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1) Super switch
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Nine-year-old Bailey Kaufman is nervous for their first day of school at the Hero Academy, the elementary school for young superheroes. Surrounded by classmates with incredible powers, like flying and super snot, Bailey isn't sure where they fit in. However, a new machine designed to help students discover and learn to control their powers might have the answers Bailey is looking for. It was created by Mr. Kaufman, the new principal and Bailey’s...
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
As undergraduate students at America's premier technological university, a group of ambitious African students come of age, learning lessons in and beyond the classroom. They embarked on their MIT education with individual ambitions - to run a civil engineering company and be a shining example for girls in Tanzania; to secure a better life for the family in northern Nigeria; to contribute to post-genocide reconstruction in Rwanda; to enter into politics...
Author
Publisher
Gilded Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Blending text messages and emojis with a narrative specifically written for readers who have short attention spans, this book is perfect for fans of Lisa Greenwald, Geoff Rodkey, and Jeff Kinney. Middle school can be brutal. But when you're impulsive by nature, things can get as sticky as honey! Twelve-year-old Stephanie Fiorelli tries to be a good student, but she can be inattentive, unorganized and has a hard time controlling her emotions. When...
4) Aftershock
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Amy and her estranged half sister, Mara, journey through the aftermath of a massive earthquake in search of their parents."--
On the last day of school, a huge earthquake hits western Canada. Amy is surprised that it's Mara, her half-sister, who finally comes for her, since they hardly know each other. There's no word from any of their parents, and their homes have been destroyed. Amy and...
Author
Series
Dungeoneer adventures volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Hero dungeoneer Shane Sandar has been missing for weeks, and the professors at Dungeoneer Academy fear the worst: that he's met a terrible fate at the hands of the villainous exiles. When Coop Cooperson and his best buds on the Green Team discover their professors are taking a dangerous voyage to try and rescue Shane-and closing Dungeoneer Academy in the process-they know they can't let their professors go alone, so they secretly tag along.
Author
Series
The science inspectors volume story 1
Publisher
Trendwood Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
There's a new kid in the small neighborhood of Brundon Park, Chicago. Her name is Angela Moretti, she's thirteen, and she's obsessed with mysteries. So when a crime is committed on her first day at her new school, Angela decides to enlist the help of her new friends to help crack the case. There's just one catch. They'll need to use science to solve the mystery! Will these science-loving seventh graders catch the criminal before it's too late? Join...
Author
Series
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When Heimdall and Hyrrokkin abandon their 'children' to go on holiday, Odin sends Baldur - Thor's half brother and god of making Loki look bad - to babysit. As Baldur and Thor bond, Loki's attempts to prove he's good start getting a bit desperate. After the drama teacher casts him as the villain in the school play, Loki starts to wonder whether there's any point in being good when everyone seems convinced of his villainy. That is until he discovers...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Is this what middle school is all about? Being stuck in the middle? Twelve-year-old Mia feels like everything and everyone is changing--and she is caught in the middle. Stuck between old friends and new friends...between feeling like a kid and growing up...
Author
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When Light Yagami finds a notebook giving him power over death, will he use it for good—or evil?Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects--and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping...
10) Tryouts
Author
Series
Brinkley yearbooks volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's warm up time in this newest installment in the Brinkley Yearbook series. Will Alexandra make the cut and help the historically boys baseball team defend their 9-year championship title? Alexandra, also known as Al, has been playing baseball with her older brothers for as long as she can remember. But when she ages out of Little League, it seems like it's the end of the road for Al and the sport she loves. Until, that is, her friend Sammy suggests...
Author
Series
Witches of Silverlake volume 1
Publisher
Legendary Comics YA
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
It's always tough being the new kid in the coven. Elliot has had a rough year. His dad died, he had to move across the country, and now he's about to start high school at LA's prestigious Saint John the Baptist Academy, where his mom has accepted the position of Vice Principal. He's quickly taken in by the school's outcasts: the scholarship kids; the queer kids; and the ones who just don't really fit in with the glossy trust fund babies of SJTBA....
12) Skip and loafer
Author
Series
Skip and loafer volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]-
Language
English
Description
Country girl Mitsumi is bound for high school in Tokyo! She's got book smarts, but this small-town girl is about to find out she's massively unprepared for the social norms of big city high schoolers.
Author
Series
NCHS data brief volume no. 498
Publisher
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Author
Series
Legal sidebar volume LSB11129
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2024-
Language
English