"Nelson's a nerd. Unfit, uncool ... and totally awkward! But when he wakes up on his tenth birthday, he discovers he is a Ninja! The last ninja on earth! How is he going to save the world when he cannot even get his undies on the right way?" -- Back cover.

Twelve-year-old Parker Pitts hates a mess. Ever since his grandmother died, he's much more comfortable when things are organized: He scrubs the kitchen counters at home, avoids the school bully at all costs, and never even speaks to Gabriella Cortez, the most interesting girl in the sixth grade. But now Parker's older sister is traveling abroad for the semester, leaving behind her obnoxious and extremely disorderly goldendoodle, Boof, for Parker to...

"When a boy can't find his favorite stuffed bunny, he heads into the woods to find it" -- Provided by publisher.

"With Thrull's Tower complete, nothing can stop Rezzoch the Ancient, Destructor of Worlds, from coming to our dimension. Nothing, that is, with the possible exception of thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan and his pals June, Quint, and Dirk. Jack has been gifted the power to control an army of zombies, the only thing that could turn the tide in the coming battle. Just one problem: he has no clue how to wield this new power. There's one all-knowing, all-seeing...

Aspiring lawyer Theodore Boone takes the stand to protect his political and environmental freedoms in the fourth installment of the series.

"Xavier Moon is not one to steal the show. But on his twelfth birthday, he receives a pair of showstopping socks and a challenge from his great-uncle Frankie Bell, saying it's time to swag out. First on the list: get into the legendary Scepter League--the elite after school boys' club that admits only the most suave and confident young men. Xavier's grandfather, great-uncle, and father were all members by his age, but Xavier's never had the courage...

Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young boy's day. Includes "The Great Cookie Chase" board game on back lining papers.

Thirteen-year-old Tyson sneaks off with his roughneck, but ill, grandpa to go on his first elk hunt, amid reports of a stalking man-eating grizzly.

"Snakes, grizzlies, a missing dad, a menacing drone... Carl Hiaasen delivers a wickledly funny, slightly subversive tale in his latest New York Times bestseller. Some facts about Billy Dickens: * He once saw a biker swerve across the road in order to run over a snake. * Later, that motorcycle somehow ended up at the bottom of a canal. * Billy isn't the type to let things go. Some facts about Billy's family: * They've lived in six different Florida...

12-year-old Jamaican boy, Lloyd, is searching for his beloved grandfather, a fisherman who is lost at sea. Lloyd suspects that his grandfather has witnessed an illegal capture of dolphins for the tourist trade and that he has come to harm. Interspersed with Lloyd's quest on land and sea is a second voice -- of the grandfather himself. Marooned on a rock, he describes his life growing up in a rural fishing village in a long-gone era.