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Trista Thompson is enjoying a fun summer before entering fifth grade. She is training for Level Five at Perfect Balance Gymnastics Academy and gets to attend a gymnastics camp with her friends. For the first time in her gymnastics career she is learning her new skills in plenty of time for testing day at the end of summer. Just when Trista feels great about her progress, she has a major setback. Can she overcome her challenges and fears to reach her goal of making the Level Five team?

A little girl's parents go far away to help people who are sick. Her grandpa comes up with an idea idea to keep her spirits up: a game a day for 14 days. The little girl transforms into different roles, learning the importance each job has during a pandemic.

Before Coco and Christian, there was Lucile. She was one of the world's most glamorous women and the most famous fashionista of the Edwardian age. Yet, couturiere Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon was born plain Lucy Sutherland and grew up in a stone farmhouse in Ontario, Canada. How she went from a backwoods farm to presiding over an international fashion empire is a remarkable story of unshakeable determination and female achievement at a time when it was thought that a woman's place was in the home.

A toot or a blow, a honk or a squeak. Each fart is special, each fart is unique. From racetrack to concert hall, crowded lift to royal banquet, farts are everywhere! The Secret Life of Farts is your hilarious rhyming guide to the amazing world of flatulence that is all around us.

A story about feeling comfortable in your own skin...or rather, fur! Albie arrived wearing NOTHING but fur, he could have been either a Him or Her... Most teddy bears let their owner decide, but Albie would not, for a bear has its pride. But each outfit that Albie purchases - from fairy to pirate, from cowboy to elegant city gent - proves unsuitable in some way, and by the end of the week his bedroom is heaped with discarded clothes. How will he dress in order to feel like himself? This hilarious story in verse is about the joys of dressing up, and one bear's search for his own identity.

Ten-year-old Rudy is afraid of everything, and to top it off, two bullies like to chase him home from school! Every day those bullies try to make Rudy do things he’s scared to do. Rudy’s best friend Billy is usually there to defend him, but some days Billy is at Taekwondo class, and when that happens, Rudy finds himself panicked with fear.

This is a story about a boy named Jim who has trouble with his tonsils getting infected and has to have surgery to get them removed.

This enchanting tale allows children to experience the "Age of Dinosaurs" in a unique and captivating way. With dinosaurs living in a zoo-like setting, invisible to adults but visible to children, young listeners are sure to be captivated by this imaginative story. Narrated by the talented Allison Hart, Johnny Dino Seed: Book I is perfect for young dinosaur lovers and anyone with a vivid imagination.

Johnny Dino Seed: Book II is an imaginative children's adventure inspired by a heartwarming drawing from Bruce T. Akins' 6 1/2-year-old grandson, Hunter. This delightful story follows a young boy who, instead of planting apple seeds like Johnny Appleseed, plants magical dinosaur seeds. Perfect for dinosaur-loving children, this book invites young listeners to step into a world where they can raise their very own dinosaur pets. These dinosaurs, living in a zoo-like environment, are invisible to adults and can only be seen by children, adding an extra layer of wonder and excitement.

Kitty Be My Friend is a heartwarming tale celebrates the transformative power of how patience, calm understanding, and a little extra time can create the sweetest friendships. The cat from Kitty Be My Friend is based on the real-life cat who lives with the author, Jim West. She was rescued as a kitten from a garbage dumpster one night by a kind woman who cleaned her up and searched for a forever home for the kitten. The next weekend, that kitten was brought home by her new mom and named Miss Mabel Louise.

Isabella’s parents wondered how they were going to tell her that grandma has been diagnosed with cancer.

This is a story about a boy who gets a rash after taking medicine to get rid of an infection on his face. It is the story of how he got well and the rash was cured.

Alex is twelve, and he did something very, very bad. A judge sentences him to spend his summer volunteering at a retirement home. He hasn’t seen his mom in a year, and Shady Glen’s geriatric residents seem like zombies to him. Josey is 107 and ready for his life to be over. He has evaded death many times, having survived ghettos, dragnets, and a concentration camp—all thanks to the heroism of a woman named Olka and his own ability to sew. But now he spends his days in room 206 at Shady Glen, refusing to speak and waiting (and waiting and waiting) to die. Until Alex knocks on Josey’s door…

As war rages between the Bureau of Supernatural Investigations and the League of Magicians, magician Amari is caught in the middle – and she’s lost her magic. Plus her superstar agent brother Quinton is back and he’s determined to keep Amari safe, which means leaving the agent missions to him. So when she discovers that her enemy Dylan is trying to unlock a destructive new power – which would make him invincible – it’s up to Amari and her friends to stop him. Soon they are on the trail of a series of magical inventions – the Despicable Wonders – which hold the key.

Summer and her family always spend relaxed summers in Alberta, Canada, on the reservation where her mom’s family lives. But this year is turning out to be an eye-opening one. First, Summer has begun to have vivid dreams in which she's running away from one of the many real-life residential schools that tore Native children from their families and tried to erase their Native identities. Not long after that, she learns that unmarked children’s graves have been discovered at the school her grandpa attended as a child.

After a year of distance-learning, Emily Sofer finds her world turned upside down: she has to leave the only school she's ever known to attend a public school in Chinatown. For the first time, Emily isn't the only Chinese student around...but looking like everyone else doesn't mean that understanding them will be easy—especially with an intimidating group of cool girls Emily calls The Five. When Emily discovers that her adoptive parents have been keeping a secret, she feels even more uncertain about who she is. A chance discovery of Emily Dickinson's poetry helps her finally feel seen.

Eleven-year-old Kylie’s friends seem so much more mature than she is. And with middle school just a summer away, she’s worried her friends might leave her behind, especially because she keeps embarrassing them. So Kylie applies her scientific brain to solve the problem and comes up with the Everybody Experiment.

Jack wants to apologize for hurting Zoe's feelings. He just can't seem to find the right words. Turns out there's more to an apology than just saying "I'm sorry."

Charlotte “Charli” Wilson thought Alex Andropov would always be her best BFF in the whole wide world. From crushes to butterfly phobias to secret hidden blankies, there’s never been a secret they couldn’t share. Charli even showed Alex the supersecret hiding spot for her diary. But when school starts and Charli learns that Alex has betrayed her by sharing her biggest, most secretest secret, she realizes that maybe her bestie isn’t so great after all. Meanwhile, Alex has no idea what he's done wrong.

In this hilarious fourth book in the Middle School and Other Disasters series that started with New York Times bestseller Worst Broommate Ever, witch-in-training Heidi Heckelbeck tries to keep magic hidden when Lucy Lancaster comes to visit. Featuring black-and-white illustrations and doodles throughout and sparkly foil on the cover!