After discovering a conspiracy to fire their teacher, a group of seventh graders dubbed Beef Squad team up with new girl Karla Woo to save their teacher's job by uncovering a secret from their Gold Rush town's past.
He wanted to use his talents to make himself rich because he was tired of making other peoplerich. All heever got in return for his services was free room andboard. He neverreceived any recognition because inthe government, ...
How do strangers become friends?
In this stunning debut novel, two very different characters—a black boy who loses his home in Hurricane Katrina and a white boy in Vermont who loses his best friend in a tragic accident—come together to find healing.
Mattie, a shy fifth-grader, wants to hide out at her new school by acting as apprentice to her Uncle Potluck, the custodian, but her plan falls apart when she summons the courage to speak about what matters most and finds a true friend.
The bestselling novel by Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher, is “required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” (The New York Times).
But as he gets deeper into the mystery - culminating in another awesome road trip across America - he becomes less sure of who and what he is looking for.Masterfully written by John Green, this is a thoughtful, insightful and hilarious ...
Presents a collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
The agriculture secretary did indeed see Dunlap's memo as a political gift, an opportunity to remove a perpetual thorn in his side. Not surprisingly, Wilson also decided to keep the memo secret from Wiley and his staff, referring it ...
Resigned to a life without superpowers in a world full of them, Jess takes a paid internship where she helps a heinous supervillain and works with her longtime crush, but she soon stumbles on a massive plot.
Brilliantly inventive, utterly gripping and suspenseful, Too Bad to Die is Francine Mathews’s best novel yet, and confirms her place as a master of historical fiction.