Ages 13 to 14

Lucas Duran has been on the trip of a lifetime—six months traveling through Europe with his parents and two younger brothers. That is, the trip of a lifetime for someone else. Lucas wants nothing more than to be home in Austin, Texas, with his...

Groundhog Day gets a hilarious French twist in this delightful upper middle grade novel about first crushes and friendship. When an eighth-grade class trip to Paris goes horribly wrong, the worst day of one girl’s life keeps happening over and over...

When 15-year-old twins Malcolm and Valentine Gilbert moved to a new town, they never imagined that the old house across the street could bring them so much trouble. Inside the old house, a secret machine with the power to pierce time has reawakened...

The timeline is burning. No one knows why. Teenage twins Malcolm and Valentine Gilbert have defeated doomsday machines, ice monsters, and time-traveling supervillains. Yet their full potential remains out of reach. The Chrona is elusive, and without her...

It’s summer in Emmett’s Bluff, and the ice is spreading. Six months after confronting an enemy from the future, Malcolm and Valentine Gilbert have returned to their normal teenage lives. Or, they’ve tried to. During the battle to save...

Heroes never return from adventure unchanged, and Gwendolyn Gray knows this better than anyone. She faces a new darkness within herself—with no help or comfort from her friends Sparrow and Starling. On top of that, the City is only getting worse...

Tia Lugo has a deadly secret. Tia Lugo considers herself an ordinary thirteen-year-old girl. She just wants to enjoy the end of summer, which means hanging out with her best friend and neighbor, Julius, and ignoring her Puerto Rican grandmother’s...

Batavia, Dutch East Indies, 1942. Emmy has the voice of an angel but hasn’t sung a note since a family tragedy. With war looming, her father plans to ship her off to a singing school in England for safety. But all Emmy wants to do is stay in...

Thirteen-year-old Prince Noa has hated the ocean since the day it caused his mother’s death. But staying away from the sea isn’t easy on his tropical island home, where he’s stuck trying to keep up with his dim-witted and...

Elias and Ty have been best friends ever since they discovered a shared love of exploring abandoned places: Elias, for old treasures and artifacts, and Ty, for hauntings and other strange events he can film to build his popularity. So when rumors start...

Thirteen-year-old Daisy Woodward loves insects, running track, and hanging out with her older brother, Sorrel, who has Down syndrome and adores men’s fashion. When her social studies teacher assigns each student a project to change the world for...

Growing up comes with growing pains no matter what, but for twelve-year-old Libby, the changes feel like more than she can bear. After an incident caused by his worsening dementia, Libby’s grandfather comes to live with her family, a move that...

Twelve-year-old Maisie is an artist. When she’s in front of her sketchbook or apprenticing at Glenna’s Portraits, the family-run art shop her grandmother started, the world makes sense. She doesn’t think about Calum, her brother...

From infamous despots to famous philosophers, key characters and facets of the ancient world come alive in this hi-lo series for struggling readers. Written with reluctant readers in mind, considerate text, engaging stories, and intriguing sidebars and...

What’s more terrifying than being forced into a coed combat wrestling martial art by your own mother? Sixth grade. Angie Larson hates Jiu-Jitsu. Like many twelve-year-old girls, she fails to find the glamour in a martial art that embraces zero...

Thirteen-year-old Maddie just wants her classmate Lucas to leave her alone. He keeps asking her out—as if she hasn’t already said no a thousand times! Focusing on her competitive swim team, the Electric Eels, Maddie tries to ignore him,...

Morgan is devastated by her mother’s sudden death. Before, Mom’s amazing organizational skills kept the family on track, and her bowl of lemon drops was always on hand to make difficult conversations easy, turning life’s sour into sweet...

Humans have a complex relationship with the planet Earth. Life depends on the planet's natural resources. Yet human activity has led to many environmental issues. Industry pollutes land, air, and water. Agriculture uses up clean water. In the...

What makes something "smart?" In the Exploring the Internet of Things series, readers discover how inanimate objects, from watches to home speakers to even t-shirts, help people get things done better, faster, and smarter. How can a ring book an Uber?...

Zeus's son Perseus has no wedding gift for King Polydectes so he offers to bring the king what he most desires. King Polydectes asks for the head of the gorgon Medusa. A dangerous request, as whomever looks at Medusa turns to stone. Perseus gets a...

The gods on Mount Olympus are bored. So Zeus's son Hephaestus populates the earth with men and animals for their amusement. Zeus then asks Hephaestus to create a woman, whom Zeus names Pandora. When Pandora marries, Zeus gives her a jar and tells her not...

Poseidon helps Minos become King of Crete and Minos agrees to sacrifice a white bull in his honor. When Minos reneges on the deal, Poseidon teams up with Eros to deceive Minos's wife Pasiphae, who then gives birth to a Minotaur. Minos imprisons the beast...

When Atlas loses a battle with Zeus, he is exiled to Tartarus. But Atlas escapes to live among the Mauri, where he becomes very successful. But Zeus finds out and punishes Atlas by forcing him to hold the heavens away from the earth. Will Atlas bear this...

Achilles is his father's sixth son. His five brothers all died as infants. To protect Achilles from the same fate, his mother Thetis dips him into the River Styx. When Greece attacks Troy, Achilles joins the fight. Will his mother's treatment keep him...

Meet Bone and Muscle without them we wouldn't be able to sit, stand, or walk! Readers will join colorful characters to learn about how their skeletal and muscular system supports them. Along the way they'll be introduced to bone marrow, osteoblasts,...

Meet your lungs they help your body take in oxygen! Join colorful characters as they learn how the respiratory system helps to provide cells with the oxygen they need to survive. Readers will learn about respiration, carbon dioxide, diaphragm, lungs,...

Meet your brain they help to direct your movements, focus your eyes, contract your muscles, and sense your surroundings! Join colorful characters as they explore how the nervous system and brain manage to do all this! Readers will learn about the spinal...

Meet the endocrine system it helps regulate your body's many functions! Join colorful characters as they explore how glands regulate the body's systems by releasing hormones. Readers will learn about life cycles, hormones, the reproductive system,...

Meet the digestive system it helps you process tasty foods! Join colorful characters as they explore how the human body removes wastes and gains energy from food. Readers will learn about nutrition, digestion, the mouth, stomach, liver, small intestine,...

Meet your heart they help deliver blood to your entire body! Join them as they introduce readers to the circulatory system and the lifegiving power of blood. This colorful graphic novel will introduce students to red blood cells, platelets, white blood...

Join a group of white blood cells as they work to protect your body from harmful invaders! Readers will join the cells as they learn about the immune system, antibodies, microbes, infections, disease, pandemics, viruses, and bacteria. Students will learn...

Have you ever wondered what your body is made out of? What about how tiny cells create huge organisms? This colorful graphic novel will help you answer those questions by introducing cell structures, organelles, tissues, organs, and the digestive,...

Meet Sound they're a form of energy that we can hear! Sound is here to explain where they come from and how humans can hear. Readers will learn about sound waves, the anatomy of the ear, echo, and why sounds are high or low. They'll meet scientists...

Meet Matter they make up everything that has mass and takes up space! Matter is here to introduce readers to its many properties, including color, texture, size, and shape. Students will shrink down and look inside of matter where they'll learn about...

Meet Matter they make up everything that has mass and takes up space! Matter is here to introduce readers to the states of matter and how it changes. They'll learn about the impacts of heating, cooling, mixing, and separating matter. This colorful...

Meet Magnetism they're the invisible force that causes magnets to work! Magnetism will introduce readers to how magnets function and their relationship with electricity. They'll learn about natural magnetic materials, fields, poles, electromagnetism,...

Meet Light they're the reason we can see the world around us! Light is here to introduce readers to how they help humans. They'll introduce students to absorption and reflection, bending, colors, and invisible light. Readers will learn how the eye works...

Meet Heat they're one of the reasons why life can exist on Earth! Heat is here to introduce readers to thermal energy and its many uses. Students will learn about the sources of heat, expansion, contraction, conduction, convection, conductors, and...

Meet Gravity they're the force that keeps our feet on the ground! They're here to take readers on a journey on Earth and in space to learn about the ways that gravity shapes our reality. Readers will learn about how strength and mass impact gravity, the...

Meet Force and Motion they're here to introduce readers to the world of physical science! Alongside the duo, students will learn about mechanical force, gravity, distance, speed, acceleration, friction, and simple machines. Readers will meet Galileo...