"In this full-color, nonfiction resource, profiles of twenty-five diverse individuals share how each person got interested in their field, how they studied or trained for it, how others typically study or train for it, and their experience in their career. Informative sidebars sh...
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An anonymous correspondence between two seventh graders becomes an unlikely friendship after they start leaving notes in a school library book. Bookish Jane MacDonald is seeking a new friend after her best friend Sienna moves away; reputed troublemaker Tyson Flamand stumbles upon...
"Middle-schooler Ruby and her friend Scout join together to stop a real-estate mogul from tearing down their historied New York City apartment building, called Umbrella House. In a contest for a news network, Ruby and Scout use their creativity and video-editing skills to show th...
Hearkening back to classics like 'Amelia Bedelia' and Douglas Woods 'What Teachers Cant Do', Colleen Nelson will make parents, children, and especially teachers laugh out loud over Mrs. Muddles antics and the exasperated Kaylas leadership. Nelson lives in Winnipeg, MB. Illustrato...
"The Biltmore in New York City is full of mysteries, and Elodie LaRue, a novice detective, plans to piece together the clues and solve the case of the missing jewels. Left behind by her globe-trotting detective parents once again, Elodie decides to prove she's worthy of joining t...
"A young boy volunteering at a retirement home finds a stray dog and notices that it revives decades-old memories for a bitter resident. The boy bonds with the resident as he listens to stories about growing up in Saskatchewan during the Great Depression. Thanks to his new friend...
"This non-fiction career resource features twenty-five diverse jobs and people. Using full-color photos, these profiles explore how each individual was able to achieve their dream job, and what their dream job entails. This includes their areas of study, relevant job experience, ...
"Strict new rules at Brayside Retirement Home make it hard for West Highland Terrier Harvey to continue his important role as comfort dog. Meanwhile, Harvey's owner Maggie struggles with being the understudy for the school play, his friend Austin faces shame over money troubles, ...
"Part of the nonfiction Orca Timeline series for middle-grade readers, this illustrated book explores our relationship with water and how we use, control and take care of it"-- Provided by publisher.
"Founder of Jessica's House, a grief center for children and families, and licensed marriage and family therapist join forces to offer a much-needed resource for parents raising grieving children, addressing parents concerns after a significant death and offering ways to process,...
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
"With a 100% success rate, it is no wonder The LaRue Detective Agency has become the investigators to call at The Biltmore. But could the recipe robbery become Elodie's own recipe for disaster? Biltmore resident, Chef Sebastian, plans to open a new pastry shop where he will unvei...
"A wealthy hotel heiress. Even though Torie Bergstrom hasn't been back to Georgia since she was ten, she's happy to arrange a job for her best friend at one of the family properties on Jekyll Island. A suspicious death. But when Torie learns that her best friend has drowned, she ...
"In Kaia's world setting foot Outside can be deadly. The safety of the City has kept humans alive as the climate destroys the world; floods, famine, one disaster after another has kept people living in fear. But the City has found a way to survive sustainably: it is run by the en...
"Fifteen-year-old Delilah "Dizzy" Doucette lives with her dad and brother above their vintage record store, the Vinyl Trap. She's learning how to spin records from her brother's best friend, and she's getting pretty good. But behind her bohemian life, Dizzy and her family have a ...
"Could a hundred-year-old circus sideshow be the key to Frankie's mysterious past? Seventeen-year old Frankie doesn't trust easily. Not others, and not even herself. Found in an alley when she was a child, she has no memory of who she is, or why she was left there. Recurring drea...
"The LaRue Detective Agency has gained a reputation at The Biltmore as the investigators to call, so it's no surprise when they are asked to solve the catnapping case. What is a surprise: being asked to keep this investigation top secret. Elodie will need to go undercover as a jo...
When her best friend Kaia disappears from the self-sustaining dome city they call home, Sari feels isolated and lost, until an overseer named Ren shows her a side to the city she never knew existed.