
- Snowbound!
- Quiet on Set!
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Stuntboy
From Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel about the greatest young superhero you’ve never heard of, filled with illustrations by Raúl the Third!
Portico Reeves’s superpower is making sure all the other superheroes—like his parents and two best friends—stay super. And safe. Super safe. And he does this all in secret. No one in his civilian life knows he’s actually…Stuntboy!
But his regular Portico identity is pretty cool, too. He lives in the biggest house on the block, maybe in the whole city, which basically makes it a castle. His mom calls where they live an apartment building. But a building with fifty doors just in the hallways is definitely a castle. And behind those fifty doors live a bunch of different people who Stuntboy saves all the time. In fact, he’s the only reason the cat, New Name Every Day, has nine lives.
All this is swell except for Portico’s other secret, his not-so-super secret. His parents are fighting all the time. They’re trying to hide it by repeatedly telling Portico to go check on a neighbor “in the meantime.” But Portico knows “meantime” means his parents are heading into the Mean Time which means they’re about to get into it, and well, Portico’s superhero responsibility is to save them, too—as soon as he figures out how.
Only, all these secrets give Portico the worry wiggles, the frets, which his mom calls anxiety. Plus, like all superheroes, Portico has an arch-nemesis who is determined to prove that there is nothing super about Portico at all.
For readers 7-12.
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Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment
Max Einstein is not your typical genius. She . . .
- Hacks the computer system at NYU to attend classes
- Builds inventions to help the homeless
- And talks to Albert Einstein! (Okay, that’s just in her imagination)
But everything changes when Max is recruited by a mysterious organization! Their mission: solve some of the world’s toughest problems using science. She’s helped by a diverse group of young geniuses from around the globe as they invent new ways to power the farthest reaches of the planet. But that’s only if the sinister outfit known only as The Corporation doesn’t get to her first.
This is Book 1 in a great series for Readers 9-12.
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Adventures of Charlie: A 6th Grade Gamer #1
I screwed up, okay?
I was just trying to be a good kid. Helping Mom move boxes, lugging the huge jugs of pennies that weigh like a million pounds, and packing it all in the truck.
Then I found the mystery box.
I make one wrong decision, and suddenly I’m stuck inside a game where monsters are real, and magic food is gross!
I’m fighting back against the bad guys. I’m making new friends. I feel myself getting braver, stronger, more powerful.
I’m going to get out, and I have a plan that’s sure to win.
Author Connor Grayson has written a great read for Readers 8-12.