Running a day camp with her fellow club members, Mary Anne finds her ideal summer complicated by her father's two-week business trip, rivalries among the young campers, and a sprained ankle.
Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick sends readers straight into the nightmare of a raging wildfire as 12-year-old Sam is trapped by explosive flames and deadly smoke that threaten to take his life. Can he survive?
RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 2024. When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a wild, remote island, with no idea how she got there or what her purpose is. As she slowly learns to survive among the island's animals, she takes on the most unexpected role of all. Can a robot learn to survive, and maybe even truly belong, in the wilderness?
RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 2018. Rosie Revere is no stranger to flops and fails, but when her beloved Aunt Rose and the Raucous Riveters, a group of women who built airplanes during World War II, need her help to invent something important, the pressure feels bigger than ever. With her friends Ada Twist and Iggy Peck by her side, Rosie keeps trying through every catastrophe. Can one determined engineer prove that the best inventors are the ones who never give up?
When Clark arrives at Camp Evergreen he makes new friends, reconnects with old ones, and nothing seems weird at all! Well, that is until kids start disappearing... one by one... Plus, there’s a lake monster, bigfoot has been spotted, there are reports of a boogeyman, and there may or may not be a UFO crashed into the lake.
Fifth grade is off to a terrible start when Frederick is sent to a disciplinary camp for troublesome boys. His fellow troop mates―Nosebleed, Specs, The Professor, and little-yet-lethal Ant Bite―are terrifying. But in between trust-building exercises and midnight escape attempts, a tenuous friendship grows between them.