Recently Added to the Juvenile Section

Willa Bean is all wiggly with excitement. Her best friend, Harper, is coming for a sleepover! Will has lots of plans. she wants to make Snoogy Bars, build forts, and stay up really, really late. But Harper has other ideas. she wants to go for a night flight. And Willa Bean is not okay with that, nope, nope, nope-ity, nope.

Most cupids have soft, straight hair, rosy cheeks, and silky white wings. Not Willa Bean! She has crazy curls, a million-bajillion freckles, and bright purple wings with silver tips. And lately, those bright purple wings with silver tips have been giving Willa Bean an awful lot of problems. They won't fly! Cupid Academy is starting soon, and what if she's the only cloud-bound cupid there?

Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he's innocent. Or at least sort of.

The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts he's going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside with your family for the holidays?

It's time for the school talent show. Too bad your best talent is squirting milk from your nose. Even worse, your mom makes you take piano lessons from smelly Mrs. Funble. And no one said that there would be millions of people watching!

Where's the love? Jack Frost and his goblins have stolen the magical treats that make Valentine's Day so special. Now sweethearts are sad, and friends and families are fighting! Even Rachel and Kirsty aren't getting along. When Juliet the Valentine Fairy asks the girls for help, they can't say no. But can Rachel and Kirsty put aside their differences and bring the sparkle back to Valentine's Day?

The streets of 1893 New York are full of life: crowded, filthy, and dangerous. If you are a newsboy like thirteen-year-old Maks Geless, you need to watch out for Bruno, leader of the Plug Ugly Gang, whose shadowy, sinister boss is plotting to take control of all the newsies of the Lower East Side.

With Bruno's boys in fierce pursuit, Maks discovers Willa, a strange girl who lives alone in an alley. It is she, stick in hand, who fights off the Plug Uglies-- but further dangers await. Maks must find a way to free his sister Emma from The Tombs, a city jail where she has been imprisoned for stealing a watch at the glamorous new Waldorf Hotel. Maks, believing her innocent, has only four days to prove it. Fortunately, there is Bartleby Donck, the eccentric lawyer (among other employments), to guide Maks and Willa in the art of detection.

Joey is a War Horse, but he wasn't always. Once long ago, he was a farm horse and a gentle boy named Albert was his master. then World War I came along and changed everything. Albert's father sells Joey to the army where the beautiful, red-bay horse is trained to charge the enemy, drag heavy artillery, and carry wounded soldiers not much older than Albert off the battlefields. Among the clamoring of guns and plodding through the cold mud, Joey wonders if the war will ever end. And if it does, will he ever find Albert again?

There are ghosts at Bird Lake, and they're haunting Mitch Sinclair and Spencer Stone. Not the Halloween kind, but ghosts of the past. Memories of how life was before-- before the divorce, before the accident. Can their ghosts bring Mitch and Spencer together, as friends? Or will their secrets keep them apart? Either way, it is a summer that neither Mitch nor Spencer will ever forget.

Wilson Williams has always struggled with math. It was hard enough to learn his time tables. Now he has to learn fractions. Worse, Wilson's parents are getting him a math tutor! Wilson is sure that he is the only kid in the history of Hill Elementary to have a math tutor. And he is going to make sure that nobody at school-- especially his best friend, Josh-- ever finds out.

Rainspell Island is the perfect place for a vacation. And Joy the Summer Vacation Fairy is the one who keeps it that way! But when Jack Frost steals three magical shells from the beaches, Joy starts to lose her sparkle. Rachel and Kirsty are determined to help Joy. but will summer vacation ever be the same again?

Jack Frost and his goblins have stolen the Music Fairies' magic instruments. Music everywhere is out of tune! Now the goblins plan to play the instruments in a TV talent contest. If Rachel an Kirsty don't act fast, everyone could find out about Fairyland! There's a wedding in Wetherbury, but the day could be ruined if Rachel and Kirsty can't find Maya's magic harp. They'll have to pull some strings to get it back!

Fairyland is home to seven colorful sisters. Together they are the Rainbow Fairies! They keep Fairyland dazzling and bright. But when evil Jack Frost sends them far away, the sisters are in big trouble. If they don't return soon, Fairyland is doomed to be gray forever! A trail of sparkly yellow dust lands Rachel and Kirsty in a very sticky situation! Could sunny the Yellow Fairy be at the bottom of it?

Jack Frost is up to no good again! This time, he's stolen the seven jewels from Queen Titania's crown. Without them, the Jewel Fairies can't do their jobs. The magic in Fairyland is fading fast! Scarlett the Garnet Fairy controls the magic that makes things grown and shrink. When her garnet disappears, everything winds up the wrong size.

Babymouse discovers squish, a new species of amoeba, while working on a school science fair project.

While visiting Chicago, Nancy, Bess, and George bring some items to the Old Can Be Gold show to see what they're worth, just for fun. In George's old tape recorder, a dealer finds a rare early tape by a famous rock group. But before George can get it insured, it's stolen-- like many other items brought to the show!

From a luxury condo on Lake shore Drive to a hot blues club, Nancy discovers a mix of suspects. there's a seedy dealer, an ambitious publicist with access tot he show's database, a talented singer n need of money, and drop-dead gorgeous twin brothers, one a top appraiser and the other a gifted photographer. Nancy's got to wind up the case-- before a desperate con artist erases her for good!

Percy is confused. When he awoke from his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name. His brain fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight with the pen/sword in his pocket. Somehow Percy manage to make it to a camp for half-bloods, despite the fact that he has to keep killing monsters along the way. But the camp doesn't ring any bells with him. The only thing he can recall from his past is another name: Annabeth.

Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They're all students at Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids," as Leo puts it. That did Jason do t end up here? And where is here, exactly? Jason doesn't know anything--except that everything seems very wrong.

Far, far away, jutting out into the emptiness beyond, lies the Edge. both the land and the air are filled with strange peoples and terrifying creatures: action--and danger--await at every turn. On board the famous sky ship Stormchaser, Twig eagerly looks forward to the adventure and excitement that lie ahead in his new life as a sky pirate. The crew's quest: to collect storphrax-- the precious substance created at the heart of a Storm the very moment it unleashes its most intense power. Only a sky ship as powerful as the Stormchaser, piloted by a man as brave and fearless as Cloud Wolf, could risk entering such a storm...

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