juvenile fiction

Jay Gardener is trying to stay out of trouble in his new neighborhood, but when strange things keep happening to him, he wonders if it is the lawn gnomes causing all the trouble.

Jackson Stander is an all around good kid, but all of that is about to change when he comes across Slappy an evil ventriloquist dummy.

Louisa is nervous about attending a new boarding school, but thrilled to have her best friend, Maddie, with her, even though the two have to pretend to be twins, but when everything, including Maddie, begins to change after the girls arrive, Louisa fears her adventure will turn into a nightmare.

"In a terrifying new world, four girls must depend on one another if they want to survive. Just when things have gotten kind of normal for Rosie, she finds hersoef running for her life - again. Only this time she's stuck with her roommates from school: Louisa, who can be okay sometimes; Maddie, who cant' stop complaining; and Evelyn, the girl with a million conspiracy theories. If she weren't so scared, Rosie would be totally annoyed. But one of Evelyn's theories was right. The boarding school the girls were sent to belongs to the Alliance, the wrong side of the War. Rosie has no choice but to run - and no one to rely on but her new friends. Wheter she likes it or not.

Raven and Alexander try to stop Alexander's half-vampire cousin, Claude, from finding a stash of blood-filled vials which can turn him into a full vampire, while Raven tries to cope with her desires to become immortal.

Raven and her vampire boyfriend, Alexander, stumble upon four freshly dug graves filled with empty coffins and uncover a group of sketchy vampires living in the graveyard, bringing trouble to Dullsville.

"Justin is thrilled to be on a soccer team. But at his very first practice, he is approached by a tall girl who calls him "Shorty." She tells him he's too little to be on the team and that he should just go home. Justin doesn't know what to do. He loves soccer, but he doesn't want to be teased"--Provided by publisher.

Casey really enjoys her swimming class at the sports center and imagines her first race.

Rosa Hernandez, whose mom's job transfers the family to Chicago, is ready to continue figure skating and excited to make friends around her new hometown, but when she meets the reigning figure skating superstar, Jacqui, Rosa has only a few weeks to prepare for a citywide competition.

When Thea Stilton travels to Ireland to search for a missing agent, she finds that the whole fantasy Land of Erin is being threatened by earthquakes, and soon Will Mystery and the Thea sisters follow to help her find the secret of the fairies.