John Rocco
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young working-class teen fights to save his family's diner after his father is lost in a fishing-boat accident.
When his dad goes missing in a fishing-boat accident, fourteen-year-old Jake refuses to think he may have lost his father forever. But suddenly, nothing seems certain in Jake's future, and now his family's diner may be repossessed by loan sharks. In Narragansett Bay, scrabbling out a living as a quahogger isn't easy, but
2) Moonpowder
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Even though Eli is the "fixer of all things fixable," one thing he cannot fix is his bad dreams, until one night when Mr. Moon appears and asks him to come fix the Moonpowder factory, where sweet dreams are created
3) Blizzard
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After a massive blizzard, a boy becomes a hero when he manages to walk to the local store and bring supplies back to his neighborhood which has been snowed in for days. Based on the author's childhood experience with the record-breaking 1978 New England blizzard.
5) Hurricane
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After a devastating hurricane, a young boy asks for help rebuilding the neighborhood dock, his favorite place in the world, but finds that his neighbors need help first.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your face, then I guess writing all this down will be my good deed for the week. So begins Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, in which the son of Poseidon adds his own magic--and...
Author
Series
Kane chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed in the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister Sadie have been in trouble. As descendants of the House of Life, the Kanes have some powers at their command, but the devious gods haven't given them much time to master their skills at Brooklyn House, which has become a training ground for young magicians. And now their most threatening enemy yet -- the chaos snake Apophis -- is rising. If they don't...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"While his family readies his townhouse for an approaching storm, boarding up windows and laying in groceries, Noah heads to the back garden, where beetles are burrowing deeper into the bark and mice are stuffing their hole with moss. Quickly and efficiently, Noah sets to work building an ark for them and other backyard creatures - salamanders and toads, snakes and spiders, even brightly colored hummingbirds. Setting out fistfuls of nuts and leaves,...
Author
Series
Rocket and Groot volume 1
Publisher
Marvel Press, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Stranded on a planet filled with dry cleaners, nail salons, and chain restaurants Rocket and Groot face killer robots bent on customer service and raccoon eating toilets.
14) Camp tiger
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Every year, a boy and his family go camping at Mountain Pond. Usually, they see things like an eagle fishing for his dinner, a salamander with red spots on its back, and chipmunks that come to steal food while the family sits by the campfire. But this year is different. This year, the boy is going into first grade, and his mother is encouraging him to do things on his own, just like his older brother. And the most different thing of all... this year,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the children's book author and illustrator, conveying her life at Folly Cove, her love of dance, and how she was able to create images of machinery, including those used in her book, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel.
16) Return to Exile
Author
Series
Hunter chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of his twelfth birthday, Sky, who has studied traps, puzzles, science, and the secret lore of the Hunters of Legend, realizes his destiny as a monster hunter.
Author
Series
Hunter chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Skye must continue to fight monsters and discovers that the other Hunters want him dead.
18) The flint heart
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A magical amulet brings power and despair to those who touch it.
Author
Series
Meet the wild things volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An introduction to the unique characteristics of the quokka"--